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Undenk is an underground street art group based in Germany and Australia, operating worldwide. Due to its conspirative nature, an exact number of members remains unknown.〔(Eggert, Silke "Straßenkunst von Undenk" ''De:Bug'' 26.07.2005 )〕 The origin of the group's name comes from the German translation of the Newspeak term "crimethink", which was used in George Orwell's novel, ''Nineteen Eighty-Four''. Undenk utilizes both official and unofficial, legal as well as semi-legal means of distributing and publishing its often ironic but usually aims to be sophisticated, controversial and provocative form of progressive art. ==Artforms== Undenk's workhorse are stickers, either seemingly self-produced in limited editions or professionally made in large numbers. The stickers are generally displayed in public spaces such as on street and traffic lights, on walls, trashbins and any other street-bound surface that allows for the pasting of stickers. Other likely locations may or may not include public transportation, public restrooms as well as buildings open to the public, either for entertaining (bars, clubs, sports arenas, concert venues) or administrative (schools, universities, municipal buildings) purposes. A special mention among the broad variety of Undenk stickers should be given to a design colloquially referred to as "Winston". Winston, also Undenk's trademark, is a stylized white rabbit looking backward over his shoulder, most probably named after the protagonist Winston Smith in Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four". The most common interpretation sees in Winston a reference to the rabbit in Lewis Carrol's "Alice In Wonderland". Winston has been spotted in such places as the Forbidden City of Beijing, New York City's Times Square, at the pyramids of Giza as well as in numerous metropolitan cities like Monaco, San Francisco and Sydney.〔(Huntin' Rabbits )〕 Another, yet less common form of Undenk's street-bound activism are stencils and graffitis, also in form of collaborations with other street- and graffiti-artists. In recent times, apparently home-made paste-up posters have been seen in various editions, numbers and designs. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Undenk」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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