Indecline, stylized as INDECLINE, is an American art collective. Members have said that the collective was formed in 2001 and is decentralized, with "dozens" of members in affiliated groups in several US states and a few foreign countries, and have characterized it as " underground movement activists, musicians, graffiti writers, photographers".
Projects
''Bumfights''
In 2002 Ryen McPherson, Daniel Tanner, and others operating asIndecline Films produced the first video in the Bumfights series, Bumfights: A Cause for Concern. They subsequently took down the Indecline Films website, and have said they sold the rights to the series to two investors.
''Dying for Work''
In August 2012, the group installed a billboard on Interstate 15 in Las Vegas with Dying for Work in black lettering on a white background and a dummy hanging from it by a noose; a companion billboard, also with a hanged man, read "Hope you're happy Wall St."
''Largest Piece of Illegal Graffiti''
In April 2015, eight people spent six days creating the largest piece of illegal graffiti in the world: "This land was our land", painted on a disused military runway in the Mojave Desert.
''Rape Mural''
In October 2015, in response to Donald Trump's calling illegal immigrants "rapists", the group spray-painted a mural depicting Trump with the slogan "¡Rape Trump!" on an old border wall on US territory approximately a mile from the Tijuana airport.
''Hollywood Walk of Fame''
In March 2016, members of the group glued names of African-Americans killed by police over names on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and also glued the Indecline logo to the stars.
In September of 2017 Indecline broke into Union Pacific's Milford Utah yard and vandalized several engines parked on the south end of the yard at Lund Siding. One of them was painted like a tiger. Union Pacific Railroad Police has placed a $300.000 bounty on Indecline for vandalism and has moved some of the engines stored at Lund to Warm Springs Yard in Salt Lake City Utah. The engine in question UP #2519 was taken out of storage at Lund to nearby Milford and the graffiti was stripped off with primer before the engine was sent to Jenks Shops in North Little Rock, Arkansas for a full overhaul. The engine returned to service in 2019 and is still running but now has a flag decal on the long hood.
''Ku Klux Klowns''
In August of 2017, Heather Heyer was murdered by a white supremacist at the 2017 “Unite the Right Rally” in Charlottesville. In response, Indecline installed eight effigies of hanging clowns dressed as members of the Ku Klux Klan in Richmond’s Bryan Park. A sign on one of the effigies read: “If attacked by a mob of clowns, go for the juggler". A video published online by Indecline includes footage of the clowns being assembled and mounted at dusk by people wearing masks. The video includes dialogue from a decades-old episode of the “Superman” radio show that ridiculed the KKK, interspersed with a Klan anthem featuring the lyrics: “Stand up and be counted/show that world that you’re a man … join the Ku Klux Klan".
