The CutUp collective make a political statement with their rearranged advertising posters. Photograph: Martin Argles

Is street art really stupid? Every time the mainstream media does an article on street art it’s treated in ‘yoof’ style. It’s always a bit jokey. There’s usually some bad footage of an MC or skateboarder. It becomes one big, painful teenage cliche.

Any time any artist or critic attempts to say something interesting about how it comments on contemporary society or to examine its political, artistic or social context it’s quickly edited out.

The media seems to be in love with the street-art formula. That is created by bad youths who should be given curfews and have their hoodies ripped off. They are thoughtless vandals who scrawl superficial rubbish on walls so other teens have something nice to look at while they’re skateboarding. How easy to stay superficial rather then do you research. Or look at the work.

I am so bored of the ‘who’s Banksy?’ question. Is his work so vacuous that the media refuse to discuss its content? Is street art a phenomenon without content and only methods?