Graffiti, Street Art and Writing
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Abstract Shaped in the shadow of colonialism and post-colonialism, visual arts in Hong Kong have wrestled with issues of identity, locality, and international recognition. The lengthy process of the transfer of sovereignty, initiated in... more
TESIS DOCTORAL COMPLETA Proyecto de investigación artístico y social que a través del estudio de las principales influencias, herramientas, una selección de fuentes filmográficas y bibliográficas y entrevistas personales, pretende... more
This essay analyzes discourses and narratives of men who frequent the washrooms at public venues in Havana. The graffiti on toilet room walls works as an articulator of micro markets of sexual communication and gender/sexual relations. In... more
Symposium der HFBK Hamburg in Kooperation mit dem Kursbuch (Murmann Verlag) Die Frage »Was ist Kritik?« wird gegenwartig in verschiedenen Disziplinen intensiv diskutiert. Dabei steht die vermeintliche Krise der Kritik, der Verlust ihrer... more
Of the challenges confronting the nation-building project in Timor-Leste, the " generation gap " is one of the most important. The history of Timor-Leste, characterized by foreign occupations by both Portugal and Indonesia, has produced... more
Interview with George Freeman from radio station 95bFM on The Wire program. Broadcast on March 27, 2015 [Duration: 12 minutes, 47 seconds]. Audio recording: http://95bfm.com/assets/sm/220550/3/Graffiti.mp3
Mit dem Ziel, ein prototypisches, webbasiertes Werkverzeichnis in Form einer allgemein zugänglichen Datenbank für einen Street-Artist zu erstellen, stehen Bildwissenschaftler vor einer Reihe von Herausforderungen. Einige davon möchte ich... more
We first revisit, resituate, and extend the notion of rhetorical velocity and discuss its relationship to delivery and circulation through the lens of cultural mobility studies. Next we introduce a specific case study we can read through... more
This article is based on ethnographic work with two ‘‘crews’’ of young graffiti artists in southern Mexico City. The crews share certain characteristics with gangs or urban tribes, but more with ‘‘communities of practice’’: they live in... more
How do poverty, youth and crime relate to the concept of being 'cool'? Jonathan Ilan presents a unique, theoretically informed overview of street culture in various parts of the world – its origins, functions, manifestations and appeal –... more
Im öffentlichen Raum sind Mitteilungen an allen möglichen und unmöglichen Orten zu finden, nicht zuletzt auf den Hosenböden mancher Passanten. Aber auch an gebauter Infrastruktur finden sich Mitteilungen: Bilder, Texte und Mischungen aus... more
This panel set out to explore the popular and scholarly literature on graffiti and street art, to assess what has been accomplished in these fields, and where scholarly research in the fields of criminology, criminal justice and allied... more
This paper develops a pragmatist definition of street art acknowledging its essential subversiveness, while drawing implications at the level of street art’s political and social function. By developing an insight from Irvine (2012), the... more
Keynote presentation based on my most recent book, "Street Art and the Environment".
Graffiti in the public realms are commonly described as destruction of public and/or private property, and offensive to public taste. But does this dictum also apply to the removal of the same graffiti? Could this not be regarded as... more
Talk about street art's democratic impact and ability to encourage people to explore their everyday environments. Given in connection with the opening of Danish photographer Søren Solkær's exhibition "Surface" at Øksnehallen in Copenhagen... more
Interview on 15 August 2018 with art historian and sociologist Peter Bengtsen for Swedish Radio.
Graffiti från ungdomskultur till folkkultur. Graffiti brukar ofta beskrivas som antingen ungdomskultur eller ungdomsbrottslighet. Debatten mellan dessa två olika perspektiv är polariserad och har pågått i närmare 30 år. Trots denna ofta... more
In this chapter, I propose that indigenous graffiti and street art are interconnected with the political mobilization of indigenous groups who actively oppose the structural and systemic histories of violence suffered by indigenous people... more
A photo-collage of past and present street visuals in Asia, Aestheticizing Public Space explores the domestic, regional, and global nexus of East Asian cities through their graffiti, street art, and other visual forms in public space.... more
Presentation about the difficulties involved when attempting to represent graffiti and street art in an institutional context. The presentation was given at the workshop "From City Streets to Museum Galleries: Discussing Street Art and... more
Review of Peter Bengtsen's book The Street Art World (2014) on the blog of the independent quarterly art magazine VNA (Very Nearly Almost).
In this anthology chapter, I relate Miwon Kwon's different definitions of sites and site specificity to the field of street art. The case being studied is a photograph of two stencil works by the British artist Banksy and the artist... more
There is little doubt that the majority of the works in graffiti and street art has been produced outside of the institutional art system with its galleries and museums, curators and art critics, collectors and dealers. But considering... more
In May, Helsinki opened its first authorised graffiti wall at Suvilahti. The opportunity to use graffiti walls was extended to Kalasatama in summer 2010 and 2011. This article presents the results of an ethnographic survey on the users and... more
Cedar Lewisohn, curator of the Street Art show at Tate Modern (2008), blustered in an international street art conference in Lisbon (2014) about Street Artacademics being rather fans than critical academics and most Street Art to be... more
This paper applied an ecocritical perspective on street art to expand on the notion that street art can have an impact on how we relate to urban public space. In doing so, it argued that street art is particularly well positioned to... more
Graffiti may or may not be art, and that may or may not matter. To those ends I discuss a half dozen or so pieces in different styles, show that, whatever his particular style, Ceaze’s letterforms do not overlap, identify X-form and... more
Partizipation ist zu einem Begriff mit Agenda-setting-Format in den Fachdidaktiken avanciert, so auch in der Kunstdidaktik. Ob Partizipation politisch, sozial-/pädagogisch und/oder künstlerisch gemeint wird, macht einen Unterschied in... more
The aim of this essay is to explore the emergence and implications of political graffiti during/after the Iranian revolution 1979 and the beginning of Iran-Iraq war, the cultural and psycho-social implications and the controversy... more
This paper focuses on the urban graffiti painted with a political message by different movements of the Italian political radicalism in the cities of Rome, Florence, Massa, Carrara, Verona and Udine. For the purpose of this article,... more
Street Art ini merupakan buku yang berisikan bentuk-bentuk dari Street Art, mulai dari pengertian hingga sejarahnya. Buku ini juga berisikan review-review berbagai graffiti serta mural dengan berbagai jenis, seperti Mural dengan Pesan... more
This anthology chapter examines the removal of and trade in street artworks.
The Syrian Rebellion: a grammar of iconography This article explores the uses, the techniques and the repertories of the iconography produced by the protagonists of the Syrian Rebellion, focusing on the ways they mobilize digital... more