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Crime Travellers.
Graffiti Seminar. Utrecht, Netherlands – 2019.
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• For graffiti writers the “prime directive is getting up;
whilst style, form and methodology are major concerns,
they are secondary.”Castleman, C., Getting Up: Subway Graffiti in New York, 1982: 19.
• Therefore, only someone with a very determined “sense
of vocation will put in the necessary amount of work.”Martinez, H., ‘A Brief Background in Graffiti’ in United Graffiti Artists, 1975.
‘Getting Up’
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• The history of modern graffiti, its evolution and diaspora is a little
over 50 years old!
• The genesis of modern graffiti can be traced to the City of
Philadelphia – circa 1965.
• Then, as now – the ethos of graffiti was rooted in the practice of
‘bombing’.
• The over-arching objective for ‘writers’ then and now is ‘to acquire
fame’. Caputo, A., All City Writers, 2012: 4
Philadelphia
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“The more people talked about me, the more I wrote”
Daryl McCRAY aka CORNBREAD
The ‘Father of Modern Graffiti’
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• By 1969 graffiti had migrated 100 miles north from Philadelphia to New York, where it flourished.
• By 1980 graffiti had made its way to the UK and has since spread around the world.
• In 1981, FUTURA 2000, from New York’s - Fab Five Crew was the first ‘foreign writer’ to get up on a trackside wall at Ladbroke Grove, London.
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FUTURA 2000, The Westway, London - 1981
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‘It’s a ‘Spraycation!’
What is Graffiti Tourism?
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Graffiti is a Competition
Writers Compete For: -
SPACE
PROLIFICACY
STYLE
FAME
REWARDS
LABELS
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TOURISTS
• Tourists can be categorized into two distinct groups.
• The ‘institutionalised’ – or regular tourist and the ‘non-
institutionalised tourist’ which includes ‘explorers’ and
‘drifters’. Cohen, E., Towards a Sociology of International Tourism, Social Research, 1972: 39: 1., pp. 164-182
• Whilst most on-tour graffiti writers are ‘explorers’ there are
exceptions. UTAH and ETHER were true GRIFTERS.
• The deviant tourists strategy is to visit places where they
can indulge in their desired deviant activity.Brunt, P. and Brophy, K. (2004). English Seaside Resorts and the Deviant Tourist Acta Turistica, 16, (1) 3-30.
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To have fun
The pursuit of fame
To take up the challenge of taking out a new city OR system
The creation of a new category of writer
O.M.T.Why are writers travelling to and from various countries?
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HAVE FUN
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THE PURSUIT OF FAME THNROGH GETTING UP
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TAKING OUT A NEW CITY OR TRANSIT SYSTEM
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INCEPTED in 2011 by MOSES & TAPS
The Latest Accolade
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What other factors have contributed to Graffiti Tourism?
The Schengen Agreement
The Fall of Communism
The Effects of Globalization – e.g., Smartphones
Cheap International Travel
Graffiti Festivals
No Dedicated Anti-Graffiti Police Units
Fractured, Insular, or no Intelligence Sharing Protocols
Other Factors
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The Schengen Agreement
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GLOBILISATION
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CHEAP TRAVEL
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INTELLIGENCE
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• There are innumerable magazines, books and DVD’s that are commercially available in many countries.
• However, the UK graffiti magazine scene has become seriously interested with the activities of ‘BRITS ABROAD’ as well as ‘FOREIGNERS IN THE UK’.
• Many magazines and books now give over numerous pages in each issue to the activities of graffiti writers ‘on tour’.
• Additionally, there are many online sites e.g. Flickr, Photobucket, Instagram and YouTube, that provide platforms for graffiti vandals to post their trophy photos and videos.
• This has the effect of glamorising graffiti tourism whilst promoting it as a ‘cool thing’ to do and as a way of maximising an actors personal utility.
Graff Mag’s & The Internet
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www.12ozProphet.com
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http://aet7lmoi4advnqhy.onion
Graff World
Graffworld’s claim:
“Graffworld is a deep
web forum for graffiti
vandals around the
world. The aim of this
is to share knowledge
and information
about systems and
cities world-wide.”
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EUROPE13-16 June 2019 – Wiesbaden (Germany)21-23 June 2019 – Madrid (Spain)28-30 June 2019 – Barcelona (Spain)19-21 July 2019 – Copenhagen (Denmark)26-28 July 2019 – Pristina (Kosovo)02-04 August 2019 – Lublin (Poland)09-11 August 2019 – Antwerp (Belgium)
AMERICAS27-29 September 2019 – Los Angeles (USA)04-06 October 2019 – Mexico11-13 October 2019 – Mexico18-20 October 2019 – Mexico25-27 October 2019 – Lima (Peru)01-03 November 2019 – Armenia (Colombia)15-17 November 2019 – Rio Grande/Pelotas (Brasil)13-15 December 2019 – Santiago De Chile (Chile)
MEETING OF STYLESGRAFFITI FESTIVAL
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How do writers get
about?
Inter-Rail
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Summer Lovin’
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Case Study Redacted.
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Any ??
Colin SaysellZero Graffiti Ltd.
Please ask me for a business card.
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