Territories & ToleranceResistance & Battles...

But first...

• Workshop • Group Presentations• Critical Reflection

Paper: 25% (Due Sunday August 4th@ 23:30h)

Young & Brighenti

Applied / TheoreticalDefinitionYoung’s case

demonstrates the point made by Brighenti

Walls as strategy...Governmentality

Brighenti

Social Theory LensCultural geography

What is precisely public in public space?

Defining graffiti....

Problematic (Young*)• Interstitial practice• When interrogated from

each perspective: “yes, but....”

Common denominator: materiality

Because...1. Global context &

“street”2. Legislation vs.

creativity3. Tools & techniques of

the body4. Simplistic/complex

lifestyle5. Architecture as

affordances (not things)

For example: Hip Hop

Trope infection suggestion (Brighenti, 2010:321)

Walls as Walls as Artefacts: Artefacts: StrategyStrategy

Why does a Why does a municipality municipality care about care about walls?walls?

StrategyGovernmentality

(Foucault)• Procedural power• Historical emergence

of knowleges about such powers/populations

• Application of tools– Administrative state

Walls as Visable Territorial Devices

Graffiti as Tactical Strategy...

Citizens are ‘imagined’ in walls

(Official Graffiti, Hermer & Hunt)

Graffiti challenges these narratives with “at hand” tools (bricolage)

Public scene as compositionThe “street”: the birth

and target of graffiti

Young’s research:• Confusion about

public space (target for ‘education’)

Graffiti poses two questions: Public

1. What is a writer?2. What is public space?– Restrictive/Utilitarian– Permissive/Antiquity

Territory• “Tags” create territory• Graffiti IS territory– It does not end at the

wall– Community– All is not resistance...

Walls...“...are governmental

tools that set limits and impasses, and complimentary allowed paths and trajectories...”

Writers see walls as invitations to continue the conversation about public space...

If everything is a wall...

Critical thinking...

YoungPlease review the details on your own• Important for your presentations...• Governing murals– Impact of administration

• The 4 E’s....

Ottawa: Permission & Policing

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Critical Reflection Paper• Assignment Guidelines• Formatting Guidelines

Group Work...*Attendance policy* Presentation