Street Art
Dr Joolz, who is a researcher involved in this project, has been interested in street art for some time. On a recent visit to Granada, I was struck by the richness of street art and the statements it made about American imperialism and the war in Iraq . In this working paper by Michael Alderton, he discusses the texts produced by 'billboard liberators' as a form of critical literacy practice. I like the concept of 'billboard liberation'. It certainly lightened up the last general election in the UK when billboard liberators challenged some of the Tory party's offensive campaigning - see examples here.Jackie
posted by Jackie Marsh at 12:32 AM
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I can't wait to get into the billboard liberators paper. A short time ago a number of sculptures were brought to campus where I work. One such piece was placed right over some chalk art done by students. While talking about the incident in class we entered into a discussion regarding public art, privileged art and so forth so I'm interested to do more thinking on this once I've read more.
Great photos.
Thanks for putting together this Blog Jackie. What a rich collection of multimedia and multi-genre text!
vivian
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Hi Vivian
Your example of the campus is really interesting. The question of which art is legitimate is an important one.
There has been a move here to legalise street art, despite Blair's attempt to catch middle-England votes with his campaign against 'graffiti' - see
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2383725.stm
Still no legal spaces for street art here, however...
Jackie
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