Is graffiti streetart, protest, acting out, vandalism, all of the above?
“What if someone paints a huge ugly graffiti on your wall?”
Sounds like an easy question to answer, right? Of course that is an act of violence against my property and as such vandalism. RIGHT?
Or would there be an alternative perspective where graffiti becomes politics, art, protest or a youth taking ownership of the public space? Our latest debate circles around these questions and we believe it is one of our best debates yet.
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Hello,
first of all, this was a great episode.
In my opinion graffiti is not vandalism. It is, wether concious or not, a form of protest. Someone who tags or sprays a graffiti onto a wall protests against established art, ownership or rules.
For example take the Berlin Wall before it came down. It was art, it was a message board, it was protest against the seperation, there where political statements and so on. It became art the moment it collapsed. In todays view, the Berlin Wall was only preserved because of its graffiti. Otherwise it would have vanished even more than it has today.
Second reason is its origin in New York and the hiphop culture. Graffiti is a mayor part of black pop culture. I think, without graffiti there would not have been a outbreak of black culture from New York.