Graffiti: Mark the city
Audio 48:30
What role for city policies in the making of urban art?
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By: Amélie Beaucour
1 min
On subway cars, building walls or bridges, from Philadelphia to Cape Town via Sao Paulo, Paris and Berlin, graffiti is now displayed everywhere.
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Long considered vandalism, they are now exhibited in galleries and museums.
Some murals have also become real tourist attractions for cities.
Ephemeral or lasting, art or degradation, gratuitous or mercantile, transgression or conformism... graffiti also says a lot about our relationship to the city and to the times.
Who are today's graffiti artists?
What role for city policies in the making of urban art?
With :
Karim Madani,
journalist specializing in urban cultures.
Author of
You will not betray
( Marchialy
editions, 2021)
Julie Vaslin
, political scientist specializing in public action at the
University of Lille
.
Author of
Governing graffiti
(Presse Universitaire de Grenoble, 2021)
Musical programming:
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Town planning
– Vald
►
Fancy
– Amaarae
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