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Carceral Aesthetics. Art and Everyday Life in Prison
2021
The paper aims to focus on everyday life in prison following a double perspective, a historical and a contemporary one. First, the historical phenomenon of prison graffiti will be investigated in connection with one case study: the graffiti in the prisons of the Holy Office in Palermo. Subsequently, the effect of making art in today’s prisons both on space and on inmate life will be taken into account. The overall aim of this twofold reading is to show to what extent making art in prison can be seen as a strategy of activation of those relational and familiarizing processes which bestow an aesthetic value on everyday life.
Soundless Screams: Graffiti and Drawings in the Prisons of the Holy Office in Palermo
2017
The discovery of graffiti in the early years of the twentieth century by the folklorist Giuseppe Pitré left by prisoners of the tribunal of the Spanish Inquisition in Palermo has been followed by more extensive investigations in recent years. These images and words have added a concrete and particular dimension to Sicily’s position at the crossroads of the Mediterranean. As well as images of saints and naval battles are to be found inscriptions not only in Italian, Sicilian and Latin but also in English and Hebrew. This article cross references this visual and textual evidence with the relevant archives of the tribunal in order to provide a powerful microhistory of suffering and resilience …
El arte urbano no convencional. Graffitis en la ciudad de Valencia: una aproximación
2011
Grafiti y postgrafiti en la ciudad de Valencia: una perspectiva crítica
2015
En Valencia el grafiti y el arte callejero poseen una presencia importante en las calles. Los festivales y exhibiciones toman relevancia en los distintos distritos que configuran el tejido urbano. La sociedad mira sorprendida, lo rechaza y lo admira. Son múltiples las intervenciones de arte urbano y grafiti por parte de los artistas callejeros y los escritores de grafiti. Las paredes contemplan cómo las plantillas, los encolados y los iconos dirigen la mirada de los transeúntes interpretando un lenguaje que comienza a ser cotidiano. La normativa tiene que ser revisada ante una realidad artística que grita en cada rincón, ¡otra ciudad es posible! Se trata de una tesis en la que se analiza el…
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Graffiti
2020
Emotions play an essential role in aesthetic and art experience. Graffiti is an example of urban visual communication, and it can also be understood as a form of art. Like other works of art, graffiti can evoke different aesthetic emotions in its audiences, such as pleasure, wonder, interest and pride but also disinterest, disappointment or embarrassment, and even anger and disgust—further impacting, for example, how they value this art form. However, few studies have explored what kinds of emotions people feel when they appraise graffiti. This chapter discusses emotions in graffiti using examples from participant interviews in the Purkutaide study. Interview quotes are assessed against the…
Embodied graffiti and street art research
2021
Graffiti and street art research (GSAR) has become more acknowledged within the academic discourse; however, it has much to gain from theorising its methodological aspects. As a multidisciplinary field, GSAR has mostly used qualitative research methods, exploring urban space through methods that range from visual recordings to ethnography, emphasising the researchers’ reflexivity. This qualitative approach has, however, paid little attention to the role of embodied practices. In this paper we discuss how embodied methodologies provide multisensory research results where the experienced moments, the participant’s and researcher’s senses, cognition and mobility in urban spaces are connected.…
Expertise and becoming conscious of something
2022
Becoming conscious refers to how new mental content emerges in the mind. To understand this phenomenon, we studied how people experience graffiti by thinking aloud. In protocols, we found three types of becoming conscious: experiencing emotional and perceptual content directly linked to a perceivable object, non-perceivable or apperceived information content, and transformation and restructuring processes. On the grounds of the content-based study of protocols, we suggest that people can become conscious of either direct perception, apperception, or restructuring thinking. Research of the mind, which is grounded in analysis and explained by properties of mental content, can be called conten…
25 años de graffiti en Valencia: aspectos sociológicos y estéticos
2015
La Tesis Doctoral "25 Años de Graffiti en Valencia: Aspectos Sociológicos y Estéticos" es un estudio que pone en valor todo el espectro de las escenas de graffiti y creatividad pública independiente -Street Art- de la ciudad de Valencia. El marco teórico del estudio son los Estudios Culturales, Subculturales y Postsubculturales. La metodología específica de su abordaje es la Observación Participante. El estudio se inicia con el análisis de los precedentes visuales, actitudinales y estratégicos de las prácticas del graffiti y la creatividad pública independiente: el cómic, el cartoon animado, la cultura popular, el cine, la televisión,la rotulación comercial, el diseño gráfico y la contracul…