“Street Art,” or How to Dream Urban Ordinariness
Billereau, Sébastien
“Street Art,” or How to Dream Urban Ordinariness - 2015.
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Our purpose, inasmuch as it deals with the urban space through its plasticity, its performances, and artistic acts evolving within it, calls for an approach that has made us evolve from a domestic, sensory, and fictional perspective of daily urban space to the study of artistic actions that can integrate this environment that is conducive to visions, namely urban art and visual variations. Each of the ordinary situations of the city can be experienced as a field of psychogeography, an epistemology of time and everyday space. Each appears as an environment for an event game following a logic all its own, fueled by reflexes and visual communication systems. A combination of a background and a form, artistic counterlanguages always leave a small notch in the vast spectacle of social life. A point of condensation, the phenomenon of urban art aspires to pervert ordinary space positively. Now widespread across cities—even continents—graffiti action has consequently become planned and turned into a sort of fictional game grid for the alterquotidian. Visual gestures control the topography and have become the escape from urban spaces. It is by interrogating the city themselves that they can design manifold becauses.
“Street Art,” or How to Dream Urban Ordinariness - 2015.
68
Our purpose, inasmuch as it deals with the urban space through its plasticity, its performances, and artistic acts evolving within it, calls for an approach that has made us evolve from a domestic, sensory, and fictional perspective of daily urban space to the study of artistic actions that can integrate this environment that is conducive to visions, namely urban art and visual variations. Each of the ordinary situations of the city can be experienced as a field of psychogeography, an epistemology of time and everyday space. Each appears as an environment for an event game following a logic all its own, fueled by reflexes and visual communication systems. A combination of a background and a form, artistic counterlanguages always leave a small notch in the vast spectacle of social life. A point of condensation, the phenomenon of urban art aspires to pervert ordinary space positively. Now widespread across cities—even continents—graffiti action has consequently become planned and turned into a sort of fictional game grid for the alterquotidian. Visual gestures control the topography and have become the escape from urban spaces. It is by interrogating the city themselves that they can design manifold becauses.
Réseaux sociaux