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The game of fame: Mural, graffiti, erasure

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  • Mark Halsey
  • Ben Pederick

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This paper examines the logics and limits of graffiti management at a key site within an Australian city. Using writers’ narratives, we examine attempts to control the type of graffiti (script) against efforts to control its location (bleed). Our central claim is that both these strategies demand that graffiti only speak its name when it (visually) ceases to be itself—that the 'best’ graffiti, bureaucratically speaking, is that which functions as its own form of erasure. We conclude by posing and responding to the key question: under what conditions is graffiti permitted to exist?

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  • Mark Halsey & Ben Pederick, 2010. "The game of fame: Mural, graffiti, erasure," City, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 14(1-2), pages 82-98, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:14:y:2010:i:1-2:p:82-98
    DOI: 10.1080/13604810903525199
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    1. Stefano Bloch, 2016. "Why do Graffiti Writers Write on Murals? The Birth, Life, and Slow Death of Freeway Murals in Los Angeles," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 40(2), pages 451-471, March.
    2. Kurt Iveson, 2010. "Some critical reflections on being critical: Reading for deviance, dominance or difference?," City, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 14(4), pages 434-441, August.

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