Kandidatuppsats
Graffiti
kontextualitet, platsbundenhet och innehåll
- Graffiti
- Gallery space
- Public spaces
- Site-specific art
- Context
- Substance
- Change
- The white cube
- Institutional art theory
- Canon
- Galleri
- Offentliga utrymmen
- Platsspecifik konst
- Sammanhang
- Innehåll
- Förändring
- Den vita kuben
- Institutionell konstteori
- Kanon
Sammanfattning
The focus of this essay is to investigate if there lies a difference between graffiti art that is placed in the public spaces and graffiti art that is sited in an institutional art setting; in this essay exemplified in a gallery space. My thesis is that graffiti art derives a great deal of its meaning and substance from its situation consequently making a change of cultural context also a change of connotation and understanding of the graffiti art itself. Meaning that graffiti art situated in a communal space is different from graffiti art situated in the gallery space. They share aesthetic expression but their connotations differ; i.e. one being illegal and the other permissible making their meanings dissimilar. I have used a comparison between site-specific art and graffiti art to further strengthen my thesis concerning the importance of understanding how a change of context critically changes the substance of graffiti art.