SOCB50H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Dismaland, Banksy, Gift Shop
SOCB50 – Lecture 11
Graffiti
Through the gift shop? Banksy’s
- Subversive character of graffiti
- Exploiting what other people think graffiti is
- Reminder – normative character of art and how social experience
- Perception of how people make meaning of things is guided by different
types of norms
o Doesn’t treat graffiti as article
o Art out into the world – primary quality of??
▪ Defacing surfaces
- CBC news – pieces he did
o Physical extension – opened up own theme park (Dismaland)
▪ Abandoned industrial area – ran it for 2 weeks
▪ Disneyland miserable style
▪ Greeters and employees miserable, swearing…
o Poking at political conditions, morality norms
- Graffiti or are examples of aesthetic practice and criminal activity
o Bansky anonymous – not just an act, minor criminal offense (mischief)
o Visible that norm and character of practice and of law itself
- Tox artist
o More than 10 years went around tagging
o TOX –year – TOX04
o Tagging – gratifies, artistic quality? – much less, but contextual and
normative it does/ not – grey area
o Wanted by police, convicted in jail for 27 months because a big person
in graffiti circle
o Judge there is nothing artistic about what you do
▪ The law – no exception in law for artistically qualified people
• Saying that artistic does come into play then?
o Mala prohibita offence – supposed to be neutral but based on one
person
o Banksy got involved – did his own piece on him
▪ Not really clear what tox felt about banksy
▪ Law -no difference between bankxys graffiti and tox where he
got 27 months
• No one went after him, instead people framing it,
admiring it, no one came after him…
• Put glass on it, and camera on it – wanting to preserve it
▪ UNDER THE LAW THEY ARE THE SANE THING
- Interaction
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Document Summary
Graffiti types of norms: defacing surfaces, disneyland miserable style, poking at political conditions, morality norms. Graffiti or are examples of aesthetic practice and criminal activity. Perception of how people make meaning of things is guided by different. Exploiting what other people think graffiti is: abandoned industrial area ran it for 2 weeks, greeters and employees miserable, swearing . Much less, but contextual and normative it does/ not grey area. Tox artist: more than 10 years went around tagging, under the law they are the sane thing. Interaction in graffiti circle person: saying that artistic does come into play then, how graffiti is really live live interaction almost like a performance, put into world becomes something else piece, gift shop. Alleged tagger arrested by city police: nation under cctv, making explicit/ fun of cctv. Desires our governable reading and bodies of onlookers a to the surfaces of the urban world.
