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funny and revealing textual analysis

Sat, 24 Jan 2015 09:55:37 GMT+10:00

You aren’t here: reimagining the place of graffiti in heritage studies

Thu, 01 Jan 2015 10:20:31 GMT+10:00

A paper I have written about the role of the digital graffiti archive in heritages debate has now been published by Sage! http://researchbank.swinburne.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/swin:41398

Centred on the theorisation, design and implications of the Sydney Graffiti Archive, this article considers how the virtual image archive intervenes in the experience of graffiti to shift negative perceptions about graffiti as damage to cultural heritage. As a parallel discursive arena (see Fraser, 1995; Hauser, 1998), the Sydney Graffiti Archive infiltrates and transgresses normative conceptions of place and cultural narratives through the formation and circulation of unofficial visual discourses embedded in graffiti photographs. This article evaluates the place of the archive as a heuristic device and heterotopic entity and encourages new ways of seeing illicit graffiti, and other everyday digital cultures of commemoration, in that it reshapes present relations to the past through photographic reframing, image digitization, interface design and user engagement. Essentially, this research is about hacking into, recovering and honouring graffiti's discursive sites to reimagine graffiti's place as digital heritage.

Cutback Documentary is live

Sat, 13 Dec 2014 18:32:55 GMT+10:00

Proud to have been a small part of Rachel's important documentary. Footage of Hibernian House is here http://cut-back.com.au/collectives/hibernian-house/

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...and sometimes its a slow goodbye

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 20:11:15 GMT+10:00

2013 and 2002.

someone else misses the stencil wall too…

Sun, 13 Jan 2013 14:01:25 GMT+10:00

Someone else misses it too. For earlier iterations of 39 Phillip St, Newtown see here

Weeks lane exhibition

Fri, 23 Nov 2012 16:25:52 GMT+10:00

A commissioned paste up exhibition has popped up in Weekes Lane. For earlier iterations of the wall space here

Stencil Evolution

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 10:53:45 GMT+10:00

Darwin's museum and the evolution of the stencil wall at 39 Phillip St, Newtown...
It seems that it was only a matter of time. To see the stencil wall in its earlier iterations click here

WELCOME TO THE HOTEL CALIFORNIA

Tue, 25 Jan 2011 12:08:20 GMT+10:00

This old motel near Sydney University has been given a complete makeover. To view the full set of images in the SGA please follow this link. Anyone else been inside?

POSSIBLE BANKSY IN NEWTOWN?

Wed, 19 Jan 2011 12:02:22 GMT+10:00

Thanks to Greg Hatton from this image! A closer look reveals that the stencil work lacks the sophistication, softness and signature style of a Banksy work. See Banksy example here.

THE MOVEMENT MOVES ON IN…

Mon, 10 Jan 2011 11:53:26 GMT+10:00

Beastman, Meggs, Phibs, Roach and Numskull took some time out recently to complete a series of individual and collaborative works in the old Dunlop Factory site. Lovely typographic work from ABOVE too. At the time of this encounter I stumbled across a film crew and a photo shoot. My how spaces of abandonment, graff and play can become commodified over time…