cairo’s graffiti goes vir(tu)al. facebook walls, their graffiti avenues and the afterlife
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Cairo’s graffiti goes vir(tu)al
Facebook walls, their graffiti avenues and the afterlife
Georgiana NicoareaUniversity of Bucharest
Outline• Graffiti in the Arab World• Overview of Street Art in Egypt• Graffiti - the book of the Revolution (from settings to heroes)
• Graffiti and the internet
“The post-Internet generations of artists navigate material and digital cities in an
experiential continuum. The art of the extramural world has reconceived both material and conceptual walls and spaces: the extramural
has become post-mural.” (Irvine, 2012)
From city-wide to world-wide to web-wide
Outline• Graffiti in the Arab World• Overview of Street Art in Egypt• Graffiti - the book of the Revolution (from settings to heroes)
• Graffiti and the internet
What is graffiti?
An interstitial practice - a practice about whose definition and boundaries different social actors hold inevitably different conceptions (Brighenti, 2010)
What is Arabic graffiti?
Beirut, 2012
Ramallah, 2011
“You can crush the flowers but you cannot postpone the spring” Cairo,
2012
Outline• Graffiti in the Arab World• Overview of Street Art in Egypt• Graffiti - the book of the Revolution (from settings to heroes)
• Graffiti and the internet
“Our streets”
Aya Tareq, the midwife of Egyptian graffiti
Graffiti near Tahrir Square – focal point of the Revolution and the hottest graffiti spot
in Cairo
Outline• Graffiti in the Arab World• Overview of Street Art in Egypt• Graffiti - the book of the Revolution (from settings to heroes)
• Graffiti and the internet
Representations of media
Carrying the message:“Go to the street!”
Street politics
Settings – appropriating public space
What’s in a name?Mohamed
Mahmud Street
Heroes -“We will not
forget, ya sitt el-banat”
The blue bra girl
“No to the stripping of the people
Long live the revolutionPeaceful”
Bahia Shehab
Outline• Graffiti in the Arab World• Overview of Street Art in Egypt• Graffiti - the book of the Revolution (from settings to heroes)
• Graffiti and the internet
Exchanging flicks in the digital age
Main FB pages
Graffiti the streets of Egypt | و���ار��ع م�ص�����������ر�ا ش���������� ي رسم�� ف�����������������Revolution Graffiti - Street Art
of the New Egypt
Speaking about graffiti• “Revolution Graffiti: Street Art of the New Egypt” (Mia Grondahl)
• “Wall Speak / ف� ه�ت� دران� ي����� � Based on)” ال�ج�������the Facebook page created by Maya Gowaily: http://www.facebook.com/GraffitiEgypt)Online content goes back to the streets
But is it the same content?
In search of the faith of Egyptian
graffiti
Than your for your attention!