{"id":587,"date":"2018-10-24T20:40:20","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T00:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/graffiti-fall2018\/?p=587"},"modified":"2018-10-24T20:40:20","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T00:40:20","slug":"contemporary-graffiti-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/graffiti-fall2018\/2018\/10\/24\/contemporary-graffiti-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Contemporary Graffiti in the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interestingly, this week ties into the topic of my paper quite seamlessly and has provided me different ways to think about graffiti in nature.\u00a0 Considering the Ralph and Smith article on\u00a0<em>Contemporary Indigenous graffiti and recent government interventions in Jawoyn Country,\u00a0<\/em>I found it interesting how and what the indigenous people are reacting to via graffiti. When brought into the scope of my paper, I see direct ties between some of these political responses and the marks that are left on trails and mountain tops. Both types of graffiti have a special relation to place, and this place is also what gives the academic a means to study the art.<\/p>\n<p>Also interesting, I found myself comparing some of this indigenous graffiti to other forms of solicitation and publication of thought such as political road signs. In a sense, these signs can be a work of &#8220;graffiti&#8221; although mass produced. Similar to a tag, they occupy public space and also seem to pile up where others have already been put. Thinking about how these tags (or signs) have a physical meaning but also much more of a meta meaning concerning political and social action, it is interesting to compare them to the tags that are spoken about in this article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interestingly, this week ties into the topic of my paper quite seamlessly and has provided me different ways to think about graffiti in nature.\u00a0 Considering the Ralph and Smith article on\u00a0Contemporary Indigenous graffiti and recent government interventions in Jawoyn Country,\u00a0I found it interesting how and what the indigenous people are reacting to via graffiti. When &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/graffiti-fall2018\/2018\/10\/24\/contemporary-graffiti-in-the-world\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Contemporary Graffiti in the World&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7023,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/graffiti-fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/graffiti-fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/graffiti-fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/graffiti-fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7023"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/graffiti-fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/graffiti-fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":588,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/graffiti-fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions\/588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/graffiti-fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/graffiti-fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/graffiti-fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}