This chapter by Alexandra Duncan prompts deeper inquiry into site-specificity and the ways in which site\u2013\u2013as a “problem-idea” (137)\u2013\u2013situates and informs interpretations of the graffito. Through the transferral of image from one space to another, the potential meanings, interpretations and primary affective experience of viewing a graffito are transformed.<\/p>\n
Duncan, in quoting Michael Glover for\u00a0The Independent<\/em>, highlights the important factors of street graffiti: its uncertainty, spontaneity, ephemerality, and urgency (130). These factors are not present when transferred to a gallery space. Duncan writes that “in a gallery context, the imagery remains static and unchanging” (130). Thus, through engaging in a close reading of an image’s situation in space\u2013\u2013”smooth” or “striated” (135)\u2013\u2013temporality and ephemerality transform the affective qualities of image interpretation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This chapter by Alexandra Duncan prompts deeper inquiry into site-specificity and the ways in which site\u2013\u2013as a “problem-idea” (137)\u2013\u2013situates and informs interpretations of the graffito. Through the transferral of image from one space to another, the potential meanings, interpretations and primary affective experience of viewing a graffito are transformed. Duncan, in quoting Michael Glover for\u00a0The … <\/p>\n