"This is not a Banksy!": Street art and the transformation of public space

Hansen, Susan and Flynn, Danny (2014) "This is not a Banksy!": Street art and the transformation of public space. In: Street Art & Urban Creativity International Conference, Lisbon, Portugal.

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This paper examines the dialogue and transformation of public space that occurred after Banksy’s Slave Labour was removed without notice from a wall in North London, transported to Miami and listed for auction. Despite the high-profile media coverage of the ‘theft’ of Banksy’s piece, the explosion of new works provoked by its extraction was for the most part simply erased as they appeared. We argue that the excision of Slave Labour provided a ‘gap in the sensible’ (Rancière 2004) and the conditions of possibility for the emergence of a lively local intertextual visual dialogue, which transformed this otherwise apparently unremarkable London side street into an arena for aesthetic protest and critical social commentary.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	street art, graffiti, site-specific art, cities, urban environments, Banksy, Slave Labour
Subjects:	700 The arts; fine & decorative arts > 710 Civic & landscape art
Department:	The School of Art, Architecture and Design
Depositing User:	Danny Flynn
Date Deposited:	11 Apr 2016 10:38
Last Modified:	11 Apr 2016 10:38
URI:	https://repository.londonmet.ac.uk/id/eprint/974

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