![]() ![]() ![]() In the ten months since our collection has gone online, we’ve seen 69,579 tags-3,815 system tags automatically extracted from our internal collection system, 58,107 contributed by members of our Posse and 7,657 created by anonymous users. We’ve been surprised at the tagging that has taken place, how much of it is really excellent work and how committed some people have been to making our collection even more searchable. Welcome to the first American celebration of graffiti studies.As most of our readers know, we encourage tagging on our online collection and we created Tag! You’re It to make that contribution more fun and more relevant. This Brooklyn instalment of the Tag Conference gathers an unprecedented line-up of established American figures, both underground and institutional, plus some special guests from Europe and Australia. While the working field of graffiti studies is taking shape in Europe, its most veteran and fundamental voices hail from the U.S.A. A full-format Tag Conference with an open call for papers is scheduled for June 29th to July 1st 2023 at the Hamburg University and the Museum for Hamburg History in Germany. The Tag Conference Brooklyn is an invitation-only instalment of the Tag Conference with a focus on contemporary tagging. The Tag Conference is proud to showcase as well the work of independent researchers and ‘rogue archivists’, culturally invaluable but often overlooked by academia. The event’s groundbreaking focus on ‘name-writing of all eras’ has brought together academics studying historical wall-writing with the new scholars of contemporary graffiti, often insiders of the culture, creating the first point of contact between these two research spheres. Since its founding instalment in 2017 at the Freie Universität Berlin, the conference has travelled to different European cities to host talks from over 70 speakers coming from 19 countries on 4 continents. The Tag Conference is the spearhead event in the growing field of graffiti studies. Kaves and Rebel will offer a look into particularly influential writers to understand the evolution of Brooklyn handstyles over the decades, and share a peek into Rebel’s unique and extensive photographic archive of tagged insides. These tags were however neglected in appreciations of the culture, and remain largely so today. writers, the tagged inside walls of the trains were as relevant as the pieces on the outsides. Tags were the founding brick that led to colorful graffiti. In this panel, McCormick will present the intriguing tags of American artist Brad Downey, Ket will recount his rise from tagger to media mogul and museum director, and Espo will delve into his unique blend of handstyles, poetry and art. Tags are the foundation of many professional careers, and a tool for artists. MacDowall will then discuss how graffiti found a perfect home on Instagram and the internet, in a radical expansion of the spatial arena for tags. This panel will open with an exclusive view into ‘White American Flags’, the now mythical 2014 intervention by artists Wermke & Leinkauf on the Brooklyn Bridge, a brazen translation of graffiti into the language of art. Tags exist in space, and the way they play with this dimension is a key aspect to their value. graffiti, will join Austin and Birzin in fleshing out the different genesis stories of the culture. Veteran journalist Richard Goldstein, who witnessed and reported on early N.Y.C. Birzin has recently studied how other media elevated graffiti into an acceptable form of art. shares deep roots yet differs greatly, and will look into the groundbreaking tag-based mural painted by Barry McGee on Houston Street in 2010.Īustin’s essential 2001 book ‘Taking the Train’ examined the media-driven demonisation of N.Y.C. Speakers will discuss how tagging across the U.S.A. to the handstyles of Philadelphia, on which Chastanet is currently conducting on-site research. Local tagging traditions have a long and rich history in the U.S.A, from the ‘placas’ of L.A. A scene is emerging in Europe, and marks on freight cars can be spotted from France to Russia. Recently however, ‘monikers’ have found a new following in America and across the world. The marks left by hobos on freight trains as they stowed away across the continent were spoken, written, and sung about over a century ago, but with the decades they fell into obscurity. ![]()
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