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TAG:
NAME WRITING
IN PUBLIC SPACE
A CONFERENCE ABOUT TAGGING,
IN HISTORY AND TODAY
2 & 3 SEPTEMBER 2019
COLOGNE
TAG:
NAME WRITING
IN PUBLIC SPACE
A CONFERENCE ABOUT TAGGING, IN HISTORY AND TODAY
COLOGNE
2 & 3 SEPTEMBER 2019
The Tag Conference is an international meeting where both academics and non-academics talk about contemporary tagging and its historical antecedents.
After successful instalments in Berlin (2017) and Amsterdam (2018), the Tag Conference takes place in 2019 as part of the program of CityLeaks Urban Art Festival Cologne.
All lectures are free and open to the public.
A WIDE RANGE OF LOOKS INTO TAGGING
The call for papers for the Tag Conference 2019 has received applications from fourteen countries in Europe, North and South America. A total of twelve papers have been selected to present together with our six guest speakers. See the complete list of speakers below.
Research approaches include calligraphy, art history, dance, archaeology, spoken word, anthropology, sociology, urban studies, photography, cinematography, internet studies, philosophy and graffiti studies.
UNLOCK BOOK FAIR
On the weekend immediately preceding the conference, and also in Cologne, the same team behind the Tag Conference welcomes you to the Unlock Book Fair, the annual meeting of the international graffiti and street art publishing scene.
VENUE
AZE Atelierzentrum Ehrenfeld
Hospeltstraße 69
PROGRAM
MONDAY 2
9:30
Welcome
10h
Introduction
THEORETICAL ENQUIRIES
10:30
Egidio Emiliano Bianco (IT)
‘Lee 163d vs Lee Quiñones, or graffiti writing vs ‘graffiti painting.’’
11h
Rubí Celia Ramírez (MX)
‘Oral history in the streets: a proposal for the construction of knowledge from urban writers in México City.’
11:30
Andrea Mubi Brighenti (IT)
‘A philosophy of tag writing.’
12h
LUNCH BREAK
FRINGES
13h
Adam Void (US)
‘The fourth wave is here: a graffiti diaspora into rural America.’
13:30
Julian Windisch (DE)
‘Province poetry: tags, toys and trash.’
14h
Vittorio Parisi (IT)
‘On the coexistence of tags and weeds in urban interstices: towards an aesthetic of infestation.’
14:30
COFFEE BREAK
ARTIST PROFILES
15h
Katja Glaser (DE)
‘4rtist: : ) type alt +1, a case study.’
15:30
Norbert Kirbach (DE)
‘Zhang Dali, China’s first graffiti writer.’
16h
Orestis Pangalos (GR)
‘Mofi’s poetic interventions, abstract automatic writing in public spaces 2005–2008.’
CLOSING TALK
16:30
Carl Cattermole (UK)
‘I i i i i love u u u u u.’
PROGRAM
TUESDAY 3
STYLES
10h
Tobias Barenthin (SE)
‘Tracing influences and style in graffiti, the case of Luleå.’
10:30
Charles Van Linden (US)
‘Atlanta style: mapping the local in the digital age.’
HISTORY
11h
Anica Nießner (DE)
‘On the tracks of tagging in 17th Century paintings of Dutch church interiors.’
11:30
Vincent Baumgartner (CH)
‘Buildings tell tales: carved graffiti in Budapest.’
12h LUNCH BREAK
CULTURES
13h
María Fernanda López Jaramillo (EC)
‘Chapeteo: episodes of ‘guayaco’ urban graphics we would rather forget.’
13:30
Javier Abarca (ES)
‘Moniker writing in Europe.’
14h
Undisclosed screening
14:30 COFFEE BREAK
INTERNET
15h
Per Englund & Tobias Barentin (SE)
‘The wandering photographer: tag collecting and city mapping in the smartphone era.’
15:30
Malcolm Jacobson (SE)
‘What’s your Insta? Instagram as extension of tags and graffiti identities.’
16h
Mathieu Tremblin (FR)
‘Tagging as a tool for indexing our daily paths in IRL and URL public spaces.’
CLOSING PERFORMANCE
16:30
Kadir ‘Amigo’ Memis (TR/DE)
‘BOUZUQΣΣ, hommage to graffiti.’
IN-LOOP
SCREENING
‘Inside the gancheros meeting’ (Raw footage, 63’, 2014)
Nofrontery Films and Adrian Macías (MX)
A rare look into the obscure “ganchos” tagging culture of Monterrey.
THE CONFERENCE
IN PICTURES
TEAM
Scientific Committee
PhD Orestis Pangalos (GR)
PhD Javier Abarca (ES)
Production
Unlock Book Fair
CityLeaks Festival
Director
Javier Abarca
Poster image: Temple of Dendur, Egypt.
On display at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.
