Placing Post-Graffiti: the Journey of the Peckham Rock
Placing post-graffiti: the journey of the Peckham Rock Luke Dickens To cite this version: Luke Dickens. Placing post-graffiti: the journey of the Peckham Rock. cultural geographies, SAGE Publications, 2008, 15 (4), pp.471-496. 10.1177/1474474008094317. hal-00572052 HAL Id: hal-00572052 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00572052 Submitted on 1 Mar 2011 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. cultural geographies 2008 15: 471–496 Placing post-graffiti: the journey of the Peckham Rock Luke Dickens Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London This article is about the intersections between contemporary forms of urban inscription, art and the city, as they come to be configured through an emergent ‘post-graffiti’ aesthetic practice. Exemplary of this movement is the self-proclaimed ‘art terrorist’, Banksy, who has earned a reputation recently for his audacious interventions into some of the most significant art institutions in the western world, as well as for his politically charged stencil and sculptural work in the everyday spaces of the city. Focusing on the artist’s Peckham Rock, a fragment of concrete that he surreptitiously stuck to the walls of the British Museum in May 2005, this article uses the methodological device of ‘the journey’ in an attempt to place the connections and disconnections between a series of elite and institutional spaces, social relations and mediascapes through which ‘the rock’ passes as its ‘life’ as an artwork unfolds.
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