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Opening_____________________________________Sunday 16th January 2004
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In Urban Articulation, the last research field, we gather examples
of creative, voluntary and informal visual articulation in towns.

"If people consider it important at some point in their life to spray
I love you on a bridge, that's beautiful. With street art, it is
important that you fully believe in what you're doing."
                 Polina Grigoryevna Soloveichik (Toy-shop Collective)

To get a message across, you can choose various formats: copy posters,
hand out flyers, preach on beer-crates, talk to friends... But also
the cities facades have been functioning as an important display for
opinions, political anger and slogans. Nowadays layers and layers of
urban articulation peel from house walls in cities less tidy than
Amsterdam, overlapping each other and offering an archeology of the
city's language. Alongside political announcements and graffiti, more
subtle, poetic and artistic forms of signs invade the city.

Through work-presentations on Sunday 16th of January 2005 we will
investigate the origins of street art, its traditions, and what
chances it has for survival in such a regulated country.


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