Expert answer:Week 4 DISCUSSION
Solved by verified expert:In discussing this week’s readings and viewings, consider the following points:Which parts of the readings and/or viewings stood out to you?How do you define art? Do you consider graffiti to be art or vandalism? Why?In your opinion, if a graffiti writer does his or her work on canvas to be displayed in art galleries or in someone’s living room, is it still graffiti?media link:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EW22LzSaJAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azolNnTCnMI (Links to an external site.)
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WhenbusinessownerGigi Bungayopened
Salon Soleif on Beacon Avenue South a few
years ago, she moved into a damaged ‘store
front. Vandals had acid-€tched all the win
dows. She spent a couple hundred replacing
them, and also paid to.have a protective coating
applied to prevent future damage.
“It’s disrespectful and a nuisance,f~ said
Bungay of the vandalism that has damaged
numerous store fronts in the Beacon Hill busi
ness district.
Throughout Seattle, citizens are waging a
quiet war against graffiti. For many, the costs
are adding up fast. .
Last year, Seattle Public Utilities spent more
than half a million dollars cleaning up graffiti
on public property. All the city departments
combined spend $1 million per year to elimi
nate graffiti on its property.
That’s in addition to clean-up costs paid by
private property owners, said SPU spokesper
son Susan Stoltzfus in a written statement.
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who is the team leaderfor SPU’s Graffiti Rang
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e1s up to 35 miles a day removing graffiti off of
public property.
LeSs. than 10 percent of the graffiti that
Matlock sees is gang related.
. “They’re just normal kids hanging out with
nothing to do: Their goal is to put up as many
tags as possible,” Matlock remarked. ‘1t’s about
visibility. They want to be seen.”
Unlike g~lg graffiti, tagger graffiti is writ
ten by a person who adopts a nickname or tag,
according to areport by Seattle Police graffiti
detective Rod Hardiit. The tag is their personal
signature used ‘ to p romote themselves. The
tagger’s se1f-described goal is fame: The great-.
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long lasting and dilikult tags [rooftops, bridges,
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As the self-designated graffiti prosecutor,
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Graffiti give voice to Saudi youth
By Faiza Saleh Ambah
The Washington Post
flDDAH, Saudi Arabia – College dropout Abdullah al
Alwani wanted to stand out among his friends, but he
couldn’t afford a splashy car or brand-name clothes. Bored
by a lack of things to do in this conservative kingdom, he
decided to make his mark by spray-painting X S, his chosen
nickname, hundreds of times across the city.
Mohamed Jamal Abo-Umara, the newly appointed official in
charge of Jiddah’s beautification, spent months on al
Alwani’s traiL He alerted the police, told local newspapers
he was looking for X S and offered a $1,300 reward to
anyone who could lead him to the city’s most prolific graffiti
artist.
In May, a journalist offered to introduce the two men to each
other on the condition that vandalism charges be waived, and
both agreed.
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Abdullah al-Alwani, 20, with a
friend at a billiard hall in Jiddah,
Saudi Arabia. He has used his
newfound fame as a graffiti artist to
make some money: He was hired
last month to paint fluorescent 3-D
graffiti on the black walls of the Star
Billiards pool hall.
Saudi youth
Saudi Arabia has one of the world’s
youngest populations, with more
than 50 percent of its 22 million
citizens younger than 21.
But the June encounter, widely covered by the local media because of X S’s notoriety, ended up
addressing not j ust the graffiti problem but also what had fueled it – a host of frustrations faced by
al-Alwani’s generation.
Since then, al-Alwani and his graffiti buddies have appeared smiling and apologetic in dozens of
magazine, newspaper and television interviews, focusing a rare spotlight on Saudi youth.
Like many of his generation, al-Alwani, a slight 20-year-old with an Afro tinted volcano red, is
buffeted between the Western culture piped into his life via satellite television and the Internet and the
strict reEgious culture prevalent around him.
“I want graffiti walls like they have in the West. We need soccer fields and basketball courts in every
n ighborhood,” said al-Alwani, who prefers low-riding jeans to the traditional white robe commonly
worn here. “And 1 want to dress the way I want wi thout people making fun of me.”
Saudi Arabia is an absolute monarchy and one of the world’s most socially repressive societies.
A strict form ofIslam implemented by powerful clerics forces stores to close during the five daily
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prayers and forbids unrelated men and women to mingle in public. Cinemas and theaters ar,e banned,
public schools are segregated beginning in first grade, women are not allowed to drive, and single
men without female family members cannot enter most shopping malls.
Abo-Umara, the municipality official and a father of four, was criticized by colleagues for turning al
Alwani into a local celebrity instead of making an example out of him for vandals who have cost the
city close to $1 million in graffiti cleanup.
But Abo-Umara, 45 , said young men such as al-Alwani should not be held accountable until officials
are sure they’ve done right by local youth.
“What have we done for young people? Have we asked them what they need or want?” said Abo
Umara, wearing a flowing white head scarf and long robe. “Until I talk to them and find out why they
are scribbling aU over Jiddah and do my part in offering them the services we’re supposed to provide,
then I can’t punish or criticize them .”
True to his word, Abo-Umara held a two-day workshop called “What Do Youth Want From Jiddah?”
in July, shortly after his meeting with Al-Alwani . More than 200 young men and women attended, on
separate days, and their list of demands included cinemas, public libraries, and music and art centers.
The young women asked that women and girls have private beaches, that at least widows and
divorced women be pennitted to drive, and that boys who harass them be fined.
Both groups requested sports facilities, of which there are very few in Saudi Arabia.
Abo-Umara was able to implement one demand immediately …
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