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August 5, 2007

An example of expressionist street art in Adelaide that can be counterpoised to the world of mythic dreamscapes constructed by global advertising

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Gary Sauer-Thompson, Graffiti, Adelaide, 2007

The advertising of global corporations does more than provide deeply ideological explanations of what space is and how it should be organized: it also implicitly offers normative models of how we might orient ourselves towards and engage with our spatial surroundings.

| Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at 9:12 AM |