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October 27, 2008
A territory can be thought of as a space with boundaries. These boundaries are not permanent as they can be changed. Deterritorialisation reconfigures the boundaries of a territory. Reterritorialisation moves these boundaries and borders again - not to where they were originally, but often back in that direction.
Rather than teterritorialisation being a return to a primitive or older territoriality it refers to a coding that stands for lost territory such that a territory can defined through mutliple layers of de/reterritorialisation.
Gary Sauer-Thompson, street art, Everfresh, 2008
The wall to the left used be a blank grey wall on which street artists produced art and the Adelaide City City Council scubbed it off again. It was a contested public space. The Everfresh mural was commissioned by the developers of what was once the East End wholesale market.
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