Aesthetics of Crisis: Political Street Art & Graffiti in Athens, 2013-2023

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Join us on Friday, October 6th for a presentation by Professor Julia Tulke of Emory University!

SFU Bennett Library, Room 2020

The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Centre for Hellenic Studies at Simon Fraser University is pleased to present Professor <a href="http://ila.emory.edu/people/bios/tulke-julia.html" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Julia Tulke</a>, Emory University.On Friday, October 6th, at 2:30 PM PT, join us in person at SFU Burnaby, Bennett Library, Room 2020, or online, for her talk, &quot;Aesthetics of Crisis: Political Street Art and Graffiti in Athens, 2013-2023 ,&quot; as part of the Gefyra Series, the SNF Centre for Hellenic Studies at SFU&#x27;s partnership with UCLA.The event will be moderated by the Director of the SNF Centre for Hellenic Studies professor <a href="https://www.sfu.ca/hellenic-studies/about/people/d-krallis.html" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Dimitris Krallis</a>.Attendance is free. The event is open to the public and will be recorded.This programming is made possible thanks to the generous support of the <a href="https://snf.org" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF</a>).AbstractThis talk recapitulates the first ten years of Aesthetics of Crisis, a longitudinal research project that has documented and examined political street art and graffiti in Athens since 2013, generating an archive of nearly 7000 photographs. Initially probing the walls of the city as an artifact of and site of performative response to the Greek debt crisis, the project has since adopted Lyman Chaffee’s notion of political street art as a “barometer,” attending to shifting currents of crisis and newly emerging discourses: the austerity referendum and so-called refugee crisis of 2015; the growing visibility of feminist and queer protest and expression since the mid-2010s; the emergence anti-Airbnb and anti-gentrification graffiti since 2019; the response to the COVID-19 pandemic since 2020; and, most recently, the turn to graffiti removal as an aspirational performance of the end of crisis. By weaving together ethnographic and documentary sensibilities attuned to the complex and ever-shifting material realities of everyday life, Aesthetics of Crisis offers a polyphonic counterpoint to the narrow and often fetishizing representation of the “crisis city,” i.e. through so-called ruin porn, or the uncritical celebration of “crisis creativity” that casts Athens as “the new Berlin.

Speaker Biography<a href="http://ila.emory.edu/people/bios/tulke-julia.html" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Julia Tulke</a> earned her Ph.D. in Visual and Cultural Studies at the University of Rochester. Her longitudinal research project Aesthetics of Crisis won the 2022 Prosser Award for Visual Methodologies from the International Visual Sociology Association.

Moderator Biography Born and raised in Athens, <a href="https://www.sfu.ca/hellenic-studies/about/people/d-krallis.html" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Dimitris Krallis</a> studied political theory at the University of Athens and Byzantine History at Oxford and at the University of Michigan. He teaches Byzantine history at Simon Fraser University’s Department of Global Humanities and is the Director of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Centre for Hellenic Studies. His research explores the social, political, economic and intellectual history of Byzantium, as well as its modern reception.

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