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Touched by a Mural: Somatic Aspects of Urban Participation

Jakub Petri
- Vol. 20, pp 173-184
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In this article, the author discusses the issue of somatic aspects of street art and discusses murals as a source of multi-sensual experience for citizens and also a medium of urban participation.
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The article covers the issue of somatic aspects of street art. The author discusses murals as a source of multi-sensual experience for citizens and also a medium of urban participation. Street art is being presented there as a sphere of dialogue between objectified and social sphere of urban life and private, embodied experience of citizens.

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Body Consciousness in Modern Urban Surroundings: Freerunning and Parkour

Jakub Petri
TL;DR: In this paper, a parkour documentary entitled "Breaking the Line" was presented, where the author carried out the narration carried by the author, especially one direct sentence that appealed to me as worth remembering: "We are Cro-Magnon bodies living and operating in a digital world" which brought to life all consequences of the famous body- mind problem and put them in a modern urban context.
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An Introduction to Visual Culture

TL;DR: A wide-ranging and stimulating introduction to the history and theory of visual culture from painting to the computer and television screen can be found in this paper , where Mirzoeff argues that the visual is replacing the linguistic as our primary means of communicating with each other and of understanding our postmodern world.
Book ChapterDOI

Body Consciousness in Modern Urban Surroundings: Freerunning and Parkour

Jakub Petri
TL;DR: In this paper, a parkour documentary entitled "Breaking the Line" was presented, where the author carried out the narration carried by the author, especially one direct sentence that appealed to me as worth remembering: "We are Cro-Magnon bodies living and operating in a digital world" which brought to life all consequences of the famous body- mind problem and put them in a modern urban context.

The artistic turn in graffiti practice: Szwedzki vs Mona Tusz.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that the separation between graffiti and street art is less warranted than it would appear, and that graffiti is related to street art in many aspects, despite their common origins, and similar techniques and strategies.
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How is the concept of participation understood in the context of street art?

The paper discusses street art as a medium of urban participation, emphasizing the somatic aspects of citizens' embodied experience with murals.