Já tinhamos visto há uns tempos atrás videos de promoção no Estrangeiro dirigido a brigadas Internacionais, partilhando um convite de invasão directa da cidade de Lisboa por Graffiters e afins.
Os resultados estão
à vista em toda a Cidade.
Agora a coisa até
já se estende à terceira idade com alibis de “hobby” salutar e
pedagógico contra o tédio e a rotina .
Movimentando-se numa
área Indefinida ( e quase impossível de definir entre “gatafunho”
e “arte Urbana” tudo isto acontece impunemente e usufruindo da
conhecida e clássica apatia/ passividade/ “hospitalidade do Luso
Nacional Porreirismo
OVOODOCORVO
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GRAFFITI NEVER AGES:
LISBON STREET ART FOR SENIOR CITIZENS
Senior Graffiti
Writers Taking Over The Walls In Lisbon
While at first
glance there might seem to be little opportunity to combine the
worlds of pie-baking with stencil-making, or bingo-playing with
paint-spraying, or hard candy with hard time, the ability of these
seemingly disparate lifestyles to merge is a testament to not just
the universal appeal of street art, but to the surprising and
ceaseless vitality of our older generations. LATA 65 is an emergent
phenomenon currently taking place in Lisbon. Through a series of
workshops and group actions, generational divides are being bridged
and cultural and creative cross-pollination is taking place between
the unlikeliest of communities. The first ever large scale-effort to
unite the elderly with the burgeoning and dynamic field of street art
are yielding fascinating (and widely covered) results.
Lata 65 Breaking
Down Preconceptions
To create the title
of this movement, Lata, which means can in Portuguese is paired with
65, the age at which an adult is typically considered a senior
citizen. Accodingly, LATA 65 states their goals as attempting to
break down preconceptions about who makes and consumes street art. By
leading workshops exclusively for the elderly community, participants
not only learn the logistics of stencil making and spraying, they
also learn the history of the art form and its place in a larger
cultural and historic context. By pairing these old-timey new-comers
with veterans of the street-art scene, the project is revitalizing
and coloring many areas of Lisbon with brand new perspectives which
are simultaneously representative of older generations.
Senior Graffiti
Writers Taking Over The Walls In Lisbon
In a time when
street art’s social and artistic merits are becoming increasingly
muddled, commoditized, and marketed, it is promising to see the form
being used to tackle the untrendy issues of elder outreach, and
ageism. While street art has always had strong roots in the idea of
community, its outward expansion into the mainstream has
unfortunately tended to lean more towards mass-produced and
commercial images, rather than community-building and activism.
Often, the street art that feigns to tackle social issues reads more
as stale attempts to cash in on notoriety by a horde of
indistinguishable Banksy-clones. This movement, on the other hand, is
taking deliberate actions to make real change in their community. And
in this case, like fine wine, the tags of our senior citizens will
just get better with age.
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