OKE - Stroke Provoke Evoke, a visual protest

• Autor(a) principal: Canovi, Irene
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/35251
• topic: Visual protest; Censorship; Vandalism; Graffiti; Artivism

OKE * Stroke Provoke Evoke is an academic project with the scope of sensitizing the society for a better understanding of the value of the streets art’s underground subculture; it aims to obtain answers and create solutions to arrest censorship’s act and, graffiti and street art coverings. Censorship act against artist repressing their freedom of expression, in graffiti and street art authorities covers artworks considered vandalism, concealing the beauty, the messages, and the culture behind them. This paper will research among case studies, empirical surveys and primary resources with a qualitative method to obtain enough information and reactions about censorship, street art, and graffiti. The research shows that graffiti belongs to the street and the illegality is existential core. The results collected led to a creation of a visual protest that will be taking place in the street of Lisbon, to create more legal walls and a better perception of graffiti among society.