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🗓️ 26 July 2016
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Graffiti’s modern role is evolving rapidly. From Europe to Brazil, street artists are displaying their anger about inequality, invisibility, corruption and control. Artists including Blek Le Rat (the “father of stencil graffiti”), Roc Blackblock, Suriani and Vegan Bunnies defend their actions, and discuss whether such “freedom of expression” on walls should have any limits.
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0:00.0 | I really like Sundays. |
0:05.0 | Sunday is a very good day because all the shops are closed. |
0:10.0 | So there's less people on the street and people who are in the street they're not stressed |
0:15.9 | They're just walking around so Sunday mornings and afternoon |
0:20.3 | Me it's the best time because at night you have to be very quiet and you can be |
0:27.2 | suspect if someone see someone everyone's afraid of everyone. There's like |
0:31.9 | attention so Sunday is more chill. Sometimes people would yell at you from a window when you're painting or pasting |
0:50.5 | like saying they're calling the cops and everything, but I just stopped doing what I'm doing, I come back later. |
1:00.0 | From the BBC World Service, this is graffiti, paint and protest. |
1:07.0 | It is actually really addictive. |
1:10.0 | You get all this adrenaline rush when you're out on the streets and you're doing something that you know is legal |
1:15.7 | But it's your way of expressing yourself once you start tagging. It's really hard to stop |
1:26.0 | You know the walls are there and they should speak. You write something in the street. |
1:28.0 | I wanted to share things, boot messages. |
1:30.0 | And thousands of people will see the message. This message will have an impact on people. |
1:37.0 | Graffiti can be a political tool. |
1:41.0 | When I'm upset with politicians, I will not punch day in the face because I'm going to the jail, so my |
1:49.6 | vengeance is spent in our war. We have methods against a dictatorship, against the brutality of the police. We have message |
1:57.0 | against the dictatorship, against the brutality of the police. |
2:02.0 | We have message against corruption. There's a lot of commentary going on. |
2:07.0 | If you have something to say to the people, please say it, you know, write it in the street. |
2:17.0 | Graffiti, street artists will not change the world, but what can change people's mind and people can change the world? |
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