word on the street
India, Sept. 12 -- Deities on compound walls, political graffiti on flyovers, film posters layered across shop shutters and processions with elaborately decorated tableaux, create a visually saturated landscape on the Indian street.
Festivals and wedding baraats, as well as protest events like the 2019-20 anti-CAA sit-ins and the Gen Z mobilisations of 2026, generate immersive visual environments. These visual archives contribute to the formation of collective urban memory. The boundaries between public and private, sacred and profane, often blur in the street. Governed by legal frameworks, it is increasingly being transformed by privatisation, gentrification and surveillance. Yet it continues to serve as a crucial arena for countercultural expression and civic engagement. Within this context, street art and visual culture are constitutive elements of public life. Street Art, then, examines street-based visual and performative practices as articulations of identity, dissent and urban transformation....
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