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Urban murals and the post-protest imagery of networked publics: the remediated aftermath of Ukraine’s Euromaidan on instagram

Lokot, Tetyana ORCID: 0000-0002-2488-4045 (2018) Urban murals and the post-protest imagery of networked publics: the remediated aftermath of Ukraine’s Euromaidan on instagram. WiderScreen, 1-2 . ISSN 1795-6161

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Abstract

In modern hyper-mediated urban environments, public art becomes an inseparable part of the multiplicity of meanings generated by citizens with regards to their city, their country and each other. What meanings can public art convey after a protest in a mediated city? And how do social media users capture and reflect on these visual artefacts? This article focuses on the urban murals that appeared in Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital in the post-Euromaidan period (spring 2014 – present day). The creation of murals began as a spontaneous urban practice, but post-protest, morphed into a concerted effort to populate blank walls of decaying apartment blocks around cities with meaningful art, reflecting on the turbulent political, social and cultural changes in the country. The article considers how this mediated public art form resonates with the networked post-protest publics through the affordances of Instagram and explores the different kinds of meanings networked publics in and around the post-protest city can produce. It focuses on how the mediation of the murals on Instagram might reflect or frame the meanings embedded in the murals themselves and how these themes might fit into the broader metaphorical narrative of rebirth and regeneration in the post-Euromaidan city of Kyiv.

Item Type:Article (Published)
Refereed:Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords:urban media, street art, Ukraine, protest
Subjects:Humanities > Semiotics
Humanities > Culture
Social Sciences > Communication
Social Sciences > Political science
DCU Faculties and Centres:DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Science > School of Communications
Publisher:Filmiverkko ry
Official URL:http://widerscreen.fi/numerot/2018-1-2/urban-murals-post-protest-imagery-networked-publics-remediated-aftermath-ukraines-euromaidan-instagram/
Copyright Information:© 2018 Filmiverkko ry
Use License:This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. View License
ID Code:22743
Deposited On:22 Oct 2018 09:18 by Tetyana Lokot . Last Modified 22 Oct 2018 09:18

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