| Abstract [eng] |
In this dissertation graffiti was studied as a subcultural spatial practice in the city of Vilnius. Based on the results of previous ethnographic studies of the graffiti space (Ferrell and Weide's spot theory, Hannerz's concept of flows) and Löw's theory of the sociology of space, the data of in-depth semi-structured interviews with four generations of subcultural graffiti writers active in Vilnius from the late Soviet era to the present day (2022) were analyzed. The narrative of the formation of the local graffiti scene was reconstructed. It was divided into four chronological stages: the early stage, the incubation, the golden age and the low tide stage. Under the influence of limiting economic factors, a moderate perception of space and moderate spatial practices were formed in the community of Vilnius graffiti writers. This spatial moderation was characterized by the active tabooing of religious and heritage spaces and other spatial compromises widely accepted among the local graffiti writers. Moderate perception of space determines the social construction of graffiti space, in which one's own and nobody's spaces of Anomalous graffiti flow prevail, while the activity of Vilnius graffiti writers in the Public, Linear and especially Idealized flow, the ones that require greater spatial radicality, is much rarer. Such spatial distribution of graffiti in Vilnius is a sign of the peripherality of the local scene in the context of the global graffiti subculture. |
