READING OF GRAFFITI LITERATURE
We are proud to present the first-ever public reading of graffiti-related literature. Poet, performer and Dutch punk legend Diana Ozon joins conference host Dumar NovYork from Brooklyn to read a series of selected excerpts live on stage together with two local poets.
Although still a niche field, graffiti-related narrative and literature has been slowly gaining traction.
There is a whole intangible dimension to graffiti heritage —social and experiential aspects, methodologies— that only literature can capture, and graffiti practitioners across the world are writing about it.
Their work usually takes the form of short, first-person accounts of particular adventures and experiences, inserted in photo-oriented publications and sometimes compiled in full books. A few comic-books have been published as well.
The Tag Conference is proud to showcase this budding field in a public reading of excerpts taken from classic and recent texts, selected by North American specialist Edward Birzin.
The reading session will take place at Theater de Kapel, the long-running theatre at the ex-squat Oude RKZ, in collaboration with local poetry jam Poëzie Met! and poets Julian Harmens and Willemijn van de Walle.