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Street Artists in Europe
performance strategies depending on the venue, the audience and the project, are under constant
review 109 .
That might be described as a latent aesthetic in street arts because their aim is to invent a new
language to transcend dissatisfaction with the forms and content of the State, society, means of
expressing and reporting on it. Street arts are important because they are based on real public
reference points (public spaces or social situations, for example), but they awaken the public’s
imagination. That is where the transformation comes in: they do not portray a public or social
reality, even to challenge it, or suggest changing its use. Rather than creating a different reality
for the audience, the aim being to look at reality in a different way, to find in it what is hidden or
not yet readable.
109 Dapporto Elena, Analysis of aims in Ressources et limites dans une perspective de développement; Matisse –
UMR CNRS 8595, Université de Paris 1, January 2000.
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