A mini-symposium about the intersection of art-power-politics
from Los Angeles to Eastern Europe, with a focus on Ukraine.

Artists and scholars from these regions, all greatly-affected by authoritarian-leaning governments and war-mongers, come together to discuss how the ‘street’ responds to external pressure by calling for resistance, humor, beauty, satire, parody, pride, and direct action. Six speakers give brief presentations from their fields of study and practice, followed by two panels on graffiti/street art culture and the documentation of these ephemera for history.