Recipient Anwar Tlili
Date 01 March, 2024
Amount £8528.00
Summary The proposed study aims to map out and understand the current configuration of street art in Tunisia, its mode of operation, its themes and values, and its role as a civil society agent in facilitating and re-energizing civic and democratic engagement. Based on fieldwork at eight case studies the study will examine the street art field in Tunisia in terms of its core representational contents and messages as well as core values, its aesthetic forms, and to what extent and how it is contributing to the creative production and renewal of the public space in its multiple dimensions – cultural, educational social and political – including with regard to developing creative ways of enacting and doing citizenship and democracy. The methodology will consist of an ethnography of a sample of eight street art events and activities, representing both visual arts and performing arts, located both in Tunis and other urban centres.