In the latest episode of our Voices podcast series, Caitlin Bruce discusses with Scott Rodgers her recent book exploring shifting judgments of graffiti culture in urban Mexico, and how the book has taken on new life as socially-engaged scholarship.
Caitlin Bruce examines the graffiti practices of a legal graffiti program in León, a city in central Mexico. Through her discussion of recent civic events, policies, celebrations, and news coverage dedicated to the program, Bruce shows how the international is a horizon of possibility, but also a looming constraint for the practice of public art.
In the first of her series of posts on transnational public art movements, Caitlin Bruce explores tensions around the relationship between urban identity and street art in Mexico.