Hawaiian Style Graffiti and the Questions of Sovereignty, Law, Property, and Ecology
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Masahide T. Kato
AlterNative, vol. 14, no. 3, September 2018, pp. 277-288
Description
Examines the ways that Hawaiian graffiti artists and art interrogate and resist the influences of colonial and military occupation. Author uses a process of socio-historical contextualization to draw parallels between the time of the Hawaiian Kingdom and the present and to examine the expression of ancestral knowledge in aerosol art.