Orestis Pangalos

Texts

A selection of published texts by Orestis Pangalos

“The multiple signifiers of graffiti and street art. Polysemy, connotations of resistance and the commodification of progression” (2024), in Protest, Allgegenwart und Wandelbarkeit – Symbolik und Wirkmacht einer soziosemiotischen Praktik, Eva Kimminich, Marie Schröer (eds), Baden-Baden: Ergon

“Tracing the political aspects in graffiti writing” (2023) in Graffiti und Politik, Friederike Häuser, Robert Kaltenhäuser (eds), Weinheim: Beltz Verlag

“The Dimitrios Shipwreck in Gytheion examined as an accidental monument” (2021), in Interartive Web Journal

“Two Museum Visits in Lund, Sweden and the Streets between Them: Accidental Monuments between Public and Curated Spaces” (2019) in Punctum. International Journal of Semiotics 

“Crisis, what crisis / No Respect. A critical evaluation of two institutional projects around street art which took place in Athens in 2014” (2021), in Boulevard on Trespassing and Culture, Frankfurt: Boulevard

Textual – non name-based – graffiti and messages published in the legendary magazine ’12 ounce prophet’, issue 5, 1997

Text-based art published in the stunning volume ‘Bitte Lebn, Urbane Kunst & Subkultur in Berlin 2003-2021’, Berlin: Association A

“Football, military and adolescent tagging in Greece” (2022) in Tag: name writing in public space. A reader of the 2017 conference about tagging at Freie Universität Berlin. Edited by Edward Birzin, Javier Abarca and Mathias Hübner, Berlin: Possible books

“An interventional framework for promoting life skills development and application through creative placemaking” (2022). Primary desk research for the Research Program COME2ART: Introducing a collaborative scheme between artists & community members fostering life skills development and resilience through creative placemaking (EU Erasmus+).

“From mural interventions to gentrification. Dynamics, ethics and dialectics” (2021), in Tsoukala, Kyriaki , Space interweavings: ethos, spatial practices, architecture. Conference proceedings. Thessaloniki: Epikentro.

“Crisis, What Crisis? No Respect” (2014), Κριτική των ομώνυμων εκθέσεων, στο περιοδικό Ιστορία της Τέχνης, τεύχος 3, Αθήνα: futura publications

“Το γκραφίτι ως πράξη ελευθερίας και επικοινωνίας στον χώρο” (2011), στο Public Space, Δημόσιος χώρος, αναζητείται, Πρακτικά συνεδρίου. Θεσσαλονίκη: ΤΕΕ Κεντρικής Μακεδονίας