well the first time it rained a
graffiti should be 17 years old I was going to
the school I remember that in this
graffiti was the word farc but no
I’m going to tell you what else he said because
it could be very politically
wrong and could damage all the
sense of what I’m going to tell you
but from that moment I started looking
Graffiti on all walls
in that moment I realized that they had
people who decided to leave their message
captured on a wall and so for every
city for which I had the opportunity
if it is looking for graffiti and
they always asked me the same question and
It’s because my city in Cali in Colombia
I do not see so many graffiti and that was what
that by then I believed that
happened with the subject of graffiti in
graffiti street we leave it aside
and I kept studying something else
related to the word that had
seen written on that wall farc no
because it was the farc but because
I started to study about the conflict and
especially about how we can do
to build peace and after giving
many laps returned to land here
in my city
santiago de cali to work in the
new secretariat called the
secretariat of peace and civic culture and
that has a monumental challenge and is the
challenge of carrying the message the culture of
peace
but just like right now they asked how
we can bring the culture of peace as
this topic is basically a saying myself
I can stop here and give them a
carts or about what is the culture of
peace because it is important and surely
that dialogue is not going to have dialogue
make a presentation probably
will happen after hearing other ideas
very interesting will not call us
so much attention and here thanks to a
wonderful team that thinks all
the days on how to innovate and how to be able
carry messages
we started to unite these two issues what happens
if we talk about culture
peace through urban art we started
to ask why not start
ask ourselves about the art we see and
in the room a bit cold museum
aseptic implies that I as a citizen
I have to strive to get to
llaver an art and decide what kind of
Conversation dialogue could have with
the piece while the public art
It has the following characteristics
you are if you are walking there is no way
of not seeing it there is no way of not crossing
Desgrange as the word says is
for everyone is placed in the
spaces of the city sending us a
message inviting us and telling us
what is the message that is author wanted
carry so what happens if we use
urban art as a public art
to take our cultural message peace
and we continue investigating as a team and
we keep wondering why it’s worth
It’s worth it to do it this way and I
I will tell the three conclusions to the
that we arrived
The first is because through art
urban we can appropriate space
public and for the purposes of a city
how can we become something that
it’s called situational prevention
this is the wall of the entrance of a
educational institution of this city
if we intervene a wall through
paintings if we fill that with lights
white
suddenly we are generating a
opportunity for young people to
arrive safely at your school and not
have to defect as it is today
reality many of the institutions
educational but I can also
tell that through public art
we can say until our intervention
integrated transportation system and
tell them that on that day the person who
had to handle that bus was the
driver of the integral system of
most proud transport you can
TOCAF imagine that day tell the
reality of a person change but not
only that of a person
the artist who had
opportunity to paint this bus told me
when that when it came out mounted on the
same bus for your house at each bus stop
people were riding the bus with
a smile for many takes the
public transport in the reason of laughter
but that day for an intervention in
something public we can change the
ability or the perception of a
person or several people who had
to access and they took us to say of
soon
now the second one is mine
feature to be able to carry this
message through urban art is that
urban art is an excuse to enter
the barris can become an excuse
to prevent violence
urban art exists in our
neighborhoods long before we as
municipal administration we have
arrived
in fact when we started thinking we
this idea
we had to turn to the people who
they are already doing urban art in this
city a long time ago and we gave ourselves
account that the possibility of painting the
hip hop break dance are part of the
culture of the neighborhood of the culture of the
gangs on many occasions
what happens if we promote this art and
we remove the violence component
in front of this I want to tell you a
eg last Sunday we were in
the street in the petecuy neighborhood in this
city a street that before in a
invisible border is a street
why you could not travel from a
The other place in the neighborhood will be the
street where it was consumed will be the
street where the gangs had control
territorial
last Sunday we were
intervening we fill it with color and
we decided to turn the street the color
a street that avoids has hops in the
floor where children plays a street
that now on one of the facades
has a cinema screen where
we project without becoming a way of
prevent violence at the moment
the community of that neighborhood is not going to have
fear of traveling down that street is going to
to be there we are changing a
reality and that’s why I want to show you
this image that we see there
and well that the wall has a small
training
the training was born the book suddenly
urban art can do is the first
impetus for us to achieve break
walls that the neighborhoods of
our city the third explanation
why work through art
public and urban art is that the
talent is an opportunity is that in
those neighborhoods where the
graffiti we find works like these and
that invites us here to the same
young people who are part of those places
with conditions of vulnerability
present an opportunity
probably not all were the best
graffiti of the world but this can us
invite to make prints
ua stickers that you are the calendar
what will you do for your company?
next year I’ll hire him with a
stripped that through urban art
He made the decision to study design
graphic or industrial design and so
We believe that this talent can and should
be appropriate as an opportunity for
these three reasons born graphic
is graphic line and graphic line
and it ‘s a festival of urban art and
peace building but we do not call it
graf and peace
graphics peace because peace comes
and as the pc telling you can generate
many divisions or I can go back without the
said graphical call already because
graphical is an excuse to be able to do
three things to be able to appropriate the
public space in order to reach the
young and to be able to offer or
recognize that talent and turn it into
an opportunity but above all
we decided to do graphical already because
graphic and it ‘s an excuse to talk no
It’s nice to talk to us in colors
building peace implies that we have to
have contrary ideas and that we are
willing to listen to her build peace
it implies having the ability to listen
that other person who never
given the word suddenly the only thing that
we need is to find another language
a language that speak to us colors that
tell us nice and let this
difference helps us build and over
everything I think that graph lya is and
represents the possibility of a large
team that dreams every day that
building peace is possible and that only
we must explore different languages
thank you very much
[Applause]
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