Rockville Centre|Local Event
A Conversation with Alexis Lerner, PhD, author of Post-Soviet Graffiti
Author Talk and Book Signing
A Conversation with Alexis Lerner, PhD, author of Post-Soviet Graffiti: Free Speech In Authoritarian States
Location:
Congregation B’nai Sholom – Beth David
100 Hempstead Avenue
Rockville Centre, NY
516-764-4100
For more than a decade, Lerner combed the alleyways, underpasses, and public squares of cities once under Communist rule, from Berlin in the West to Vladivostok in the East, recording thousands of cases of critical and satirical political street art and cataloging these artworks linguistically and thematically across space and time. Complemented by first-hand interviews with leading artists, activists, and politicians from across the region, this award-winning political scientist who teaches at the United States Naval Academy provides reflections on public spaces as sites for political action, a reading of signs and symbols, and street art as a form of text.