Hoppe, IlariaAs cultural techniques within the urban environment, Graffiti and Street Art are investigated by many disciplines. Mostly art historical studies have explored the contradictory between Street Art and the art market. My research is inspired by the approaches of Visual Culture Studies and their critique of the central perspective, furthermore by Mirzoeffs concept of "neovisuality" describing actual fields of power constituting themselves in a permanent crisis that demands and legitimizes control and surveillance. The analysis applies these issues as methods for finding new ways of seeing and discussing Graffiti and Street Art in form and content, also questioning their potential as a countervisuality
