Archiving the World's Bathroom Graffiti
The Bathroom Graffiti Project Manifesto
The Bathroom Graffiti Project™ is a collaborative arts initiative with the goal of inspiring people everywhere to tag, shoot, and share the best bathroom graffiti from around the world. Why?
In public and private stalls everywhere, this medium continues to thrive as one of the most culturally interesting forms of communication, artistic expression and free speech that has ever existed. And it can be damn entertaining too.
That's right --- those scrawls on the wall are important not only for what they say, but also for what they say about the people, the environment and the culture where the graffiti exists.
It's a medium even China can’t censor; a global language accessible to anyone who goes to the bathroom; and it is limited only by a person’s imagination.
Bathroom Graffiti is one of the few remaining outlets for free speech in today’s sanitized and controlled media world. Even the Internet has limitations and is easily monitored, edited or censored depending on who and where you are.
One could argue that, Bathroom Graffiti is also monitored, edited, and censored and they would be correct. Graffiti is easily painted over and often taken down very quickly in some places.
But not many mediums are truly accessible to people of ALL cultures, ALL income levels, and ALL environments. Bathroom Graffiti is available to anyone who goes to the bathroom, and to anyone with a writing instrument. Even prison inmates can usually find a way to share this form of communication.
Sometimes raw, hilarious, inane, mysterious, challenging, meaningless, timely, ignorant, bizarre, political, radical, dirty, obvious, or truly obscene, there is nothing quite like Bathroom Graffiti.
Whether you consider it the work of vandals, poets, artists or simply the musings of the ignorant or drunk, the important thing is that you consider it. Whether you appreciate it or hate it, it can represent free speech at its best and worst and therefore should be paid attention to.
We want your help in documenting and sharing this ever-changing medium that has been around longer than the printing press.
Help us tag...shoot...and share bathroom graffiti everywhere. Enjoy!
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Comment by nathan hauritaz on December 28, 2009 at 7:37am -
My GCSE sketchbook has lots of Banksy-influenced work; stenciling and so on, but i need some original ideas.
http://ezinearticles.com/?Review-of-Paraslim-Force&id=3271797
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Comment by nathan hauritaz on December 16, 2009 at 4:37am
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Looking to find out the orgin of bathroom graffiti, the first known recordings of bathroom graffiti, which region of the world, and what civilizations used it frequently. Any history or research on the topic will be helpful.
http://www.goarticles.com/cgi-bin/showa.cgi?C=2281001
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Comment by Andie Von Vagburger on July 16, 2009 at 11:11am -
Hi everyone-
I'm currently doing my MA thesis on washroom graffiti- That said, I have quite a few resources in the way of scholarly literature. Msg me if you want them :)
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Comment by anna baccarini on May 4, 2009 at 8:11am
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Hi there, my name is Anna and I'm a second year film student at Curtin
University of Technoloy in Perth, Western Australia. We are currently
in pre-production for a short documentary film about Latrinalia and
were wondering if you would be interested in participating in a short
phone interview to provide some insight into Latrinalia. We would be
looking to set the interview in the coming 3 weeks and we are flexible
to your schedule. If you could let me know if you are interested and
which days suit this would be greatly appreciated and we can go from
there (we'll have to consider time differences etc.). Thanks in
advance.
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Comment by derrick on September 28, 2008 at 7:28pm -
So I'm working on this project about bathroom graffiti and am gathering as much info as possible right now. Being the founder of this, can ya help?
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