High Culture vs. Low Culture

As I was searching through the Wooster Collective I came across some work from the artist Boxi in Berlin, Germany. One of his works in particular which Wooster Collective blogged about on March 7, 2007 struck me as particularly interesting because it relates to some of the discussions we had in class regarding popular culture and debates about high and low culture. As Andi Zeisler discussed, popular culture is often associated with low culture because it is something that is produced for the masses. The binary divide between high culture and low culture results in popular culture often being undervalued.

Click here to view one of Boxi's culture jams that was featured in Berlin, Germany at his Deathless Gallery on March 23rd, 2007. You will have to scroll down a bit to the March 7th, 2007 post to view the Wooster Collective post on the event, as I couldn't figure out how to directly link to just that post. The Collective describes the event by saying that "the show 'addresses the encroaching and often unpremeditated art of graffiti eradication in Berlin, highlighting the difficulties of exhibiting the internal outside and the external inside. Boxi’s installation forges a link between the poles of high art and the grey area of post graffiti, playfully commenting upon the state of exclusion of one from the other.'"

Interesting, right? What are everyone's thoughts on issues of high culture and low culture orgraffiti art as a means of culture jamming?

Aubrey B.