Interpellation
as defined in Practices of Looking...
And to 'hail' means to...
A few examples of graffiti/street art in Montreal...
But there is a darker side to the process of street art interpellating viewers...
This section of
the article argues that all instances of street art and graffiti art
interpellating audiences qualifies – on some level – as harassment or
oppression on the basis that the root definitions of the word ‘interpellation’
relate to notions about interfering with a person’s general discourse.
Lauren Rosewarne implies
that street art’s interpellation qualifies as harassment!
This idea of street art “harassing” public spectators parallels strongly with the traditional meaning of the term “interpellation”…
In fact, street
art is even relevant to Louis Althusser’s definition of ‘interpellation’…
- Louis Althusser
“I shall then suggest that ideology ‘acts’ or ‘functions’ in
such a way that it ‘recruits’ subjects among the individuals (it recruits them
all), or ‘transforms’ the individuals into subjects (it transforms them all) by
that very precise operation which I have called interpellation or hailing”
- Louis Althusser
Street art hails
to viewers as individuals rather than solely targeting specific social groups…
The following
images are clear cases of interpellation on account of how their authors hailed
to different demographics with relatively simplistic expressions of bigotry…
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