Bogotá. Visual Noise and Activist Pedagogy Through Street Art

This chapter discusses how graffiti and street art serve as “visual noise”: traces of activism, dissent, or residues of exclusion that point to unequal social geographies under the façade of narratives about inclusive renaissance in the city of Bogotá. Following Marxist urbanists and indigenous studies scholars, it argues that the more established Bogotá Graffiti Tour offers a kind of political remapping of the city center, and the newer Grafficable Tour offers an asset-driven beautification program.