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Sanja Ewald is a Doctoral Researcher in Cultural Anthropology at the University of Hamburg's Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC). Her research focuses on the ephemeral materiality of graffiti, specifically style writing in Hamburg during the 1980s and 1990s. She examines processes of graffiti production, preservation, and archiving through a case study of Mirko Reisser (alias DAIM)'s private graffiti archive, analyzing how social, spatial, and cultural contexts shape the lifecycle of this transient urban art form.
Her project, part of the Cluster of Excellence 'Understanding Written Artefacts' (UWA) and research group RFB09, investigates both the physical act of graffiti creation and the strategies used to archive its photographic documentation. This includes studying digital databases as extended archival spaces and exploring intersections between illicit urban expression, artistic legacy, and contemporary manuscript culture frameworks.
