Esoteric Vandalism and dialogical graffiti as ruses for symbolic appropriations of public space

Abstract

To think of magic and its uses from the same lever as that of art and activism is to pose it as a support for intuition rather than as a mystical truth. Esotericism introduces a breach to support symbolic or direct modes of action; activism a lever to provide tools to its actors. Art, intervention and activism associated with esotericism constitute a lever to connect, experiment and transmit methodologies of ritual actions in the public space. If magic is not real, art – where it has no place – becomes mystical and clandestine.