TAG: Name writing in public space

(2025)

A conference about tagging, in history and today

The TAG Conference is the world’s biggest scientific gathering for namewriting related research. Two years ago it was co-organized by the Hamburg University and the Centre for the Studies of Manuscript Cultures and held at the Museum of Hamburg History, the largest venue to host the event yet. Finally the accompanying reader is available compiling the conference’s presentations on 128 pages.

The complete table of contents includes:
- Introduction – Javier Abarca
- Archiving the ephemeral: the Tag Collector Project – The Tag Collector
- Information barrage through public name-writing – Gauri Paprikar & Mayukh Gosavi
- Das Ist Unser Krieg: The case of an anti-solidarity graffiti campaign in Berlin – Polina Stohnushko
- OZ said – Kathleen Göttsche
- New approach to the documentation of the tagging subculture in Tokyo – Mohamed N. El-Barbary, Mariko Ikeda and Ondřej Škrabal
- Collectivity in individual name-writing – Orestis Pangalos
- Naš kraj – Our hood: Names and tags in South Slavic varieties in the public space of Vienna – Katharina Tyran
- Von der ersten Skizze an? Über die Sichtbarkeit und Abwesenheit des Tags im Blackbook – Sanja Ewald
- Carved tags: Contemporary graffiti on rocks by Russian street artists – Anna Nistratova
- Object Infinity: Obsession, mania, and living forever in the underground – Rory Maley
- Erasing heritage through love markings: Identifying a form of graffiti in New Delhi – Rashi Karkoon
- Building history: How to collect, archive and catalogue memories – Tobias Barenthin Lindblad

Author: Javier Abarca
Publisher: Double-H Publishing
Published: August 2025
Languages: English, German
Format: Softcover
Size: 21 x 29.7 cm
Pages: 128
ISBN: 978-3-9824951-3-2
Retail price: €37