The Street Artist as Translator

Abstract

In the article, the position of the street artist as translator is analyzed on the basis of the concept of the semiosphere developed by the Russian-Estonian semiotician Yuri Lotman. The methodological framework of the Tartu-Moscow school of semiotics is applied to the phenomenon of contemporary public art. The process of translation between texts in urban space is illustrated by examples of works of art that use modifications of the same object—a telephone booth.