This exegesis accompanies a sub-cultural practice of tattooing that was once only prominent in th... more This exegesis accompanies a sub-cultural practice of tattooing that was once only prominent in the ‘street art’ world, but today it is a fast growing practice in the mainstream art industry. This paper aims to understand the cultural and artistic phenomenon of tattooing through historical and cultural research and through case studies that identify tattooing as occupying a space in the contemporary art world, despite its former exclusion from the art world. This paper aims to connect identity with tattooing and in doing so, argue for the importance of tattooing as a language that defines one’s identity, and more generally, the identity of tattooing as a medium of contemporary art. With the help of theories and concepts such as structuralism, postructuralism, phenomenology, identity politics, ‘Dasein’, etc, the paper argues that the role of tattooing in contemporary society can be shifted from being a commercial commodity to an artistic element.
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This paper aims to connect identity with tattooing and in doing so, argue for the importance of tattooing as a language that defines one’s identity, and more generally, the identity of tattooing as a medium of contemporary art. With the help of theories and concepts such as structuralism, postructuralism, phenomenology, identity politics, ‘Dasein’, etc, the paper argues that the role of tattooing in contemporary society can be shifted from being a commercial commodity to an artistic element.