The Periphery of Street Art / Street Art on the Periphery conference will examine both the geographical peripheries of street art and subpolitical, activist practices.
The contributions will address street art on the periphery in the field of non-heteronormative, queer and feminist street art, the emancipatory nature of the street art medium, the transformation of street art into performative forms of expression, new media and intermedia formats. In addition, the conference will present studies ranging from historical analyses of proto-street art examples and manifestations and the use of street art practices in subaltern political and social movements, to contributions exploring the role of street art in the appropriation and labelling of public space by subpolitical and subcultural groups, as well as the processes of “pumping” street art, and thus the symbolic, aesthetic and commercial transfer of street art from urban peripheries to creative, artistic and urban centres.
Mitja Velikonja will present the book “The Chosen Few: Aesthetics and Ideology in Football Fan Graffiti & Street Art”. Antigoon (NL), Cibo (IT), Mathieu Tremblin (FR), Eric Potempa (FR), Epos 257 (CZ) and others will take part in the artists’ presentations. There will also be a screening of the documentary Street Heroines*, accompanied by a discussion with director Alexandra Henry (US) and photographer Mankica Kranjec (SI).
*Street Heroines is an award-winning feature-length documentary celebrating the courage and creativity of women who despite their lack of recognition have been an integral part of the graffiti and street art movement since the beginning. Authentic vérité storytelling woven between an interview-driven narrative, Street Heroines juxtaposes the personal experiences of three emerging Latina artists from New York City, Mexico City, and São Paulo as they navigate a male-dominated subculture to establish artistic identities within chaotic urban landscapes.
The street art conference programme spans three days (Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday) and is divided into panels (7). Each panel will have 3 to 4 papers (approximately 90 minutes per panel) with a maximum presentation length of 15 minutes.
In order to improve the street art conference programme, we have asked the chairs to manage the time of the presentations efficiently as indicated in the programme. We encourage all chairs to ask questions after each presentation. In case of last minute cancellations, the order of the papers will be followed as listed in the programme.
The street art conference will be held in person at the Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture (Ljubljana, Slovenia) and virtually via stream on the YouTube platform. The stream will integrate, when possible, online and face-to-face platforms.
Conference participants will have the opportunity to ask questions via chat. The online moderator will collect the questions and forward them to the panel chair.
Komuna, Kino Šiška / Tuesday and Wednesday, 10.00–16.00
FREE ENTRY
Organisation: Inštitut za urbana vprašanja and Kino Šiška.
