The latest thematic issue of the Street Art & Urban Creativity Journal, entitled “Understanding Walls on the Periphery: Street Art and Graffiti between Commodification, Dissent and Oblivion”, edited by Sandi Abram and Eric Ušić, explores the nuanced interplay between street art, graffiti, and their commodification, dissent, and oblivion in peripheral contexts. The thematic issue is a result of the international conference “Periphery of Street Art / Street Art on the Periphery”, held as part of the Ljubljana Street Art Festival in 2022. The two-day event combined the rigor and freshness of academic papers with the multimodal artivist interventions, including artists’ presentations, film screenings, installations and photo essays. It took two years after the initial call for papers to ripen and recompose into a collection of contributions that deal with the interplay of street art and peripheries, both in terms of space-power relations and from the perspective of liminal, extra-institutional street art practises and historically significant, but marginalized and neglected, graffitiscapes.
Index:
· Sandi Abram, Eric Ušić: Editorial. Understanding Walls on the Periphery. Street Art and Graffiti between Commodification, Dissent and Oblivion
· Eric Ušić: On the Margins of Memory. World War II Graffiti in the Northern Adriatic Borderland
· Helena Konda: Proto Street Art in Ljubljana in the 1980s and 1990s. The Case of Mizzart
· Sandi Abram: Graffiti, Street Art and Murals in the Age of the Neoliberal City. The Muralization of Capital
· Sandi Abram: Graffiti, Street Art and Murals Against the Neoliberal City. Wall-Written Dissensus
· Srđan Tunić: Queering the Urban Space. The Adventures of Inspector Yoda the Wrinkled in Belgrade, Serbia
· Kyle Proehl: On the Concept of Graffiti
· Mathieu Tremblin: Affect and Effect of Overpainting at the Age of Neo-muralism
You can visit the journal’s issue page for a more detailed look at each article: https://journals.ap2.pt/index.php/sauc/issue/view/62
Text and photo by Sandi Abram
