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Nuart Journal – #3 Brand New, You’re Retro: Memory & the City

“Nuart Journal is a forum for critical commentary on urban art, defined as broadly as possible to include all aspects of both independently sanctioned and unsanctioned art in public space that does not fall under the general rubric of traditional public art practice. Nuart Journal includes traditional peer-reviewed academic papers as well as more experimental modes of research. It is a site for scholars, artists, curators and independent researchers to publish articles, conversations, reviews, projects, and opinion pieces on street art and related topics.”

The second 2019 issue of Nuart Journal was published in this years autumn. With No.3 the editors managed to give an update to the latest scientific texts and essays on graffiti and street-art. Just like the previous issues the contributions are separated into three thematic chapters: Original Articles, Visual/Experimental and Interviews/Talks/Books. Although once again a broad spectrum of topics is featured in the 3rd issue, we especially want to point out the “Dead Graffiti Writers Never Die, They Just Fade Away” essay by Tyson Mitman, “Roman Graffiti” study on subway trains in Rome as well as the interview on the editorial team of the highly recommended Boulevard Magazine.

I. Original Articles • Stephen Pritchard: More Today Than Yesterday (But Less Than There’ll Be Tomorrow) • Andreas Petrossiants: Before and After: The Liveable City • Tyson Mitman: Dead Graffiti Writers Never Die, They Just Fade Away: Memorializing and Remembering Graffiti Writers • Hendrikje Grunow: Making Memory on the Wall: Constructing and Contesting Collective Memory in Bogotá

II. Visual/Experimental • Jad El Khoury: Burj El Hawa: Tower of Wind • Unknown Author: Erasing the Memory of the Revolution on the Streets of Cairo • Paul Harfleet: Tourist in the Daylight • Oliver East: ill Architecture • Riitta Oittinen: Traces from the Past: Ghost Buildings in Brussels • Megan Hicks: Wall Story: An Eleven-year Visual Record of a Street Art Site in Sydney • Jonathan Levin: Roman Graffiti: A Study of Deterioration and Stratification on Subway Trains (1992-2019)

III. Interviews/Talks/Books • Evan Prico: Juxtapoz Magazine: 25 years of Art & Culture • Robert Kaltenhäuser & Thomas Lauterberg: Texts Lost in Time: Boulevard Magazine • Andrea Baldini, Enrico Bonadio, Sabina Andron & Susan Hansen: A Philosophy Guide to Street Art and the Law

Make sure to order the very last copies of Nuart Journal – Number 1 and Nuart Journal – Number 2 to add the complete collection to your bookshelf!

Nuart Journal – #1 Space is the Place

“Nuart Journal is a forum for critical commentary on urban art, defined as broadly as possible to include all aspects of both independently sanctioned and unsanctioned art in public space that does not fall under the general rubric of traditional public art practice. Nuart Journal includes traditional peer-reviewed academic papers as well as more experimental modes of research. It is a site for scholars, artists, curators and independent researchers to publish articles, conversations, reviews, projects, and opinion pieces on street art and related topics.”

Current critical and academic debates on graffiti can occasionally be found in magazines and more frequently in books from the scene, usually framed by traditional content of these kind of publications: a whole lot of photos. For example with the German “Zugriff” magazine the shift from focusing on photographic content to high-quality scientific articles was successfully made first in 2013.

Just like the mentioned forerunner, the new Nuart Journal from Norway does not exclusively pay attention to graffiti, but does also include urban art, street art and other similar art forms as its main topic. On 112 pages the 2018 Journal functions as a peer-reviewed forum to publish texts, essays, theories, etc. from international authors often with an academic background. The first issue is separated into three main parts:

I. Original articles • Subversive weeds: Bio-activist strategies in urban interventions by Christel Pedersen • Street art, graffiti and the moral right of integrity: Can artists oppose the destruction and removal of their works? By Enrico Bonadio • Street art and photography: Documentation, representation, interpretation by Ulrich Blanché • Heritage protection for street art? The case of Banksy’s Spybooth by Susan Hansen

II. Experimental and visual essays • From Peterhof Station to Crescenzago: Agit-Trains and Grifter’s Code by Lachlan MacDowall • Blunting broken windows: Rio de Janeiro’s Olympic dreams by Raphael Soifer • Unexpected beauty in urban decay by Jonna Tolonen • Kurskaya Wall by Oleg Kuznetsov

III. Interviews and talks • Aesthetic destruction: At home with Ian Strange by Jan Zahl • Art in the streets: Place, genre and encounter by Alison Young • Sticking it to the Man: The visual activism of Dr. D by Adrian Burnham • Turning the white cube inside out by Pietro Rivasi and Andrea Baldini • The future of art is urban by Nicolas Whybrow

Nuart Journal – #5 LOCKDOWN

“Nuart Journal is a forum for critical commentary on urban art, defined as broadly as possible to include all aspects of both independently sanctioned and unsanctioned art in public space that does not fall under the general rubric of traditional public art practice. Nuart Journal includes traditional peer-reviewed academic papers as well as more experimental modes of research. It is a site for scholars, artists, curators and independent researchers to publish articles, conversations, reviews, projects and opinion pieces on street art and related topics.”

As the title of LOCKDOWN indicates the fifth issue of Nuart Journal, which was published in May 2021, was created during the Covid-19 pandemic. As in all other aspect of life the virus had also influence on the art which is produced in the streets and as a result it is a topic in Nuart Journal. But as always the No.5 is a forum to many aspects of urban art so you can also find articles on Banksy’s ‘flower thrower’ trademark lawsuit, DIY banners in Berlin and the ‘chapeteo’ scene of Ecuador, which remind of the ‘discovery’ of Brazilian Pixação writings in the 2000s.

The 144 paged journal is divided into three main chapters: Original Articles, Visual/Experimental and Interviews/Books/Reviews. Due to the wide range of featured topics and a global focus the scientific reader once again deserves a place on in your bookshelf.

I. Original Articles • Heather Shirley & David Todd Lawrence: Creating a Global Archive of Covid-19 Street Art: Notes on Research in Progress • Ulrich Blanché: (Involuntarily) Shared Walls: Haring’s Illegal Street Interactions with Basquiat, Hambleton, Wojnarowicz, and – Vallauri in Early ’80s NYC • Enrico Bonadio & Olivia Jean-Baptiste: Banksy’s Battle with Trade Mark Law: the ‘Flower Thrower’ Case • Maria Fernanda López Jaramillo: ‘Chapeteo’: Urban Calligraphy in Guayaquil Some Would Rather Forget • Laura Burocco: The Forest on the Walls: Notes on Indigenous Street Art

II. Visual/Experimental • John Fekner: Revisiting The Detective Show • Julia Tulke: #StayAtHome Protest: DIY Banners in Berlin • Aida Wilde & Ego Ahaiwe Sowinski: Notes from a Phantom • Kristina Borhes: A Brief Moment of Monument: Iconoclasm in the Age of the Anthropocene • Kehinde Christopher Adewumi & Joy Iorvihi: The Boxed In Project in Abuja • Jan Vormann: Home Mural in Valdivia

III. Interviews/Books/Reviews • Minna Valjakka: From Material Ephemerality to Immaterial Permanency: the disCONNECT Exhibition and the Realms of Interactive Immersiveness