[Commlist] Call for papers: Nuart Journal Issue III - Memory and the City

NUART JOURNAL CALL FOR PAPERS

ISSUE III: MEMORY AND THE CITY

DEADLINE JUNE 20 2019

Following the successful international launch of Issue I and II of Nuart 
Journal, we are now calling for submissions for Issue III.

In Issue II of Nuart Journal, Jeff Ferrell’s visual essay employed 
discarded photographs to reanimate “a secret archive of city life… a 
dislocated urban history of visible ghosts and invisible intentions, a 
disorienting dérive through other lives, other times, and other places… 
another city within the city… pieced together from image, loss, memory, 
and imagination.”

Issue III seeks to build upon these noticings to focus on the evocative 
intersection of memory and the city, and the role of urban art cultures 
and the art of the streets in unravelling and critically reworking the 
city’s collective memories. We welcome traditional academic papers and 
more experimental visual submissions which critically address this theme.

We are particularly interested in critical examinations of nostalgia, 
cultural recycling, melancholic aesthetics and hauntology; of the 
depoliticised reworking of vernacular practices within new urbanism’s 
various initiatives; and of historical accounts that lament the loss of 
a once ‘authentic’ art of the streets.

Nuart Journal accepts submissions from a broad range of authors 
including cultural heritage workers, historians, critics, cultural and 
human geographers, political theorists, anthropologists, ethnographers, 
sociologists, psychologists, criminologists, curators, artists, writers, 
taggers, anarchists, and out and out vandals.

/The city… contains [its memories] like the lines of a hand, written in 
the corners of the streets… every segment marked in turn with scratches, 
indentations, scrolls./

– Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities.

Nuart Journal is a peer-reviewed open access journal. It presents the 
work of an international network of artists, curators, academics, 
independent researchers and industry professionals on street art and 
related topics. It is built on the foundations of five years of content 
from the annual Nuart Plus symposium, based in Stavanger Norway, the 
world’s first annual symposium dedicated to street art practice.

Nuart Journal aims to serve as a forum for critical discourse and 
commentary on urban art cultures and street art practice, 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.

Though the journal is intended as a scholarly journal for new and 
experimental modes of research as well as traditional academic papers, 
it is also a site for artists, curators and independent researchers to 
publish articles, conversations, projects and opinion pieces. We welcome 
visual submissions and high quality images/photography. All submissions 
are peer reviewed.

The journal is overseen by a small group of international co-editors 
assisted by an international advisory board that reflects the diversity 
of street art practice.

Submission Guidelines

Full papers should be around 5000 words, inclusive of citations and 
bibliography.

Shorter submissions, including research notes, photo essays and other 
visual submissions, book reviews, interviews, and opinion pieces are 
also welcome. Please see prior issues of Nuart Journal for examples of 
visual and experimental submissions, and do contact the editorial team 
if you wish to discuss an alternative mode of submission.

Papers should follow Harvard referencing guidelines.

nuartjournal.com

(editor /at/ nuartjournal.com)


---------------
The COMMLIST
---------------
This mailing list is a free service offered by Nico Carpentier. Please use it responsibly and wisely.
--
To subscribe or unsubscribe, please visit http://commlist.org/
--
Before sending a posting request, please always read the guidelines at http://commlist.org/
--
To contact the mailing list manager:
Email: (nico.carpentier /at/ vub.ac.be)
URL: http://nicocarpentier.net
---------------