[Commlist] CFP Nuart Journal

Nuart Journal Call for papers
Issue II: Eloquent Vandals

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

The theme of Issue II — ELOQUENT VANDALS — is a provocative link to 
street art and urban culture’s delinquent roots and the “creative joy of 
destruction” – evidenced most recently in Banksy and Blu’s high profile 
acts of auto-iconoclasm, but also present in a plethora of quotidian, 
human scale, unsanctioned urban interventions. The rise of 
festival-sponsored neo-liberal muralism sits uneasily with these 
ungovernable forms of urban creativity. This special issue calls for 
contributions that celebrate the work of street art’s eloquent vandals, 
and papers that critically examine attempts to cultivate, 
instrumentalise, commodify and ‘protect’ the art of the streets.

We welcome 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.

Nuart Journal is a peer-reviewed open access journal available both in 
print and online. 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.

*Submission Guidelines*

Full papers should be 5000-8000 words, inclusive of citations and 
bibliography.

Shorter submissions, including research notes, photo essays and other 
visual submissions, experimental or alternative forms of 
academic writing, book reviews, interviews, and opinion pieces are also 
welcome. Please contact the editorial team if you wish to discuss an 
alternative or experimental mode of submission. Papers should follow 
Harvard referencing guidelines.

The deadline for consideration for the next issue is January 7th, though 
there may be some flexibility with this deadline if negotiated with the 
Editor.

Please contact the Editor ((editor /at/ nuartjournal.com)) for further 
information or see: www.nuartjournal.com


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