REBEL STREETS: URBAN SPACE, ART AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

Organizer: Tijen Tunali (LE STUDIUM/ Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow) tijentunali9gmail.com

Rebel Streets conference aims to shift the focus from a rather disempowering critical perspective towards urban art to one that stresses its aesthetical and political powers as a part of the urban social resistance. Participants discuss the hypothesis that the aesthetic reconfiguration of the neoliberal city does not only allow for a hegemonic restructuring of the urban environment, but it also facilitates the growth of counter-hegemonic resistance.

The conference is organized around the three areas of the conference theme:
1. Street art and everyday life in the city
2. Art and anti-gentrification resistance
3. Art and the urban social movements

Keynote Speakers:
Ilaria HOPPE (Art and Philosophy, Katholische Privat-Universität Linz)
Peter BENGTSEN (Art History and Sociology, Lund University)
Myrto TSILIMPOUNIDI (Geography, University of Aegean)
Julia RAMIREZ-BLANCO (Art History, Universitat de Barcelona)

Registration deadline: May 15, 2019
Registration: 24 EUR
https://rebelstreet.sciencesconf.org


PROGRAM

Tuesday, May 28, 2019

8H30-9H15 Welcome Coffee

9H15-9H35 Introductory Speech: Tijen Tunali, University of Tours
"The Role and Importance of Art in Urban Social Movements"

9H40-10H40 Keynote Speech: Ilaria Hoppe Catholic University of Linz, Linz, Australia
“Graffiti is back: About the interconnection of visual and spatial practices in Berlin”

// Session 1A: Art, Space and Place in the Neoliberal City //
Room: MSH Salle Polyvalente
Moderator: Diva Leducq

10H40 Panos Leventis, Drury University, Aegina, Greece
“Mapping the old city: Street art and community building in Nicosia, Cyprus”

11H10 Irit Carmon Popper, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
“Art Interventions as tools of civil rights in conflictual sites”

11H40 Mor Cohen, Manchester Metropolitan University, England
“Ecosophical art practices in Israeli urban spaces”

12H10-12H30 Discussions

// Session 1B: Urban Encounters: Art, Architecture and the Public in the Neoliberal Era //
Room: MSH Salle 147
Moderator: Ilaria Hoppe

10H40 Emma Stein Lewis, Lake Forest College, Ilinois, US
“Clearing, transforming, destroying: Photographing public housing as a heterotopia in Chicago.”

11H10 Konstantinos Avramidis, Drury University, Aegina, Greece
“Writing [on] architecture in crisis-ridden Athens: The aesthetics of destruction and reconstruction”

11H40 Matilde Vignau and Alexandre Grondeau, The University of Aix-Marseille, Marseille, France.
“Arts, culture and neoliberalism: instrumentalization and resistances through the case of Marseille.”

12H10-12H30 Discussions

12H30-14H00 Lunch Buffet / MSH Salle Polyvalent

14H00-14H40 Keynote Speech: Myrto Tsilimpoudini, University of the Aegean, Greece
‘If these walls could talk’: Political street art from the streets of Athens"
MSH Salle Polyvalent

// Session 2A: Art and Activism on the Streets //
Room: MSH Salle 147
Moderator: Roman Stadnicki

15H10 Joachim Ben Yakaub, Sint-Lucas School of Art, Brussels, Belgium.
“Turning a city inside-out: The urban aesthetics of revolt in Tunisia”

15H40 Mohamed El-Shewy, University of Warwick, England
“The spatial and aesthetic politics of street art in post-revolution Egypt”

16H10 Irina Kozlova, The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Moscow, Russia.
“This is our city: Spatial structure of street protests in contemporary Russia”

16H40 Coffee Break

16H50-17H20 General Discussions

// Session 2B: Art, Communities and Anti-Gentrification Resistance //
Room: MSH Salle Polyvalent
Moderator: Tijen Tunali

15H10 Michelle Veitch, Mount Royal University, Canada
“Indigenous cultural resurgence and creative city discourses”

15H40 Marie-Pierre Vincent, University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, France
“Art and anti-gentrification resistance: the role of two artists in a local community market (Ridley Road market, in the borough of Hackney, Inner London”

16H10 Heather Shirey, Todd Lawrence and Paul Lorah, University of St.Thomas, Minnesota, USA
“The urban art, landscapes, and community stories project: Mapping art, narrative, and community in St.Paul, Minnesota”

16H40 Coffee Break

16H50-17H20 General Discussion

18H30-21H00 Conference Cocktail and Exposition (Curated by Tijen Tunali)
“The Oaxaca Commune of 2006: The Right to the City, The Right to Visual Democracy”


Wednesday 29, 2019

9H00-9H30 Morning Coffee

9H30-10H30 Keynote Speech: Peter Bengtsen, University of Lund, Sweden
“Living with Street Art”
Faculty of Social Sciences and Economics, Salle de Conseil (2nd Floor)

// Session 3A: Street Art Utopia and Its Discontents //
Room: Salle de Conseil
Moderator: Christian Gerini

10H40 Vittorio Parisi, University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, France
“Neoliberalism and the death of graffiti: a 'spectral analysis'"

11H10 Sandra Uskoković, University of Dubrovnik, Croatia
“Urboglyphs - Urban figures of memory "

11H40 Tina Bitouni, Lund University, Sweden.
“Racist street art: implicitness, impunity and interaction”

// Session 3B: Urban Art and Everyday Resistance //
Room: POR B 2
Moderator: Gülçin Erdi

10H40 Sreejata Roy, Revue Art Collaboration, New Delhi, India
“Street art and every day: A Collaborative community art project engaging young women in an urban village in New Delhi”

11H10 Zeynep Uğur, EHESS, Paris, France
“From staging to enacting politics: The case of alternative theatres in Istanbul”

11H40 Justin Malachowski, University of California, Davis, US.
“Imagining the Sha`b: Exploring the fears and hopes of the new empowered political actor through the public arts in Tunisia.”

12H10-12H30 Discussions

12H30-14:00 Lunch Buffet /MSH Salle Polyvalent

14H00-15H00 Keynote Speech: Julia Blanco Ramirez, University of Barcelona, Spain
“Activist aesthetics in Madrid’s 2011 camp”
Faculty of Social Sciences and Economics, Salle de Conseil

// Session 4A: Art, Urban Space and Migration Crisis //
Room: Salle de Conseil
Moderator: Myrto Tsilimpoudini

15H10 Christy Petropoulou, Orestis Pangalos, University of the Aegean, Greece
“Representing and commoning the ‘refugee crisis”

15H40 Geneviève Guetemme, University of Orleans, Orleans, France
“Street art’s take on migration”

16H10 Vincent Lambert, University of Nice, France
“Palimpsested walls for an entanglement heritage: street art & graffiti against financial & migration policies in contemporary Europe”

16H40-16H50 Coffee Break

16H50-17H20 General Discussion

// Session 4B: Artistic Intervention, Re-appropriation and Self-Organization in the Urban Space //
Room: POR B 2
Moderator: Julia Blanco Ramirez

15H10 Demet Lüküslü, Yeditepe University and Cemre Zekiroğlu Sabancı University, Istanbul, Turkey
“Street musicians struggling to open for themselves a space in the city”

15H40 Iberia Pérez González, Museum of Modern Art in New York, NY, USA
“TRAMA: Artists’ initiatives and Territorial Autogestion in post-crisis Argentina.”

16H10 Gabriele Boero, University of Genoa, Italy.
“The ‘Assedio’ project in Turin, Italy: a real siege to give an example of Street Artists’ resistance in public space re-appropriation.”

16H40-16H50 Coffee Break

16H50-17H20 General Discussion

20H00 Gala Dinner at La Chope Restaurant in Tours