Working in collaboration with Aberdeen Inspired and Aberdeen City Council, in 2022 the multi-award-winning Nuart Aberdeen will once again transform the streetscape of the Granite City.
The extended Nuart Plus programme includes artist talks, panel debates, film screenings, walking tours and workshops. The theme for this year’s street art conference at Aberdeen Art Gallery’s Cowdray Hall follows the festival theme, Reconnect. The two-day programme brings artists, researchers, creative practitioners and the public together for the first time since 2019. Highlights include talks from festival artists, and panels with local, national and international creative practitioners.
Keynote speaker Dr Lucy Finchett-Maddock (UK) unpicks the powerful relationship between art, transgression and power while Dr Stephen Pritchard (UK) will share his thoughts on the recent community turn in street art. Melbourne-based researcher and curator Dr Lachlan MacDowall (AU) will share his experience curating Flash Forward, a city-wide program combining art and music, while Dr Erik Hannerz (SE) will share his ideas on how we could “re-write” the city, and think outside the grid, by adopting some lessons learned from those who see the city's surfaces as full of creative possibilities.
The programme also includes panel discussions for creative professionals on strategies for creating and sustaining independent creative spaces and projects.
Issue 6 of Nuart Journal will be exclusively launched at the Nuart Aberdeen’s Street Art Conference, on Saturday 11 of June. Nuart Journal was first published in 2018 to widespread critical acclaim. Professor Jeff Ferrell, from Texas Christian University, has called Nuart Journal “the most exciting mix of political, visual, and intellectual energy I've seen in a long time!”
