11 June 2023
10H00 Welcome Remarks, Ahmad Al-Mousa, Senior Programs Manager,CGC Amman, Columbia University.
10H10 Opening Speech, Tijen Tunali, Mellon Fellow, Columbia University, Founder and Organizer of the Conference.
“Public Art’s Relationship to Democracy and Authoritarianism.”
10H30- 11H30 Artist Keynote, Catherine Clover, Multimedia Artist and Lecturer, Swinburne University of Technology.
“Listening, Walking and Languaging in the City: An Incomplete Field Guide to the Voices of the Birds of Amman.”
Session 1: StreetArts and Aesthetic Struggle in Diverse Urban Contexts
Chair: Tijen Tunali, Art History, Columbia University
11H30 Vittorio Parisi, Aesthetics, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
“Weird as Aesthetic Struggle in Italian Street Art.”
11H50 Friederike Landau-Donnelly and Stefanie Friedrik, Cultural Geography, Radboud University.
“Writing the City Clean: Sketching a Conflictual Aesthetics of Street Art in Linz, Austria.”
12H10 Mareike Schwarz, Art History, Munich Lunwig-Maximilians University.
“Planting Commons! How Two Public Art Garden Projects in Berlin and Dakar are Growing Social and Ecological Cohesion.”
12H30-13H00 General Discussion
Lunch Break 13H30-14H00
Session 2 Aesthetic Dissent and Artistic Intervention in the City
Chair: Emre Cetin Gurer, Philosophy, Koc University
14H00 Jenna Altamonte, Art History, Mississippi State University
“Ephemeral Activism: Un/Making Images of Dissent.”
14H20 Juan Carlos Guerrero-Hernandez, Art History, Kalamazoo College.
“Activism, Language, and Resistance in La Nueva Banda de la Terraza’s Graffiti-Projections.”
14H40 Heiko Schmid, Art History, Zurich University of the Arts
“Between Re-Construction and Subversion: Artistic Interventions in (digital) Infrastructure.”
15H00-15H30 General Discussion
Coffee Break 15H30-16H00
Session 3: User Experience and Cultural Subversion in the Urban Landscape
Chair: Anna Dempsey, Visual and Performing Arts, University of Massachusetts
16H00 Pedro Soares Nevez, Architecture, Lisbon University
“Drawing and User Experience in Public Space Design in Lisbon.”
16H20 Maurice Rafael Magaña, Mexican American Studies, University of Arizona and Kyle Craig, Cultural Anthropology, Northwestern University
“Murals and Street Art as Technologies of Emplacement and Presence in Amman and Los Angeles.”
16H40 Moham Wang, Art, Design and Media, Nanyang Technological University
“Performative Erasure and Urban Art in Singapore.”
17H00-17H30 General Discussion
17H30-18H30 Soundwalk by Catherine Clover in the King Hussein Park
12 June 2023
Session 4: Site-Specific Art and the Troubled Urban Space
Chair: Vittorio Parisi, Aesthetics, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
10H00 Zohreh Soltani, Architectural History, Ithaca College
"Speculative Heritage: Azadi Tower as a Solidarity Monument in Contemporary Tehran".
10H20 Panos Leventis, Architecture, Drury University
“Stencilling the Cyprus Divide: Identity, Trauma, and Urban Space, 2012-20.”
10H40 Joanna Matuszak, Art History, University of Texas at Tyler.
“Performing with Monuments: Site-Specific Performances in Moscow in the 1990s.”
11H00-11H30 General Discussion
Coffee Break 11H30-12H00
Session 5: Art and Protests in the City
Chair: Stepan Kachalin, Cultural History, CGC Amman, Columbia University
12H00 Milos Moskovljevic, Media and Communication, the City University of Hong Kong.
“Linguistic Landscape of Hong Kong 2019-20 Protests: A Discourse Analysis of Political Graffiti,”
12H20 Emilia Jeziorowska, Art History, University of Wroclaw
“The Aestheticization of Occupy Movement during 2011-2012.”
12H40 Minji Chun, Art History, University of Oxford
“Protest as Artistic Intervention and Cultural Production: Cases of Seoul.”
13H00-13H30 General Discussion
Lunch Break 13H30-14H00
14H00-15H00
Artist Keynote: Yazan Mesmar, Street Art Artist, Amman.
“Transforming Cities and Artists: The Impact of Bringing Art to the Streets.”
Session 6: Aesthetics and Politics of Street Art in Amman
Chair: Josepha Wessels, Arts and Communication, Malmö University
15H00 Wiam Koubia, Comparative Politics, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.
“Redefining the Public Space: Street Art and Graffiti in Amman.”
15H20 Diana Zaid Habashneh, Arabic Studies, Abdallah Sami Abulouz, Social Anthropology.
“East-Amman Graffiti Scene in the Last 10 Years: A Critical Discourse Analysis.”
15H40 Majd Albaik, Architecture, The Hashemite University.
“The Impact of Graffiti Images on Image of the City and Visual Quality in Al Hashmi Al Shamali, Amman.”
16H00-16H030 General Discussion
Conference Dinner 19:30-22:00
13 June 2023
10H00
Guest Speaker: Rita Akroush, Culture and Arts Projects Manager, Al Balad Theater, Co-Curator of Baldk Street Art Festival, Amman.
“Baladk, 10 Years of Street Art Work”
Session 7: Street Art and Urban Communities in the City
Chair: Tijen Tunali, CGC Amman, Columbia University
11H00 Konstantinos Pittas, Politics and International Studies, Cambridge University
“Redefining Community Through Art: Staging Antagonism in the Public Sphere.”
11H20 Mercedes González Bracco, National Scientific and Technical Research Council, National University of San Martín.
“Community-based Street Art and the Dignification of Degraded Spaces. The Case of Isla Maciel.”
11H40 Petr Vašát, Social Anthropology, Humboldt University
“Transforming Communities with Colors: The Emergence and Development of Macroscale Paintings in Latin America.”
12H00-12H30 General Discussion
Lunch Break 12H30-13H00
Session 8 Urban Aesthetics and Spatial Justice
Chair: Eva Branscome, Architectural History, the Bartlett School of Architecture
13H00 Konstantinos Avramidis, Architecture and Landscape, University of Cyprus
“Mapping Topo-graphies Re-enacting Kessariani’s Graffiti in Three Acts.”
13H20 Daniel Palacios Gonzales, Ethnography, Birkbeck, University of London
“Memory and (Spatial) Justice in Spain: Aesthetic Struggles from Urban Ostracism.”
13H40 Andrea Baldini, Philosophy, Alliance University
“Bombing Inequality: Graffiti Writing and Spatial Justice.”
14H00-14H30 General Discussion
Coffee Break 14H30-15H00
Session 9 Art and Authoritarian Power in the Urban Public Space
Chair: Konstantinos Pittas, Politics and International Studies, Cambridge University
15H00 Asma Mehan, Architecture, Texas Tech University
“Art as Resistance: A Case Study of the ‘Women, Life, Freedom’ Movement in Iran.”
15H20 Soufiane Chinig, Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin
“Practices, Narratives, and Visual Politics of Graffiti and Street Art in Jordan and Morocco.”
15H40 Mansour A-Maswari, Political Science, CGC Amman, Columbia University
“War in Walls: A Critique to the Authoritarian Murals in the Wartime in Yemen.”
16H00-16H30 General Discussion
16H30-17H00 Closing Remarks by the Conference Organizer Tijen Tunali
14 June 2023
07H00-22H00 Excursion to Petra and Wadi Rum.
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