Keynote conference speakers
Tristan Manco, Bristol, UK
His first book Stencil Graffiti was published by Thames and Hudson in 2002 to worldwide acclaim. This was followed by Street Logos (2004), Graffiti Brasil (2005) Street Sketchbook (2007), Street Sketchbook: Journeys (2010), Raw + Material = Art (2012) and Big Art / Small Art (2014). His most recent book Make Your Mark – The New Urban Artists was published in 2016. As a writer he also contributes to arts and design publications such as Juxtapoz, Varoom, Huck Magazine and Creative Review.
Tristan has lectured for over ten years on the arts for institutions such as Tate Modern, the ICA and the Arnolfini, and to upcoming creatives on design and illustration at universities and colleges including the RCA. He currently teaches illustration for the BA (Hons) course at Plymouth College of Art and as visiting lecturer in Illustration at USW in Cardiff.
Curation and art direction projects include clients such as Wahaca, bringing internationally renowned artists from all over the world to create murals for their in-house creative arts program. Other curation projects include The Cans Festival (2008) and Dismaland (2015).
https://www.tristanmanco.com
His first book Stencil Graffiti was published by Thames and Hudson in 2002 to worldwide acclaim. This was followed by Street Logos (2004), Graffiti Brasil (2005) Street Sketchbook (2007), Street Sketchbook: Journeys (2010), Raw + Material = Art (2012) and Big Art / Small Art (2014). His most recent book Make Your Mark – The New Urban Artists was published in 2016. As a writer he also contributes to arts and design publications such as Juxtapoz, Varoom, Huck Magazine and Creative Review.
Tristan has lectured for over ten years on the arts for institutions such as Tate Modern, the ICA and the Arnolfini, and to upcoming creatives on design and illustration at universities and colleges including the RCA. He currently teaches illustration for the BA (Hons) course at Plymouth College of Art and as visiting lecturer in Illustration at USW in Cardiff.
Curation and art direction projects include clients such as Wahaca, bringing internationally renowned artists from all over the world to create murals for their in-house creative arts program. Other curation projects include The Cans Festival (2008) and Dismaland (2015).
https://www.tristanmanco.com
Good Guy Boris
Good Guy Boris is a journalist and creator of The Grifters. He started his career in his early teenage years shooting film when he found himself, as he explains: ‘With the wrong people at the right time’.
Boris was born and raised in the heartlands of Eastern Europe, where hustling and corruption was, and continues to be, rife and commonplace. Boris can recall his adolescence fondly and romantically likens it to flashes from an Emir Kusturica or a Guy Ritchie movie, constantly finding himself surrounded by extraordinary characters and in the middle of ridiculous ventures. His interest into the realms of sociology and criminology brought him to discover the local underworld of both organized, and disorganized crime. These would include a wide variety of colorful characters, from street level hustlers, drug addicts, compulsive gamblers and graffiti writers.
A few years later, Boris presented a selection of his archives to both mainstream and alternative medias; his pictures ended up either censured or rejected. These denials didn’t dampen his belief nor point of view, and he therefore decided to create his own platform - an original photojournalism blog aptly named The Grifters. Today, The Grifters is known as a ubiquitous source of all things relating to the urban lifestyle, a figurative Swiss army knife of Graffiti culture. Boris is now himself considered to be one of the most remarkable personas in the Parisian graffiti scene.
https://www.goodguyboris.com/
Good Guy Boris is a journalist and creator of The Grifters. He started his career in his early teenage years shooting film when he found himself, as he explains: ‘With the wrong people at the right time’.
Boris was born and raised in the heartlands of Eastern Europe, where hustling and corruption was, and continues to be, rife and commonplace. Boris can recall his adolescence fondly and romantically likens it to flashes from an Emir Kusturica or a Guy Ritchie movie, constantly finding himself surrounded by extraordinary characters and in the middle of ridiculous ventures. His interest into the realms of sociology and criminology brought him to discover the local underworld of both organized, and disorganized crime. These would include a wide variety of colorful characters, from street level hustlers, drug addicts, compulsive gamblers and graffiti writers.
A few years later, Boris presented a selection of his archives to both mainstream and alternative medias; his pictures ended up either censured or rejected. These denials didn’t dampen his belief nor point of view, and he therefore decided to create his own platform - an original photojournalism blog aptly named The Grifters. Today, The Grifters is known as a ubiquitous source of all things relating to the urban lifestyle, a figurative Swiss army knife of Graffiti culture. Boris is now himself considered to be one of the most remarkable personas in the Parisian graffiti scene.
https://www.goodguyboris.com/
Street Art (Today) Museum,
Giovanna di Giacomo, Amsterdam
The former welding hangar (locally known as Lasloods) covers the surface of more than 7.000 m2 and is twice the size of the famous Turbine Hall of Tate Modern in London. Curator Peter Ernst Coolen from Street Art Today is currently working on setting up the future museum together with his team. “Street art has been an inseparable part of urban life for years now. Critics consider street art one of the most significant art movements of the moment. Being made on the street, however, it is also the most perishable. The museum’s collection will not only capture an era but will present the best street art works and artists in one place making it accessible to a wide audience.
The collection was started in 2015 and now includes more than 100 works by leading street artists from all over the world, such as David Walker (UK), Cranio (BRA) and Hoxxoh (USA). All the artworks have been especially created for the museum and in format worth mentioning. “The smallest painting we show is larger than the “Night Watch”, and the largest piece so far is one by Telmo Miel. Their artwork is five meters wide and twelve meters high. These local by origin and now international street art superstars have created two works for our collection, and are now working on the third canvas. Just imagine the size of these canvases: the size of a building facade three to four floors high. Once the renovation is done, the artworks will be hanging side by side with old cranes in a monumental industrial hall 24 meters high. Mighty impressive. ”
https://streetart.today
Activities
Mapping the Space Between
Rich Keville (Australia)
A creative space where food and drinks are provided in the conference breaks – the space between sessions - and where key topics, ideas and themes from each presentation are offered up for participant contemplation, conversation and creative response in whatever format makes sense to them.
How are participant responses to the SAUC conference collected? How might these be mapped in a creative way and fed back to SAUC…perhaps even the city itself? This mini-project will explore these questions in a fun, creative way whilst simultaneously offering up some tasty morsels for conference participants.
Street Art (Today) Museum Amsterdam
Giovanna Di Giacomo (Netherlands/ Brasil)
In 2015 Peter was asked to organize a street art event during the annual NDSM Vrijhaven festival on King’s Day. The tenant of the Welding Hangar found out about the event and approached Peter to help him decorate the hangar with street art.
During the event, they made several works of 15m2. After a day of hard work hanging the paintings, they were nowhere to be seen in the immense 7000 m2 floor and 24 meter high space. And so they scaled up the paintings to mural-size and invited more artists, that is how it all started.
