Street Art is a Period. Period!

As part of the UCL Festival of Culture, this session will argue that Street Art is an artistic Period, a practice that has now come to the end of its innovational lifespan. Exploring the classificatory confusion that has now enveloped it, terminological boundaries having been modified so much from above to now include practices radically other to its original intent, Dr Rafael Schacter will examine both what Street Art was and what it is now, emphasising the inadequacy of the term today. Coming latterly to explore what lies at the avant-garde of contemporary Graffiti and Street Art practice, Rafael will establish a new term - Intermural Art - a neologism that seeks to describe the most progressive work emergent from this artistic milieu today.

Dr Rafael Schacter is an anthropologist and curator who has been undertaking research on graffiti and street-art for over ten years. He is currently a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow (2014-2017) in UCL's Anthropology department and a member of UCL Urban Laboratory's Steering Committee.

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Image: Leake Street, London, Credit: Sabina Andron