SUSAN HANSEN (UK)

Susan Hansen (UK) is Convenor of the Visual Methods Group and Chair of the Forensic Psychology Research Group in the Department of Psychology at Middlesex University, London. She has research interests in viewers’ material engagements with, and affective responses to, street art and graffiti; in the analysis of street art and graffiti as a form of visual dialogue; and in the promise of an archaeological approach to understanding uncommissioned independent public art.

With Phil Healey, Head of Visual Art at London's Middlesex University, Susan recently convened a symposium on Creative Responses to the Urban Environment (https://www.ica.org.uk/whats-on/symposium-art-streets). Held at the Institute of Contemporary Art, and open to the public, this interdisciplinary symposium explored the diversity of creative responses to our urban landscape – from street art and graffiti to yarn bombing and urban photography. The symposium brought together leading international contemporary researchers, curators, artists and photographers in the field of urban creativity.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Merrill, S., MacDowall, L. & Hansen, S. (forthcoming: 2018) The Contested Heritages of Graffiti and Street Art. London: Routledge.

Hansen, S. (forthcoming: 2018) A test case for the heritage protection of street art. Journal of Material Culture.

Hansen, S. (2017) Banksy vs. Bristol Museum and the City: A Socio-moral test case for the safeguarding of street art. City: Analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action.

Hansen, S. (2017) Street art as process and performance: the subversive ‘streetness’ of video-documentation. Street Art & Urban Creativity Journal, 3(3).

Hansen, S. (2017) Is it any wonder? On commissioning an uncommissioned atmosphere. Public Art Dialogue.

Hansen, S. (2017) Video installation as a creative means for representing temporality in visual data. Qualitative Research in Psychology.

Hansen, S. (2016) Graffiti as a limit case for the concept of style: A genealogy of aesthetic impropriety. Konsthistorisk tidskrift/Journal of Art History.

Hansen, S. & Flynn, D. (2016) “Darling Look! It’s A Banksy!” Viewers’ Material Engagement With Street Art And Graffiti. In A. Gralińska-Toborek & W. Kazimierska-Jerzyk (Eds.) Aesthetic Energy of the City: Experiencing Urban Art and Space. Lodz: Lodz University Press. pp.103-118.

Hansen, S. & Flynn, D. (2015) ‘This is not a Banksy!’: street art as aesthetic protest. Continuum: Journal of Media & Culture.

Hansen, S. (2015) “Pleasure stolen from the poor”: Community discourse on the ‘theft’ of a Banksy. Crime, Media & Culture.

Hansen, S. (2015) Longitudinal Photo-documentation: Recording Living Walls. Journal of Urban Creativity & Street Art, 1(1): 15-26.

Hansen, S. & Flynn, D. (2014) Street art and the transformation of public space. In P. Soares & D. de Freitas Simoes (Eds.) Street Art and Urban Creativity. Lisbon. Lisbon University Press. 109-118)

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