Entangled Histories of Art and Migration

Theories, Sites and Research Methods

Edited by Cathrine Bublatzky, Burcu Dogramaci, Kerstin Pinther, Mona Schieren

Publication date:

27 September 2024

Publisher

Intellect Books

Dimensions:

244x170mm
7x10"

ISBN-13: 9781789389616

Dedicated to the stories of migrants, refugees, asylum seekers, and exiles, this collection asks how these stories are interwoven with art, art practices, activism, reception, and (re-)presentation. It explores the complex entanglements of art and aesthetic practices with migration, flight, and other forms of enforced dislocation and border/border crossings in global contexts - the latter significant phenomena of social transformation in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

These entanglements take centre stage when migration shapes forms and aesthetics (and vice versa), when actors employ image politics and visualisation strategies in and about migration at different times and places, or when materialities, sites, and spaces gain importance for decision-making processes.

Giving space to these stories of art and migration and its power of pluriverse knowledge production, the book takes an art and cultural studies perspective and questions the significance of spatial changes for artistic practice in migration and elaborates on new or different theory formation. Bringing together its case studies and theoretical approaches, the argumentation unfolds over the five sections of the book Visibilities | Invisibilities, Sites | Spaces, Materiality | Materialisation, Racism | Resistance and Practices | Performativity.

 

 

 

 

The essays gathered in Entangled Histories of Art and Migration: Theories, Sites and Research Methods epitomize the recent ‘migratory turn’ in art-related studies, which has introduced new critical and interdisciplinary methodologies and a much-needed reappraisal of the ways in which migrants, exiles, refugees and asylum seekers are represented in art, architecture, activism, exhibitions, and more. By exploring topical subjects such as the practices of (in)visibilization of migrant and refugee lifeworlds and the production of space and images in diaspora, along with racism and anti-racism resistance in museums and curating, the volume’s in-depth case studies make a valuable, pluriversal contribution to contemporary debates on how migration and forced displacement figure within the field of global art.

Anne Ring Petersen, professor, department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen