Entangled Histories of Art and Migration: Theories, Sites and Research Methods

The book 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, taking an art and cultural studies perspective and questioning the significance of spatial changes for artistic practice in migration.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 428 pages
Publication date: 27 September 2024
Publisher: Intellect

This collection is dedicated to the stories of migrants, refugees, asylum seekers, and exiles, exploring how these narratives are intertwined with art, art practices, activism, reception, and (re-)presentation. It delves into the intricate connections between art and aesthetic practices and the experiences of migration, flight, and other forms of enforced dislocation and border/border crossings in global contexts, which have been significant phenomena of social transformation in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. These entanglements become central 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. By giving space to these stories of art and migration and their 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.

Weight: 892g
Dimension: 170 x 243 x 29 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781835950470