Politics of Migration and Mobility in the Art World: Transnational Baltic Artistic Practices across Europe

This book investigates alternative patterns of migration and mobility across Europe, focusing on visual artists from the Baltic States who migrate for economic reasons and cross-border mobilities for career progression. It explores how mobile working practices impact artists' feelings of home and belonging, and how they navigate the global art market. The book is multidisciplinary and combines visual cultures and social sciences to answer questions and contextualize an analysis of artworks in a conversation with the artists themselves. The author argues that artists form a 'diaspora of practice' rather than of ethnicity, and their homes are multiple and the directions of their settlement. The primary appeal of the book is to artists, art professionals, scholars, sociologists, anthropologists, cultural studies, and European Union studies.

Format: Hardback
Length: 184 pages
Publication date: 24 May 2021
Publisher: Intellect Books

While Eastern European migration is predominantly perceived as a one-way, permanent journey from East to West Europe driven by economic motivations, this book delves into alternative patterns of migration and mobility across the continent. It investigates how visual artists engage in regular cross-border movements, onward migrations, and transnational communications for work, and the impact this has on their sense of home and belonging. The book assesses the extent to which there is a culture of mobility among visual artists from the Baltic States of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, who are compelled to combine onward migration and regular cross-border mobilities due to the "glass ceiling" they face in their home countries. This is primarily attributed to the lack of local art markets, limited art dealers, and insufficient government funding.

Consequently, the question arises: how do artists from the Baltic States navigate the global art market amidst these barriers? This transdisciplinary inquiry into the working practices, modes of movement, and spatial arrangements of visual artists addresses this critical issue. Mobile working practices exert a profound influence on artists' feelings of home and belonging, manifesting in their artworks that compare and contrast different cultures. This is a result of their unique combination of onward migration, regular mobilities, the fluid flows between home cities, and the dynamics of the global art market within which they operate.

However, it is important to note that these movements are shaped by the forces of the global art world, where certain factors exert a significant influence. One such factor is the demand for art, which drives the global art market and opens opportunities for artists. Additionally, the rise.

Weight: 604g
Dimension: 251 x 175 x 22 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781789383409
Edition number: New ed