Entangled Histories of Art and Migration
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.
Cathrine Bublatzky, Ph.D., is a visual and media anthropologist. She is a senior lecturer and researcher at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at Tübingen University in Germany. In her recent research and publications she focuses on migration, visual cultures, and the aesthetics and politics of belonging.
Burcu Dogramaci is professor of twentieth-century and contemporary art history at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich (LMU). In 2016 she was been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant and leads the research project 'Relocating Modernism: Global Metropolises, Modern Art and Exile' (METROMOD).
Kerstin Pinther is a professor of African art history and curator for modern and contemporary art in a global context at the Staatliche Museen Berlin, Germany.
Mona Schieren is professor of transcultural art histories at the Hochschule fur Kunste, Bremen, Germany. She is a member of the DFG research network Entangled Histories of Art and Migration: Forms, Visibilities, Agents and the SNSF research project Materialized memories (in) the landscape at the Zurich University of the Arts.