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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.        

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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 Entangled Histories of Art and Migration: Theories, Sites and Research Methods is a dynamic intervention into the now burgeoning field of art and migration studies. The authors and editors of this rich anthology raise urgent questions about both what we know of the histories of cultural movement and exchange, and how such knowledge is produced in and through the visual, material and spatial registers of the arts. This is a timely engagement with an issue of critical importance and a thought-provoking work of scholarship. Marsha Meskimmon, emerita professor of transnational art and feminism, Loughborough University How do art and aesthetic practices reckon with the processes of migration, dislocation, and border crossings world-wide? Bringing together practices and perspectives from art history, ethnography, activism, and performance studies, this timely and important volume offers a far-reaching response to this question. By investigating the intricate entanglements between art and migration, these essays inspire (and are inspired by) highly creative approaches to some of the most urgent societal questions of our time. Saloni Mathur, professor and chair of art history, UCLA This book productively deploys a concept whose meaning is usually taken in a negative or dubious sense: entanglements, which are considered messy and problematic; a meaning at issue we consider migration, displacement, and what I call ‘refugeedom’. But when the disciplines touched by millennia-old and now so current entanglements involved with those social practices and situations engage other, very different ones, such as the intellectual and artistic forms of interdisciplinary work, a new field emerges, which addresses, maps, and improves this impossible and necessary task of bringing the victims of violence and social inequality from their invisibility to ‘visibilisation’, which helps not only their situation, but also the limitations of disciplinary academic work, by means of entanglements rather than dogmatic separations.   Mieke Bal, cultural analyst, video artist and curator

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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.

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