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 takecentre stage when migration shapes formsand aesthetics (and vice versa), when actorsemploy image politics and visualisationstrategies in and about migration at different timesand places, or when materialities,sites, and spaces gain importance for decision-making processes. Giving space to thesestories of art and migration and its power ofpluriverse knowledge production, the booktakes an art and cultural studies perspectiveand questions the significance of spatialchanges for artistic practice in migration andelaborates on new or different theory formation. Bringing togetherits 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.