Cathrine Bublatzky, Burcu Dogramaci, Kerstin Pinther and Mona Schieren, eds. Entangled Histories of Art and Migration: Theories, Sites and Research Methods, London: intellect, 2024.

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.

With contributions by:  Josephine Apraku, Ismahan Wayah and Susanne Wernsing, Azra Aksamija, Maria Alexopoulou, Cana Bilir-Meier, Anna K. Brus, Burcu Dogramaci, Ger Duijzings, Elke Gaugele, Gabriele Genge, Lilian Haberer, Jessica Hemmings, Alma-Elisa Kittner, Franziska Koch, Fabrice Langrognet, Alessandro Mazzola, Yana Meerzon, Kerstin Meincke, Birgit Mersmann, Phi Nguyen, Kerstin Pinther, Anahita Razmi and Cathrine Bublatzky, Annabel Ruckdeschel, Martin Schieder, Mona Schieren, Mareike Schwarz, Sholeh Shahrokhi, Angela Stercken, Kea Wienand, Mi You.

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