Newburyport Public Library

When home won't let you stay, migration through contemporary art, edited by Ruth Erickson and Eva Respini

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-227)

mapsillustrations

no index present

non fiction

When home won't let you stay

bibliography

1090421104

edited by Ruth Erickson and Eva Respini

migration through contemporary art

"In this timely volume, artists and thinkers join in conversation around the topic of global migration, examining both its cultural impact and the culture of migration itself. Individual voices shed light on the societal transformations related to migration and its representation in 21st-century art, offering diverse points of entry into this massive phenomenon and its many manifestations. The featured artworks range from painting, sculpture, and photography to installation, video, and sound art, and their makers-including Isaac Julien, Richard Mosse, Reena Saini Kallat, Yinka Shonibare MBE, and Do Ho Suh, among many others-hail from around the world. Texts by experts in political science, Latin American studies, and human rights, as well as contemporary art, expand upon the political, economic, and social contexts of migration and its representation. The book also includes three conversations in which artists discuss the complexity of making work about migration. Amid worldwide tensions surrounding refugee crises and border security, this publication provides a nuanced interpretation of the current cultural moment. Intertwining themes of memory, home, activism, and more, When Home Won't Let You Stay meditates on how art both shapes and is shaped by the public discourse on migration."--Dust jacket

Waiting to go / Aruna D'Souza -- Tebbit's ghost : migration and the conundrum of belonging / Okwui Enwezor introduced in conversation with Eva Respini -- Aspirational and operational maps of migration / Thomas Keenan -- The refugee and a different vision of security and being together / Uday Singh Mehta -- Words that make worlds / Peggy Levitt