Migration into Art: Transcultural Identities and Art-Making in a Globalised World

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This book addresses a topic of increasing importance to artists, art historians and scholars of cultural studies, migration studies and international relations: migration as a profoundly transforming force that has remodelled artistic and art institutional practices across the world. It explores contemporary art's critical engagement with migration

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[] an interesting view on the phenomenon of migration, which is not examined primarily through the prism of its current economic, social, political or security implications, but with regards to contemporary art. Despite this, the issue is embedded in a broader historical and theoretical framework Petersen points out the so-called mobility turn, for instance. In the clarification of the concept of migration, she primarily refers to the book by T. J. Demos The Migrant Image: The Art and Politics of Documentary During Global Crisis (2013), containing the definitions of the main types of migration (diaspora, refugees, nomadism), which she further specifies (circular migration). Regarding the analysis of specific works, she deals with the concept of migratory aesthetics, referring to Mieke Bal and Griselda Pollock and, to the correlations of aesthetics, politics and ethics.
Jana Gerov, Profile / Contemporary Art Magazine, No. 4 (2018)

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Anne Ring Petersen is Associate Professor of Modern Culture at the University of Copenhagen