Art and visibility in migratory culture : conflict, resistance, and agency / editors, Mieke Bal, Miguel Á. Hernández-Navarro.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bal, Mieke.

Hernández, Miguel Ángel, 1977-

Series:

Thamyris intersecting ; no. 23.

Thamyris / intersecting : place, sex and race, 1570-7253 ; no. 23 (2011)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art and popular culture.

Culture in art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (335 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book explores the idea that art can enact small-scale resistances against the status quo in the social domain. These acts, which we call “little resistances,” determine the limited yet potentially powerful political impact of art. From different angles, seventeen authors consider the spaces where art events occur as “political spaces,” and explore how such spaces host events of disagreements in migratory culture. The newly coined word “migratory” refers to the sensate traces of the movements of migration that characterize contemporary culture. In other words, movement is not an exceptional occurrence in an otherwise stable world, but a normal, generalized process in a world that cannot be grasped in terms of any given notion of stability. Thus the book offers fresh reflections on art’s power to move people, in the double sense of that verb, and shows how it helps to illuminate migratory culture’s contributions to this process.

Contents:

Preliminary material / Editors Art and Visibility in Migratory Culture

Introduction / Mieke Bal and Miguel Á. Hernández-Navarro

Migrants: Workers of Metaphors / Néstor García Canclini

The Place of Metaphor in a Metonymic World: On Homi Bhabha’s “Democracy De-Realized” / Paulina Aroch Fugellie

Immigrants and Castaways: Smuggling Genres in Manuel Rivas’s La mano del emigrante / Cornelia Gräbner

Staging Transition: The Oresteia in Post-Apartheid South Africa / Astrid van Weyenberg

The Aesthetics of Displacement and the Performance of Migration / Sudeep Dasgupta

Migratory Aesthetics: Art and Politics beyond Identity / Jill Bennett

The Seventh Man: Migration, Politics, and Aesthetics / Begüm Özden Firat

Limited Visibility / Maaike Bleeker

Transgressing Time: Imagining an Exhibition of Works by Alanna O’Kelly and Phil Collins / Niamh Ann Kelly

The Mosaic Film: Nomadic Style and Politics in Transnational Media Culture / Patricia Pisters

Out of Synch: Visualizing Migratory Times through Video Art / Miguel Á. Hernández-Navarro

Heterochrony in the Act: The Migratory Politics of Time / Mieke Bal

Molding Resistance: Aesthetics and Politics in the Struggle of Bil’in against the Wall / Noa Roei

Ismaël Ferroukhi’s Babelized Road Movie / Mireille Rosello

Interstellar Hospitality: Missions of Star House Enterprise / Sonja Neef

Opacity and Openness: Creating New Senses of Dutchness / Isabel Hoving

Global Art and the Politics of Mobility: (Trans)Cultural Shifts in the International Contemporary Art-System / Joaquín Barriendos Rodríguez

The Contributors / Editors Art and Visibility in Migratory Culture

Index / Editors Art and Visibility in Migratory Culture.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-280-39466-8

9786613572585

90-420-3264-2

OCLC:

794034569

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789042032644 DOI