The migrant image : the art and politics of documentary during global crisis / T. J. Demos.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Demos, T. J., author.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

e-Duke books scholarly collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arts and globalization.

Culture and globalization.

Art and society.

Documentary mass media and the arts.

Emigration and immigration in art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (377 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Demos examines the ways contemporary artists have reinvented documentary practices in their representations of mobile lives: refugees, migrants, the stateless, and the politically dispossessed. He presents a sophisticated analysis of how artists from the United States, Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East depict the often ignored effects of globalization and the ways their works connect viewers to the lived experiences of political and economic crisis. Demos investigates the cinematic approaches Steve McQueen, the Otolith Group, and Hito Steyerl employ to blur the real and imaginary in their films confronting geopolitical conflicts between North and South. He analyzes how Emily Jacir and Ahlam Shibli use blurs, lacuna, and blind spots in their photographs, performances, and conceptual strategies to directly address the dire circumstances of dislocated Palestinian people. He discusses the disparate interventions of Walid Raad in Lebanon, Ursula Biemann in North Africa, and Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri in the United States, and traces how their works offer images of conflict as much as a conflict of images. Throughout Demos shows the ways these artists creatively propose new possibilities for a politics of equality, social justice, and historical consciousness from within the aesthetic domain."--P. [4] of cover.

Contents:

Check-in: a prelude

Charting a course: Exile, diaspora, nomads, refugees: a genealogy of art and migration

Departure A. Moving images of globalization

Indeterminacy and bare life in Steve McQueen's Western deep

Sabotaging the future? : the essay-films of the Otolith Group

Hito Steyerl's traveling images

Transit: politicizing aesthetics

Departure B. Life full of holes

The art of Emily Jacir : dislocation and politicization

Recognizing the unrecognized : the photographs of Ahlam Shibli

The right to opacity : on the Otolith Group's Nervus rerum

Transit: going offshore

Departure C. Zones of conflict

Out of Beirut : mobile histories and the politics of fiction

Video's migrant geography: Ursula Biemann's Sahara chronicle

Means without end : Anastas and Rene Gabri's Camp campaign

Destination : the politics of aesthetics during global crisis.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [255]-322) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822395751

0822395754

9780822353263

0822353261

OCLC:

840478187