Full Description
This book is focused on the transcultural memory of the Mediterranean region and the different ways it is articulated by contemporary art practices and museum projects linked to migrations, exile, diaspora and transnationality. The artistic and curatorial examples analysed in this study articulate a critical relationship between the cultural representations and the sense of heritage, property and belonging, offering the opportunity of a more problematic and stimulating vision of the preservation of the European arts, traditions and histories. Artists and projects examined include the project Porto M in Lampedusa, Zineb Sedira, Ursula Biemann, Lara Baladi, Mona Hatoum, Emily Jacir, Kader Attia and Walid Raad.
Contents
Introduction
Part One: Frames
Spaces and Borders, Transits and Repositioning
The Geography of Barriers and the Politics of Patrol
Border-crossings: Feminisms and the Bodies of Knowledge
Differencing the Canon: The Autobiography of Becoming
Collage Poetics and the Art of the Relations
Part Two: Narrations
Transcultural Memories and Migrations
The Postcolonial Art and The World-Museum
Lampedusa: a Living Archive of Modernity
The Fluid (Auto)biography of Zineb Sedira
Ursula Biemann's Videocartography and the Ecology of Art
The Matri-Archive of the Mediterranean
Part Three: Installations
Heritage, Belonging and Out-of-Place Legacies
Lara Baladi's Heterotopic Landscapes
Mona Hatoum's Displacing Maps
Emily Jacir's Reconfigured Properties and Identities
Kader Attia and Walid Raad's Reappropriations
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