1st Edition

Contemporary Art and the Politics of Belonging Towards a Longing for Home through the Moving Image

182 Pages 16 Color & 18 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

Description

This book theorizes the visual language through which the relationship between home and place is formed and unformed, and proposes longing as a conceptual framework for generating sites of collective belonging across difference. Through close readings of contemporary moving image artworks, including the works of Richard Fung, John Di Stefano, Nazgol Ansarinia, Larissa Sansour, and Nuotama... Read more

Introduction: Contemporary Art and the Limits of Inclusion

1. Anticipating Presence: Longing and Disjuncture in Richard Fung’s The Way to My Father’s Village, My Mother’s Place, and Sea in the Blood

2. Transgressive Pleasures and Reparative Longing in John Di Stefano’s You Are Here

3. Traces of Home: Impressions of the Out-of-Reach in Nazgol Ansarinia’s Living Room, Fragment 1, and Fragment 2

4. Foreclosed Futures and Fatigued Pasts: Redirecting Longing in Larissa Sansour’s A Space Exodus, Nation Estate, and In the Future They Ate from the Finest Porcelain

5. (Don’t) Fly Me to the Moon: Refusals of Longing in Nuotama Bodomo’s

Coda: Collective Longings