1st Edition

Migrations, Arts and Postcoloniality in the Mediterranean

By Celeste Ianniciello Copyright 2018
104 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

102 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

102 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

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






Bibliography

Biography

Celeste Ianniciello is an independent researcher and member of the Centre for Postcolonial and Gender Studies, University of Naples "L’Orientale".