1st Edition

(Un)sighted Archives of Migration Spaces of Encounter and Resistance

Edited By Cathrine Bublatzky, Fiona Siegenthaler Copyright 2023
138 Pages
by Routledge

138 Pages
by Routledge

138 Pages
by Routledge

(Un)sighted Archives of Migration acknowledges that migration is a fundamental part of social practice and collective memory. However, archives that have undergone migration or were established by individuals or communities with migration experience gain little public and institutional attention. This volume with its transversal perspective across the fields of art, anthropology and social... Read more

Foreword

Mirjam de Bruijn

Introduction: (Un)Sighted Archives of Migration— Spaces of Encounter and Resistance

Fiona Siegenthaler and Cathrine Bublatzky

1. On Resistance and Failure in the Archival Art Installation

Cathrine Bublatzky

2. In/ Visible Images of Mobility: Sociality and Analog– Digital Materiality in Personal Archives of Transnational Migration

Simone Pfeifer and Ulf Neumann

3. Objects of Migration— Photo- Objects of Art History: Encounters in an Archive

Almut Goldhahn and Massimo Ricciardo

4. The Blank Spots: Making Migratory Archives Visible by Exploring Photographs

Gaby Fierz

5. Objects of Migration: On Archives and Collections, Archivists and Collectors

Alma-Elisa Kittner

Biography

Cathrine Bublatzky is a social and cultural anthropologist with a focus on visual cultures including art and photography, activism and museum studies, migration and memory. She has conducted her research in South Asia, the Middle East, and Europe, and works currently on Iranian photographers in the European diaspora.

Fiona Siegenthaler is an art historian and social anthropologist with a focus on contemporary urban art in Africa. She has conducted research and lectured on a wide range of creative practices in Kampala and Johannesburg and currently engages with the legacies and potentials of colonial museum collections for present and future societies.