The Migrant Image
The Art and Politics of Documentary during Global Crisis
1st Edition
Published on 4. March 2013
360 pages
978-0-8223-9575-1 (ISBN)
Description
The Migrant Image offers a sophisticated analysis of how refugee and exiled artists imagine a globalized world where borders are shifting, populations are forcibly removed from their homelands, and the gap separating the rich from the poor is growing.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Durham, NC
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Digital original
Illustrations
93 illustrations, including 17 in color
93 illustrations, including 17 in color
File size
10,57 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-8223-9575-1 (9780822395751)
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Person
T. J. Demos is Reader in Art History at University College London. He is the author of Dara Birnbaum-Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman and The Exiles of Marcel Duchamp.
Content
Illustrations vii
Check-In: A Prelude xiii
Charting a Course: Exile, Diaspora, Nomads, Refugees: A Genealogy of Art and Migration 1
Departure A. Moving Images of Globalization 21
1. Indeterminacy and Bare Life in Steve McQueen's Western Deep 33
2. "Sabotaging the Future": The Essay-Films of the Otolith Group 54
3. Hito Steyerl's Traveling Images 74
Transit: Politicizing Aesthetics 90
Departure B. Life Full of Holes 95
4. The Art of Emily Jacir: Dislocation and Politicization 103
5. Recognizing the Unrecognized: The Photographs of Ahlam Shibli 124
6. The Right of Opacity: On the Otolith Group's Nervus Rerum 144
Transit: Going Offshore 160
Departure C. Zones of Conflict 169
7. Out of Beirut: Mobile Histories and the Politics of Fiction 177
8. Video's Migrant Geography: Ursula Biemann's Sahara Chronicle 201
9. Means without End: Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri's Camp Campaign 221
Destination: The Politics of Aesthetics during Global Crisis 245
Acknowledgments 251
Notes 255
Bibliography 305
Index 323
Check-In: A Prelude xiii
Charting a Course: Exile, Diaspora, Nomads, Refugees: A Genealogy of Art and Migration 1
Departure A. Moving Images of Globalization 21
1. Indeterminacy and Bare Life in Steve McQueen's Western Deep 33
2. "Sabotaging the Future": The Essay-Films of the Otolith Group 54
3. Hito Steyerl's Traveling Images 74
Transit: Politicizing Aesthetics 90
Departure B. Life Full of Holes 95
4. The Art of Emily Jacir: Dislocation and Politicization 103
5. Recognizing the Unrecognized: The Photographs of Ahlam Shibli 124
6. The Right of Opacity: On the Otolith Group's Nervus Rerum 144
Transit: Going Offshore 160
Departure C. Zones of Conflict 169
7. Out of Beirut: Mobile Histories and the Politics of Fiction 177
8. Video's Migrant Geography: Ursula Biemann's Sahara Chronicle 201
9. Means without End: Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri's Camp Campaign 221
Destination: The Politics of Aesthetics during Global Crisis 245
Acknowledgments 251
Notes 255
Bibliography 305
Index 323
