Contemporary Art and Forced Displacement
Methods of Intervention and Cultural Resilience
1st Edition
Published on 12. December 2025
210 pages
978-1-040-54543-0 (ISBN)
Description
This book urges for an understanding of contemporary art as being core to creative responses which intervene in the lived experience of forced displacement.
This book seeks to explore art practice which moves beyond mere representation toward practical intervention across five key areas: language, heritage and design, pedagogy and education, law and access to justice and the archive. Focusing on art produced across three sites, each emblematic of protracted forms of displacement (Greece, Palestine and Australia), it makes clear the ways in which art operates as a vital yet underacknowledged instrument of cultural resilience.
This book is ideal for researchers, scholars and practitioners interested in contemporary art and politics, contemporary art methods and practice, and migration.
This book seeks to explore art practice which moves beyond mere representation toward practical intervention across five key areas: language, heritage and design, pedagogy and education, law and access to justice and the archive. Focusing on art produced across three sites, each emblematic of protracted forms of displacement (Greece, Palestine and Australia), it makes clear the ways in which art operates as a vital yet underacknowledged instrument of cultural resilience.
This book is ideal for researchers, scholars and practitioners interested in contemporary art and politics, contemporary art methods and practice, and migration.
Reviews / Votes
"An urgent profiling of art as agency and activism, this multi-sited analysis works in close attunement with resilience and survival taking shape against colonial displacement, forced migration and exile. Contemporary Art and Forced Displacement curates new works as well as networks of transnational advocacy, solidarities and decolonial interventions to rethink the crisis contemporary today."-- Jennifer L Biddle, Director emLAB (the Ethnographic Media Lab) UNSW Art, Design and Architecture.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
22 Halftones, color; 2 Halftones, black and white; 22 Illustrations, color; 2 Illustrations, black and white
File size
94,16 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-040-54543-0 (9781040545430)
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Additional editions
Chrisoula Lionis
Contemporary Art and Forced Displacement
Methods of Intervention and Cultural Resilience
Book
approx. 12/2025
1st Edition
Routledge
€215.41
Not yet published
Person
Chrisoula Lionis is a research fellow at the University of Manchester School of Arts Languages and Cultures and Co-Director of pedagogical platform Artists for Artists.
Content
Introduction: Praxes of Displacement 1. '??? ????' ('I am my Language'): Conventions, Case Studies and Absent Soundtracks 2. ????, ???? ??? ?????? (Back, Towards a Future): Landscape, Architecture and the Heritage of Displacement 3. 'To be in and not of': Experimental Pedagogies, Institutional Parasites and 'Narragunnawali' 4. ??? ??????? / Burdens of Proof: Legal Interventions and Investigations 5. Heirlooms for Here, After: Beneficiaries of the Archive and 'Ngabay' Conclusion: ???????????: Situated Knowledge and Redress
