Migrations Arts and Postcoloniality in the Mediterranean

<p>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 and belonging, offering the opportunity of a more problematic and stimulating vision of the preservation of the European arts, traditions and histories. Artists and projects examined include the project <i>Porto M</i> in Lampedusa, Zineb Sedira, Ursula Biemann, Lara Baladi, Mona Hatoum, Emily Jacir, Kader Attia and Walid Raad.</p> <p>Introduction</p><p></p><p>Part One: <i>Frames</i></p><p></p><p>Spaces and Borders, Transits and Repositioning </p><p></p><ul> <br><br><p></p> <li>The Geography of Barriers and the Politics of Patrol </li> <br><br> <br><br><p></p> <li>Border-crossings: Feminisms and the Bodies of Knowledge</li> <br><br> <br><br><p></p> <li>Differencing the Canon: The Autobiography of Becoming</li> <br><br> <br><br><p></p> <li>Collage Poetics and the Art of the Relations</li> <br><br> </ul><p></p><p>Part Two: <i>Narrations</i></p><p></p><p>Transcultural Memories and Migrations </p><p></p><ul> <br><br><p></p> <li>The Postcolonial Art and The World-Museum </li> <br><br> <br><br><p></p> <li>Lampedusa: a Living Archive of Modernity</li> <br><br> <br><br><p></p> <li>The Fluid (Auto)biography of Zineb Sedira </li> <br><br> <br><br><p></p> <li>Ursula Biemann’s Videocartography and the Ecology of Art</li> <br><br> <br><br><p></p> <li>The Matri-Archive of the Mediterranean </li> <br><br> </ul><p></p><p>Part Three: <i>Installations</i></p><p></p><p>Heritage, Belonging and Out-of-Place Legacies </p><p></p><ul> <br><br><p></p> <li>Lara Baladi’s Heterotopic Landscapes</li> <br><br> <br><br><p></p> <li>Mona Hatoum’s Displacing Maps </li> <br><br> <br><br><p></p> <li>Emily Jacir’s Reconfigured Properties and Identities</li> <br><br> <br><br><p></p> <li>Kader Attia and Walid Raad’s Reappropriations</li> <br><br> </ul><p></p><p>Bibliography</p>