The book Entangled Histories of Art and Migration, recently published by Intellect, examines the relationships between migration and art from a global perspective. The intertwined histories are addressed by academic and artistic contributions in five sections: Visibilities | Invisibilities, Places | Spaces, Materiality | Materialisation, Racism | Resistance, Practices | Performativity. On the occasion of the book’s release, the editors and contributors will talk about their work on the anthology and present some of the topics.
The book is the result of several years of project work by an interdisciplinary research group. The DFG (German Research Foundation) funded network ‘Entangled Histories of Art and Migration. Forms, Visibilities, Agents’ (2018-22) emerged from a working group that has existed since 2013. The network, funded by the DFG (German Research Foundation), was dedicated to the interaction of migration and globalisation as a significant phenomenon of social transformation in the 20th and 21st centuries and in its role for art studies and artistic production.
The book launch of the research group will be accompanied by an artistic program by the Hochschule für Künste Bremen and will make its final stop at the GAK: After the launch, one of the contributors, Cana Bilir-Meier will present her current film works. Following the screening, there will be an artist talk with Bilir-Meier and a round of discussion.
Cana Bilir-Meier lives and works in Munich (DE) and Vienna (AT). She works as a filmmaker, curator, artist, and in art and cultural education projects. Her filmic, performative, and text-based works operate at the interfaces between archival work, text production, historical research, and contemporary media reflexivity or archaeology.
Cathrine Bublatzky is a senior lecturer and researcher at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Tübingen.
Burcu Dogramaci is professor of twentieth-century and contemporary art history at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and director of the Käte Hamburger Kolleg global dis:connect.
Kerstin Pinther is professor of African art history and curator of modern and contemporary art in a global context at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.
Mona Schieren is professor of transcultural art histories at the University of the Arts Bremen.