Autorentext

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.

Klappentext

This book urges for an understanding of contemporary art as being core to creative responses which intervene in the lived experience of forced displacement.

Contemporary Art and Forced Displacement explores 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.

Inhalt

Introduction: *Praxes of Displacement 1. ' ' ('I am my Language'): Conventions, Case Studies and Absent Soundtracks2. , (Back, Towards a Future): Landscape, Architecture and the Heritage of Displacement3. 'To be in and not of': Experimental Pedagogies, Institutional Parasites and 'Narragunnawali' 4. / Burdens of Proof: Legal Interventions and Investigations5. Heirlooms for Here, After: Beneficiaries of the Archive and 'Ngabay' Conclusion: : Situated Knowledge and Redress*