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Informationen zum Autor T. J. Demos Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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
