Entangled Histories of Art and Migration: Forms, Visibilities, Agents

• Applicant: Cathrine Bublatzky, Ph.D.
• Subject Area: Art History ; Social and Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology
• Term: from 2018 to 2023
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 401134461

The network, the members of which belong to the working group on artistic production and art theory in light of migration, have set the goal to investigate the interrelationship of migration and globalization as an important phenomenon of social transformation in the 20th and 21st centuries in its role for art historical research and artistic production. Therefore, three central and overlapping fields of research were designated in order to outline the interwoven histories of art and migration: 1. Forms and aesthetics of migration; 2. Actors in the field of migration; 3. Visibility: image politics and visualization strategies in the context of migration. With regard to these research fields, a total of six international workshops, as well as a resulting publication, will contribute to establishing a long-term and lasting engagement with migration research in global art history, not least as a research field within migration studies, and to make it visible both nationally and internationally.

• DFG Programme: Scientific Networks
• Co-Investigator: Professorin Dr. Burcu Dogramaci