Fuocoammare and the Aesthetic Rendition of the Relational Experience of Migration
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| Publication date | 2019 |
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| Book title | Handbook of Art and Global Migration |
| Book subtitle | Theories, Practices, and Challenges |
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| Pages (from-to) | 102-116 |
| Publisher | Berlin : De Gruyter |
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| Abstract |
Jacques Rancière suggests that “the core political experience of our generation may well have been to go on...a voyage, discovering for ourselves [a] recognizable foreignness, this shimmering of life” . Adorno claims "Under patient contemplation artworks begin to move". What is the relation between the dynamism Adorno identifies in aesthetic experience, and the voyaging Rancière sees as a crucial political experience? This essay will take Gianfranco Rosi's Fuoccoamare (2016) as the occasion to explore the relationship between the dynamism of aesthetic experience and the displacements of the contemporary world. The first section will develop a strong argument for understanding art practice and aesthetic experience as intrinsically mobile and destabilizing. This dynamic understanding of aesthetics will be then linked to the artistic construction and spectatorial experience of the displacement of people in Fuoccoamare. Art becomes the place where an "open relation" between peoples, spaces and times gets productively figured. The contemporary conjuncture of the migrations of people and the dynamic of aesthetic experience are thought together.
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| Document type | Chapter |
| Note | Sudeep Dasgupta is Associate Professor in the Department of Media Studies, the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis (ASCA) and the Amsterdam Centre for Globalization Studies (ACGS) at the University of Amsterdam. He was the Marie Jahoda Visiting Professor at Ruhr Universität Bochum (2011).His publications focus on the aesthetics and politics of displacement in visual culture, from the disciplinary perspectives of aesthetics, postcolonial and globalization studies, political philosophy, and feminist and queer theory. Publications include "The Aesthetics of Indirection: Intermittent Adjacencies and Subaltern Presences at the Borders of Europe", Cinéma et Cie 17:28 (2017), the co-edited volume (with Mireille Rosello) What's Queer about Europe ? (Fordham University Press, 2014), and Constellations of the Transnational: Modernity, Culture, Critique (Rodopi, 2007). |
| Language | English |
| Published at | https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110476675-007 |
| Other links | https://www.degruyter.com/view/product/472417 |
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