Contemporary Art and Forced Displacement

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.

• Introduction: Praxes of Displacement 1. ‘انا لغتي’ (‘I am my Language’): Conventions, Case Studies and Absent Soundtracks 2. Πισω, Προς στο Μελλον (Back, Towards a Future): Landscape, Architecture and the Heritage of Displacement 3. ‘To be in and not of’: Experimental Pedagogies, Institutional Parasites and ‘Narragunnawali’ 4. عبء الإثبات / Burdens of Proof: Legal Interventions and Investigations 5. Heirlooms for Here, After: Beneficiaries of the Archive and ‘Ngabay’ Conclusion: Αξιοπρέπεια: Situated Knowledge and Redress

"An urgent profiling of art as agency and activism, this multi-sited analysis works in close attunement with resilience and survival taking shape against colonial displacement, forced migration and exile. Contemporary Art and Forced Displacement curates new works as well as networks of transnational advocacy, solidarities and decolonial interventions to rethink the crisis contemporary today."-- Jennifer L Biddle, Director emLAB (the Ethnographic Media Lab) UNSW Art, Design and Architecture.