Abstract
In recent years, migration has become one of the most important issues in the political and cultural discourse across Europe. Inflows through the Mediterranean Sea, in particular, have reminded the European public of the ambivalent effects of globalization, and of the fragility and the ethical questionableness of how political borders are drawn and geographical boundaries perceived. Artistic engagements with the topic shed light on both collective fears and political responses to global challenges, allowing to deconstruct human institutions, such as borders, that have at present acquired the status of a second nature. The article explores three relevant case studies, and attempts to clarify how artistic forms of communication vehiculate ethical insights by aesthetic means, allowing the European audience to gain an outer perspective on ingrained cultural and political practices.
Highlights
In recent years, migration has become one of the most important issues in the political, media and cultural discourse across European countries
Incoming Incoming is a multi-channel installation, with the film shown on three large 8-metre wide adjacent screens, starting first with a single one, two, all three, so that each screen shows scenes running alongside each other simultaneously yet out of synch so that the eye can shift from one to the other, or attempt to follow an order by focusing on one screen only (Barbican, 2016). Mosse and his cinematographer Trevor Tweeten followed two of the major migration routes of the decade: one where migrants from Syria, the Middle East, and Central Asia make their way across land to Turkey and across the Aegean Sea to make their way to the mainland and the rest of Europe, ending at the former Tempelhof Airport in Berlin, which has been turned into a refugee shelter
How, have the selected artists represented the migration crisis – or, in other words, what kind of borderscape of the migration crisis do they represent, if any? And how do these films contribute to our understanding of the migration crisis?
Summary
The Sea as a Border, the Sea as an Experience: Artistic Engagements with the European Migration Crisis in Three Films. O mar como uma fronteira, o mar como uma experiência: três filmes comprometidos artisticamente com a crise europeia das migrações La mer comme une frontière, la mer comme une expérience : trois films engagés artistiquement avec la crise européenne des migrations
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