When Home Won’t Let You Stay

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Migration through Contemporary Art

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When Home Won’t Let You Stay explores the global phenomenon of migration through the lens of contemporary art. Featuring a diverse array of artworks—from painting and sculpture to video and sound art—by artists such as Isaac Julien and Yinka Shonibare MBE, this volume brings together multiple disciplines to illuminate migration’s cultural and societal impacts. Expert essays provide political and social context, while artist conversations reveal the complexities of creating work about migration.

Published in association with the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, this book reflects on themes of memory, home, and activism amid today’s refugee and border crises.
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This thoughtful interdisciplinary book appeals to readers interested in contemporary art, global migration, cultural studies, and social activism. It is particularly suited for students, scholars, and anyone seeking to understand migration’s cultural narratives through artistic expression.

Insightful and interdisciplinary, this book considers the movement of people around the world and how contemporary artists contribute to our understanding of it

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Insightful and interdisciplinary, this book considers the movement of people around the world and how contemporary artists contribute to our understanding of it.

In this timely volume, artists and thinkers join in conversation around the topic of global migration, examining both its cultural impact and the culture of migration itself. Individual voices shed light on the societal transformations related to migration and its representation in 21st-century art, offering diverse points of entry into this massive phenomenon and its many manifestations.

The featured artworks range from painting, sculpture, and photography to installation, video, and sound art, and their makers—including Isaac Julien, Richard Mosse, Reena Saini Kallat, Yinka Shonibare MBE, and Do Ho Suh, among many others—hail from around the world. Texts by experts in political science, Latin American studies, human rights, as well as contemporary art, expand upon the political, economic, and social contexts of migration and its representation. The book also includes three conversations in which artists discuss the complexity of making work about migration.

Amid worldwide tensions surrounding refugee crises and border security, this publication provides a nuanced interpretation of the current cultural moment. Intertwining themes of memory, home, activism, and more, When Home Won’t Let You Stay meditates on how art both shapes and is shaped by the public discourse on migration.

Published in association with the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston.

Exhibition Schedule:

Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston
(October 23, 2019–January 26, 2020)

Minneapolis Institute of Art
(February 22–May 24, 2020)

Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University
(February 5–May 30, 2021)

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780300247480

Publisher: Yale University Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 12 November 2019

Country: United States

Imprint: Yale University Press

Illustration: 134 color illus.

Contributors:

Edited by Eva Respini
Edited by Ruth Erickson

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 222.0mm

Height: 292.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 240

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Arts & Culture Education & Reference Non-Fiction

About the Author

Ruth Erickson is the Mannion Family Curator and Eva Respini is the Barbara Lee Chief Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston.