Books & Catalogues including Susan Stockwell's work
Crossings a book that gathers activists, artists, poets, scholars and migrants including those who traverse these identities - to explore what migration means for knowledge, and how migrant knowledges find expressive forms. As the authors think about physical and imaginative crossings, the book itself traverses critical and creative interventions. Crucially, it brings voices emerging out of the experience of displacement in dialogue with those who encounter and respond to it. Its discussions of migrant knowledge and migrant aesthetics connect the historical with the contemporary, and the local with the global. Collectively, the book stakes the claim that creative art, in collaboration with humanities-based thinking, can meet the imaginative and ethical demands that the reality of mass dislocation makes on us, in a way that governments, institutions and public discourse have calamitously failed to do. But aesthetic practice itself needs to be re-positioned if it is to be attuned to the matter of migration. Crossings offers 'migrant forms' - art about migration, objects from migrant life shaped into artefacts, and migrant self-expressions - as the means of this imaginative re-orientation. It takes its place in an emergent ecology of migrant forms, even as it speaks to it. Given the global debate on migration today, the book is more timely than ever.
Art, Society and Power, Edited by Shailendra Bhandare, Ashmolian Museum Oxford, 2024
Chapter by Daan van Dartel. Published by W. Modest & W. Flores Lannoo 2024
Yale University Press. 2021. Tracing the currents of change that unite the visual and material culture of the Islamic world across space and time. The seas have long served as both connective tissue for and barriers between intellectual, social, and artistic traditions. Nowhere is this dual role more evident than within the visual and material cultures of the Islamic world. This remarkable new book brings together an international group of scholars and curators whose contributions address seafaring mobility’s profound effect on Islamic art. Their case studies range across the globe and span a period from Islam’s 1st century to today. Contributors examine the roles of importation and migration, travel, diplomacy, and gift giving in driving artistic innovation and changing the social, political, and religious institutions of an increasingly diverse Islamic world. Taken together, these chapters embody a distinctive big-picture approach, pulling an exceptional diversity of voices and topics into productive dialogue. Radha Dalal is assistant professor and Jochen Sokoly is associate professor of Islamic art and architecture in the Department of Art History at Virginia Commonwealth University’s School of the Arts, Qatar. Sean Roberts is lecturer in the School of Art at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. See Chapter 15, The Sea is The Limit We Need to Talk About Migration by Varvara Shavrova (p.272-293)
Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam 2021
Aurora Metro & Supernova Books 2020
