Alex Rotas
Biographic Data
| ID | 1209608 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alex Rotas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alex |
| FAMILY NAME | Rotas |
| SIGNATURE | ROTAS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bristol, U.K. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
From ‘Asylum-Seeker’ to ‘British Artist’
This essay takes a case-study approach to examine how culture may be transferred from immigrant cultures to a so-called host culture. Considering the work of three visual artists who came to the UK as refugees but who are now considered ‘British artists’, it examines the effect this curatorial definition may have on gallery viewers. The author proposes that looking at work that previously might have been viewed as ‘exotic’ or ‘foreign’ but that i…
New Labels, But It’s Still Labelling — Ibrahim El-Salahi and Mohamed Bushara as ‘Asylum Artists’ in the UK
Migratory Settings
Migratory Settings proposes a shift in perspective from migration as movement from place to place to migration as installing movement within place. Migration not only takes place between places, but also has its effects on place, in place. In brief, we suggest a view on migration in which place is neither reified nor transcended, but ‘thickened’ as it becomes the setting of the variegated memories, imaginations, dreams, fantasies, nightmares, ant…
Empathic Vision
April 01 2006 Empathic Vision: Affect, Trauma, and Contemporary Art Alex Rotas Alex Rotas Bristol, U.K. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Alex Rotas Bristol, U.K. Email: [email protected] Online Issn: 1530-9282 Print Issn: 0024-094X © 2006 Massachusetts Institute of Technology2006 Leonardo (2006) 39 (2): 165–166. https://doi.org/10.1162/le…
Is ‘Refugee Art’ Possible
You know, if one person, just one person does it they may think he's really sick and they won't take him. And if two people, two people do it, in harmony, they may think they're both faggots and they won't take either of them. And three people do it, three, can you imagine, three people walking in singin a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walking out. They may think it's an organization. And can you, can you imagine fifty people a day, I said fifty …
Is ‘Refugee Art’ Possible
You know, if one person, just one person does it they may think he's really sick and they won't take him. And if two people, two people do it, in harmony, they may think they're both faggots and they won't take either of them. And three people do it, three, can you imagine, three people walking in singin a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walking out. They may think it's an organization. And can you, can you imagine fifty people a day, I said fifty …
From ‘Asylum-Seeker’ to ‘British Artist’
This essay takes a case-study approach to examine how culture may be transferred from immigrant cultures to a so-called host culture. Considering the work of three visual artists who came to the UK as refugees but who are now considered ‘British artists’, it examines the effect this curatorial definition may have on gallery viewers. The author proposes that looking at work that previously might have been viewed as ‘exotic’ or ‘foreign’ but that i…
Migratory Settings
Migratory Settings proposes a shift in perspective from migration as movement from place to place to migration as installing movement within place. Migration not only takes place between places, but also has its effects on place, in place. In brief, we suggest a view on migration in which place is neither reified nor transcended, but ‘thickened’ as it becomes the setting of the variegated memories, imaginations, dreams, fantasies, nightmares, ant…
Is ‘Refugee Art’ Possible
You know, if one person, just one person does it they may think he's really sick and they won't take him. And if two people, two people do it, in harmony, they may think they're both faggots and they won't take either of them. And three people do it, three, can you imagine, three people walking in singin a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walking out. They may think it's an organization. And can you, can you imagine fifty people a day, I said fifty …
Empathic Vision
April 01 2006 Empathic Vision: Affect, Trauma, and Contemporary Art Alex Rotas Alex Rotas Bristol, U.K. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Alex Rotas Bristol, U.K. Email: [email protected] Online Issn: 1530-9282 Print Issn: 0024-094X © 2006 Massachusetts Institute of Technology2006 Leonardo (2006) 39 (2): 165–166. https://doi.org/10.1162/le…
Migratory Settings
Migratory Settings proposes a shift in perspective from migration as movement from place to place to migration as installing movement within place. Migration not only takes place between places, but also has its effects on place, in place. In brief, we suggest a view on migration in which place is neither reified nor transcended, but ‘thickened’ as it becomes the setting of the variegated memories, imaginations, dreams, fantasies, nightmares, ant…
New Labels, But It’s Still Labelling — Ibrahim El-Salahi and Mohamed Bushara as ‘Asylum Artists’ in the UK
From ‘Asylum-Seeker’ to ‘British Artist’
This essay takes a case-study approach to examine how culture may be transferred from immigrant cultures to a so-called host culture. Considering the work of three visual artists who came to the UK as refugees but who are now considered ‘British artists’, it examines the effect this curatorial definition may have on gallery viewers. The author proposes that looking at work that previously might have been viewed as ‘exotic’ or ‘foreign’ but that i…
Art (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Refugee (3 works) · Visual arts (3 works) · Art history (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · History (2 works)