Exhibiting Solidarity Work

Temporary Displays and Their Potential To Trouble and Push Museums Representing European Mobilities

Bibliographic Data

ID7934569
AuthorsKerstin Poehls (Universität Hamburg, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume10
Issue4
Pages57-73
Publication date2020-11-26
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueNordic Journal of Migration Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1799-649X • E-ISSN: 1799-649X
PublisherHelsinki University Press (PUBLISHER • FI)
DOI10.33134/njmr.359
OpenAlexW3110542593
LanguageEN
References cited14

Temporary exhibitions are excellent points of departure for looking at the ‘troubling’ effects that refugee realities, migration, and mobility practices have on European museums. Based on an analysis of the narrative strategies of four travelling exhibitions Lichtblick, Yallah?!, Flight for life, and The Museum without a home, the focus of this contribution is on representations of migration and solidarity work since the 2015 ‘summer of migration’. The article analyses the displays themselves and the venues, the places, and the spaces that are represented through them, and the ways in which the exhibitions relate to solidarity work. It is the aim of this article to sound these exhibitions’ potential to trouble and also to inspire museums in their work towards representing flight and mobility, as well as refugees and solidarity workers and the manifold ways in which they are part of today’s European realities

Aesthetics · Art · Exhibition · Media studies · Mobilities · Narrative · Political science · Refugee · Social science · Sociology · Solidarity · Visual arts · Engineering · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Museums and Cultural Heritage

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