Migration, Mobility and the Making of a Global Europe
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9308288 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tara Zahra (University of Chicago, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 142-154 |
| Publication date | 2021-12-23 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Contemporary European History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0960-7773 • E-ISSN: 1469-2171 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0960777321000758 |
| OpenAlex | W4205986871 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 9 |
In 2017–18, the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei created a special installation addressing the refugee crisis in Prague. ‘Law of the Journey’ consisted of an enormous black inflatable raft, crowded with inflatable rubber people wearing lifejackets. Their human forms were clear, but they lacked faces. The raft hung from the ceiling at an angle, casting a dark shadow over a list of quotations from thinkers and writers, beginning and ending with two locals: Franz Kafka and Václav Havel. A few isolated rubber tubes floated on the concrete floor next to the raft, with rubber humans reaching out to be saved. The exhibit conveyed both the desperation of the migrants and the inadequacy of the response
Art · Ceiling (cloud · Composite material · Inflatable · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Raft · Refugee · Shadow (psychology · Structural engineering · China's Global Influence and Migration · Engineering · French Historical and Cultural Studies · Law · Materials Science · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Psychology · Mechanical Engineering
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |