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All in the same boat : migratory passages in contemporary sculpture / contributions by Dr Clare O'Dowd, Dr Heather Diack and Issam Kourbaj.

By: Contributor(s): Series: Henry Moore Institute essays on sculpturePublication details: Leeds : Henry Moore Foundation, 2024.Description: 36 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781905462650
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Contents:
Foreword / Laurence Sillars
Introduction / Clare O'Dowd
All in the same boat: Migratory passages in contemporary sculpture / Heather Diack
Issam Kourbak / in conversation with Clare O'Dowd
Summary: on boats, as unstable vessels and perilous objects. These works flow into a ‘migratory turn’ in contemporary art, joining a flood of artworks that evoke mass human migration as both subject matter and approach. Despite the complex ethical-political stakes of the subject, the aesthetic dimension of the work of art often overrides the poignancy of empathetic engagement and political mobilisation. In this issue, Dr Heather Diack analyses artworks that challenge geopolitical disparities in the present, looking specifically at sculptural installations that stage issues of displacement, dispossession, and salvage using the boat as central device, and artist Issam Kourbaj discusses the motif of the boat in his recent work.
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Includes bibliographical references (page 31).

Foreword / Laurence Sillars

Introduction / Clare O'Dowd

All in the same boat: Migratory passages in contemporary sculpture / Heather Diack

Issam Kourbak / in conversation with Clare O'Dowd

on boats, as unstable vessels and perilous objects. These works flow into a ‘migratory turn’ in contemporary art, joining a flood of artworks that evoke mass human migration as both subject matter and approach. Despite the complex ethical-political stakes of the subject, the aesthetic dimension of the work of art often overrides the poignancy of empathetic engagement and political mobilisation. In this issue, Dr Heather Diack analyses artworks that challenge geopolitical disparities in the present, looking specifically at sculptural installations that stage issues of displacement, dispossession, and salvage using the boat as central device, and artist Issam Kourbaj discusses the motif of the boat in his recent work.