Action Art / Live Art / Performance Art artists and resources dealing with migration, immigration, emigration, border and nomatic issues.
The issue of borders, migration and the immigration is already a crisis around the world. Wars, dictators, ethnic cleansing / racism are examples of greed and fear with an intense concentration on border. In the US fictional “culture wars” are being invented to fan hatred and a sense of other. Climate change forces us to question borders as a construct – how these imaginary lines dictate who eats and who doesn’t. Artists around the world are questioning borders, exploring nomadic culture, uprising against colonial powers who have taken resources and exploited labor only to disappear and close off when issues appear. Borders are a control mechanism, both internal and external which affect us all.






Performance Art – migrations, borders, immigration, nomadic living, and exile
Actions, Performances, Shows and Artists
- ‘Tania Bruguera and Saskia Sassen: In Conversation’, hosted by Theatrum Mundi and South London Gallery, 18August 2016, London
- Call me by my name: stories from Calais and beyond (Exhibit from 2016)
- Ai Weiwei and Anish Kapoor: The Walk
- Emeka Ogboh: THE WAY EARTHLY THINGS ARE GOING
- Displacement Fuels Questions in Artist Otobong Nkanga’s Performances
- Nqaba, Nobukho: impermanence and migration in performance art
- Willis, Deborah, Migrations and Meaning(s) in Art (exhibit)
Books, Articles, Writings, Museums, and other
Not all of these resources are specific to the topic at hand, but most are part of the tapestry of place and migration that make up these issues.
- Blocker, Jane: Where Is Ana Mendieta: Identity, Performativity and Exile (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1999)
- Boon, Errol: Art and Migration: on cultural internationalisation in the age of displacement
- Calirman, Claudia: Brazilian Performance Art, 1960s to 1980s: An Aesthetics of the Margin
- Cianetti, Alessandra: Performing Borders – A study room guide on physical and conceptual borders within Live Art
- Couillard, Paul and Liva, Alexandra: Alain-Martin Richard: Performances, Manoeuvres and Other Hypotheses for Disappearing (2014)
- Council for European Studies: Forced Migration, Cultural Identity, and Trauma
- Cox, Emma: Performance and Migration
- Ferris, Nick and Du, Mengying: Migration tracker: How many people migrate to Europe and the UK?
- Fusco, Coco: The Other history of Intercultural Performance
- Getnick, Brian and Rubbak, Tanya: Final Transmission: Performance Art and AIDS in Los Angeles
- Gomez-Peña, Guillermo: Ethno Techno
- International Migration Institute: On contemporary art and migration
- Interview with Nathalie Anguezomo Mba Bikoro – pdf
- Jane Franklin Dance co. Migration Project
- Johnson, Caleb and Pratt, Geraldine: Migration in Performance: crossing the colonial present
- Jones, Amelia: Body Art / Performing the Subject
- Jones, Amelia: Pollackian Performative
- Kaprow, Alan: Happenings in the New York Scene
- Kaye, Nick: Site-Specific Art Performance Place Documentation
- AJIYA Kenji: Japanese Art Projects in History
- KuroDalaiJee or Kuroda Raiji: Video Screening of Performance Art in the 1960s Japan
- Krauss, Rosalind: he Originally of the Avant-Garede and Other Moderist Myths, MIT press 1986
- Kwok Kian Chow: Channels and Confluences – A History of Singapore Art, Singapore Art Museum 1996
- Kwon, Miwon: One Place After Another: Notes on Site Specificity Space, Site, Intervention: Situating Installation Art pp38-63 University of Minnesota Press
- Kwon, Miwon: Genealogy of Site-Specificity
- La Ribot, Maria: Art and Performance Live: La Ribot
- Lamarque, Peter, Stein Haugom Olsen: Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art: The Analytic Tradition: and Anthology, Blackwell, 2004
- Lescaze, Zoë: 13 Artists On: Immigration
- Maretti, Franco: Dialectic of Fear, New Left Review 136 (Nov. Dec>) p 67-85 1982
- Martel, Richard ed: Art Action 1958-1998 Quebec 2001
- Mathur, Saloni (ed.) (2011) The Migrant’s Time: Rethinking Art History and Diaspora, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
- McIvor, Charlotte : Migration and Performance in Contemporary Ireland
- Md. Matiul Hoque Masud, Md. Niaz Morshed: Internal Migration of Dubaiwala Families to Suburban Areas in Bangladesh: Exploring Links between Internal and International Migration
- Meerzon, Yana, David Dean, Daniel McNeil: Migration and Stereotypes in Performance and Culture
- Mengesha, Lilian: Indigenous Theater
- Meyer, Mónica: Mujeres y Performance en México
- The Migration Museum
- Miller, Tim: My Queer body
- Miyamoto, Bénédicte, Ruiz, Marie: Artand MIgration: Revisioning the Borders of Community
- Migration and Movement : Artists move around the world, shifting their identities, cultural traditions, and artistic techniques. (MOMA Learning)
- Muñoz, José: Performing Disidentifications
- Mbembe, Achille: On the postcolony, Berkeley, University of California Press, 2001
- Nomad Spirit – Mongolia
- Open Research Amsterdam various resources including:
- Overend, David: Making Routes -A Study Room Guide on Journeys in Live Art by David Overend, 2012
- Paltriwieri, Roberta, PArmiggian, Paola, Musaró, Pierluigi, Moralli, Meissa: Right to the City: performing arts and migration
- performingborders – is a curatorial research-platform that explores the relations between Live Art and notions and lived experiences of intersectional and transnational borders.
- Petrešin-Bachelez, Nataša: Resilient Practices: A Few Case Studies on Performances in Public Spaces and their Controversies in the former Eastern Europe
- Ramirez, Mari Carmen, and Héctor Olea, eds. Inverted Utopias: Avant-Garde Art in Latin America. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2004.
- Sheren, Ila: Performing Migration: Art and Site-Specificity at the U.S.-Mexico Border
- Tate Modern: Migration and Art (a series of resources)
- Wark, Jayne: On the Road Again: Metaphors of Travel in Cultural Criticism in Resident Alien: Feminst Cultural Criticism Cambridge 1995
- Wark, Jayne – Radical Gestures: Feminism and Performance in North America
- Wrights and Sites: A manifesto for a new Walking Culture
- Ziter, Edward: Migration in the theater, film and performance art. Class at NYU< Tisch