Migration And Identity Representations In Contemporary Art Practices

Authors : Ebru Dede

Pages : 160-174

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Publication Date : 2024-06-20

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :Migration is one of the prominent themes of contemporary art, as well as one of the most common research topics in the field of social sciences that deals with social problems. The aim of this article is to ensure that both immigrants and local people understand how migration affects human identity, to show that contemporary art as an interdisciplinary study can benefit this issue, and to discuss aesthetic expectations for contemporary art. Nowadays, interdisciplinary studies have become quite common. Art, like other fields, includes practices that can provide a common working area with many disciplines. Social sciences are one of the primary areas in which art cooperates. Interdisciplinary studies between the fields of arts and social sciences mostly concern cultural issues. In the changing socio-political environment, people benefit from various channels through which they can express themselves individually. The research has been designed with a scanning model and interpreted based on data from the relevant social sciences according to the themes of contemporary art examples. The findings obtained in the research are discussed in five sections. In the first section titled ‘Representations of Identity In Contemporary Art’, it is aimed to provide a basis for the research before moving on to the effect of immigration on identity by briefly summarizing that the theme of identity has been the focus of attention of contemporary artists in various aspects in recent years. This section also includes aesthetic discussions of contemporary art. Contemporary art examples related to the theme of migration are divided into four sections. In this context, it is limited to the individual effects of migration such as lack of belonging, alienation, and identity uncertainty, and the universal effects defined by globalization. The study reveals how contemporary artists produce works that can explain social problems with more creative solutions, using different techniques and interdisciplinary application methods, and thus make the phenomenon of migration, which is the subject of research in various disciplines of social sciences and one of today\'s important problems, better and more understandable, although artistic solutions that differ from the expectations of art lovers cause aesthetic debates.
Keywords : çağdaş sanat, disiplinler arası sanat, küreselleşme, göç, kimlik