Monika Mokre Libros

Austria has repeatedly been a destination for refugees who were received as persecuted individuals and rejected as "aliens". The iconographies of flight changed as a function of the respective point of view. Changing identities of an individual, their masks, and the mental bridges between "here" and "back there" become the subject of artistic creation: memories, phantasms, traces and documents. The exhibition presents works by artists, most of them living in Austria, who explore the issues of fleeing, migration and prejudice, who process their own experience of flight in different ways or refuse to accept it as a label of identification.

In/Visibility is unequally distributed in society and closely related to the distribution of power and privilege. Using images and narratives to mobilize is part of political strategies. The relationship of in/visibility and migration is the guiding question for this edited volume. The chapters discuss multidisciplinary perspectives and factors that contribute to the visibility of forced migration beyond a policy-centered discourse. They focus on the voices and agency of refugees in different countries and contexts. By including research, practical experiences and artistic methods, the volume will be of interest to readers from different academic disciplines and the arts as well as to practitioners.