Migrating through the Arts
Migrer par les arts
Rethinking the Worlds of Music and Dance through contemporary (Im)mobility
Repenser les mondes de la musique et de la danse au prisme des (im)mobilités contemporaines
Published on Wednesday, September 26, 2018
Abstract
This conference proposes to provide transversal and transdisciplinary reflections on the various modalities of mobility and migration that are created through the arts, as well as the remaking of the worlds of music and dance in the transnational field. It will question the modalities of movement or of impediments to circulate that are revealed by music and dance’s analysis; the way in which the worlds of art and contemporary creations are shaped by different forms of (im)mobility; and how, in this wake, individuals act on their social environments and on the power relations in which they evolve.
Announcement
Argument
The mobility turn has generated considerable renewals in social sciences since the 1990s. Linked to the thinking about cultural globalization (Appadurai 2001) and transnationalism (Basch, Szanton-Blanc and Glick-Schiller 1994), it has instilled new ways of reflecting about space, social processes, cultural dynamics or relations to politics, considering that an analytical framework centered on movement makes it possible to escape from the use of static categories and to envision the fluidity of processes in the contemporary world (Sheller and Urry 2006; Urry 2007; Cresswell and Merriman 2011; Faulconbridge and Hui 2016). However, different researches tend today to differentiate themselves from this approach focused exclusively on mobility (Ortar, Salzbrunn and Stock, forthcoming): they criticize its concealment of inequalities and of the many flip-sides of these logics of circulation, and shed light on how immobility and impediments to circulate are also part of many life paths (Timéra 2009, Rinaudo 2017). In-depth studies on migration have, in particular, revealed the inequalities and the complex tensions between obstacles and circulations that now influence issues of mobility, citizenship and belongingness in the contemporary world (Roulleau-Berger 2011, Agier 2002, Cuche et al. 2009; Agier 2013; Agier and Lecadet 2014).
In recent years, the field of artistic practices has emerged as an original starting point to question these issues of mobility and immobility, thanks to some pioneering studies. On the one hand, a field of research has highlighted the modes of recognition, of integration and of social requalification developed by migrant people through the arts (Turino and Lea, 2004; Martiniello, Puig, and Suzanne 2009; Gibert 2011; Rastas and Seye 2016; Salzbrunn 2017). On the other hand, various researches have shed light on the way migration – on a translocal and transnational scale – exile and increasing mobility shape "local" art worlds (Despres 2016; Petersen 2017) and on how these mobilities nourish artistic creations themselves (Moulard 2014; Gaulier 2015). Among these researches on art, music and dance have long been recognized as both actors and agents of globalization (Aparicio and Jàquez 2003; Stokes 2004, 2011; Neveu Kringelbach and Skinner 2012; Kiwan and Meinhof 2011a, 2011b; Andrieu and Olivier 2017). Because of their strong circulatory potential, they contribute to the migration of people, ideas, cultural movements and ideologies (Pacini Hernandez 2010; Aterianus-Owanga and Guedj 2014), allowing individuals to resist, remember and develop survival strategies in new contexts (Kaiser 2006; Puig 2006; Bohlman 2007; Bachir-Loopuyt and Damon-Guillot, forthcoming).
This conference proposes to deepen, to document empirically, and to enrich discussions developed about these questions, by providing transversal and transdisciplinary reflections on the various modalities of mobility and migration that are created through the arts, as well as the remaking of the worlds of music and dance in the transnational field. It will question the modalities of movement or of impediments to circulate that are revealed by music and dance’s analysis; the way in which the worlds of art and contemporary creations are shaped by different forms of (im)mobility; and how, in this wake, individuals act on their social environments and on the power relations in which they evolve.
While paying attention to music and dance works created in situations of migration or mobility (Aubert 2005; Damon-Guillot and Lefront 2017), we invite authors to focus on descriptions of the contexts, networks and actors of art worlds (Becker 1988) or musical scenes (Bennett and Peterson 2004) at play. Although we leave open the possibility of drawing parallels with research done on other artistic worlds, this conference will focus specifically on music and dance. In fact, to us it seems relevant to question these two fields which are interconnected, that have led to the creation of their own markets and industries, while taking into account their irreducibility and their own ways of circulation (Apprill 2015). This colloquium can also accommodate case studies from geographical, historical, anthropological, sociological ethnomusicological or ethnoscenological approaches, as well as transversal theoretical syntheses. Proposals taking into account artistic mobility in the long term will be welcome. Similarly, rather than considering globalization as a sudden break with "local" and "traditions", we call to conceive the long processes’ history of contact, exchange and interpenetration which are at the heart of the production and of the dynamics of culture (Clifford 1997; Assayag 1998; Amselle 2001, 2009). Approaches in terms of transnationalism (Basch, Schiller, and Szanton Blanc 1994; Capone 2004; Argyriadis et al. 2012; Dahinden 2017) will allow to take into account the contemporary specificities of mobility in music and dance worlds while deconstructing the local / global dichotomy which has long characterized studies of migration and globalization (Kearney 1995; Trémon 2012). We outline several topics to guide contributors in the design of their proposals:
Topics
- Diversity of artistic (im)mobilities
- Gender and migration in the arts
- Artistic professional trajectories in migration
- Performing imaginations and memories of migration
- Art worlds: interconnected scales
More information can be foung in the call for proposals.
Key notes
- Hélène Neveu Kringelbach (UCL)
- Martin Stokes (King’s College London)
Submission guidelines
Abstracts of 3000 characters maximum are to be sent to the conference e-mail address (migrart@unil.ch)
before 19th October,
accompanied by a bio-bibliographic notice of 200 words maximum. Proposals for contributions will describe precisely the data mobilized for the analysis, the methodological and theoretical approaches favored, as well as the main axes of the author's demonstration.The languages of the conference will be French and English. Contributors will be asked to provide translations of their PowerPoint in the language other than the one used in their presentation.
Organization Comity (to complete)
- Alice Aterianus-Owanga (ISSR-UNIL)
- Armelle Gaulier (LAM-Science Po Bordeaux)
- Joanna Menet (NCCR on the move-UNINE)
- Cécile Navarro (ISSR-UNIL)
- Ana Rodriguez Quinones (ISSR-UNIL)
- Monika Salzbrunn (ISSR-UNIL)
Scientific Comity
- Sarah Andrieu (IMAF - Nice Sophia Antipolis)
- Talia Bachir Loopuyt (ICD - Tours)
- Marie-Pierre Gibert (CREA - Lyon II)
- Stéphanie Khoury (Tufts Music)
- Mahalia Lassibille (URMIS - Paris 8)
- Sara Le Menestrel (CENA - EHESS)
- Marc Perrenoud (ISS - UNIL)
- Nicolas Puig (IRD - Paris Diderot)
- Christian Rinaudo (URMIS - Nice Sophia Antipolis)
- Pierre Emmanuel Sorignet (ISS - UNIL)
- Monika Salzbrunn (ISSR - UNIL)
- Jonathan Skinner (DLS - Roehampton University)
- Britta Sweers (CGS - UNIBE)
Partner institutions
- Institut des sciences sociales des religions (University of Lausanne).
- NCCR on the move (University of Neuchâtel)
- Laboratoire "Les Afriques dans le Monde" (Sciences-Po Bordeaux)
- Plateforme Genre (University of Lausanne)
- Swiss National Science Foundation
Subjects
- Sociology (Main category)
- Society > Sociology > Sociology of work
- Society > Geography > Migration, immigration, minorities
- Mind and language > Representation > Cultural history
- Society > Sociology > Gender studies
- Mind and language > Representation > History of art
- Mind and language > Representation > Cultural identities
- Society > Sociology > Sociology of culture
Places
- Faculté des sciences sociales et politiques, Bâtiment Géopolis - Université de Lausanne
Lausanne, Switzerland (1015)
Date(s)
- Friday, October 19, 2018
Attached files
Keywords
- art, mobilité, migration, musique, danse
Information source
- Cécile Navarro
courriel : cecile [dot] navarro [at] hevs [dot] ch
License
This announcement is licensed under the terms of Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal.
To cite this announcement
« Migrating through the Arts », Call for papers, Calenda, Published on Wednesday, September 26, 2018, https://doi.org/10.58079/10w6
