"'Overlapping Territories, Intertwined Histories' in Postcolonial Art"

Abstract: This paper is inspired by the complicated cartographies and the unstable maps of the contemporary world. Following Edward Said’s concern for the ‘geographical inquiry’ that also involves ideas and images, this essay reflects firstly on the critical value of visuality as a space where meanings are created and contested, and then plunges into a more specific exploration of the territories of art. In particular, emerging from a postcolonial horizon of migration and hybridity, the artworks that will fuel the investigation propose a map of multiple crossings and contribute to the imagination of alternative archives. DOI:- Bibliography: Appadurai, Arjun. 2003. Archive and Aspiration. Joke Brouwer & Arjen Mulder ed. Information is Alive. Art and Theory on Archiving and Retrieving Data . Rotterdam: NAI Publishers,14–25. Benjamin, Walter. 1955. Schriften . Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag. Bruno, Giuliana. 2002. Atlas of Emotion. Journeys in Art, Architecture, and Film . London-New York: Verso. Chambers, Iain. 2008. Mediterranean Crossings. The Politics of an Interrupted Modernity . Durham: Duke University Press. Chambers, Iain. 2012. The Museum of Migrating Modernities. Ferrara Beatrice ed. Cultural Memory, Migrating Modernities and Museum Practices . Milano: Politecnico di Milano, 13–32. De Oliveira, Nicholas, Nicola Oxley & Michael Petry. 2003. Installation Art in the New Millennium. The Empire of the Senses . London: Thames & Hudson. Doy, Gen. 2000. Black Visual Culture. Modernity and Postmodernity . London- New York: I. B. Tauris. Durham, Meenakshi Gigi & Douglas Kellner ed. 2006. Media and Cultural Studies. KeyWorks . Malden, MA, Oxford: Blackwell. Fanon, Frantz, 1986. Black Skin, White Masks . New York: Grove Press. Gilroy, Paul. 1993. The Black Atlantic. Modernity and Double Consciousness . London: Verso. Golden, Thelma. 2009. Thelma Golden: How art gives shape to cultural change. (accessed on 15 July 2013). Gramsci, Antonio. 1997. Le opere . Roma: Editori Riuniti. Grosz, Elizabeth. 2008. Chaos, Territory, Art. Deleuze and the Framing of the Earth . New York: Columbia UniversityPress. Hall, Stuart. 1996. When Was ‘the Post–colonial’? Thinking at the Limit. Iain Chambers & Lidia Curti ed. The Postcolonial Question. Common Skies, Divided Horizons . London-New York: Routledge, 242–260. Hall, Stuart ed. 1997. Representation. Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices . London: Sage & Open University. Hall, Stuart. 2012. Avtar Brah’s Cartographies. Moment, Method, Meaning. Feminist Review , 100: 27–38. Hall, Stuart & Jessica Evans ed. 1999. Visual Culture. The Reader . London: Sage Publications. Kontturi, Katve–Kaisa & Milla Tiainen. 2007. Feminism, Art, Deleuze, and Darwin: An Interview with Elizabeth Grosz. Nora , Nordic Journal of Women's Studies , 15, 4: 246–256. Loomba, Ania. 1998. Colonialism/Postcolonialism . London-New York: Routledge. Mbembe, Achille. 2008. What is Postcolonial Thinking? Eurozine , translated by John       Fletcher.             (accessed on 12 July2013). Mbembe, Achille. 2011. Provincializing France? Public Culture (translated by Janet Roitman) 23, 1: 85–119. Mirzoeff, Nicholas. 1999. An Introduction to Visual Culture . London-New York: Routledge. Rogoff, Irit. 2000. Terra Infirma. Geography’s Visual Culture . London-New York: Routledge. Said, Edward W. 1994. Culture and Imperialism . London: Vintage. Tally, Robert T. 2013. Spatiality . London-New York: Routledge. Taubman,             Lara.        2005.        True      North:       Interview         with       Isaac         Julien.        (accessed on 11 July2013). Trinh, Minh–ha T. 2005. The Digital Film Event . New York-London: Routledge. Verges, Francoise. 2005. Francoise Verges en compagnie d’Isaac Julien. Van Assche Christine ed. Isaac Julien . Paris: Centre Pompidou, 20–58.