This chapter explores the generative role of contemporary art in contesting dominant framings of climate change and human mobility. It examines how artists engage with themes of displacement, resistance, and ecological precarity to craft alternative imaginaries that transcend the limitations of policy discourse. Focusing on a diverse range of artistic interventions—from performance and installation to participatory and multispecies practices—the chapter argues that art constitutes a critical space for emotional engagement, epistemic disruption, and political imagination. Through close readings of works by Angela Tiatia, John Akomfrah, Yinka Shonibare, and others, the chapter demonstrates how engaged artistic practices disrupt securitarian and humanitarian tropes by reclaiming agency, resilience, and relationality. Problematizing the politics of victimhood, artistic practices challenge the spatial and temporal logics of Western modernity, reframe migration as adaptation and survival, and amplify Indigenous and subaltern worldviews often erased in global governance frameworks. The chapter situates art not merely as representation but as intervention, capable of reconfiguring public discourse and fostering new solidarities. In doing so, it underscores the potential of art to animate justice-driven responses to climate (im)mobility and inspire cross-sectoral collaboration toward more inclusive planetary futures.

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Creative Perspectives on Climate (Im)Mobilities

  • Elena Giacomelli,
  • Pierluigi Musarò

摘要

This chapter explores the generative role of contemporary art in contesting dominant framings of climate change and human mobility. It examines how artists engage with themes of displacement, resistance, and ecological precarity to craft alternative imaginaries that transcend the limitations of policy discourse. Focusing on a diverse range of artistic interventions—from performance and installation to participatory and multispecies practices—the chapter argues that art constitutes a critical space for emotional engagement, epistemic disruption, and political imagination. Through close readings of works by Angela Tiatia, John Akomfrah, Yinka Shonibare, and others, the chapter demonstrates how engaged artistic practices disrupt securitarian and humanitarian tropes by reclaiming agency, resilience, and relationality. Problematizing the politics of victimhood, artistic practices challenge the spatial and temporal logics of Western modernity, reframe migration as adaptation and survival, and amplify Indigenous and subaltern worldviews often erased in global governance frameworks. The chapter situates art not merely as representation but as intervention, capable of reconfiguring public discourse and fostering new solidarities. In doing so, it underscores the potential of art to animate justice-driven responses to climate (im)mobility and inspire cross-sectoral collaboration toward more inclusive planetary futures.