Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Check-In: A Prelude xiii
5. Charting a Course: Exile, Diaspora, Nomads, Refugees: A Genealogy of Art and Migration 1
6. Departure A. Moving Images of Globalization
7. Introduction 21
8. 1. Indeterminacy and Bare Life in Steve McQueen’s Western Deep 33
9. 2. “Sabotaging the Future”: The Essay Films of the Otolith Group 54
10. 3. Hito Steyerl’s Traveling Images 74
11. Transit: Politicizing Aesthetics 90
12. Departure B. Life Full of Holes
13. Introduction 95
14. 4. The Art of Emily Jacir: Dislocation and Politicization 103
15. 5. Recognizing the Unrecognized: The Photographs of Ahlam Shibli 124
16. 6. The Right to Opacity: On the Otolith Group’s Nervus Rerum 144
17. Transit: Going Offshore 160
18. Departure C. Zones of Conflict
19. Introduction 169
20. 7. Out of Beirut: Mobile Histories and the Politics of Fiction 177
21. 8. Video’s Migrant Geography: Ursula Biemann’s Sahara Chronicle 201
22. 9. Means without End: Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri’s Camp Campaign 221
23. Destination: The Politics of Aesthetics during Global Crisis 245
24. Acknowledgments 251
25. Notes 255
26. Bibliography 305
27. Index 323