Right to the City, Performing Arts and Migration

Through which imaginary and expressive universes, can arts challenge the narrative concerning migration? How can urban spaces be transformed by cultural and collective projects?

The book Right to the City, Performing Art and Migration (FrancoAngeli 2020) is a journey across the artistic projects on the subject of migration but also an in-depth look on the archaeology of knowledge issued from the collaboration of worlds, disciplines, research and curatorial projects.

The meeting is an opportunity to reflect on the ways in which artistic practices can create places for resistance, forms of subversion and anti-hegemonic debates on migrations. Authors will present studies, methodologies and artistic experiences which will reveal how the performing arts are like peculiar spaces allowing to practice participation and to experience new forms of cultural citizenship in contemporary cities.

This book is the result of a three-year-work in partnership between universities, research centres, theatres, local communities and cultural centres across Italy, France, Albania, Sweden, Greece, Belgium and Poland, coordinated by the Department of Sociology and Economic Law of the University of Bologna, promoted in the framework of “Atlas of Transitions. New Geographies for a Cross-Cultural Europe”.