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The paper aims to focus on artistic interventions who reflect different histories of migrant mobility. It examines how material relics of routes and itineraries, the embodied experience of lost and new places of living and of displacement are meaningful to the artistic processes exposing a process-based materiality. The framework of body and its immediate aspect of motion is put into focus, as a form of translation and subversive transformation, which the body undergoes as a performative, affective and discursive entity. The body adopts position in a double sense by moving and being resistant to the conditions. As nomadic neo-materialst subject (Braidotti) in motion it is understood as autopoietic, interactive, mediated. The discussed examples show different approaches of the access to archives who document such movements where these individual histories come alive. The female artist's research is documented by interviews and the materiality of their alternative, individual cartographies.

Keywords: Boder crossings ; Bouchra Khalili ; Cartographies of exile ; Change (Brian Massumi) ; Counter narratives ; embedded and embodied ; Herstories ; Itineraries and Routes ; Microperspectives ; Monira Al Solh ; Movement ; New Materialism ; Nil Yalter ; Nomadic feminism ; Nomadic mobility ; Nomadic subject ; Notation and Narration ; Performativity ; Posthumanity ; Sensation ; vital and neo-materialst (Rosi Braidotti)

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Displaced Migrant Mobility: On Reappropriating Spaces Through Embodied Materiality
Intellect , 198 (2024); https://doi.org/10.1386/9781789389616_14
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