Thinking about ‘transcultural capital’ and ‘transnational artistic practices’ of migrant Portuguese visual artists

Leandro Gabriel
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Leandro Gabriel: Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, University of Lisbon, Portugal

Border Crossing, 2017, vol. 7, issue 2, 287-304

Abstract: This article is inspired by the idea of a transnational art world focused on migrants and the visual arts and it delivers a preliminary theoretical discussion. The article discusses the notion of ‘transcultural capital’ as a perspective within the study of contemporary migrations of artist. It also looks at the concept of ‘cultural scenes’ as places of significant cultural and artistic activities and amenities. Linked to these are ‘transnational artistic practices’ and the production of translocal geographies drawn by an overlap of the migratory destinations of artists and networks of places of creation, production and artistic dissemination which enhance different art markets. This article discusses the ways in which these different theories can contribute to our understanding of the mobility of cultural professionals and, in particular, of the emigration of Portuguese visual artists.

Keywords: Transcultural capital; translocal geographies; transnational artistic practices; cultural scenes; visual artists (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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