Version en français ci-dessous.
The publication ‘Intersecting Temporalities: At-Risk and Displaced Artists in Transition (Volume 1 Scoping Review)’, written by Rana Yazaji, is the first of four publications from On the Move’s research and action project, which focuses on the situation of at-risk and displaced artists. This inaugural publication marks the beginning of a comprehensive and multi-faceted exploration into the challenges and opportunities faced by arts workers who have been compelled to leave their homes due to various forms of adversity.
The overarching aim of this year-long research and action project is to identify policies and practices in EU countries, the United Kingdom and the United States of America, that support the active inclusion of displaced artists and culture professionals. This comprehensive review will map out existing support schemes, success factors, and gaps, enabling support organisations and institutions to better monitor their programmes, share innovative responses, and update policies and programmes as needed. The ultimate objective is to propose operational instruments that specifically address the active inclusion and long-term support of displaced arts professionals.
On the Move, following an initial proposal by Dr Mary Ann DeVlieg and in line with their extensive work in this area notably through its working group on (en)forced mobility, has embarked on a year-long research-action process. This process, followed by an Advisory Committee, will be articulated around four main publications, the first of which is this present volume.
This first publication is conceived as a scoping review of existing literature on the topic, eg. project reports, testimonies, guides, and toolkits that include as well the collection of many at-risk art-workers’ voices and recommendations.
Key take-aways of this Scoping Review include the following points:
- There is a growing emphasis on learning and collaboration between the artistic field, human rights defenders, and media professionals. Recognising at-risk artists as human rights defenders could grant them access to broader support frameworks.
- While emergency interventions such as residencies and visas are critical, long-term holistic approaches, including social and financial integration, are necessary to support displaced artists beyond their initial relocation.
- Artists face growing restrictions both in physical spaces and online, with corporate policies and government regulations affecting artistic expression worldwide and the rise of digital censorship is a significant concern.
Recommendations are articulated around policy developments (such as a common EU asylum policy and synergies with the national approaches of the relocation of artists and culture professionals), structural and institutional shifts, legal and funding shifts (such as the necessity to promote long-term and institutional, rather than project-based funding), monitoring, data, documentation and knowledge (in order, for instance, to better understand the personal and human stories of artists, scholars, and other professionals who are in exile or have experienced displacement), and operational shifts (including the need to strengthen networks and coalitions among diverse artist communities to foster a collaborative approach as a high-potential space).
The year-long research project is co-funded by the European Union, part of On the Move’s multiannual programme ‘New Solidarities’. The first volume is supported by the French Ministry of Culture.
Cette publication, À l’intersection des temporalités : Artistes en danger et exilé·es face aux transitions, est la première d’une série de quatre, dans le cadre d’un projet de recherche, coordonné par On the Move sur situation des artistes et professionnel·les de la culture en danger et exilé·es.
L’objectif principal de ce projet de recherche est d’identifier les politiques et les pratiques dans les pays de l’Union européenne, au Royaume- Uni et aux États-Unis qui soutiennent l’inclusion active des artistes et des professionnel·les de la culture exilé·es. Cet examen approfondi mettra en évidence les programmes de soutien existants, les facteurs de réussite et les lacunes, ce qui permettra aux organisations et institutions de soutien de mieux contrôler leurs programmes, de partager des réponses innovantes et d’actualiser les politiques et les programmes en fonction des besoins. Notre objectif final est de proposer des instruments opérationnels qui traitent spécifiquement de l’inclusion active et du soutien à long terme des professionnel·les de l’art exilé·es.
La traduction en français de ce rapport est soutenue par le ministère de la Culture.
