Description
This paper explores the politics of seeing from the SEE region by focusing on the 14th edition of the Nomadic Art Biennial Manifesta taking place in Kosovo in 2022. The Manifesta exhibition illustrates the visual strategies of critique and the negotiation of meaning of diasporic art over the course of a 100 days period. Secondly, the paper seeks to combine insights from the visuality in IR perspective with a particular understanding of place and space offered by translocal understandings of practice. The Manifesta exhibition demonstrates both the translocal interlinkages that constitute the encounters between local and global perspectives as well as the practices through which local actors emplace the exhibition to the specific context in Kosovo and thereby make it their own. In this sense, the paper delves into the process of making space and being made by space as part of translocal encounters in visual representations.
