Local/Global/Translocal

This chapter revisits issues of locational identity and spatial politics touched upon in Chapter 5, and expands its purview to consider aspects of translocality and deterritorialisation in contemporary art practice. It explores diverse discourses on geopolitics, cosmopolitanism, diasporas, frontiers and refugeeism, viewed through the prism of a wide range of art and curatorial practices drawn from many regions of the world. Decolonial methodologies are also revisited, with works and projects by First Nations artists prominent in responses to the imposition of colonial geographies and mappings.