Inhabiting Migration

Abstract

The purpose is to analyses architectural constructions as emotional ones, within actual migration phenomenon. My research is based on various artists' videos; they can be migrant or not. Their works emphasize the political and historical importance of migration. We can consider HOME as a mirror of problems born from growing population movements; it can be seen as a rich anthropological matter. Here, home reveals an unconscious process of integration and survival from the migrant, who, this way, try to get an identity in a foreign country. In this way, we will analyze Tomas Ochoa, Gautama Kansara, Zineb Sedira and Clemencia Echeverri's works. Further than migrant's relationship to home, it can be seen as a structure for people identities. Holderlin's verses, and Doug Aitken's Migrations invite us to imagine what living in a place with poetry means. Migrations not only imply a home change, but also customs and values one; they deal with a modified sociability, in a space created for bringing them to civilization.