EXPERIMENTAL APPROACHES TO THE CONCEPT OF MIGRATION FROM DIFFERENT DISCIPLINES (original) (raw)

2022, EGE 6TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOCIAL SCIENCES

The concept of migration, becoming more critical daily in the world, is examined and discussed from many aspects, primarily social, economic, and cultural situations. Generally, we can define migration as the movement of people and cultures. The decision to migrate is taken voluntarily and out of necessity for many different reasons, such as religious freedom, the search for economic security, the desire for qualified education, or escaping from the war. Migration is the story of who we are and how we got here. Apart from its mass dimension, this research aims to reveal our personal view of our migration journey and how we transfer it to the artistic platform. It is structured according to a qualitative research design. The research was carried out in the Spring Semester of the 2021-2022 Academic Year, with the participation of 6 students who took the Project: Design course in the graduate program of the Art and Design Department of the Social Sciences Institute of Izmir Democracy University. Data; The opinions reflected in the semi-structured interview forms prepared by the researcher via Google Form were obtained from the project process files, and project manifests, and artistic works. The data were analyzed and presented using the thematic analysis method through the qualitative data analysis program NVivo. Finally, the students' creative projects were evaluated through the created rubric form. At the end of the research, students from different disciplines such as painting, textile design, graphic design, and cinema transformed their relations with migration into artistic products with today's creative expression forms. Six different and original migration stories were revealed, together with the experimental expression possibilities in understanding contemporary art. Keywords: Contemporary art, migration, experimental approach.