This panel tries to think art as a travelling homeland, to borrow scholar Daniel Boyarin’s phrase from his recent book “Travelling Homeland: The Babylonian Talmud as Diaspora”. In that, he rejects the common understanding of ‘Diaspora’ as a loss of home. He rather proposes that each attempt to interpret the Talmud constitutes community—beyond the boundaries of time and nation. Invoking this, the panelists especially ask themselves, if and how cross-cultural art practices could be understood as one travelling homeland.
This panel tries to think art as a travelling homeland, to borrow scholar Daniel Boyarin’s phrase from his recent book “Travelling Homeland: The Babylonian Talmud as Diaspora”. In that, he rejects the common understanding of ‘Diaspora’ as a loss of home. He rather proposes that each attempt to interpret the Talmud constitutes community—beyond the boundaries of time and nation. Invoking this, the panelists especially ask themselves, if and how cross-cultural art practices could be understood as one travelling homeland.