Gabriel, Leandro2018-01-312018-01-312017-06http://hdl.handle.net/10451/31290Project ÁGORA - Encontros entre a cidade e as artes: Explorando novas urbanidades (PTDC/ATPGEO/3208/2014) Increased mobility and the emergence of new international migration flows have contributed to a redesign of the social and cultural geography of the art world. For many artists, moving, residing and working outside their origin is increasingly an option of life and an integral part of their work. Among other reasons, this migration is also due to the ability that some cities in the world – and their cultural scenes – have to stimulate and attract young artists, fueling complex migratory webs between events, cultural institutions and art schools, thus constituting one of the most polarized sociocultural networks of the global migratory system. Moreover, transnational artists tend to develop active forms of participation in economic, political, civic and cultural processes simultaneously in their places of origin and destination, boosting the symbolic dimensions of their artistic ability to emotionally connect different individuals to different places. Hence, from the idea of artist mobility and the ramifications it has on the concept of migration, this paper on a PhD research intends to deepen the relations between the visual arts world and the emigration of Portuguese artists and the way they mobilize, interconnect and reinforce their transcultural capital – term adapted from Bourdieu’s work as a combination and shared interdependence of social, cultural and economic forms of capital – which represent a whole series of interlinking crucial features in our migrant artists. This is based in the strategic use of knowledge, skills and networks imbricated in Portugal and in Portuguese culture which are activated at their new places of residence. Therefore, it is questioned about why artists move and what they seek in this mobility; on the configuration of the geographical routes of this international mobility and migratory trajectories; on the motives, conditions and circumstances that define the emigration destination; as well as the importance of transcultural capital both in encouraging their departure from Portugal and in their adjustment in the new host society.engVisual artsArtistsTranscultural capitalMigrationconference object