ABSTRACT

How are artists collaborating with migrants? Under what conditions? This chapter analyses the phenomenon of collaboration in social practice that has arisen in the last few years amidst intensified border politics. Engaging with interrelated theories of autonomy and labour in critical theory and social practice as well as observations from fieldwork, it argues that projects such as The Silent University (2012–) and Green Light (2016–) operate through a racialised and gendered division of labour which prohibits radical forms of collectivity.