ABSTRACT

This chapter explores three critical issues concerning the interplay of travel and art. Firstly, there is the issue of creative nomadism. The case of the Nomadic Village brings to the fore how the human compulsion to produce art leads to the formation of transnational migrant circuits'. Another issue is the association of travel and creativity. The case of the Nomadic Village draws attention to the artistic dimension of tourism itself. In the project, travelling was an object of artistic endeavour as well as a way of looking around, a lens artists use to produce new intensities. The chapter offers insight into the modes in which art is produced in response to mobility and communality. Nomadism here is arguably an act of political subversion, lifestyle and a creative tactic. The Nomadic Village was a temporary community of artists not borne out of an economic necessity, but it is the result of conferring a special creative meaning to travelling.