Playing in the Camps: Performative Practices in the Migrant Camps of Southern Italy

The article addresses the role of performative practices in informal camps and shantytowns southern Italy, where many sub-Saharan migrants live. In these settlements, creation expressions take various forms: an organic unplanned one, which gives shape to multiple improvised languages; one supported, sustained, often directed managed by associations; finally, produced non-migrant artists who see as a challenging field research situate their works. These three forms (of/with/on) bring several critical issues concerning played migrants, dynamics appropriation agency, power relations with local associations, professional artists, political activists, intersect complex ways. different artistic experiences, considering strategies self-representation, legitimacy, authorship. Finally, it analyses how become primary tool for facing spatial segregation racial discrimination.