This article built on the co-author's previous AHRC-funded research 'Tate Encounters' and linked the findings to the issues of the Mela research project in terms of arguing how the exhaustion of representational practices was limiting the impact of cultural diversity policy. It argued instead for a greater understanding of how transmigration and transculturalism is producing a new form of transvisuality that curatorial practice and museological research needs to understand in order to develop new diverse audiences.