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As we start to access the issues laying ahead, one thing is for sure: all of performingborders' work and efforts are to support and nurture our communities, our - [performingborders | LIVE 2019](https://performingborders.live/performingborders-live-2019/) - performingborders and Foreign Actions Productions present performingborders | LIVE From February until late June 2019, we present a programme of events that bring outside of the online realm urgent conversations and extraordinary artistic practices happening within the UK experimental live art sector around notions of cultural, juridical, racial, gendered, class, physical, and everyday borders. Curated ## Pages - [Homepage](https://performingborders.live/) - [performingbordersLIVE23 Programme & Documentation](https://performingborders.live/performingborderslive23/performingborderslive23-programme-documentation/) - After three years of digital-only transnational collaborations, performingborders created performingbordersLIVE: Our Bodies in the Commons, a hybrid in person and digital day event at Battersea Arts Centre (London) exploring movement, sharing, and conversation, to re-centre our bodies in the explorations of borders, live art, community, and resistance. In Our Bodies in the Commons, performingborders created - [Non-Conforming Criticisms Lab: Open Call](https://performingborders.live/non-conforming-criticisms-lab-open-call-for-participants/) - Lab Dates: November 2025- Jan 2026Location: Online (open to participants worldwide), FREELanguages: English-led, multilingual participation welcomeDeadline to apply: 17 October 2025, 12 AM GMT Access: Human generated live captioning available on request Are you an artist, writer, or practitioner? Are you interested in experimental writing and thinking in response to performance? Are you curious about - [queeringborders | Xavier de Sousa](https://performingborders.live/interviewees-3/queeringborders-series-xavier-de-sousa/) - From February 2018 to October 2019 Xavier de Sousa presented queeringborders. An interview series that focuses on contemporary queer artists who have migrated to new contexts and whose work is directly influenced by that experience. 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Drawing from the knowledge shared by the contributors of the platform, performingborders has over the years created a digital and live tapestry of interconnected, transnational - [Live Art Writers Network](https://performingborders.live/live-art-writers-network/) - [Encruzilhada: LAWN x DDD - 2026](https://performingborders.live/encruzilhada-lawn-x-ddd-2026/) - performingborders returns to Dias da Dança Festival 2026 (DDD, Porto, Portugal) with a new edition of Live Art Writers Network (LAWN), gathering conversations around experimental writing in dialogue with performance and live art. 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Dori Nigro and Paulo Pinto accompanied the performances in the first two weeks of the festival, including works by - [Live Art Writers Network x Dias da Dança Festival - DDD 2026](https://performingborders.live/commissions/live-art-writers-network-x-dias-da-danca-festival-2026/) - Working with the Encruzilhada (the crossroad) as a space for non-linear thinking, divergent methods and entangled research (learning alongside texts such as Pedagogia das Encruzilhadas by Luiz Rufino), this year’s Live Art Writers Network (LAWN) at Festival Dias da Dança Festival (DDD) 2026 responds to contexts that let things grow, conditions for contradiction and what - [Sound Bath | Sayang](https://performingborders.live/commissions/sound-bath-sayang/) - The following poem and sound bath are a response to the We Need Queer Liberation Now digital residency on queer rest. Experience the full collection of artists' responses here Hear 15 minutes of a live sound bath experience that was performed live by Sayang on 28/04/22 usingmodular synthesis, as part of We Need Queer Liberation - [RE-IMAGINE COMMUNITY PRACTICE: In Conversation with Howl Yuan + Ania Varez](https://performingborders.live/commissions/re-imagine-community-practice-in-conversation-with-howl-yuan-ania-varez/) - On Saturday 4th November 2023, Bristol-based artists Howl Yuan and Ania Varez welcomed fellow practitioners and the public into the spaces of St. Anne's House to be part of the 'Re-imagine Community Practice' event. The group engaged with map making, games, and celebratory dances in the settings of Ania's Cooperation Disco and Howl's Arty Farty - [Spells for a border town (retrocedare) | Diana Damian Martin](https://performingborders.live/commissions/spell-for-a-border-town-retrocedare-diana-damian-martin/) - Written in English, audio in Romanian below. In Romanian, retrocedare refers to the process of returning something, for example a territory, back to the person or entity that had previously been ceded (usually) during a violent or enforced take-over. This April edition of performing borders explores the entanglement between this re-ceding process and decolonial practices - [Live Art Writers Network x Linha de Fuga 2025 - Reflections, Collective Writing & Commissions](https://performingborders.live/commissions/live-art-writers-network-x-linha-de-fuga-2025-commissions/) - The Coimbra/Baixo Mondego region, in central Portugal, is home to a small variety of organisations, festivals, collectives and residency spaces that function intersectionality across the region. They provide unique cultural offers beyond the usual mainstream programming and often join forces to share resources and support between them. When we were in residency at the nearby - [Thresholds of Care | HUSS | Take Me Somewhere](https://performingborders.live/commissions/live-art-writers-network-x-take-me-somewhere-festival-2025-huss/) - The Live Art Writers Network (LAWN) aims to cultivate and support experimental writing practices in response to live art and performance. This iteration of LAWN was curated and developed in collaboration with Take Me Somewhere Festival and in dialogue with writer and artist Diana Damian Martin’s work around nonconforming criticism, which questions the imperial logics - [Live Art Writers Network x Citemor 2025 - Commissions](https://performingborders.live/commissions/live-art-writers-network-x-citemor-2025-commissions/) - This summer, performingborders collaborated again with Citemor, strengthening our curatorial partnership and broadening the scope of our research and bringing new voices, provocations and artistic forms to the Live Art Writers Network project and the festival. This on-going relationship started in summer 2022 when we first undertook an investigative residency at the festival, looking to - [Borderline Dialogue by Tara Fatehi Irani | performance commission 2019](https://performingborders.live/commissions/borderline-dialogue-by-tara-fatehi-irani-performance-commission-2019/) - ***Access the video with visual description below the intro text*** BORDERLINE DIALOGUE by TARA FATEHI IRANI in collaboration with Afshin Chizari, Daniela Contreras López, Bettina Fung, Alisa Oleva, Laura Ríos, Emily Elizabeth Sweeney and Malcolm Whittaker A coming together of seven actions for public space performed in Australia, Hong Kong, Iran, Ukraine, USA, Chile and Mexico. - [Live Art Writers Network at DDD 2025 - Commissions](https://performingborders.live/commissions/live-art-writers-network-at-ddd-festival-dias-da-danca/) - Since 2024, the Live Art Writers’ Network (LAWN) has been collectively exploring and nurturing experimental writing practices that unfold in dialogue with and in response to performance and live art, as well as the many contexts of where it happens. Responding to the invitation by DDD - Festival Dias da Dança 2025 in Porto (Portugal), - [Voices from ESEA Diaspora Art Collectives | Ming Strike and their allies (Chinese/English)](https://performingborders.live/commissions/voices-from-esea-diaspora-art-collectives-ming-strike-and-their-allies-chinese-english/) - Voices from ESEA Diaspora Art Collectives: An Audio Documentary of 5 Self-Organizing ESEA Artist Groups in the UK. Co-produced by Ming Strike and Ensemble Not Found Transcript and Introduction by Ming Strike Launched in 2020, Ming Strike is a podcast that explores current events and challenges in the performing arts through the eyes of Asian art - [trans[*] glocal - Cooperative resources by intrans___](https://performingborders.live/commissions/trans-glocal-cooperative-resources-by-intrans___/) - On 26th October 2024, intrans___ hosted trans[*] glocal, a hybrid performative gathering held at the Battersea Arts Centre, London. intrans___ (Intersectional Network for Transglocal Solidarity) was initiated in 2023 by Raju Rage (UK), Nad MA (México), and Kaur Chimuk (India) as a mutual effort to explore their shared inquiries into the future of non-hierarchical, cooperative - [Slow Cooking](https://performingborders.live/commissions/slow-cooking/) - Featuring: Sonia Sandhu ✶ Selina Thompson ✶ Toni-Dee Paul ✶ Rebecca Moradalizadeh ✶ Guya ✶ Untethered Magic ✶ Estabrak / إستبرق Welcome to Slow Cooking, a new multimedia podcast exploring the relationship between art making processes, communal food practices and contemporary colonial impacts around food and environmentalism. Hosted and conceptualised by Xavier de Sousa, with - [New Apparitions | Rosa-Johan Uddoh](https://performingborders.live/commissions/new-apparitions-rosa-johan-uddoh/) - This work is part of a series of co-commissions by performingborders and the project performance, possession + automation. New Apparitions is Rosa-Johan Uddoh's blog documenting a re-enchantment with the world through afro-diasporic spiritual practice, textual, and visual apparitions. For this commission, Rosa was moved to recommence a pilgrimage she started when she was 19. The photos - [we’re the ones we’ve been waiting for | an assembly by Party Office](https://performingborders.live/commissions/were-the-ones-weve-been-waiting-for-an-assembly-by-party-office/) - Draft 01Fadescha, March 2022 I am chirpy I survived.We had all been pushed off to fall, Many fell, Many were blinded,Many unable, as ability is what you make.I am chirpy I survived.They put a blanket on me, They fed me a pot of rice, They said they’d hold me.I was brought to the set of - [Pre-Submission: FRAMED - PART 2/2 | an*dre neely](https://performingborders.live/commissions/pre-submission-framed-part-2-2-andre-neely/) - This work is part of a series of co-commissions by performingborders and the project performance, possession + automation. This commission is one of three from our open call for experimental writing. Part I of the commission: Pre-Submission: Fully Fledged tight guard breeding HIDDEN CAMERA (LEAKED) can be seen here. This work was made in collaboration with - [Puzzling Home 家的形狀 | Ghost and John, Michael and Jane](https://performingborders.live/commissions/puzzling-home-家的形狀-ghost-and-john-michael-and-jane/) - Queer Art Projects and performiongborders responded to this commission through a conversation held in May 2023, to see this response alongside the performance to camera, see HERE. Two travellers arrive at a black and white sandy beach. Carried with them are all shapes of all sizes, holding visions of their former lives. These memories are - [Lúcia + Madalena | Madalena Bettencourt & Lúcia Santos (English)](https://performingborders.live/commissions/lucia-madalena-performance-possession-automation-english-2/) - This work is part of a series of co-commissions by performingborders and the project performance, possession + automation. This commission is one of three from our open call for experimental writing. A version of this commission is also available in Portuguese HERE. To listen to the text: We keep wondering what spells are. Spells are - [Pre-Submission: Fully Fledged tight guard breeding HIDDEN CAMERA (LEAKED) - PART 1/2 | an*dre neely](https://performingborders.live/commissions/fully-fledged-tight-guard-breeding-hidden-camera-leaked-part-1-2-andre-neely/) - This work is part of a series of co-commissions by performingborders and the project performance, possession + automation. This commission is one of three from our open call for experimental writing. This work was made in collaboration with Melanie Sien Min Lyn. A set of relations is that which forms a network. A network is that - [Embodying Resistance/Encuerpando Resistencia: unfinished reflections from the Bolivian territory | Anahí Saravia Herrera](https://performingborders.live/commissions/embodying-resistance-encuerpando-resistencia-reflections-from-the-bolivian-territory/) - by Anahí Saravia Herrera Interviews with: Mujeres Creando (Danitza Luna), Movimiento Maricas Bolivia, Calle: Bienal del Performance + Alejandra Del Carpio, and Germinal. Encuerpando Resistencia: unfinished reflections from the Bolivian territory is research that has been in the making since 2021. It is a series of interviews and research focusing on the body as a - [PERFORMANCE MAP WITH NO END FOR SOLO OR MANY PARTICIPANTS AT ANY TIME AND ANYWHERE | Moi Tran](https://performingborders.live/commissions/performance-map-with-no-end-for-solo-or-many-participants-at-any-time-and-anywhere-moi-tran/) - This work is part of a series of co-commissions by performingborders and the project performance, possession + automation. This commission is one of three from our open call for experimental writing. Explore Moi Tran's PERFORMANCE MAP below, you can find the instruction guide for the artwork here [Password: PerformingCiphers2024], this document tells you more about how - [Lúcia + Madalena | Madalena Bettencourt & Lúcia Santos (Português)](https://performingborders.live/commissions/lucia-madalena-performance-possession-automation-portugues/) - Esta obra faz parte de uma série de co-comissões da performingborders em parceria com o projeto performance, possession + automation. Esta comissão é uma de três que resultam da nossa convocatória pública a propostas de escrita experimental, lançada em Outubro de 2023. A versão em Inglês desta obra está disponível em Inglês AQUI. Feitiços são - [Curators Platform Commission | Curating Borders | Jade Foster](https://performingborders.live/commissions/curators-platform-commission-curating-borders-jade-foster/) - Early this year, performingbordersLIVE20 and curatorial platform Never Done partnered to provide a digital residency to Jade Foster. After months of interviews, research and mentorship, we are proud to release the outcome of Jade's work. Curating Borders Platform can be experienced here [temporarily unavailable]. Further content will be released throughout the next few months. Words - [Moebius Stripping by Istanbul Queer Art Collective | performance commission 2019](https://performingborders.live/commissions/moebius-stripping-by-istanbul-queer-art-collective-performance-commission-2019/) - In this performance to camera, Istanbul Queer Art Collective members Tuna Erdem and Seda Ergul, cut into pieces the documents they had to submit to the Home Office to extend their ‘leave to remain’ in the UK. Once the documents, with the total weight of three kilos, are hand shredded the artists, clad in absurd - [It is impossible to say everything here so I leave you with this | SERAFINE1369](https://performingborders.live/commissions/it-is-impossible-to-say-everything-here-so-i-leave-you-with-this-serafine1369/) - It is recommended that you play with speakers or headphones as sound features low bass. The commission comes with an accompanying text to be read or listened to after and/or whilst watching the commission: read & listen here. I am thinking about skin, as boundary, as border site - for exchange, the manifestation of internal and external happenings - [a place to sit | Tara Fatehi Irani | fragments for borderless futures](https://performingborders.live/commissions/a-place-to-sit-tara-fatehi-irani-fragments-for-borderless-futures/) - This commission was created for perfromingborders’ 2021 e-journal: fragments for borderless futures. Tara Fatehi Irani’s new commission a place to sit is launched in our e-journal: fragments for borderless futures. Many voices speak through Tara Fatehi Irani’s performance to camera a place to sit, which through movement and narration follows stories of borders from three Afghanistani - [AMNION | LYNN LU](https://performingborders.live/commissions/amnion-lynn-lu/) - This work thinks through water as a medium that literally connects all watery bodies – all living creatures to each other, as well as to hydrogeological and meteorological bodies, the significant water loss in menopausal bodies, our human affinity to whales – the only other species that undergoes the climacteric and lives a long post-reproductive - [On migration, kinship and (be)longings: Three meditations with cards | Daniella Valz Gen](https://performingborders.live/commissions/on-migration-kinship-and-belongings-three-meditations-with-cards-daniella-valz-gen/) - Before you dive in: Daniella and Meenadchi have created a suggestive playlist 'Land and heart' alongside the commission, please listen while you read. These meditations are formulated as an extension of my oracular practice which engages with speculative meaning-making and constructs narrative through the rhyming of visual patterns in relation to context and sensation, which - [Recipes for Autonomy | Syowia Kyambi](https://performingborders.live/commissions/recipes-for-autonomy/) - To begin, watch the video introduction by Syowia Kyambi Untethered MagicA radio clip created by Sauti Msituni, Kibe Wangunyu and Dennis Kiberu. The show aims to address how the collective 'Untethered Magic' was formed and the start of Sauti Msituni as an alternative radio. Chemi_Ali the Kushite and Diberu Live invite you to a discussion - [From the Cages To The Queer Blue Sky | Digital Conversation Commission | by Whiskey Chow with Cassils and rafa esparza](https://performingborders.live/commissions/from-the-cages-to-the-queer-blue-sky-digital-conversation-commission-by-whiskey-chow-with-cassils-and-rafa-esparza/) - 'From the Cages to the Queer Blue Sky’: WHAT CAN ART DO during and beyond global crisis? A BORDERLESS Conversation Between Cassils, rafa esparza and Whiskey Chow Whiskey Chow invited fellow queer artist-activists, Cassils and rafa esparza to talk via Zoom about their ambitious new work ‘#XMAP: In Plain Sight’, which marked 4th of July. It was a collaboration - [urgent images | Manuel Vason | fragments for borderless futures](https://performingborders.live/commissions/urgent-images-manuel-vason-fragments-for-borderless-futures/) - This commission was created for perfromingborders’ 2021 e-journal: fragments for borderless futures. In Manuel Vason’s visual essay urgent images, we are encouraged to contemplate the evaporating boundary between the performer and the camera, considering our relationship to the medium. See the full commission here: urgent images Image credit: urgent image #1, Manuel Vason, 2021 Manuel Vason is - [Fuglen, Der (The Bird, There) | Performance Lecture by Lasse Lau](https://performingborders.live/commissions/fuglen-der-the-bird-there-performance-film-lecture-by-lasse-lau/) - Commissioned for performingbordersLIVE20 & Warehouse9 Autumn Season, Fuglen, Der (The Bird, There) is a new performance lecture short film by award winning artist and film maker Lasse Lau, exploring queer sexuality and re-traumatisation as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic. Length: 06:50Broadcast date: 18th September 2020Publishing date: 14th November 2020 Watch a post-broadcast live Q&A - [The Grief Portal | Somatic Movement Film by Camille Barton](https://performingborders.live/commissions/grief-portal-somatic-movement-film-by-camille-barton/) - Length: 16:45Private publishing date: 27th October 2020Publishing date: 14th November 2020 Commissioned for performingbordersLIVE20, 'The Grief Portal' is a somatic movement video that you can do in your own living room and will bring you back to your own body, allowing you to rebuild from 'the compost of grief’. In their own words: “In this - [RE:seeding, in correspondence | performance to camera by Jade Montserrat](https://performingborders.live/commissions/reseeding-in-correspondence-performance-to-camera-by-jade-montserrat/) - Commissioned for performingbordersLIVE20, RE:seeding, in correspondence is a new performance to camera suggesting that there is a connection between ourselves and the earth and that this line, or connection, like our communications with one another, is drawing. Developed with film-makers Webb-Ellis, Jade seeks to visualise these exchanges of energy, the lines, the communications, and with - [Lavender Man | Performance to Camera by Tania El Khouri](https://performingborders.live/commissions/lavender-man-performance-to-camera-by-tania-el-khouri/) - Commissioned for and premièred at performingbordersLIVE20, Lavender Man is an online conversation between two artists Tania El Khoury and Mohamad Ali “Dali” Agrebi who have collaborated on three performances. Each performance happened in a different country and brought them closer. Their collaboration has changed their lives sometimes drastically and sometimes unintentionally. Lavender Man is a - [Be Ill-Disciplined | Performance Lecture by Kai Syng Tan](https://performingborders.live/commissions/be-ill-disciplined-performance-lecture-by-kai-syng-tan/) - Be-Ill Disciplined is a new performance lecture by Kai Syng Tan exploring how creativity and neurodiversity can drive social change. “We need new compasses, fresh tools, and untried directions.” With the pandemic, Black Lives Matter, and the ongoing crises in climate, health, and technological control, we’ve all been thinking a lot about leadership. What makes - [Fuglen, der (The Bird, There) | Digital Performance Lecture by Lasse Lau](https://performingborders.live/commissions/digital-performance-lecture-lasse-lau/) - 'Fuglen, der (The Bird, There)' A performance lecture by Lasse Lau Friday 18th September Denmark time: 20:00 (CEST) UK time: 19:00 (BST) NYC time: 14:00 (ET) FREE Tickets & live captions: click here Première, as part of performingbordersLIVE20 & Warehouse9 Autumn programme The bird blushes in its desire, “I'm the beast.” The bird is an - [Third Nature | Digital Conversations Commission by Elena Marchevska, Sebastian Aguirre, Syowia Kyambi and Carolyn Defrin](https://performingborders.live/commissions/third-nature-digital-conversations-commission-by-elena-marchevska-sebastian-aguirre-syowia-kyambi-and-carolyn-defrin/) - "Take your time Take someone else’s time It’s okay Hold hug be heartbroken There are many broken hearts still beating even though they are without what was there before" (Third Nature, 2020) The Third Nature digital conversation commission, consists of a film you can watch below and the ongoing digital discussion board that you can - [Patrolling by Critical Interruptions | Digital conversation 2019](https://performingborders.live/commissions/critical-interruptions-digital-conversation-2019/) - Patrolling is a critical conversation for the digital page about border patrols of unrecognised states. Patrolling superimposes frameworks of durational and endurance, techniques of speculative fiction and critical writing onto the events of securization, undertaken in politically disputed borderlands. Patrolling problematises ideas of borders as simply exclusionary, resurfacing relations between autonomy, nation-hood and forms of - [All the Tea in China by Burong (曾不容) | Digital Conversation 2019](https://performingborders.live/commissions/all-the-tea-in-china-by-burong-曾不容-digital-conversation-2019/) - ALL THE TEA IN CHINA: a series of digital conversations on an encounter with Marta Jovanović and PerformanceHUB in Belgrade. By Burong (曾不容) With huge thanks to (in alphabetical order) Franko B (UK/Italy), Alejandro Chellet (Mexico), Richard Dedomenici (UK), Miao Jiaxin (China/US), and VestAndPage (German/Italy). As a live art practitioner-researcher and former apprentice producer of PerformanceHUB, I interviewed ## Events - [Unbordering | A final gathering by performingbordersLIVE20](https://performingborders.live/events/unbordering-a-final-gathering-by-performingborderslive20/) - [Example Event](https://performingborders.live/events/example-event/) ## Writings - [On tangled archives, memory and performance: Re-gathering around Puzzling Home 家的形狀](https://performingborders.live/writings/on-tangled-archives-memory-and-performance-re-gathering-around-puzzling-home-家的形狀/) - In February 2023 performingborder’s annual performance to camera Puzzling Home 家的形狀 by Ghost and John and Michael and Jane was released following a co-commissioning process shared between performingborders (Alessandra, Anahí, Xavier) and Queer Art Projects (Tuna, Seda). In 2022 we invited Hongkongese multidisciplinary duo Ghost and John to take some time to reflect on how - [this archive feels like a hug – reflections | mother tongues](https://performingborders.live/writings/this-archive-feels-like-a-hug-reflections-mother-tongues/) - This text is by mother tongues, digital residents at performingborders at the time of publishing this article. This ongoing residency is supported by performingborders in partnership with Iniva (Institute for International Visual Arts, London) whose Stuart Hall Library's archive and staff are available for mother tongues to consult throughout the residency. Over the last couple - [Un hombre yace en el suelo de un escenario, por Ángela López Ramos & Álvaro Albaladejo | Live Art Writers Network x Citemor 2026](https://performingborders.live/writings/un-hombre-yace-en-el-suelo-de-un-escenario-por-angela-lopez-ramos-alvaro-albaladejo-live-art-writers-network-x-citemor-2026/) - Este texto crítico foi criado por Ángela López Ramos & Álvaro Albaladejo, em resposta ao espetáculo Não se Vê, Não se Guarda de Thiago Granato, apresentado no festival Citemor 2026, Montemor-o-Velho, a 31 de Julho. Versão original em PDF aqui.Não se vê, não se guarda es la última creación de Thiago Granato presentada durante la - [Poetry, Protest, and Political possibility | Leena Habiballa](https://performingborders.live/writings/leena-habiballa-afraid-of-losing-the-echoes/) - Leena Habiballa critically reflects on Amel Moyersoen's moving image work afraid of losing the echoes, it's socio-political context and potential. Often considered Ibrahim El-Salahi’s masterpiece, the painting The Inevitable (1985), was recreated from disparate sketches on cement casings made during the Sudanese artist’s unlawful imprisonment in Kobar in 1975. Conceived over a period of 10 - [GAY-ME: a critical performative proposition in the form of a game | Ed Freitas](https://performingborders.live/writings/gay-me-a-critical-performative-game-ed-freitas/) - This piece was originally written in Portuguese by Ed Freitas in response to Sónia Baptista’s Dyke on Ice and Paz Rojo’s Hipersueño performances at Citemor Festival, Montemor-o-Velho, 2025. You can read the original HERE. --- Domingo, 12:48, Residência Vivenda Adélia Caiado 1. The rules of GAY-ME I begin with my hands. Hands that touch, embroider, - [dancing with stairs to disrupt the choreographic relationship between body and space | Letícia Maia](https://performingborders.live/writings/dancing-with-stairs-to-disrupt-the-choreographic-relationship-between-body-and-space-leticia-maia/) - This text was originally written in Portuguese by Letícia Maia in response to Bruno Humberto’s Enciclopédia das Escadas, Festival Citemor, August 2025. You can read the original HERE. #10 dancing with stairs to disrupt the choreographic relationship between body and space Proposed performance score: Two men dressed in everyday clothes perform this action on a - [Construyendo centros y periferias: prácticas artísticas para la transformación social | Tiziano Cruz ](https://performingborders.live/writings/construyendo-centros-y-periferias-practicas-artisticas-para-la-transformacion-social-tiziano-cruz-esp/) - Este texto proviene de una conversación que tuvo lugar en el festival Dias da Dança 2026, el 13 de abril, como parte del programa Live Art Writers Network en A PiSCiNA, con la participación de Pedro Vilela, Dori Nigro y Tiziano Cruz. Estes corpos, nesta cidade: território, performance e escrita crítica Como é que a - [“QUEM LUCRA COM AS VIDAS TRANS*?”: SOBRE REDISTRIBUIÇÃO ECÔNOMICA E ÉTICA TRAVESTI | Hilda de Paulo](https://performingborders.live/writings/quem-lucra-com-as-vidas-trans-hilda-de-paulo/) - Este texto é uma comissão do projeto Live Art Writers Network no âmbito do Festival Dias da Dança 2026. Para mais informações sobre o festival e o trabalho realizado durante a residência artística, bem como sobre outras comissões, visite esta página. Read text in English: “WHO PROFITS FROM TRANS* LIVES?”: ON ECONOMIC REDISTRIBUTION AND TRANSGENDER ETHICS Versão - [Estes corpos, nesta cidade: território, performance e escrita crítica | Pedro Vilela](https://performingborders.live/writings/estes-corpos-nesta-cidade-pedro-vilela/) - Este texto é uma transcrição da intervenção de abertura da conversa que decorreu no dia 13 de Abril, no espaço A PiSCiNA, Porto, no âmbito do projecto Live Art Writers Network, Dias da Dança Festival 2026. Estes corpos, nesta cidade: território, performance e escrita crítica Como é que a performance e a escrita criativa/crítica podem tornar-se - [Reverberações e Reparações | Dori Nigro](https://performingborders.live/writings/reverberacoes-e-reparacoes-intervencao-de-dori-nigro-ddd2026/) - Este texto é uma transcrição da intervenção de abertura da conversa que decorreu no dia 13 de Abril, no espaço A PiSCiNA, Porto, no âmbito do projecto Live Art Writers Network, Dias da Dança Festival 2026. Estes corpos, nesta cidade: território, performance e escrita crítica Como é que a performance e a escrita criativa/crítica podem tornar-se - [Feeling Our Way Through: Between Recognition and Distance | Claire Sivier](https://performingborders.live/writings/feeling-our-way-through-between-recognition-and-distance-claire-sivier/) - This text was commissioned as part of Live Art Writers Network x Dias da Dança Festival 2026. For more information on the festival and the work done while in residency, alongside other commissions, visit this page. Read text in Portuguese: Sentindo o Caminho: Entre o Reconhecimento e a Distância Audio version, read by the author: - [Constructing centres and peripheries: Art practices for social transformation | Tiziano Cruz](https://performingborders.live/writings/constructing-centres-and-peripheries-art-practices-for-social-transformation-tiziano-cruz-eng/) - This text is from a conversation that took place at the Dias Das Dança Festival 2026, on the 13th of April as a part of the Live Art Writers Network programme at A PiSCiNA, featuring contributions from Pedro Vilela, Dori Nigro and Tiziano Cruz. These bodies in this city: situated landscapes in performance and critical - [These bodies, in this city: territory, performance, and critical writing | Pedro Vilela](https://performingborders.live/writings/these-bodies-in-this-city-pedro-vilela/) - This text is from a conversation that took place at the Dias Das Dança Festival 2026, on the 13th of April as a part of the Live Art Writers Network programme at A PiSCiNA, featuring contributions from Pedro Vilela, Dori Nigro and Tiziano Cruz. These bodies in this city: situated landscapes in performance and critical writingHow might performance - [Reverberations and Reparations | Dori Nigro](https://performingborders.live/writings/reverberations-and-reparations-intervention-by-dori-nigro-ddd2026-eng/) - This text is from a conversation that took place at the Dias Das Dança Festival 2026, on the 13th of April as a part of the Live Art Writers Network programme at A PiSCiNA, featuring contributions from Pedro Vilela, Dori Nigro and Tiziano Cruz. These bodies in this city: situated landscapes in performance and critical - [“WHO PROFITS FROM TRANS* LIVES?”: ON ECONOMIC REDISTRIBUTION AND TRANSGENDER ETHICS | Hilda de Paulo](https://performingborders.live/writings/who-profits-from-trans-lives-hilda-de-paulo/) - This text was commissioned as part of Live Art Writers Network x Dias da Dança Festival 2026. For more information on the festival and the work done while in residency, alongside other commissions, visit this page. Read text in Portuguese: “QUEM LUCRA COM AS VIDAS TRANS*?”: SOBRE REDISTRIBUIÇÃO ECÔNOMICA E ÉTICA TRAVESTI "People think that - [Sentindo o Caminho: Entre o Reconhecimento e a Distância | Claire Sivier](https://performingborders.live/writings/sentindo-o-caminho-entre-o-reconhecimento-e-a-distancia-claire-sivier-2/) - Este texto é uma comissão do projeto Live Art Writers Network no âmbito do Festival Dias da Dança 2026. Para mais informações sobre o festival e o trabalho realizado durante a residência artística, bem como sobre outras comissões, visite esta página. Read text in English: Feeling Our Way Through: Between Recognition and Distance Episódio Um: - [Instructions for Not Coming Down | Season Butler](https://performingborders.live/writings/instructions-for-not-coming-down-season-butler/) - This piece was commissioned following Season Butler's Non-Criticisms Digital Lab, as part of the Live Art Writers Network. It was first published in Nonconforming Criticisms (slow+dirty press, March, 2026), a limited edition printed collection of writings, edited by performingborders and Diana Damian Martin. --- METAR UNKN 171800Z VRB05KT 9999 SCT020 BKN080 TEMPO TURB RMK WX - [PERCURSO DRAMATÚRGICO PARA UMA POSSÍVEL LEITURA | Escrita Colectiva em resposta a 'Para cuatro jinetes'](https://performingborders.live/writings/percurso-dramaturgico-escrita-colectiva/) - Reflexões colectivas sobre a obra Para cuatro jinetes, apresentada no Sábado dia 8 de Novembro 2025 no festival Linha de Fuga. Obra colectiva criada com os participantes do laboratório Construindo respostas críticas: sessão colaborativa para escritores e artistas, com Cláudia Galhós, Pedro Vilela e Xavier de Sousa, 9 de Novembro de 2025. Para mais informações - [  borboletear um déjà-vu metodológico | Ed Freitas](https://performingborders.live/writings/borboletear-um-deja-vu-metodologico-ed-freitas/) - Esta obra, da autoria de Ed Freitas, foi comissionada para o projecto Live Art Writers Network x Linha de Fuga Festival 2025. É publicado em conjunto com Borboletário de Vibrações - Um texto-têxtil-polinizador para uma crítica pelo corpo, estando ambas as obras em diálogo uma com a outra. Para mais informações sobre o programa, o - [Borboletário de Vibrações - Um texto-têxtil-polinizador para uma crítica pelo corpo | Ed Freitas](https://performingborders.live/writings/borboletario-de-vibracoes-um-texto-textil-polinizador-ed-freitas/) - Esta nova obra de Ed Freitas é uma comissão de texto de acompanhamento e pensamento critico, para o projeto Live Art Writers Network x Linha de Fuga Festival 2025. É publicada em conjunto com borboletear um déjà-vu metodológico, estando ambas as obras em diálogo uma com a outra. Para mais informações sobre o programa, o - [Crítica Pingue-Pongue | Cláudia Galhós, Pedro Vilela, Xavier de Sousa](https://performingborders.live/writings/critica-pingue-pongue/) - A Crítica Pingue-Pongue foi concebida durante o projeto Live Art Writers Network no âmbito do Festival Linha de Fuga 2025, com curadoria de performingborders. Para consultar reflexões e todas as comissões do projecto Live Art Writers Network x Linha de Fuga, consulte este LINK A Crítica Pingue-Pongue trata-se de um guia prático sobre como criar - [butterfly-ing a methodological déjà vu | Ed Freitas (ENG)](https://performingborders.live/writings/butterfly-ing-a-methodological-deja-vu-ed-freitas-eng/) - This new piece by Ed Freitas was commissioned by performingborders, for Live Art Writers Network x Linha de Fuga Festival 2025. It is published in tandem with Butterfly-Garden of Vibrations - A textile-pollinator text for a body-based critique as two pieces in dialogue with each other. For more information on the curated programme, the festival - [Butterfly-Garden of Vibrations - A textile-pollinator text for a body-based critique | Ed Freitas (ENG)](https://performingborders.live/writings/butterfly-garden-of-vibrations-ed-freitas/) - This new piece by Ed Freitas was commissioned by performingborders, for Live Art Writers Network x Linha de Fuga Festival 2025. It is published in tandem with butterfly-ing a methodological déjà vu as two pieces in dialogue with each other. For more information on the curated programme, the festival and all the performingborders commissions in - [Ping-Pong Criticism | Cláudia Galhós, Pedro Vilela & Xavier de Sousa](https://performingborders.live/writings/ping-pong-criticism/) - Ping-Pong Criticism was conceived as part of the Live Art Writers Network programme performingborders curated as part of Linha de Fuga Festival 2025. To access all commissions in this programme, click HERE. This is a how-to Guide on how to create collective and multidisciplinary critical responses to performance, ping-pong style! Feel free to use this - [Ed Freitas](https://performingborders.live/writings/ed-freitas/) - EXEMPLO #1 TEXTO TEXTO GOSTO MUITO DO ED TEXTO TEXTO EXEMPLO #2 Texto Texto Texto Eu amo o Ed Mas amo o Vasco Nao, mentira Eu desejo o Vasco Daddyzão pauzudo concerteza - [Rivers within me: liminality of a body in a festival | Ed Freitas (English)](https://performingborders.live/writings/lawn-rivers-within-me/) - This work was created by Ed Freitas as the final commission for the Live Art Writers Network x Citemor 2025 project, resulting from a residency involving critical writing and reflection practices in response to live art and performance during the Citemor 2025 festival, with accompaniment by Diana Damian Martin and performingborders. You can consult the - [Dancing on the ruins: a festival as a utopian space-time island amid the catastrophes of our time | Letícia Maia (English)](https://performingborders.live/writings/lawn-dancing-on-the-ruins/) - This text by Letícia Maia is her final commission for the Live Art Writers Network x Citemor 2025 project, resulting from a residency involving critical writing and reflection practices in response to live art and performance during the Citemor 2025 festival. You can consult the performance texts generated by Ed Freitas and Letícia Maia, with - [Rios em mim: liminaridade de um corpo em festival | Ed Freitas](https://performingborders.live/writings/lawn-rios-em-mim/) - Esta obra foi criada por Ed Freitas, como comissão final do projecto Live Art Writers Network x Citemor 2025, resultando de uma residência de acompanhamento, escrita crítica e práticas de reflexão em resposta a live art e performance durante o festival Citemor 2025. Podes consultar os textos-performance gerados por Ed Freitas e Letícia Maia, com - [Dançar sobre as ruínas: um festival como uma ilha utópica espaço-temporal em meio às catástrofes de nosso tempo | Letícia Maia (Português)](https://performingborders.live/writings/lawn-dancar-sobre-as-ruinas/) - Este texto de Letícia Maia é a sua comissão final do projecto Live Art Writers Network x Citemor 2025, resultando de uma residência de acompanhamento, escrita crítica e práticas de reflexão em resposta a live art e performance durante o festival Citemor 2025. Podes consultar os textos-performance gerados por Ed Freitas e Letícia Maia, com - [Sobrevoos e mergulhos, amplitudes e recortes: Citemor´24, prática artística, risco e descolonização | Dori Nigro e Paulo Pinto](https://performingborders.live/writings/lawn_citemor_dori_paulopt/) - O texto que se segue foi escrito por Dori Nigro e Paulo Pinto, uma co-comissão entre performingborders, Residências Reflexo e Festival Citemor para o projeto Live Art Writers Network (LAWN). Os textos anteriores sobre o festival e os espectáculos podem ser encontrados aqui. Live Art Writers Network é uma rede que visa cultivar práticas de - [Limbs everywhere: on speech, self and the Body | Harmanpreet Randhawa](https://performingborders.live/writings/limbs-everywhere-on-speech-self-and-the-body-harmanpreet-randhawa/) - The following text was co-commissioned as a part of our Live Art Writers Network (LAWN) at Fierce Festival in October 2024. This programme worked with three Birmingham-based writers: Harmanpreet Randhawa, Rupinder Kaur, and Leah Hickey to generate creative critical responses to the festival context. LAWN is a network aimed at cultivating experimental writing practices happening - [in the beginning we were all performers | Rupinder Kaur Waraich](https://performingborders.live/writings/in-the-beginning-we-were-all-performers-rupinder-kaur-waraich/) - The following text was co-commissioned as a part of our Live Art Writers Network (LAWN) at Fierce Festival in October 2024. This programme worked with three Birmingham-based writers: Harmanpreet Randhawa, Rupinder Kaur, and Leah Hickey to generate creative critical responses to the festival context. LAWN is a network aimed at cultivating experimental writing practices happening - [Ballerina, butterfly | Leah Hickey](https://performingborders.live/writings/ballerina-butterfly-leah-hickey/) - The following text was co-commissioned as a part of our Live Art Writers Network (LAWN) at Fierce Festival in October 2024. This programme worked with three Birmingham-based writers: Harmanpreet Randhawa, Rupinder Kaur, and Leah Hickey to generate creative critical responses to the festival context. LAWN is a network aimed at cultivating experimental writing practices happening - [Overflights and plunges, breadth and perspectives: Citemor´24, artistic practice, risk and decolonization | Dori Nigro & Paulo Pinto](https://performingborders.live/writings/lawn_citemor_dori_paulo/) - The following text was written by Dori Nigro and Paulo Pinto, and was co-commissioned as part of our Live Art Writers Network (LAWN) project at Citemor Festival, Portugal, during the first two weeks of August 2024. Previous writing about the festival and performances can be found here. Live Art Writers Network is a network aimed - [O olhar falha | Odete (Português)](https://performingborders.live/writings/o-olhar-falha-odete/) - Texto escrito por Odete para o projeto Live Art Writers Network durante o Festival Dias da Dança, Abril-Maio 2025. Outras comissões criadas e publicadas em resposta ao festival e suas performances integrantes, e a mais informação sobre o projeto, podem ser encontradas aqui. Todas as Comissões são publicadas em Português e Inglês. Ouve a versão - [Cuidemos da floresta | Pedro Vilela (Português)](https://performingborders.live/writings/cuidemos-da-floresta-pedro-vilela-portugues/) - Texto escrito por Pedro Vilela para o projeto Live Art Writers Network durante o Festival Dias da Dança, Abril-Maio 2025. Outras comissões criadas e publicadas em resposta ao festival e suas performances integrantes, e a mais informação sobre o projeto, podem ser encontradas aqui. Todas as Comissões são publicadas em Português e Inglês. Ouve a - [The failing gaze | Odete (English)](https://performingborders.live/writings/the-failing-gaze-odete/) - This text was written by Odete, as a part of the Live Art Writers Network, taking place at Festival Dias da Dança, in April-May 2025. To view the other commissioned texts in response to the festival and its performances, as well as an introduction to the project, see here. Texts available in English and Portuguese. - [Let us cultivate the forest | Pedro Vilela (English)](https://performingborders.live/writings/let-us-cultivate-the-forest-pedro-vilela-english/) - This text was written by Pedro, as a part of the Live Art Writers Network, taking place at Festival Dias da Dança, in April-May 2025. To view the other commissioned texts in response to the festival and its performances, as well as an introduction to the project, see here. Texts available in English and Portuguese. This - [Carta aberta num contexto em que a dança e o pensamento crítico cruzam-se afetivamente  | Aura (Português)](https://performingborders.live/writings/carta-aberta-num-contexto-em-que-a-danca-e-o-pensamento-critico-cruzam-se-afetivamente-aura-portugues/) - Texto escrito por AURA para o projeto Live Art Writers Network durante o Festival Dias da Dança, Abril-Maio 2025. Outras comissões criadas e publicadas em resposta ao festival e suas performances integrantes, e a mais informação sobre o projeto, podem ser encontradas aqui. Todas as Comissões são publicadas em Português e Inglês. Esta carta é - [Open letter in a context in which dance and critical thinking intersect affectively | Aura (English)](https://performingborders.live/writings/open-letter-in-a-context-in-which-dance-and-critical-thinking-intersect-affectively-aura-english/) - This text was written by Aura, as a part of the Live Art Writers Network, taking place at Festival Dias da Dança, in April-May 2025. To view the other commissioned texts in response to the festival and its performances, as well as an introduction to the project, see here. Texts available in English and Portuguese. This - [Irresolute repairs, pending revolution | Rahila Haque](https://performingborders.live/writings/irresolute-repairs-pending-revolution-rahila-haque/) - This text was written in response to artist Farida Yesmin’s workshop and participatory performance Stitching Bangladesh, held at the House of Annetta and Altab Ali Park in London on 27 November 2024. Executively produced by Giulia Casalini and funded by ARTCRY. The project was produced by Puer Deorum, who commissioned the written response by Rahila Haque. Listen to - [How Many Times Must the Phoenix Burn? entries from the rupture | Heba Hayek](https://performingborders.live/writings/how-many-times-must-the-phoenix-burn-entries-from-the-rupture/) - This commission is a written response to trans[*] glocal, a participatory performative gathering hosted by intrans___ (Intersectional Network for Transglocal Solidarity) in October 2024 at the Battersea Arts Centre, London. Through trans[*]glocal, intrans___ examined practices, languages, and contexts to grow potential new ecologies and alternative presents within local and cross-border contexts. More information and resources - [Reflections on Sheila Ghelani's Softly/Tenderly | Maddy Costa](https://performingborders.live/writings/reflections-on-sheila-ghelanis-softly-tenderly-maddy-costa/) - This text was written by Maddy Costa in response to Sheila Ghelani's piece Softly/Tenderly, presented as part of Fierce Festival 2024. It is published on performingborders as part of our Live Art Writers Network with support from Fierce Festival. Click here to listen to the audio version of this article, read by author Maddy Costa - [There’s no border in the horizon: Burned House Horizon’s queer-trans-feminist time travelling and border crossings | Giulia Casalini](https://performingborders.live/writings/theres-no-border-in-the-horizon-burned-house-horizons-queer-trans-feminist-time-travelling-and-border-crossings-giulia-casalini/) - This text responds, via creative writing (intertwined with process-based documentation, diary entries and poetry), to the programme and exhibition Burned House Horizon. Written by co-curator Giulia Casalini, the text also features poetry by co-curator Byuka aka Fortune Tailed Beast. For more information about Burned House Horizon, check out the Instagram account @burnedhousehorizon and Mimosa House’s - [Creating Pathways: SPIRALS Open Archive by PartSuspended - Reflection#1](https://performingborders.live/writings/ok_creating-pathways-spirals-open-archive-by-partsuspended-reflection1/) - Barbara Bridger, Georgia Kalogeropoulou, Hari Marini SPIRALS Open Archive team: Barbara Bridger, Sarahleigh Castelyn, Noelia Diaz-Vicedo, Georgia Kalogeropoulou, Hari Marini Contributing artists: Dimitra Adamopoulou, Ruth Asidi, Niya B, Suparna Banerjee, Sally Pomme Clayton, Colin Cruise, Krishna Goswami, Nikos Kabasele, John London, Lynn Lu, Kostis Ntemos, Simon Persighetti PartSuspended is an artist collective that uses a range of performance practices to explore the intersection between various - [Parallaxing (i) : a story of a practice | setareh fatehi](https://performingborders.live/writings/parallaxing-i-a-story-of-a-practice-setareh-fatehi/) - Diana Damian Martin, Supporting Editor of performingborders e-Journal #3 Entangled practices: embodying cross-border Live Art: setareh fatehi’s parallaxing (i): a story of practice, where the artist invites us for a walk in this microcosm of a practice of remote hosting. fatehi’s is a practice that tends to shifting the geographies of distance for intimacies of - [MIS(S)PLACED WOMEN? METHODOLOGIES OF EMPOWERING FEMINIST ARTISTIC PRACTICE | Tanja Ostojić](https://performingborders.live/writings/misplaced-women-tanja-ostojic/) - Diana Damian Martin, Supporting Editor of performingborders e-Journal #3 Entangled Practices: Embodying cross-border live art: Tanja Ostojić reflects on over three decades of work with Mis(s)placed Women?, a long-form and long-term art project with contributions from across the world by over 180 participants with experience of displacement. Through shared reflections, an ethics coda and an - [Moviendo Territorios | Sharon Mercado Nogales & Eli Wewentxu](https://performingborders.live/writings/moviendo-territorios-sharon-mercado-nogales-eli-wewentxu/) - Diana Damian Martin, Supporting Editor of performingborders e-Journal #3 Entangled Practices: Embodying cross-border live art: The multi-form and multi-lingual contribution from Sharon Mercado Nogales and Eli Wewentxu, co-founders of Moviendo Territorios, is a five-part tapestry made up of materials gathered since before the formation of the collective in 2020, up to now. They refer to - [Backpack | Rodolfo R. Suárez Molnar & Giulia Palladini](https://performingborders.live/writings/backpack-rodolfo-r-suarez-molnar-giulia-palladini/) - Diana Damian Martin, Supporting Editor of performingborders e-Journal #3 Entangled Practices: Embodying cross-border live art: Entangled stories and practices are also encountered in Rodolfo Suárez and Giulia Palladini’s Backpack, a sharing and invitation to join this unfolding multi-modal text-action woven around the Fronteras project on migration and exile. Backpack is in itself a multi-vocal speculative - [Love Letters to Our Comrades | Fehras Publishing Practices](https://performingborders.live/writings/love-letters-to-our-comrades-fehras-publishing-practices/) - Diana Damian Martin, Supporting Editor of performingborders e-Journal #3 Entangled Practices: Embodying cross-border live art: This collection of letters to those who have offered companionship and camaraderie in the least likely of moments and times stems from a desire to remember and honour love as it emerges in ‘the face of loss and genocide’. The - [Desandar la Ciudad | Retracing the City | Movimiento Maricas Bolivia](https://performingborders.live/writings/desandar-la-ciudad-retracing-the-city-movimiento-maricas-bolivia/) - This work was published as a part of Anahí Saravia Herrera’s commission Embodying Resistance/Encuerpando Resistencia: unfinished reflections from the Bolivian territory. It is an existing work created by Movimiento Maricas Bolivia. To see the full commission with further interviews and texts see here. "The city is a project of modernity thought from the heterosexual-male hegemony - [Applying Disability Justice, Climate Justice, and Solidarity Economics to your Digital Practice | Vijay Mathew](https://performingborders.live/writings/applying-disability-justice-climate-justice-and-solidarity-economics-to-your-digital-practice/) - Over the past few years, performingborders has had a very fruitful collaborative relationship with HowlRound Theatre Commons, a digital-broadcasting group based in Boston, who were fundamental in live streaming our digital programme performingbordersLIVE20, as well as contributing to our knowledge and research on the intersections of digital sustainability and inclusivity. In 2021 we invited HowlRound’s - [Performing Resistance, Care and Labour: Feminist Art and Activism in an Irish Context | Helena Walsh | Rallying the Commons](https://performingborders.live/writings/performing-resistance-care-and-labour-feminist-art-and-activism-in-an-irish-context-helena-walsh-rallying-the-commons/) - This writing was created for perfromingborders’ 2022 e-journal: Rallying the Commons Helena Walsh shares important reflections on how artist groups have collectivized and organized to support feminist pro-abortion campaigns in Ireland and how the introduction of basic income for artists is creating hope in the country.Read the text HERE. Image Credit: Helena Walsh, (2012) In Pursuit of - [Hevaltî – Revolutionary friendship as radical care | Elif Sarican & Dilar Dirik | Rallying the Commons](https://performingborders.live/writings/hevalti-revolutionary-friendship-as-radical-care-elif-sarican-dilar-dirik-rallying-the-commons/) - This writing was created for perfromingborders’ 2022 e-journal: Rallying the Commons Elif Sarican and Dilar Dirik write on hevaltî- revolutionary friendship, a term used within revolutionary Kurdish contexts, reflecting on the required politicisation of care in times of revolution.Read the text HERE. Image credits: Jineolojî committee members walking on the streets of Rojava West Kurdistan after the - [Dayra and Communal Debt | Lara Khaldi on behalf of and with the Question of Funding | Rallying the Commons](https://performingborders.live/writings/dayra-and-communal-debt-lara-khaldi-on-behalf-of-and-with-the-question-of-funding-rallying-the-commons/) - This writing was created for perfromingborders’ 2022 e-journal: Rallying the Commons Lara Khaldi writes on behalf of The Question of Funding about sustainable community-centered funding models and the use of Dayra. Read the text HERE Image Credit: Credits: Dayra, still from video. Courtesy The Question of Funding The Question of Funding is a growing collective of cultural producers - [Budget Commission | Jack Ky Tan | Rallying the Commons](https://performingborders.live/writings/budget-commission-jack-ky-tan-rallying-the-commons/) - This writing was created for perfromingborders’ 2022 e-journal: Rallying the Commons Jack Ky Tan shares their Budget Commission, through which we explored the imposed value systems we work with and think about all that is not captured in our budgets. Read the Budget Commission Image credit: Credits: Image by Cleo Ciufolini-Cianetti. Jack Ky Tan uses law, policy, social - [Sitting in the garden, watching the birds with mum… | Sheila Ghelani | Rallying the Commons](https://performingborders.live/writings/sitting-in-the-garden-watching-the-birds-with-mum-sheila-ghelani-rallying-the-commons/) - This writing was created for perfromingborders’ 2022 e-journal: Rallying the Commons Sheila Ghelani reflects tenderly on the lack of care in our sector, and how this intersects with personal care responsibilities and our collective ability to create art in conditions of care-lessness. Read the full text HERE. Image credit: Screenshot from To Sum it Up, made - [Nightlife is Not Inherently Liberatory | Axmed Maxamed](https://performingborders.live/writings/nightlife-is-not-inherently-liberatory-axmed-maxamed/) - This text by Axmed Maxamed is a response to the We Need Queer Liberation Now residency and artistic development project by East Street Arts, in collaboration with performingborders and Migrant Actions Productions. Experience the full collection of artists' responses here. *** “Theory is not inherently healing, liberatory, or revolutionary. It fulfils this function only when - [pbCITEMOR2022 | Diana Niepce's other side of dance](https://performingborders.live/writings/pbcitemor2022-diana-niepces-other-side-of-dance/) - O OUTRO LADO DA DANÇADiana Niepce This text is part of various reflections from our residency at CITEMOR festival - to read more writings and reflections, including an introduction to the festival and our residency there, see here. *** 14:30, Carapinheira & Lisboa, Portugal - Xavi & Diana meet on zoom the day after the - [pbCITEMOR2022 | reflections over cervejas and sardinhas](https://performingborders.live/writings/performingborderscitemor2022-reflections-over-cervejas-and-sardinhas/) - performingborders in residency at CITEMOR Festival 2022 28th July - 7th August We wanted to write these texts whilst the thoughts and ideas from this week-long residency were stuck to the bottom of our shoes and the experience kept fresh by the still itchy Mondego mosquito bites. CITEMOR festival is a rich micro-cosmos of intersecting - [pbCITEMOR2022 | Dinis Machados' Memórias Ternas de um Afecto Queer](https://performingborders.live/writings/performingborderscitemor2022-dinis-machado/) - A SAGRAÇÃO DA PRIMAVERA - MEMÓRIAS TERNAS DE UM AFECTO QUEERDinis MachadoThis text is part of various reflections from our residency at CITEMOR festival - to read more writings and reflections, including an introduction to the festival and our residency there, see here. *** 01:00, Coimbra, Portugal - Post-show conversation with Dinis at Tropical Bar - [pbCITEMOR2022 | Sofía Asencio's NOCHE CAÑON](https://performingborders.live/writings/performingborderscitemor2022-sofia-asencios/) - NOCHE CAÑONSofía Asencio This text is part of various reflections from our residency at CITEMOR festival - to read more writings and reflections, including an introduction to the festival and our residency there, see here. *** 17:00, Montemor, Portugal, during the festival’s traditional Sunday Sardinhada (sardine feast!) gathering between Marinheiro tasca and the Mondego river - [It is impossible to say everything here so I leave you with this | SERAFINE 1369](https://performingborders.live/writings/it-is-impossible-to-say-everything-here-so-i-leave-you-with-this-serafine-1369/) - This text & audio accompany the performance to camera commission 'It is impossible to say everything here so I leave you with this' by SERAFINE 1369. See the full commission here. To be read aloud after watching or/and whilst watching: Option to listen to the text here: Forming from the purrs of the past a - [Revolting Eyes: A Reflection on the Recording Resistance Symposium | Kevin Biderman](https://performingborders.live/writings/revolting-eyes-a-reflection-on-the-recording-resistance-symposium/) - https://storage.googleapis.com/performingborders-media/Videos/Revolting%20Eyes_%20A%20Reflection%20on%20the%20Recording%20Resistance%20Symposium.mp4 In 'Revolting Eyes' (above) experimental film-maker and researcher Kevin Biderman reflects on the issues tackled by the Recording Resistance Symposium which he organised in September 2017 as part of his AHRC-supported research residency at the MayDay Rooms, London. Event Summary: 'Activists have been navigating between the benefits and vulnerabilities of recording structures since long - [Guest post: Instant Dissidence | Brexit means... Antagonism](https://performingborders.live/writings/guest-post-instant-dissidence-brexit-means-antagonism/) - GEOGRAPHICAL CONTEXT DAY 28 - 10TH OCTOBER 2018 MARSDEN VILLAGE TO THE LOWRY (SALFORD) 21,3 MILES ON FOOT A BLOCKED FACEBOOK AD About a week before that day, Tamsin had let me know that a Facebook ad that Word of Warning had first tried to place to advertise One Last Dance - An Chéad Damhsa had - [A text on borders dedicated to my Border Terrier (Jack Russell cross), Hilda, who will be one year old on 29 September 2021 | Jade Montserrat | fragments for borderless futures](https://performingborders.live/writings/a-text-on-borders-dedicated-to-my-border-terrier-jack-russell-cross-hilda-who-will-be-one-year-old-on-29-september-2021-jade-montserrat-fragments-for-borderless-futures/) - This writing was created for perfromingborders’ 2021 e-journal: fragments for borderless futures. “I believe that my body, everybody, should be free to roam and wander, to work and to love wherever and whenever.” Jade Montserrat has contributed a meandering text to this year’s e-journal: fragments for borderless futures. In this writing, Montserrat creates a constellation of - [Holding Space | Syowia Kyambi | fragments for borderless futures](https://performingborders.live/writings/holding-space-syowia-kyambi-fragments-for-borderless-futures/) - This writing was created for perfromingborders’ 2021 e-journal: fragments for borderless futures.Syowia Kyambi explores borders and borderlessness in the collective in her writing about holding space and sheltering. In this piece, we hear more about her practice as an individual and in the collective Untethered Magic and how her work and practice are entangled with - [IN CRISIS: GET YOUR COMMS HEAD ON | Sagar Shah & Jemima Yong | fragments for borderless futures](https://performingborders.live/writings/in-crisis-get-your-comms-head-on-sagar-shah-jemima-yong-fragments-for-borderless-futures/) - This writing was created for perfromingborders’ 2021 e-journal:fragments for borderless futures. “How much of one’s self-image is one expected to discard, when protecting an institution’s image?” Jemima Yong and Sagar Shah get their comms heads on and consider the important boundary between the self and the institution in times of crisis - presenting three acts - [How do we increase access and inclusion while powering down civilization? | Vijay Mathew | fragments for borderless futures](https://performingborders.live/writings/how-do-we-increase-access-and-inclusion-while-powering-down-civilization-vijay-mathew-fragments-for-borderless-futures/) - This writing was created for perfromingborders’ 2021 e-journal: fragments for borderless futures. In Vijay Mathew’s text we are urged to consider the implications of working across borders and the increasing tax that this takes on our environment. In the text, Mathew also introduces a new digital tool ArtsCarbon.com which helps us keep track of our carbon - [There is no future | Elena Marchevska | fragments for borderless futures](https://performingborders.live/writings/there-is-no-future-elena-marchevska-fragments-for-borderless-futures/) - This writing was created for perfromingborders' 2021 e-journal: fragments for borderless futures. In Elena Marchevska’s text, we are challenged to consider the impossibility of a single borderless future and the necessity to consider fragmented experiences in our interpretation of future/s. Read the full text here: There is no future Image credit: ‘Mare mater’, 2021, performance - [Shifting Landscapes: A journal, Un diario | Alessandra Cianetti](https://performingborders.live/writings/shifting-landscapes-a-journal-un-diario-alessandra-cianetti/) - This work is part of the performingborders 2021 August newsletter: Shifting Landscapes A journal of scattered thoughts where the past eight months bled into a fictional timeline of previous years’ memories, a thick-to-navigate present, and sparks of future. An uneven journey into fragmented reflections that are looking at performingborders through the lenses of the conversations had - [Shifting Landscapes](https://performingborders.live/writings/shifting-landscapes/) - Over the past year, performingborders have been reflecting, holding spaces, and discussions with our ‘critical friends’ - to open up the systems and structures that we have employed in our work over the past few years. We want performingborders to be more border-free, borderless, or as borderless as it can be under capitalist structures that - [Shifting Landscapes: Entre acá y allá, Encuentros Solitarios | Anahi Saravia Herrera](https://performingborders.live/writings/shifting-landscapes-entre-aca-y-alla-encuentros-solitarios-anahi-saravia-herrera/) - This work is part of the performingborders 2021 August newsletter: Shifting Landscapes I am writing this after a difficult few weeks, a difficult few months, a difficult few years. In the past month, I’ve gotten COVID, been sick, had to isolate, had a bereavement, attended Zoom funerals, all alongside working on precarious contracts and not seeing - [Whatever Possessed You To Perform?](https://performingborders.live/writings/whatever-possessed-you-to-perform/) - By Tuna Erdem & Seda Ergul (Istanbul Queer Art Collective) This work is part of the performingborders 2021 August newsletter: Shifting Landscapes ONE: As a prelude to our musings on the subject of “automation and possession in live art and performance”, which we believe to be radically different from acting proper in film and theatre, let - [What the hELL she doin'](https://performingborders.live/writings/what-the-hell-she-doin/) - This work is part of the performingborders 2021 commission Recipes for Autonomy by Syowia Kyambi. “What the hELL she doin!” is a collective of four female-identifying artists from across the African continent and its Diasporas. Common to our respective practices are touchstones, which include but are not limited to: the body and what gets embodied, remembering - [Spell 1: Tehno-vrăjitoarea | Texno-drabarni | The TechnoWitch | Mihaela Drăgan](https://performingborders.live/writings/spell-1-tehno-vrajitoarea-texno-drabarni-the-technowitch-mihaela-dragan/) - This work is part of the performingborders 2021 commission Spells for a border town (retrocedare) by Diana Damian Martin. Audio in Romani and Romanian. Transcript in English and in Romani and Romanian below. ENGLISH: Spell 1: The TechnoWitch Mihaela Drăgan The girl asked me to read her fortune, she wanted to see the future. I saw the - [Spell 4: Spell against the state-extract from 'The State has no time for Coronavirus’ by Natalia Graur| Diana Damian Martin](https://performingborders.live/writings/spell-4-spell-against-the-state/) - This work is part of the performingborders 2021 commission Spells for a border town (retrocedare) by Diana Damian Martin. Extract from 'The State has no time for Coronavirus’ by Natalia Graur, in Romanian and English. ROMANIAN: Statul nu are timp de Coronavirus (Cetățeni iresponsabili?) de Natalia Graur An extract from ‚Covid 19 story- research edition’, Arta Azi (Moldova) - [Spell 3: Spell against fascists | Mihaela Drăgan](https://performingborders.live/writings/spell-3-spell-against-fascists-mihaela-dragan/) - This work is part of the performingborders 2021 commission Spells for a border town (retrocedare) by Diana Damian Martin. Audio in English, short transcript in Romanian, Romani, and English below. ROMANIAN/ROMANI: Vrajă împotriva fașciștilor Mihaela Drăgan Împotriva sistemelor politice de dreapta și a dictatorilor din toată lumea, Roma Futurism propune tehno-blesteme ca acesta: Fie ca tu [aici se - [Spell 8: Spell for cross-border ecologies-a herbal journey across performing borders archive | Diana Damian Martin](https://performingborders.live/writings/spell-8-spell-for-cross-border-ecologies-a-herbal-journey-across-performing-borders-archive-diana-damian-martin/) - This work is part of the performingborders 2021 commission Spells for a border town (retrocedare) by Diana Damian Martin. A herbal micro-journey across the performing borders archive Anason (Aniseed)On the right of love and movement (Lavender Man- Tania El Khoury and Mohamad Ali “Dali” Agrebi) Ciuboțica-cucului (Primrose)On border contradictions and acts of mis-handling (Tara Fatehi Irani) Cătină - [Spell 6: Spell for independence-extract from Manifesto for an independent cultural sector in Moldova | Diana Damian Martin.](https://performingborders.live/writings/spell-6-spell-for-independence-extract-from-manifesto-for-an-independent-cultural-sector-in-moldova/) - This work is part of the performingborders 2021 commission Spells for a border town (retrocedare) by Diana Damian Martin. An extract from the Manifesto for independent cultural scene in the Republic of Moldova in Romanian, English translation below. ROMANIAN: În Republica Moldova activează un număr mare de inițiative și organizații culturale independente, reunite sub un concept mai larg - [Guest post: Instant Dissidence | First rehearsal of 10-minute solo at the PATS building](https://performingborders.live/writings/guest-post-rita-marcalo-first-rehearsal-of-10-minute-solo-at-the-pats-building/) - DAY 1 - 3RD SEPTEMBER 2018 AVEIRO (PORTUGAL) TO THE UNIVERSITY OF SURREY (GUILDFORD) 1,274 MILES BY PLANE Rita’s thoughts “I wasn’t expecting to feel so emotional during the rehearsal, but once I was there (at the very place where I danced in the UK for the very first time), this wave of emotion washed - [Guest Post: De-Bordering - A Performed Visual Dialogue by Áine Phillips and Helena Walsh](https://performingborders.live/writings/guest-post-de-bordering-a-performed-visual-dialogue-by-aine-phillips-and-helena-walsh/) - Áine Phillips and Helena Walsh are Irish artists and friends, who met at Limerick School of Art and Design over twenty years ago. They have collaborated on numerous feminist performance projects, inspiring and supporting each other as artists. Both have lent their creativity to urgent political campaigns, such as the successful campaign to repeal the - [Reflections on performingborders | LIVE as part of Queer Contact 2019](https://performingborders.live/writings/reflections-on-performingborders-live-as-part-of-queer-contact-2019/) - Reflections on performingborders | LIVE as part of Queer Contact 2019 Guests: Nima Séne and Tuna Erdem Venue: YES, Manchester Manchester has a historical pull for migrants. It has been, over the centuries, a city that has welcomed people from all backgrounds, from the Irish arriving in look for work during the Industrial Revolution, to the Jewish community - [LADA Study Room Guide: Performing Borders](https://performingborders.live/writings/lada-study-room-guide-performing-borders/) - In spring I have been invited by the Live Art Development Agency to conceive and devise a Study Room Guide on the relations between Live Art and borders: Performing Borders: A Study Room Guide on physical and conceptual borders within Live Art. It has been a pleasure to go through the rich range of free - [An Awful Experience, Proper Hell | A reflection by Riccardo Matlakas](https://performingborders.live/writings/an-awful-experience-proper-hell-a-reflection-by-riccardo-matlakas/) - Today we make space for a tale of the irrationality of border control with a reflection of performingborders interviewee Riccardo Matlakas on his recent lived experience of detention, dehumanisation, and injustice at the US border. This is an unusual performingborders entry but these experiences are far from unusual and keep being happening too often, to too many people, - ['Portable Borders' review for Crossings Journal](https://performingborders.live/writings/portable-borders-review-for-crossings-journal/) - Amazing contributions from activists, scholars, artists and writers for the Special Issue of Crossings: Journal of Migration & Culture (Volume 7, Issue 2) curated by Dr. Federica Mazzara: 'Lampedusa: Cultural and Artistic Spaces for Migrant Voices'. Look at the table of contents below and ask your library to book a copy! http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-issue,id=3215/ Thanks a lot to Federica for inviting me - [Parallels, correspondences and mirrors – a response to PBLIVE20 | Daniella Valz Gen](https://performingborders.live/writings/parallels-correspondences-and-mirrors-a-response-to-pblive20-daniella-valz-gen/) - Parallels, correspondences and mirrors, on ways of relating beyond the screen.A response to Unbordering and Fuglen, der. I miss the tangible sensation of being part of the audience as a body, instead of pushing through digital fatigue and the reflection of my own tired face on the screen. In witnessing performance, I realise how essential - [Collective Writing | let me give you some breathing space](https://performingborders.live/writings/collective-writing-let-me-give-you-some-breathing-space/) - The breath breathes us as we breathe the breath moves us regardless I have to think ahead I have to keep listening patience time space I need to stop It’s ok not to read everything I have to let go of the burden that isn’t mine alone to carry I feel responsible to so many ## Interviews - [Conversa com Lígia Soares, por Dori Nigro | Live Art Writers Network x Citemor 2026](https://performingborders.live/interviews/conversa-com-ligia-soares-por-dori-nigro-live-art-writers-network-x-citemor-2026/) - Esta entrevista foi conduzida como método de reflexão critica por Dori Nigro, no âmbito do projecto Live Art Writers Network x Citemor em resposta ao trabalho Dressing Room de Lígia Soares, apresentado no festival a dia 18 de Julho 2026. Mais informação acerca do festival e do projecto, assim como outras entrevistas, reflexões e escrita - [Guest Post: Alesa Herero | interview with Dr Licia Cianetti](https://performingborders.live/interviews/guest-post-alesa-herero-interviewed-by-dr-licia-cianetti/) - Alesa Herero is an Italian artist-activist, based in Lisbon. She was a co-founder of the feminist, intersectional, anti-racist organisation INMUNE – O Instituto da Mulher Negra em Portugal (Institute of the Black Woman in Portugal), and currently works at Teatro Griot for the project Slate: Black: Arts: World, a new transnational partnership to promote the - [queeringborders: Marikiscrycrycry | February 2018](https://performingborders.live/interviews/queeringborders-marikiscrycrycry-february-2018/) - The first volume of queeringborders focuses on choreographer Malik Nashad Sharpe, who is currently based in the UK and makes work under the alias Marikiscrycrycry. Operating with an expansive and emotional choreographic proposition, their work is about the socially radical practice of imagining new worlds; dances that motorise the conditions necessary for possibility and futurity; performances - [queeringborders: Greg Wohead | March 2018](https://performingborders.live/interviews/queeringborders-greg-wohead-march-2018/) - For the second edition of queeringborders, I had the pleasure of paying a visit to American-born, British artist Greg Wohead. Greg’s work is a world of wonder. Originally from Texas, he makes theatre performances, one-on-one pieces and audio works, prioritising a sense of the off-centre, the slippery, the queer. The sensitivity with which he explores - [queeringborders: Sebastian H-W | April 2018](https://performingborders.live/interviews/queeringborders-sebastian-hau-walker-april-2018/) - For April's instalment of queeringborders, Xavier de Sousa and live artist Sebastian H-W go trainspotting from the comfort of Sebastian's East End of London studio, right next to Stratford's Olympics Stadium and the thoroughly imposing Westfield shopping centre. The studio is right in the middle of council buildings and next to a railway, alongside which - [queeringborders: Ray Young | May 2018](https://performingborders.live/interviews/queeringborders-rachael-young-may-2018/) - Ray Young made a massive splash into the performance art/dance scene a couple of years ago when they premiered OUT, her third full show, which was created in duet with Dwayne Antony, and performed at The Yard Theatre in Hackney Wick, East London. The context of that performance was interesting to the understanding of how - [queeringborders: Tarik Elmoutawakil](https://performingborders.live/interviews/queeringborders-tarik-elmoutawakil/) - For the July edition of queeringborders, I sit with Tarik Elmoutawakil. A curator, producer, artistic director, artist. A visionary. A futuristic alien draped in neon. Tarik is a rare gem. A second generation migrant living in Brighton, he has been a Director at the Marlborough Theatre for the past 7 years and was instrumental in - [queeringborders | Copenhagen Landscapes](https://performingborders.live/interviews/queeringborders-copenhagen-landscapes/) - This instalment of queeringborders, which we called Copenhagen Landscapes, emerged from a research residency between artists Xavier de Sousa and An* at Warehouse9, in Copenhagen, on the lead up to the city’s 24th Pride Parade in August 2019. This volume is composed of four self-contained interviews with artists and activists from Copenhagen’s queer and live-art - [The Center for Cultural Decontamination |October 2018](https://performingborders.live/interviews/the-center-for-cultural-decontamination-october-2018/) - performingborders (Alessandra Cianetti): The Center for Cultural Decontamination (CZKD) is a ‘place where people come to feel free’. Since 1995 you have been proposing an internationally relevant and brave art programme as a way to challenge ‘nationalism, xenophobia, and any kind of violence’. After more than twenty years, how is the ‘decontamination’ going? What are the - [Eca Eps | December 2017](https://performingborders.live/interviews/eca-eps-december-2017/) - performingborders (Alessandra Cianetti): Eca Eps' response: https://storage.googleapis.com/performingborders-media/Audio/Eca%20Eps/Eca%20Eps_Answer%201.wav From Chibok To Calais Live In the performance, I read out the navigation route of a round trip from Chibok, northern Nigeria to Calais and back. My voice was drowned out by a barking police security dog and interruption by water bombs being thrown at the reader. In - [There There | December 2018](https://performingborders.live/interviews/there-there-december-2018/) - performingborders (Alessandra Cianetti): Dana and Bojana you have founded There There - a 50% Romanian 50% Serbian performance company - in 2010 and I have been lucky enough to attend both Eastern Europeans for Dummies at the RichMix in 2016 and Trigger Warning this summer at the National Maritime Museum. Both fun and disturbing experiences - [Ireland Focus 2/3 | Suzanne Walsh, Katherine Nolan, Elvira Santamaría-Torres](https://performingborders.live/interviews/ireland-focus-23-suzanne-walsh-katherine-nolan-elvira-santamaria-torres/) - performingborders focus on Ireland is the result of the Fire Station Artists Studios (FSAS) International Curator Residency I undertook from 30 April to 9 May 2017 in Dublin. During the residency I have been discussing live art, borders and contemporary Europe with ten artists and art professionals in both Dublin and Belfast. The sound-interviews will be released in - [Ireland Focus 3/3 | Brian Patterson, Amanda Coogan, Dominic Thorpe, Níamh Murphy](https://performingborders.live/interviews/ireland-focus-33-brian-patterson-amanda-coogan-dominic-thorpe-niamh-murphy/) - performingborders focus on Ireland is the result of the Fire Station Artists Studios (FSAS) International Curator Residency I undertook from 30 April to 9 May 2017 in Dublin. During the residency I have been discussing live art, borders and contemporary Europe with ten artists and art professionals in both Dublin and Belfast. The sound-interviews will be released in - [Ireland Focus 1/3 | Áine Phillips, Moran Been-noon, Noel Kelly](https://performingborders.live/interviews/ireland-focus-13-aine-phillips-moran-been-noon-noel-kelly/) - performingborders focus on Ireland is the result of the Fire Station Artists Studios (FSAS) International Curator Residency I undertook from 30 April to 9 May 2017 in Dublin. During the residency I have been discussing live art, borders and contemporary Europe with ten artists and art professionals in both Dublin and Belfast. The sound-interviews will be - [Burong Zeng | November 2025](https://performingborders.live/interviews/burong-zeng-november-2025/) - November. London. I enter the doors of Hoxton Hall to be embraced by a feast of zines, performances, screenings, food, artworks, live podcasts, workshops. Alternative Roots is a nine-hour space curated by Ming Strike - with the support of Kakilang - which centres East and Southeast Asian artists' cross-border, cross-language, and cross-genre practices. The warmth - [Pelin Başaran | September 2019](https://performingborders.live/interviews/pelin-basaran-september-2019/) - Pelin Başaran is a programmer at Contact Manchester, one of the leading theatre and experimental arts venue in the Manchester area. After collaborating to deliver the first performingborders | LIVE event as part of Queer Contact Festival 2019, Pelin talks to curators Alessandra and Xavier about her experience as a curator and producer working in - [Yudi Wu | January 2025](https://performingborders.live/interviews/yudi-wu-january-2025/) - Yudi Wu is an Exeter-based artist whose practice is engaged in deep community-led live-art work. Yudi’s practice spans multimedia formats, creating generous spaces for vulnerability, connection, and resistance among queer, migrant, and neurodiverse ecologies. Their work thoughtfully navigates the complexities and contradictions of presenting a layered, cross-border art practice within the UK context. We had - [Slow Cooking with Sonia Sandhu - Interview](https://performingborders.live/interviews/slow-cooking-with-sonia-sandhu/) - Welcome to Slow Cooking, a new multimedia podcast about all things food, art-making, social politics and environmentalism. This conversation with Sonia Sandhu was recorded at Theatre in the Mill (Bradford, UK) and is published in three different formats: Video, Audio and Text. For this interview, we are joined by Bradford’s own chef and artist extraordinaire, - [Slow Cooking with Estabrak / إستبرق - Interview](https://performingborders.live/interviews/slow-cooking-with-estabrak-إستبرق-interview/) - Welcome to Slow Cooking, a new multimedia podcast about all things food, art-making, social politics and environmentalism. This conversation with Estabrak / إستبرق is published in three different formats: Video, Audio and Text. To access the other formats and episodes, simply follow this link: https://performingborders.live/commissions/slow-cooking/ In this episode, we are cooking with artist Estabrak / - [Slow Cooking with Rebecca Moradalizadeh - Interview](https://performingborders.live/interviews/slow-cooking-with-rebecca-moradalizadeh-interview/) - Welcome to Slow Cooking, a new multimedia podcast about all things food, art-making, social politics and environmentalism. This conversation with Rebecca Moradalizadeh is published in three different formats: Video, Audio and Text. To access the other formats and episodes, simply follow this link: https://performingborders.live/commissions/slow-cooking/ Born in London, based in Porto and with Iranian ancestry, Rebecca’s - [Marica as a space to talk about queerness, indigenaiety and liberation | Movimiento Maricas Bolivia (English)](https://performingborders.live/interviews/movimiento-maricas-bolivia-english/) - This text is part of Anahí Saravia Herrera’s commission Embodying Resistance/Encuerpando Resistencia: unfinished reflections from the Bolivian territory - see the full commission with further interviews and texts here. Movimiento Maricas Bolivia (MMB) is a project run by Edgar Soliz Guzmán and Roberto Condori, with twelve years of work behind them. MMB is a community-based - [Marica as a space to talk about queerness, indigeneity, and liberation | Interview with Movimiento Maricas Bolivia (Spanglish)](https://performingborders.live/interviews/interview-with-movimiento-maricas-bolivia-spanglish/) - This text is part of Anahí Saravia Herrera’s commission Embodying Resistance/Encuerpando Resistencia: unfinished reflections from the Bolivian territory - see the full commission with further interviews and texts here. Movimieto Maricas Bolivia (MMB) is a project run by Edgar Soliz Guzmán and Roberto Condori, with twelve years of work behind them. MMB is a community-based - [The street as an artistic/political space | Interview with Alejandra Del Carpio + Calle: Bienal del Performance  (English)](https://performingborders.live/interviews/interview-with-calle-bienal-del-performance-english/) - This text is part of Anahí Saravia Herrera’s commission Embodying Resistance/Encuerpando Resistencia: unfinished reflections from the Bolivian territory - see the full commission with further interviews and texts here. When we first began to talk, Alejandra Del Carpio (Ale) told me that Bolivia was the abandoned country for the performing arts in Latin America - - [La calle como espacio artístico/político | Interview with Alejandra Del Carpio + Calle: Bienal del Performance (Spanglish)](https://performingborders.live/interviews/interview-with-calle-bienal-del-performance-spanglish-2/) - This text is part of Anahí Saravia Herrera’s commission Embodying Resistance/ Encuerpando Resistencia: unfinished reflections from the Bolivian territory - see the full commission with further interviews and texts here. When we first began to talk, Alejandra Del Carpio (Ale) told me that Bolivia was the abandoned country for the performing arts in Latin America - [Pensamiento semilla/ Seed thinking | Interview with Germinal (English)](https://performingborders.live/interviews/interview-with-germinal-english/) - This text is part of Anahí Saravia Herrera’s commission Embodying Resistance/Encuerpando Resistencia: unfinished reflections from the Bolivian territory - see the full commission with further interviews and texts here. "I am Germinal, a research semillero, a constant opening, at the beginning more than a dozen bodies composed me, right now two curanderas1 think with me. - [Pensamiento semilla/ Seed thinking | Interview with Germinal (Spanglish)](https://performingborders.live/interviews/interview-with-germinal-spanglish/) - This text is part of Anahí Saravia Herrera’s commission Embodying Resistance/Encuerpando Resistencia: unfinished reflections from the Bolivian territory - see the full commission with further interviews and texts HERE. “Soy Germinal, un semillero de investigación, una constante inaugural, al inicio más de una docena de cuerpxs me componían, ahora mismo 2 curanderas piensan junto a - [Bodies on the line: Creativity as a tool for struggle | Interview with Danitza Luna from Mujeres Creando (English)](https://performingborders.live/interviews/interview-with-danitza-luna-from-mujeres-creando/) - This text is part of Anahí Saravia Herrera’s commission Embodying Resistance/Encuerpando Resistencia: unfinished reflections from the Bolivian territory - see the full commission with further interviews and texts here. Mujeres Creando is an anarcho-feminist movement based in Bolivia (across many different cities, but with the strongest roots in La Paz). It is a group completely - [Poniendo el cuerpo: Creatividad como instrumento de lucha | Entrevista con Danitza Luna, de Mujeres Creando (Spanglish)](https://performingborders.live/interviews/entrevista-con-danitza-luna-de-mujeres-creando/) - This text is part of Anahí Saravia Herrera’s commission Embodying Resistance/Encuerpando Resistencia: unfinished reflections from the Bolivian territory - see the full commission with further interviews and texts here. Mujeres Creando is an anarcho-feminist movement based in Bolivia (across many different cities, but with the strongest roots in La Paz). It is a group completely - [La calle como espacio artístico/político | Interview with Alejandra Del Carpio + Calle: Bienal de Performance (Spanglish)](https://performingborders.live/interviews/interview-with-calle-bienal-del-performance-spanglish/) - This text is part of Anahí Saravia Herrera’s commission Embodying Resistance/ Encuerpando Resistencia: unfinished reflections from the Bolivian territory - see the full commission with further interviews and texts HERE. When we first began to talk, Alejandra Del Carpio (Ale) told me that Bolivia was the abandoned country for the performing arts in Latin America - [On Work | teresa cisneros in conversation with Marquard Smith](https://performingborders.live/interviews/on-work-teresa-cisneros-in-conversation-with-marquand-smith/) - This contribution is part of On Work, a series of conversations by Alessandra Cianetti (June 2022 – ongoing) with UK-based and international practitioners to learn, unlearn, gather and share knowledge to build safe and fair spaces for collective labour. The following conversation is an exchange between teresa cisneros and Dr. Marquard Smith based on some prompts - [Bodies in Resistance | Encuerpando Resistencia | Conversation with Clara M. García](https://performingborders.live/interviews/bodies-in-resistance-encuerpando-resistencia-conversation-with-clara-m-garcia/) - Bodies in Resistance | Encuerpando Resistencia is a series of interviews and research focusing on the body as a site of resistance in feminist and performance practices. It is a series in dialogue with artists, activists, and those sitting in spaces of embodied practice, referencing the legacy of feminist Latin American movements and their work - [Shifting Landscapes: On temporalities and process of transformation | Dinis Machado](https://performingborders.live/interviews/shifting-landscapes-dinis-machado/) - This work is part of the performingborders 2021 August newsletter: Shifting Landscapes Dinis Machado is a choreographer whose work is of outstanding beauty. A balancing act between delicate and harsh realities that occupy spaces of wonder and intrigue, inviting the spectator to become an explorer in Dinis' ruminations on their own place in the world. As an - [Fronteiras | Interview with mandla](https://performingborders.live/interviews/fronteiras-interview-with-mandla/) - Fronteiras is a new performingborders series engaging in research on language, translation and cross-border working methodologies, tapping into how language and perception of cultural signifiers changes when working transnationally. mandla is a poet and performance maker based in Manchester who has been making work and experimenting artistically from a place of multifaceted borders and frontiers - [Bodies in Resistance | Encuerpando Resistencia | Conversation with Thais di Marco](https://performingborders.live/interviews/bodies-in-resistance-encuerpando-resistencia-conversation-with-thais-di-marco/) - Listen to the interview here: Bodies in Resistance | Encuerpando Resistencia is a series of interviews and research focusing on the body as a site of resistance in feminist and performance practices. It is a series in dialogue with artists, activists, and those sitting in spaces of embodied practice, referencing the legacy of feminist Latin - [On Work | Interview with Jack Ky Tan](https://performingborders.live/interviews/on-work-interview-with-jack-ky-tan/) - Alessandra Cianetti / performingborders: I would like to start this interview from what is considered the boring side of our life as art workers: admin. More specifically from that tedious yet scary tool that stresses most people when dealing with formalised work relationships: the contract. Not that I deeply enjoy admin per se, however, the - [On Work | Interview with Giulia Casalini + Niya B](https://performingborders.live/interviews/on-work-interview-with-giulia-casalini-niya-b/) - Alessandra Cianetti / performingborders: I am interested in knowing more about live art practitioners that have multi-faceted practices and that create flexible, informal, shifting, and ongoing ways of working together so - and first of all - thank you Giulia and Niya for accepting my invitation for this interview. I am aware you collaborate on - [Fronteiras | Interview with Two Destination Language](https://performingborders.live/interviews/fronteiras-interview-with-two-destination-language/) - Fronteiras is a new performingborders series engaging in research on language, translation and cross-border working methodologies, tapping into how language and perception of cultural signifiers changes when working transnationally. Two Destination Language are composed by Katherina Radeva, a Thracian woman from Bulgaria and Alister Lownie, a Scottish man. Together they explore multi-lingual and aesthestical approaches - [Fronteiras | A conversation with Ana Rocha](https://performingborders.live/interviews/fronteiras-a-conversation-with-ana-rocha/) - Fronteiras is a new performingborders series engaging in research on language, translation and cross-border working methodologies, tapping into how language and perception of cultural signifiers changes when working transnationally. Ana Rocha is, amongst many other things, a dramaturg and programmer based in Porto, with whom I have had the pleasure to work with and experienced - [Riccardo Matlakas | November 2017](https://performingborders.live/interviews/riccardo-matlakas-november-2017/) - performingborders (Alessandra Cianetti): Melting Borders by Riccardo Matlakas, Yerevan, Armenia (2017). Photos by Elizabeth Gerdeman. Riccardo Matlakas: performingborders (Alessandra): The Last Soldier by Riccardo Matlakas, Stepanakert, Artzakh (2017). Performed at the border city between Karabakh/Artzakh and Azerbajan. Photos by Armyne Vanyan. Riccardo: performingborders (Alessandra): Saffron Tears by Riccardo Matlakas, Tehran, Iran (2017). Photos by Roudabeh Takarami, Fereidoun Farboud, - [Xavier de Sousa | September 2017](https://performingborders.live/interviews/xavier-de-sousa-september-2017/) - performingborders (Alessandra Cianetti): Xavier, last year I saw two versions of your piece POST. One in June at the Camden People’s Theatre as part of ‘Before the Referendum’ event and one in December at OvalHouse. Between the two shows, the Brexit referendum happened. Blending countries’ histories and personal journeys, POST addresses the ‘shifting political and geographical - [Lois Keidan | February 2016](https://performingborders.live/interviews/lois-keidan-february-2016/) - performingborders (Alessandra Cianetti): In the publication ‘Live, Art and Performance’ Adrian Heathfield sees four main ways to address the multiform approaches of Live Art practices: the categories of temporality, displacement, flesh and ‘elemental life’. Do you think this definition refers specifically to UK and European practices? Or does it extend to the US tradition as - [Tania El Khoury | March 2016](https://performingborders.live/interviews/tania-el-khoury-march-2016/) - performingborders (Alessandra Cianetti): Let’s start from why you are here in London today 29th February. You are presenting the project ‘Gardens Speak’ at the Battersea Arts Centre whose website describes it as ‘an interactive sound installation containing the oral histories of 10 ordinary people who have been buried in the gardens of Syrian homes. Each - [Núria Güell | April 2016](https://performingborders.live/interviews/nuria-guell-april-2016/) - Original Spanish version of the answers below - Translated by Iberia Perez and Rosa Perez Monclus with Brian Stone. performingborders (Alessandra Cianetti): Núria, your work strikes me as a practice that consistently addresses the process of externally imposing individual and collective identities through political symbols, power structures, and national and international legal constraints. Your multi-disciplinary - [Helena Walsh | May 2016](https://performingborders.live/interviews/helenawalsh/) - performingborders (Alessandra Cianetti): Helena, you have been working as a live artist for almost fifteen years now and your practice focuses on the relationship between power structures and the female body. The emarginated body, the subjected body but also the militant one seems to me the centre of your work. How this line of practice - [Almir Koldzic | June 2016](https://performingborders.live/interviews/almir-koldzic-june-2016/) - performingborders (Alessandra Cianetti): Almir, your are the Co-Founder and Co-Director of Counterpoints Arts and your work has been focusing on ‘developing creative strategies for making refugees and migrants’ contributions become more recognised and welcomed within the British arts, history and culture’. How did your commitment and work with refugees start, and why? Almir Koldzic: I - [Natasha Davis | July 2016](https://performingborders.live/interviews/natasha-davis-july-2016/) - performingborders (Alessandra Cianetti): Natasha, I would like to start our conversation by asking you to briefly introduce a body of work you realised between 2009 and 2013: Rupture, Asphyxia, Suspended, and Internal Terrains. They started from the geopolitical situation in ex-Yugoslavia during the 90s, addressing your personal story and wounds. In your article ‘Staging an - [Marilena Zaroulia | August 2016](https://performingborders.live/interviews/marilena-zaroulia-august-2016/) - performingborders (Alessandra Cianetti): Marilena, you are one of the founders of Inside/Outside Europe, a collaborative research network that since 2013 has been addressing the ‘study of performances of crises and crisis as performance in Europe’ after the 2008 global recession. In these first three years of research, how do you think the European performance scenes - [Sara Zaltash | September 2016](https://performingborders.live/interviews/sara-zaltash-september-2016/) - Listen to: My courage to imagine your courage, poem by Sara Zaltash (text below) performingborders (Alessandra Cianetti): Sara, from 21st March 2017 you will be embarking on Ah-Be (in the direction of a rose) - Blue (dar maseereh yek goleh roz): a 573-day walking journey starting from the source of the River Thames along the waterways of - [Kai Syng Tan | October 2016](https://performingborders.live/interviews/kai-syng-tan-october-2016/) - performingborders (Alessandra Cianetti): Let’s talk about running (my sport-related worst nightmare!). While in the September interview artist Sara Zaltash explores walking as a live art medium, since 2014 you have been presenting RUN! RUN! RUN! An ‘international body for research’ that ‘examines the body and mind in motion (such as via running) as a creative - [Federica Mazzara | November 2016](https://performingborders.live/interviews/federica-mazzara-november/) - performingborders (Alessandra Cianetti): Federica, with our conversation we are leaving the realm of live art to enter that of aesthetics. Since 2008, alongside your academic research, you have been writing the blog ‘Moving Borders: The Aesthetics of Migration’; a great resource on cultures of migration. Lately you have also been researching the aesthetics of subversion - [Lisa Alexander | December 2016](https://performingborders.live/interviews/lisa-alexander-december-2016/) - performingborders (Alessandra Cianetti): I first came across your work on current European issues at the symposium ‘Crisis’ in Excess: Performing Europe Today’ organised by Marilena Zaroulia last March at Winchester University, and thought that it is very relevant for our conversation in performingborders. There you presented a project that dealt with what seemed at the - [Michaela Crimmin | January 2017](https://performingborders.live/interviews/michaela-crimmin-january-2017/) - performingborders (Alessandra Cianetti): Michaela, you are the founder and co-director of Culture+Conflict, ‘a not-for-profit agency focusing on art produced in, or in response to, conflict and post-conflict situations across the world’. What are the conflicts and art practices you have been focusing on lately? As curator, academic and director, how do you think the notion - [Guest Post by Elena Marchevska](https://performingborders.live/interviews/guest-post-by-elena-marchevska/) - Misplaced women?: The concept of hospitality in times of displacement When I was developing the concept for my residency with Live Art Development Agency, my thoughts were constantly with the people in flux, those who were crossing or waiting at borders for days, sometimes months. Vivid memories of my childhood in war-torn Yugoslavia emerged. I remembered my - [Lucia Palmero | February 2017](https://performingborders.live/interviews/lucia-palmero-february-2017/) - performingborders (Alessandra Cianetti): The waiting room at Ventimiglia train station. Migrants. Passengers. Hopes. Fears. Lucia, you have started this year with the moving collective action ‘Don’t stop the beauty’ at the border between Italy and France. Why that border? Who and what did the action involve? Lucia Palmero: I was born and grew up in - [Bill Aitchison | Interview for Something Other](https://performingborders.live/interviews/bill-aitchison-interview-for-something-other/) - A performingborders video interview with artist Bill Aitchison for Something Other's Chapter Second: On Migration. Presented as part of Reading the Internet: On Migration on 27 April 2017. performingborders (Alessandra Cianetti): Bill, in our email exchange you mentioned that for you Brexit started five years ago because the income-based law for British citizens married to non-UK ones does - [Ireland Focus and Beyond | Martin Bureau](https://performingborders.live/interviews/ireland-focus-and-beyond-martin-bureau/) - performingborders (Alessandra Cianetti): Martin, I was introduced to your long-term and complex work through your film ‘Bonfire’ that was shot in Belfast with the support of artists who I interviewed for the performingborders Ireland Focus. With your practice we leave the realm of live art to enter the one of documentation and multi-media artworks in - [Mengting Zhuo | October 2017](https://performingborders.live/interviews/mengting-zhuo-october-2017/) - https://vimeo.com/236248324 performingborders (Alessandra Cianetti): Mengting, you presented your piece ‘Before the Wall’ at the Sheffield Migration Matters Festival this year. A piece that references the Kafkian bureaucracy process that, at different degrees, surrounds and imprisons the lives of many migrants. Can you tell us a bit more about this version of the work? Mengting Zhuo: This - [Esther Planas | January 2018](https://performingborders.live/interviews/esther-planas-january-2018/) - performingborders (Alessandra Cianetti): https://vimeo.com/236116602 No España/ No Spain KV 5/38-13/A Spain No No Blog Esther Planas: In 1991, one summer night in Majorca a well-known journalist told me about something he had considered for years and this opened-up to me the whole notion of what is it that is going on with us in Spain and - [queeringborders interview series by Xavier de Sousa](https://performingborders.live/interviews/queeringborders-interview-series-by-xavier-de-sousa/) - “Our capacity to know is dependent on our capacity to have a home” Guilaine Kinouani Home. In her excellent and hard-hitting article on Epistemic Homelessness, Kinouani explores the dichotomies between being present in a specific place and how alienating it can be to constantly being aware of not belonging to it, specifically as people of - [Rita Marcalo | May 2018](https://performingborders.live/interviews/rita-marcalo-may-2018/) - performingborders is a ONE LAST DANCE - AN CHÉAD DAMHSA partner. The online platform will follow Rita Marcalo’s journey from Guildford (UK) to Cloughjordan (Ireland) through the publication of Rita’s reflections during the unfolding of her journey, and two interviews with the artist - one at the beginning and one at the end of the project - by - [Tanja Ostojić | June 2018](https://performingborders.live/interviews/tanja-ostojic-june-2018/) - performingborders (Alessandra Cianetti): Tanja, your practice has been concerned with the notion of the border for many years and I wonder, what role in your opinion do borders play in interfering with, shaping, or influencing your specific approach to Live Art? Tanja Ostojić: To be honest the border itself, physically, is not something I related - [Guest post: Abdul Abdullah and Pao Houa Her | double interview by Loredana Paracciani](https://performingborders.live/interviews/guest-post-abdul-abdullah-and-pao-houa-double-interview-by-loredana-paracciani/) - Curator Loredana Paracciani interviews Abdul Abdullah and Pao Houa Her, two of the artists featured in the group exhibition Diaspora: Exit, Exile, Exodus of Southeast Asia at MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum, Chiang Mai, Thailand. Loredana Paracciani: Diaspora: Exit, Exile, Exodus of Southeast Asia is a group exhibition of contemporary art from Southeast Asia that considers - [Lynn Lu | July 2018](https://performingborders.live/interviews/lynn-lu-july-2018/) - performingborders (Alessandra Cianetti): Lynn, when we met you were just back from your performance Haumapuhia Rising as part of The Performance Arcade, Wellington, New Zealand. You floated face-down in the sea for approximately 20 hours in total in the city’s harbour as a performative piece inspired by the Māori legend of a girl, Haumapuhia, who was - [Tara Fatehi Irani | August 2018](https://performingborders.live/interviews/tara-fatehi-irani-august-2018/) - performingborders (Alessandra Cianetti): Duration, seriality, exploration of online and offline archival practices are consistently present in your work. I’m thinking here at Mishandled Archive and 30 Seconds of Today as examples and how they record and reactivate historical, spacial and sensorial memories. Can you tell us more about how in the creation of your works, - [Guest post: Zoran Todorović | interview by Burong (曾不容) - (Eng/Chi)](https://performingborders.live/interviews/guest-post-zoran-todorovic-interview-by-burong-曾不容-eng-chi/) - The Transgression of Bodily fluids Crossing Boundaries: An Interview with Zoran Todorović on the ‘Integration: Illegal People’ Project ***Chinese version below - Translated by Burong with thanks to Brian Stone****** Intro: In the 1960s American sci-fi novel ‘Dune’, the earth becomes so dry that the inhabitants have to wear a special ‘still suit’ that can - [Camille Barton | September 2018](https://performingborders.live/interviews/camille-barton-september-2018/) - performingborders (Alessandra Cianetti): Camille, I came across your work as the founder of The Collective Liberation Project when participating in the Embodied Social Change workshop you ran last April. Stemming from your personal experience of both political activism and the healing properties of dance, you devise shared and safe spaces for both - from your - [Guest post: EL Putnam | interview by Áine Phillips](https://performingborders.live/interviews/guest-post-el-putnam-interview-by-aine-phillips/) - Border Patrollers was a residency and public talk at LADA in July 2018 that engaged Irish and the UK live artists who are addressing the relationship between our two countries, especially looking at the Northern Ireland border as a potential locus of social and political problems post-Brexit. Led by Áine Phillips and funded by Culture Ireland, - [Emmanuel Guillaud | November 2018](https://performingborders.live/interviews/emmanuel-guillaud-november-2018/) - performingborders (Alessandra Cianetti): Emmanuel, with this interview we are exceeding the realm of performance and live art to talk about your international visual art projects on borders and displacement. However, in our conversation this summer, you described your multimedia installations as ‘performances of projections’ referring also to the concept of phantasmagoria. Would you mind to expand - [Instant Dissidence | Final interview​](https://performingborders.live/interviews/instant-dissidence-final-interview​/) - performingborders (Alessandra Cianetti): Rita, you finally arrived at Cloughjordan Ecovillage after a two-month walk and dance across the UK and Ireland. One Last Dance - An Chéad Damhsa must have been a very challenging process on both a physical and emotional level! I remember that in our interview in May, that we did before the - [Season Butler | January 2019](https://performingborders.live/interviews/season-butler-january-2019/) - performingborders (Alessandra Cianetti): Season, this year you presented the performance After Abendland in both London and Ormskirk as part of Lisa Alexander’s TO YOU TO YOU TO YOU Love letters to a Post(Europe). Lisa asked you to respond to her provocation (shared with performingborders in September) on new and old walls, austerity and love. Your - [; a place, of their own. | March 2019](https://performingborders.live/interviews/a-place-of-their-own-march-2019/) - https://vimeo.com/306081643 Credits: The Territories of Eile (Barracks), 2017, by ; a place, of their own. performingborders (Alessandra Cianetti): The Irish Republic and the UK. Borders. Personal stories. History. Paula and Sam, your multi-layered practice and research at and across the geopolitical border between the Irish Republic and the UK is an incredible source of interpretations and artistic - [Diana Damian Martin | April 2019](https://performingborders.live/interviews/diana-damian-martin-april-2019/) - performingborders (Alessandra Cianetti): Diana, as someone who works at the intersections of Live Art, political theory, curation, criticism and writing, your practice is a multi-layered, complex and exciting mix of academic research, experimental multi-media writing, and performative practice. I have been following your contributions for The Department of Feminist Conversations’ series ‘An Encounter’ and I - [Boedi Widjaja | May 2019](https://performingborders.live/interviews/boedi-widjaja-may-2019/) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CacBWEqzApw Path. 9, ))) ) ) )) (2018). Performed at Sungei Serangoon, Singapore, part of the Asian Film Archive State of Motion 2018: Serjarah-ku curated by Kamiliah Bahdar. Sound collaborator Tong Weijie, performed by Ng Weixuan. Video by Harry Chew performingborders (Alessandra Cianetti): ‘I’m not a political artist - I don't make work that - [Filippos Tsitsopoulos | August 2019](https://performingborders.live/interviews/filippos-tsitsopoulos-august-2019/) - performingborders (Alessandra Cianetti): Filippos, you were born in Athens, moved to Madrid to complete your studies, and now live and work between London and Madrid. Your exploration of performance, painting, digital art, video theatre has been widely and internationally shown since the ‘90s and I wonder how your practice has changed - if it has! - [Guest Post: Spirals (2013 - ongoing) by Hari Marini - PartSuspended](https://performingborders.live/interviews/guest-post-spirals-by-hari-marini-partsuspended/) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddi4pPm5Fmk&feature=youtu.be Spirals: Autoportet (Belgrade 2019) Spirals (2013 - ongoing) is a poetic journey that crosses geographical borders and unites European female voices in an exchange of languages, cultures, personal narratives and modes of expression. Through the symbol of a spiral, the project explores thresholds, migration, path, nature, home and sense of belonging; the spiral acts as - [queeringborders | Warehouse9 | October 2019](https://performingborders.live/interviews/warehouse9-october-2019/) - Warehouse9, a primarily queer and live art venue in the center of Copenhagen, is a specially unique one. Founded by Jørgen Callesen, who currently leads on it with Emma Møller and Christian van Schijndel, the space is a welcoming home for artists and art-lovers hoping to find community and a breathing space for intersectional, local - [Guest Post: Karmadavis | Interview with Maria Cristina Fumagalli and Bridget Wooding (English/Spanish)](https://performingborders.live/interviews/guest-post-karmadavis-interview-with-maria-cristina-fumagalli-and-bridget-wooding-english-spanish/) - Eagle View / Vista de águila: Karmadavis performing borders An interview with Maria Cristina Fumagalli and Bridget Wooding (***Spanish version below***) Karmadavis is a talented, committed, and respected Dominican performance artist: many of his major works deal, directly or indirectly, with the border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic on the island of Hispaniola, a - [Guest Post: Najia Bagi](https://performingborders.live/interviews/guest-post-najia-bagi/) - The Momentless Existence My dad is Arabic; he is from Benghazi in Eastern Libya. He came to Europe as a young art student, studying in Rome and then travelling to the UK to study for a Master’s Degree in English literature where he met my English mum. Together they had three children, my two younger - [Mary Paterson | December 2019](https://performingborders.live/interviews/mary-paterson-december-2019/) - performingborders (Alessandra Cianetti): Mary, we have been crossing paths many times since I arrived in London and had numerous conversations and coffees over the years. I have always admired the layers of your thinking and ways of looking at the interrelation between Live Art, writing, sector’s limits and potential, and your experience as a white - [Sea Sharp | February 2020](https://performingborders.live/interviews/sea-sharp-february-2020/) - performingborders (Alessandra Cianetti): I came across your work for the first time last November when at the Camden People's Theatre I had the privilege to see your powerfully written and performed Brother Insect. For performingborders, I'd love to touch with you a topic that we haven't addressed enough so far: poetry and performance. Would you - [Oreet Ashery | February 2020](https://performingborders.live/interviews/oreet-ashery-february-2020/) - performingborders (Alessandra Cianetti): Oreet, I remember the first time we properly met was in 2016 when I co-curated a performative lecture of yours as part of Something Human’s ‘Scarred, Shifting and Sacred Places’ live art programme at Autograph ABP, London, in response to Alida Silvestri’s powerful photographic work on Female Genital Mutilation. At the time - [Joseph Morgan Schofield | November 2019](https://performingborders.live/interviews/joseph-morgan-schofield-november-2019/) - performingborders (Alessandra Cianetti): Joseph, in September you have curated and presented the first F U T U R E R I T U A L public programme in London. From your words, F U T U R E R I T U A L is a ‘performance and research project considering the place, use and function of - [Bojana Barltrop | December 2019](https://performingborders.live/interviews/bojana-barltrop-december-2019/) - performingborders (Alessandra Cianetti): Bojana, recently I was rereading the catalogue of your solo exhibition ‘The Great Chain of Being’ at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade (MSUB) that I was lucky enough to see back in 2017. Once again, I was struck by the layers of your multi-disciplinary practice and thinking. I would like - [Harun Morrison | January 2020](https://performingborders.live/interviews/harun-morrison-january-2020/) - performingborders (Alessandra Cianetti): Harun, you are setting off to make and document a journey on your boat, Zoar, from London to Birmingham via the Grand Union Canal as the recipient of the Wheatley Fine Art Fellowship 2020. First of all, congratulations! I would love to know more about your plans for this exploration, and how - [The Art of Walking | Reflection on Durational Performance by Pankaj Tiwari](https://performingborders.live/interviews/3700-2/) - From the 3rd of July 2020, amidst the COVID19 pandemic, Amsterdam-based Indian artists Pankaj Tiwari and Abhishek Thapar started a durational performance walk of 312km from Amsterdam to the refugee camps in Calais, France. ‘The Art of Walking’ proposes to raise awareness in Europe and beyond about the ongoing struggle of migrant labourers displaced after - [(IN)FORMAL FRISSON: ANOTHER CONVERSATION | Syowia Kyambi, Kijo Agacu & Sibonelo Gumede](https://performingborders.live/interviews/informal-frisson/) - This work is part of the performingborders 2021 commission Recipes for Autonomy by Syowia Kyambi. Revisited on May 28th 2021 Our continued conversation is in parenthesis within this original conversation, which took place in September 2020 The following is part of an ongoing conservation, casually named (In)Formal Frisson, between Syowia Kyambi, Kijo Agacuand Sibonelo Gumede. They - [Spell 2: Spell for the future-interview with Mihaela Drăgan](https://performingborders.live/interviews/spell-2-spell-for-the-future-interview-with-mihaela-dragan/) - This interview is part of the performingborders 2021 commission Spells for a border town (retrocedare) by Diana Damian Martin. Audio in Romanian, transcript in English below. ENGLISH: Spell for the future- interview with Mihaela Drăgan Translation by Iulia Mărăcine Diana Damian Martin: So, Mihaela, I'm very glad we are in conversation. Last time, I was telling you - [Spell 5: Spell across the Nistru- interview with Rusanda Curcă](https://performingborders.live/interviews/spell-5-spell-across-the-nistru-interview-with-rusanda-curca/) - This interview is part of the performingborders 2021 commission Spells for a border town (retrocedare) by Diana Damian Martin. Interview in Romanian, English translation below. ROMANIAN:Dragă Rusanda, Uite, o corespondență de la distanță, și simultană pe un google doc. Când ne-am văzut săptămâna trecută pe Facebook messenger, îmi povesteai despre internetul din sat, și proiecte pestre Nistru; - [Mishandled Archive | Interview with Tara Fatehi Irani](https://performingborders.live/interviews/mishandled-archive-interview-with-tara-fatehi-irani/) - performingborders (Alessandra Cianetti): 2020 has finally brought a piece of good news: your book, Mishandled Archive, has been published by the Live Art Development Agency and launched last month with a warm and joyful online event (LINK). Started in 2017 as multidisciplinary live art, dance, writing, archival project, Mishandled Archive has taken this new visually ## Residences - [Critical Interruptions | Temporary Works - COVID-19 Update](https://performingborders.live/residences/critical-interruptions-temporary-works-covid-19-update/) - Temporary Works - COVID-19 Update is an open-access digital archive of real, imagined and potential closures and notices of termination in and around Deptford. You can access and contribute to Temporary Works here [temporarily unavailable]: https://www.tempworks-c19.com This is a project about the local response to a global crisis, about how communities respond to emergencies, and how - [We Need Queer Liberation Now | reflections on queer rest](https://performingborders.live/residences/we-need-queer-liberation-now/) - What does Queer liberation mean to you? In 2020, together with artist Sayang Sounds, East Street Arts embarked on a project, We Need Queer Liberation Now, supported by The European Cultural Foundation, and Theatre in The Mill. Initially conceived as a physical residency, to bring a group of international Queer artists, with experiences of censorship - [Encounters with fluid borders | Anike Bello](https://performingborders.live/residences/encounters-with-fluid-borders-anike-bello/) - 'Migration is a topic that is really dear to my heart, it has been an enriching experience to engage with other perspectives to inform my work as a digital resident for performingborders. During this experience I have explored aspects of politics, history and wellbeing in the process of recounting personal experiences, which has led to - [Season Butler | Writer in residence | Curating Borderless Spaces](https://performingborders.live/residences/season-butler-writer-in-residence-curating-borderless-spaces/) - Curating Borderless Spaces 22 June 2019 Garret House, Bethnal Green, London 0 This is going to go very well. I have no doubt about it. People are filing in, greeting each other in varying degrees of intimacy. Some of the very best people, some folks I see and always wish I could spend more time - [Anike Bello - Writer | Online Digital Residency | PBLIVE20](https://performingborders.live/residences/anike-bello-online-writer-in-residence/) - performinbordersLIVE20 in partnership with Ọ̀RỌ̀ ÀNÍKÉ presents its first online writer in residence: Anike Bello. Anike will undertake a 2-month digital residency (March - May 2020) delving into performingborders online resources and will respond with a piece that will be published on 14th May 2020. Anike Bello is a London raised Yoruba woman with a keen interest in - [Open call - Residency on Curating Borders | PBLIVE20 & Never Done](https://performingborders.live/residences/open-call-residency-on-curating-borders-pblive20-never-done/) - Open Call for a Curatorial Residency on Curating Borders | Presented by Never Done and performingbordersLIVE20 ***Due to the current health crisis we are happy to receive applications for digital residencies also from UK based (not London) and international applicants - more information below in the eligibility section*** performingbordersLIVE20 and Never Done are collaborating to create an - [Instagram Takeover | Istanbul Queer Art Collective](https://performingborders.live/residences/instagram-takeover-istanbul-queer-art-collective/) - From Monday 4th to Monday 11th May, Istanbul Queer Art Collective will take over performingborders' Instagram for a week residency that will delve into their practice, the platform's archive of resources, and intersections between queerness and migration. Istanbul Queer Art Collective was founded in 2012 to engage in live art, with a view that the documentation of performance is an - [Community Residency | Jade Montserrat](https://performingborders.live/residences/east-street-arts-residency-jade-montserrat/) - As part of the performingbordersLIVE20 programme we are thrilled to collaborate with East Street Arts and MAFWA Theatre in supporting amazing artist Jade Montserrat in her digital residency at East Street Arts, Leeds. From the 1st of May until the 23rd of August, Jade will look at notions and lived experiences of body, land, and ownership while exploring modes of online and - [Instagram Residency Wrap-Up | Istanbul Queer Art Collective](https://performingborders.live/residences/instagram-residency-wrap-up-istanbul-queer-art-collective/) - Photo by Eda Sancakdar Last month, we invited our friends Seda Ergul and Tuna Erdem from the excellent Istanbul Queer Art Collective to spend some time with our archive and our istagram account, to see what they could do to explore, lift and illustrate ours and their work in a new medium. Here, T&S give - [Jade Foster | Recidency Open Call Successful Applicant](https://performingborders.live/residences/jade-foster-recidency-open-call-successful-applicant/) - Jade Foster (b. 1996), is an Artist, Curator and Creative Producer of Caribbean heritage based in Nottingham, UK. Current research interests include contemporary art practices exploring institutional critique, queerness, sound and performance art. Foster is concerned with speaking, curating and making art in the public sphere. Previously they were a speaker, guest and panellist in public - [Twitter Residency Wrap-Up | The White Pube](https://performingborders.live/residences/twitter-residency-wrap-up-the-white-pube/) - We started our website way back when in 2015, and it was during the final year of our uni course; we were young(er) hooligans with no clear understanding of how the art world could be so polite and maintain this strange professionalism even in criticism, when nothing seemed good or right. We tried to speak - [Curating Borders | Reflection on Curatorial Residency by Jade Foster](https://performingborders.live/residences/curating-borders-reflection-on-curatorial-residency-by-jade-foster/) - I am currently developing an online platform or digital 'exhibition', which documents my research during the residency. This website will be open publicly in October 2020. Special thanks to Adelaide Bannerman, Ain Bailey, Jamila Johnson-Small (Last Yearz Interesting Negro), Raju Rage, Sepake Angiama, Whiskey Chow and LADA for having conversations full of candour with me - [Curators Platform Commission | Curating Borders | Jade Foster](https://performingborders.live/residences/curators-platform-commission-curating-borders-jade-foster/) - Words and statements can be a linguistical border. Throughout their one-week residency with performinbordersLIVE20 and Never Done in July 2020, Nottingham based Jade Foster connected with queer and migrant artists of colour developing polyvocal, sonic and performative emancipatory artwork to enquire what refuge or projects already exist and what spaces can we dream up that aid in a collective survival, ## pbChannel - [performingbordersLIVE23: Reading Karaoke: Rustling Words by Youngsook Choi](https://performingborders.live/pbchannel/performingborderslive23-reading-karaoke-rustling-words-by-youngsook-choi/) - Edited and Captioned Video Recording of Reading Karaoke: Rustling Words by Youngsook Choi As part of Session 2 of performingbordersLIVE23: Our Bodies in the Commons, with participation by Helena Walsh, Harun Morrison and Ximena Alarcón-Díaz29th April 2023, 16:00 – 18:00Rec Room, Battersea Arts Centre, London For full event archive and documentation: https://performingborders.live/performingborderslive23/performingborderslive23-programme-documentation Hybrid event, in-person - [performingbordersRadio x Montez Press Radio | Ximena Alarcón-Díaz](https://performingborders.live/pbchannel/performingbordersradio-x-montez-press-radio-ximena-alarcon-diaz/) - performingbordersRADIO Episode 1Original broadcasting date: 26 January 2023Edited by: Olive Mondegreen LISTEN: performingborder’s first radio show of 2023! For the next few months we’ll be exploring the entanglement between Live Art and notions and lived experiences of intersectional and transnational borders, bi-monthly on Montez Press Radio. We are taking to the radio to share our - [performingbordersRadio on Palestine](https://performingborders.live/pbchannel/performingbordersradio-on-palestine/) - performingbordersRADIO Episode 5Original broadcasting date: 26th October 2023 LISTEN: performingbordersRadio explores the entanglement between Live Art and notions and lived experiences of intersectional and transnational borders, bi-monthly on Montez Press Radio. This radio space hosts and shares collaborative, sound-based performance work created with and by artists in the performingborders network. Given the on-going genocide in Gaza, - [performingbordersRadio x Montez Press Radio | Howl Yuan](https://performingborders.live/pbchannel/performingbordersradio-howl-yuan/) - performingbordersRADIO Episode 6Original broadcasting date: 24 November 2023 LISTEN: performingbordersRadio explores the entanglement between Live Art and notions and lived experiences of intersectional and transnational borders, bi-monthly on Montez Press Radio. This radio space hosts and shares collaborative, sound-based performance work created with and by artists in the performingborders network. This month, we end our radio - [performingbordersRadio x Montez Press Radio | Diana Damian Martin](https://performingborders.live/pbchannel/performingbordersradio-x-diana-damian-martin-spells-for-a-border-town-retrocedare/) - performingbordersRadio Episode 2Original broadcasting date: 6 June 2023Edited by: Olive Mondegreen LISTEN: Tune in to performingbordesRadio, an exploration into the entanglement between Live Art, sound, and notions and lived experiences of intersectional and transnational borders, bi-monthly on Montez Press Radio. In this new show, performingborders take to the radio to share collaborative, sound-based performance work - [performingbordersRadio x Montez Press Radio | Untethered Magic](https://performingborders.live/pbchannel/performingbordersradio-x-untethered-magic/) - performingbordersRADIO Episode 3Original broadcasting date: 27 July 2023Edited by: Olive Mondegreen LISTEN: Tune in to performingbordesRadio, an exploration into the entanglement between Live Art, sound, and notions and lived experiences of intersectional and transnational borders, bi-monthly on Montez Press Radio. In this new show, performingborders take to the radio to share collaborative, sound-based performance work - [performingbordersRadio x Montez Press Radio | From the Lips to the Moon with Pouya Ehsaei](https://performingborders.live/pbchannel/performingbordersradio-x-from-the-lips-to-the-moon-with-pouya-ehsaei/) - performingbordersRADIO Episode 4Original broadcasting date: 28 September 2023 LISTEN: performingbordersRadio explores the entanglement between Live Art and notions and lived experiences of intersectional and transnational borders, bi-monthly on Montez Press Radio. This radio space hosts and shares collaborative, sound-based performance work created with and by artists in the performingborders network. From the Lips to the Moon - [Slow Cooking with Sonia Sandhu - Episode 5](https://performingborders.live/pbchannel/slow-cooking-with-sonia-sandhu/) - Welcome to Slow Cooking, a new multimedia podcast about all things food, art-making, social politics and environmentalism. This conversation with Sonia Sandhu was recorded at Theatre in the Mill (Bradford, UK) and is published in three different formats: Video, Audio and Text. For this episode, we are joined by Bradford’s own chef and artist extraordinaire, - [Slow Cooking with Selina Thompson & Toni-Dee Paul - Episode 4](https://performingborders.live/pbchannel/slow-cooking-with-selina-toni/) - Meal: Brown Stew Chicken (Toni-Dee) and a personally-crafted Vegan Soup (Selina) Welcome back to Slow Cooking. This episode is a very special one, not only because we got the privilege to enjoy the food and companionship of these two incredible artists, but also because it was the first one we did live!! In an actual - [Slow Cooking with Guya & Untethered Magic - Episode 3](https://performingborders.live/pbchannel/slow-cooking-with-guya-untethered-magic-episode-3/) - Welcome back to Slow Cooking. For this third episode, but actually the first one to be recorded, we visit our friends Untethered Magic's compound in Ongara Rongai, the outskirts of Nairobi, and local artist and chef Guya. A place of gathering and of artistic residencies, built literally from the ground up by the collective running it - [Slow Cooking with Rebecca Moradalizadeh - Episode 2](https://performingborders.live/pbchannel/slow-cooking-with-rebecca-moradalizadeh-episode-2/) - Hello, and welcome back to Slow Cooking. For this episode, we travel to Porto, North of Portugal, to spend the day with artist Rebecca Moradalizadeh. Born in London, based in Porto and with Iranian ancestry, Rebecca’s multi-disciplinary work is deeply marked by her migratory experiences and often revolves around food and hosting practices. Food-sharing is - [Slow Cooking with Estabrak / إستبرق - Episode 1](https://performingborders.live/pbchannel/slow-cooking-episode-1/) - Hello, and welcome to Slow Cooking, a new multimedia podcast about all things food, art-making, social politics and environmentalism. In this episode, we are cooking with artist Estabrak / إستبرق in Barking, East London. We are very generously welcomed to her studio, where we spend the day preparing the food, slow cooking through the morning, - [Voices from ESEA Diaspora Art Collectives | Ming Strike and their allies (Chinese/English)](https://performingborders.live/pbchannel/voices-from-esea-diaspora-art-collectives-ming-strike-and-their-allies-chinese-english/) - Voices from ESEA Diaspora Art Collectives: An Audio Documentary of 5 Self-Organizing ESEA Artist Groups in the UK.Co-produced by Ming Strike and Ensemble Not FoundTranscript and Introduction by Ming Strike Launched in 2020, Ming Strike is a podcast that explores current events and challenges in the performing arts through the eyes of Asian art practitioners living - [performingborders in Conversation with Rosa-Johan Uddoh and Party Office](https://performingborders.live/pbchannel/performingborders-in-conversation-with-rosa-johan-uddoh-and-party-office/) - performingborders presented artists Rosa-Johan Uddoh and Party Office in an open online conversation exploring their upcoming performingborders commissions: an annual multimedia commission and a guest-curated digital pamphlet, both published in the Summer 2024 which add to the tapestry of international reflections and practices on performativity and borders, exploring themes of purpose, spiritual explorations, performative practice, - [performingborders | LIVE 2019 film: Nima Séne + Tuna Erdem](https://performingborders.live/pbchannel/performingborders-live-2019-film-nima-sene-tuna-erdem/) - An afternoon of conversation between Glasgow/Berlin-based live artist Nima Séne and curator Tuna Erdem from the Istanbul Queer Arts Collective. Part of Queer Contact Festival 2019, Contact’s annual festival celebrating LGBTQ+ arts & culture in Greater Manchester. For Queer Contact 2019, performingborders | LIVE brought together two amazing artists to discuss how experiences of otherness - [It is impossible to say everything here so I leave you with this | SERAFINE1369](https://performingborders.live/pbchannel/it-is-impossible-to-say-everything-here-so-i-leave-you-with-this-serafine1369/) - This performance to camera by SERAFINE1369 was commissioned by performingborders in April 2022. Experience the full commission, including accompanying text and audio here. Concept, choreography, performance SERAFINE1369 Camera Katarzyna Perlak Edit SERAFINE1369 Sound Josh Anio Grigg Voice SERAFINE1369 Featuring documentation from performance ‘I I I (something flat, something cosmic, something endless)’ commissioned by Liverpool Biennial - [Three listening rituals in Sonic Migrations | Ximena Alarcón-Díaz | Rallying the Commons](https://performingborders.live/pbchannel/three-listening-rituals-in-sonic-migrations-ximena-alarcon-diaz-rallying-the-commons/) - This writing was created for perfromingborders’ 2022 e-journal: Rallying the Commons Ximena Alarcón-Díaz’s shares sonic migration rituals that create journeys that strengthen our individual and collective sense of agency. Listen to the the Sonic Migration Rituals HERE Image: Intimal Research Process, Ximena Alarcón-Díaz Ximena Alarcón-Díaz is a sound artist-researcher interested in listening and sounding our sonic migrations: the - [a place to sit | Tara Fatehi Irani | fragments for borderless futures](https://performingborders.live/pbchannel/a-place-to-sit-tara-fatehi-irani-fragments-for-borderless-futures/) - This performance to camera by Tara Fatehi Irani was commissioned by perfomringborders in October 2021 as a part of our e-journal: fragments for borderless futures. To experience the full commission and artist text, see here. Camera: Sarah FeliParticipants: Bibi Gol Azad, Fatema Tavasoli, Nazari Tara Fatehi Irani ☀ is a performer, artist, writer and educator. She has performed at the - [AMNION | LYNN LU](https://performingborders.live/pbchannel/amnion-lynn-lu/) - This performance to camera by Lynn Lu was commissioned by perfomringborders in December 2021. To experience the full commission and artist text, see here. Conceived, written, narrated & performed by: Lynn Lu Directed, filmed, edited by: Ana de Matos Second performer: Satsuki Lu-Sharpe Lynn Lu (PhD, AFHEA) is a visual artist from Singapore, trained in the US, France, Japan, - [Curating Borderless Spaces | 22 June 2019 | Documentation](https://performingborders.live/pbchannel/curating-borderless-spaces-documentation/) - PERFORMINGBORDERS | LIVE | CURATING BORDERLESS SPACES | 22 JUNE 2019 MORNINGIntroduction by Lois Keidan and curators Alessandra Cianetti and Xavier de Sousa. Keynote by Raju Rage. Presentation of the performance to camera commissions by Istanbul Queer Art Collective and Tara Fatehi Irani followed by Q&A with the audience. AFTERNOONLive group conversation and provocations by Bojana - [performingborders. conversation on art | crossings | europe](https://performingborders.live/pbchannel/video-30th-march-conversation/) - performingborders. conversation on art | crossings | europe 30th March 2016, Central Saint Martins - UAL, London Images and video by Annie Jael Kwan and David Daniel Sentosa, editing by David Daniel Sentosa. While newspapers speak of refugees’ crisis, Ukraine conflict, austerity measures, Brexit, and raising of right-wing rhetoric within Europe, how - [Xavier de Sousa's POST, after-event conversation](https://performingborders.live/pbchannel/xavier-de-sousas-post-after-event-conversation/) - From 30th November to 3rd December amazing artist Xavier de Sousa's presented his show "POST" at Ovalhouse, London. On 1st December I have been invited by Xavier and his team to a post-event discussion along with him and Dr. Sarah Fine, King's College. Really a great way to reflect on what we had just experienced, thanks Xavier, Sarah and the public - [Performing Religions | Translation! Festival 2019](https://performingborders.live/pbchannel/performing-religions-translation-live-art-and-exploration-of-the-self-translation-festival-2019/) - Performing Religion: Translation, Live Art and Exploration of the Self, was a public performance and open conversation session exploring the intersections of translation studies and Live Art practices around notions of religion and identity as part of the University of Exeter's Translation! Festival 2019: Languages in Motion. Invited by co-curators Alessandra Cianetti and Senior Lecturer - [Alessandra Cianetti & Xavier de Sousa on performingborders | LIVE 2019](https://performingborders.live/pbchannel/alessandra-cianetti-xavier-de-sousa-on-performingborders-live-2019/) - “…how we strategise and how we survive…” (Season Butler, Curating Borderless Spaces, 22nd June 2019)The performingborders publication started in 2016, right in the middle of a year that saw the solidification of the anti-migrant sentiment across the UK and USA. It has grown beyond its initial one-year-long project, with artists, curators, academics, and producers coming - [performingborders | LIVE film: Anti-Cool + osborn&møller ](https://performingborders.live/pbchannel/performingborders-live-film-anti-cool/) - performingborders | LIVE is thrilled to release the first film of its series of three public conversations in Manchester, Brighton, and London. We start from our last one at Toynbee Studios, London! A conversation between interdisciplinary artist Anti-Cool and curators osborn&møller (UK/Denmark), presenting the UK premiere of Anti-Cool’s three-screen video installation On Returning, which explores the history of several British families and - [performingborders | LIVE film: Sim Chi Yin + Annie Jael Kwan](https://performingborders.live/pbchannel/performingborders-live-film-sim-chi-yin-annie-jael-kwan/) - On 19th March 2019, we gathered at the Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts for an evening of performative reading and a conversation between Nobel Peace Prize photographer and artist Sim Chi Yin and curator Annie Jael Kwan from Something Human and Asia-Art-Activism. The Q&A was chaired by academic, thinker and activist Dr. Anna Marazuela - [Untethered Magic | Sauti Msituni](https://performingborders.live/pbchannel/untethered-magic-sauti-msituni/) - This work is part of the performingborders 2021 commission Recipes for Autonomy by Syowia Kyambi. The show aims to address how the collective 'Untethered Magic' was formed and the start of Sauti Msituni as an alternative radio. Chemi_Ali the Kushite and Diberu Live invite you to a discussion addressing sustainability and autonomy. Transcription below, music including - [Fuglen, Der (The Bird There) | Q&A by Lasse Lau & Naja Lee Jensen](https://performingborders.live/pbchannel/fuglen-der-the-bird-there-qa-by-lasse-lau-naja-lee-jensen/) - Following the première of Lasse Lau's piece Fuglen Der (The Bird There), the commissioned artist and Denmark-based Naja Lee Jensen had a live conversation on the topics of the film, the COVID-19 pandemic and current World affairs. Length: 47:42Broadcast date: 18th September 2020Publishing date: 14th November 2020 This event was commissioned and presented part of - [Be Ill-Disciplined | Performance Lecture by Kai Syng Tan](https://performingborders.live/pbchannel/be-ill-disciplined-performance-lecture-by-kai-syng-tan/) - Length: 59:27Broadcast date: 19th September 2020Publishing date: 14th November 2020 Be-Ill Disciplined is a new performance lecture by Kai Syng Tan exploring how creativity and neurodiversity can drive social change. Commissioned by performingborders & Contact for performingbordersLIVE20, with support from HowlRound Theatre Commons, Live Art Development Agency and Foreign Actions Productions. Additional funding from Arts - [The Grief Portal | Camille Barton](https://performingborders.live/pbchannel/grief-portal-camille-barton/) - Length: 16:45Private publishing date: 27th October 2020Publishing date: 14th November 2020 Commissioned for performingbordersLIVE20, The Grief Portal is a somatic movement video that you can do in your own living room and will bring you back to your own body, allowing you to rebuild from 'the compost of grief’. For full commission information, visit: https://performingborders.live/commissions/grief-portal-somatic-movement-film-by-camille-barton - [RE:seeding, in correspondence | Jade Montserrat](https://performingborders.live/pbchannel/reseeding-in-correspondence-jade-montserrat/) - Length: 23:41Broadcast date: 23th October 2020Publishing date: 14th November 2020 RE:seeding, in correspondence is a new performance to camera by Jade Montserrat & Webb-Ellis suggesting that there is a connection between ourselves and the earth and that this line, or connection, like our communications with one another, is drawing. Full Commission information: https://performingborders.live/commissions/reseeding-in-correspondence--performance-to-camera-by-jade-montserrat/ Watch a - [There is (No) Time | Q&A with Joon Lynn Goh & PBLIVE2020 Digital Residencies Artists](https://performingborders.live/pbchannel/there-is-no-time/) - Following from their digital residencies across the year, artists Jade Foster, The White Pube, Jade Montserrat, Istanbul Queer Art Collective and Àníké Bello talk with Joon Lynn Goh about their experience, their understanding of borders and time, and the current state of the UK arts sector. Click on names above to experience their residencies & - [RE:seeding, in correspondence | Q&A with Jade Montserrat & Chandra Frank](https://performingborders.live/pbchannel/reseeding-qa/) - Following from the première of RE:seeding, in correspondence, commissioned artist Jade Montserrat & guest Chandra Frank discuss the performance to camera, its themes and processes. Length: 45:19Broadcast date: 23th October 2020Publishing date: 14th November 2020 To watch the full performance to camera, visit: https://performingborders.live/commissions/reseeding-in-correspondence--performance-to-camera-by-jade-montserrat/ This event was commissioned and presented part of performingbordersLIVE20 final event, - [Lavender Man | Q&A with Tania El Khouri, Mohamad Ali “Dali” Agrebi & Professor Harriet Hawkins](https://performingborders.live/pbchannel/lavender-man-qa-with-tania-el-khouri-mohamad-ali-dali-agrebi-professor-harriet-hawkins/) - Following from the première of Lavender Man, artists Tania El Khori and Mohamad Ali 'Dali' Agrebi have a conversation on the themes of the work, the artists' own stories that led to it, and current understandings of borders. Length: 01:03:12Broadcast date: 24th October 2020Publishing date: 14th November 2020 To watch the fill Lavender Man film, - [Fuglen, Der (The Bird, There) | Performance Lecture Film by Lasse Lau](https://performingborders.live/pbchannel/fuglen-der-the-bird-there-performance-lecture-film-by-lasse-lau/) - Length: 06:50Broadcast date: 18th September 2020Publishing date: 14th November 2020 A new performance lecture short film by award winning artist and film maker Lasse Lau, exploring queer sexuality and re-traumatisation as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic. Watch a post-broadcast live Q&A with Lasse Lau and Naja Lee Jensen: https://performingborders.live/pbchannel/fuglen-der-the-bird-there-qa-by-lasse-lau-naja-lee-jensen Full commission information: https://performingborders.live/commissions/fuglen-der-the-bird-there-performance-film-lecture-by-lasse-lau Commissioned and - [Lavender Man | Tania El Khoury](https://performingborders.live/pbchannel/lavender-man-tania-el-khouri/) - Length: 16:04Broadcast date: 24th October 2020Publishing date: 14th November 2020 An online reflection between artists Tania El Khoury and Mohamad Ali “Dali” Agrebi, Lavender Man is a reflection on friendship, chosen families, the long effect of collaborative and community-based art, and the right of love and movement. Watch a post-broadcast live Q&A with Tania El Khoury, Mohamad - [The Art of Walking: On-Going (open post)](https://performingborders.live/pbchannel/the-art-of-walking-on-going-open-post/) - From 3rd to the 15th of July 2020, Amsterdam-based Indian artist Pankaj Tiwari and collaborator Abhishek Thapar embarked on a durational performance walk of 312 km from Amsterdam to the refugee camps in Calais, France. ‘The Art of Walking’ is a performance raising awareness in Europe and beyond about the ongoing struggle of migrant laborers displaced after the COVID-19 lockdown ## e-Journals - [#3 Entangled Practices: Embodying cross-border live art](https://performingborders.live/ejournal/3-entangled-practices-embodying-cross-border-live-art/) - [The Anchor, The Drum, The Ship](https://performingborders.live/ejournal/the-anchor-the-drum-the-ship/) - HARUN MORRISON - [Dayra and Communal Debt](https://performingborders.live/ejournal/dayra-and-communal-debt/) - LARA KHALDI & THE QUESTION OF FUNDING - [Introduction](https://performingborders.live/ejournal/rallying-the-commons/) - RALLYING THE COMMONS - [Three listening rituals in Sonic Migrations](https://performingborders.live/ejournal/three-listening-rituals-in-sonic-migrations/) - XIMENA ALARCÓN-DÍAZ - [CONTRIBUTORS & CREDITS](https://performingborders.live/ejournal/rallying-the-commons-contributors-and-credits/) - [Hevaltî - Revolutionary friendship as radical care](https://performingborders.live/ejournal/hevalti-revolutionary-friendship-as-radical-care/) - ELIF SARICAN & DILAR DIRIK - [Budget Commission](https://performingborders.live/ejournal/budget-commission/) - JACK KY TAN - [Performing Resistance, Care and Labour: Feminist Art and Activism in an Irish Context](https://performingborders.live/ejournal/performing-resistance-care-and-labour/) - HELENA WALSH - [Sitting in the garden, watching the birds with mum…](https://performingborders.live/ejournal/sitting-in-the-garden-watching-the-birds-with-mum/) - SHEILA GHELANI - [Elena Marchevska | There is no future](https://performingborders.live/ejournal/there-is-no-future-elena-marchevska/) - [Tara Fatehi Irani | a place to sit](https://performingborders.live/ejournal/a-place-to-sit-tara-fatehi-irani/) - [Syowia Kyambi | Holding Space](https://performingborders.live/ejournal/holding-space-syowia-kyambi/) - [Manuel Vason | urgent images](https://performingborders.live/ejournal/manuel-vason-urgent-images/) - [Vijay Mathew | How do we increase access and inclusion while powering down civilization?](https://performingborders.live/ejournal/how-do-we-increase-access-and-inclusion-while-powering-down-civilisation/) - [contributors + credits](https://performingborders.live/ejournal/summary/) - [Jade Montserrat | A text on borders dedicated to my Border Terrier (Jack Russell cross), Hilda, who will be one year old on 29 September 2021](https://performingborders.live/ejournal/a-text-on-borders-dedicated-to-my-border-terrier-jack-russell-cross-hilda-who-will-be-one-year-old-on-29-september-2021-jade-montserrat/) - [Sagar Shah & Jemima Yong | IN CRISIS: GET YOUR COMMS HEAD ON](https://performingborders.live/ejournal/in-crisis-get-your-comms-head-on/) - [Introduction | Fragments for Borderless futures](https://performingborders.live/ejournal/introduction-fragments-for-borderless-futures/) ## Whats On - [performingborders newsletter | June 2023](https://performingborders.live/whats-on/performingborders-newsletter-june-2023/) - The beginnings of Summer are upon us, and with them PB June newsletter. This month's newsletter is a reflective one, as we bring you documentation, residues, updates, and thinking-in-progress from our collaborators and across the platform. Delve into the performingborders and Queer Art Projects' conversation around Puzzling Home 家的形狀, the documentation of Reading Karaoke: Rustling Words covened by Youngsook - [Live Art Writers Network x Citemor 2026 - Dori Nigro, Paulo Pinto, Keissy Carvelli & Ángela Lopez Ramos + Álvaro Albaladejo](https://performingborders.live/whats-on/live-art-writers-network-x-citemor-2026/) - Live Art Writers Network, curated by Xavier de Sousa and Anahí Saravia Herrera, is dedicated to fostering practices of critical writing and reflection that engage in dialogue with performance and live art, and which are interwoven with transnational critical thinking on creative processes, digital publishing and political action. For its fourth edition at Citemor Festival, - [performingborders x Citemor 2026: Wura Moraes + Dori Nigro](https://performingborders.live/whats-on/performingborders-x-citemor-2026-wura-moraes-dori-nigro/) - “The Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence” _Franz Kafka This year, performingborders is back at Citemor Festival (Montemor-o-Velho, Portugal), this time as a programming and co-producer partner, alongside a new edition of Live Art Writers Network (more on this soon!). We will co-present the evening programme of the 24th - [Non-Conforming Criticisms | London Events March 2026](https://performingborders.live/whats-on/non-conforming-criticisms-london-events/) - Non-Conforming Criticisms is a free event programme happening across 22 and 23 March 2026 dedicated to experimental, critical, and politically engaged writing in response to live art and performance, created by performingborders and Diana Damian Martin. Following the Non-Conforming Criticisms Lab, we are running two events at House of Annetta and MayDay Rooms in London, where - [Live Art Writers Network at DDD Festival 2026 | Porto, Portugal](https://performingborders.live/whats-on/live-art-writers-network-at-ddd-festival-2026-porto-portugal/) - performingborders returns to Dias da Dança Festival 2026 (DDD, Porto, Portugal) with a new edition of Live Art Writers Network (LAWN), gathering conversations around experimental writing in dialogue with performance and live art. Centering writers and artists whose practices are shaped by lived experiences of intersectional borders, this year’s LAWN programme is co-curated with director, - [Live Art Writers Network x Linha de Fuga 2025](https://performingborders.live/whats-on/live-art-writers-network-x-linha-de-fuga-2025/) - PT: Vamos levar o LAWN a Coimbra, rodeades de amigues! Concebido e desenvolvido em colaboração com a equipa do festival Linha de Fuga, apresentamos uma nova edição do projeto Live Art Writers Network que propõe um programa de laboratorios de desenvolvimento de práticas de escrita crítica e reflexiva, bem como um acompanhamento híbrido do festival, - [Pamphlet #9 - Live Art Writers Network x Citemor 2025 - Commissions](https://performingborders.live/whats-on/pamphlet-9-live-art-writers-network-x-citemor-2025-commissions/) - Live Art Writers Network returned to Citemor Festival (Montemor, Portugal) this year, inviting Ed Freitas and Letícia Maia to reflect on the festival’s creative processes and performances. This included daily reflections from the festival, seen on the Citemor website and post-festival reflections we have just published. Their time responded to artist and writer Diana Damian - [Live Art Writers Network x Citemor 2025](https://performingborders.live/whats-on/lawncitemor2025/) - performingborders has been accompanying Citemor festival (Montemor, Portugal) since 2022, and it was through a residency there that the initial idea of a Live Art Writers Network was born. You can find more information on the project here and read a text by the previous Citemor residents Dori Nigo and Paulo Pinto here. This summer, - [Non-Conforming Criticisms Lab: Open Call](https://performingborders.live/whats-on/non-conforming-criticisms-lab-open-call/) - Lab Dates: November 2025 - Jan 2026Location: Online (open to participants worldwide), FREELanguages: English-led, multilingual participation welcomeDeadline to apply: 17 October 2025, 12 AM GMT Access: Human generated live captioning available on request Are you an artist, writer, or practitioner? Are you interested in experimental writing and thinking in response to performance? Are you curious - [Live Art Writers Network at Take Me Somewhere 2025](https://performingborders.live/whats-on/live-art-writers-network-at-take-me-somewhere-2025/) - The Live Art Writers Network (LAWN) cultivates and supports experimental writing in response to live art and performance. Led by performingborders, this space seeks to address the lack of resources dedicated to critical, reflective, and experimental writing in the live art sector, particularly for practitioners whose work is informed by lived experiences of intersectional borders. LAWN - [e-Journal #3 Print edition - Where to find it](https://performingborders.live/whats-on/e-journal-3-print-where/) - At the end of 2024, we launched the first ever print edition of performingborders e-Journal #3 Entangled Practices: Embodying Cross-Border Live Art at the Live Art Development Agency venue in London, Bethnal Green. Consequently, we have distributed a few copies across partnering venues, colleagues and collaborators so they can consulted and held by anyone who - [performingborders Pamphlet #6 - Live Art Writers Network | 2024 Commissions](https://performingborders.live/whats-on/performingborders-pamphlet-6-live-art-writers-network/) - In 2024, performingborders launched the Live Art Writers Network (LAWN), which collectively explored and nurtured experimental writing practices that unfold in dialogue with and in response to performance and live art, platforming writers and artists whose work is shaped by lived experiences of intersectional borders. The first set of commissions are now live!We began by - [LIVE ART WRITERS NETWORK](https://performingborders.live/whats-on/live-art-writers-network/) - Launching in 2024, performingborders is thrilled to introduce the Live Art Writers Network (LAWN), a network aimed at cultivating experimental writing practices happening in dialogue with performance and live art. This project aspires to create a nurturing environment for writers to meet and engage with performance contexts, providing connection, mentorship, and a publishing platform for - [Live Art Writers Network at Dias da Dança Festival, Porto 2025](https://performingborders.live/whats-on/lawn-ddd-porto/) - We are excited to announce that performingborders are collaborating with Dias da Dança Festival (DDD, Teatro Municipal do Porto) this month to curate and present a new iteration of our Live Art Writers Network (LAWN). Conceived together with the team at DDD Festival and CAMPUS Paulo Cunha e Silva, we will be presenting a broad - [performingborders newsletter | March 2025](https://performingborders.live/whats-on/performingborders-newsletter-march-2025/) - March 2025 Newsletter Over the last few months, we have been busy working with, commissioning and supporting various projects, reflections and responses which are excited to publish and share across our platform and networks. In Irresolute repairs, pending revolution, curator and writer Rahila Haque writes in response to artist Farida Yesmin’s workshop and participatory performance - [performingborders Pamphlet #7 - trans[*] glocal – Cooperative resources by intrans___](https://performingborders.live/whats-on/performingborders-pamphlet-6-trans-glocal-cooperative-resources-by-intrans___/) - On 26th October 2024, intrans___ hosted trans[*]glocal, a hybrid performative gathering held at the Battersea Arts Centre, London. intrans___ (Intersectional Network for Transglocal Solidarity) was initiated in 2023 by Raju Rage (UK), Nad MA (México), and Kaur Chimuk (India) as a mutual effort to explore their shared inquiries into the future of non-hierarchical, cooperative transmedia exchange. trans[*] glocal - [performingbordersLIVE24: trans[*] glocal](https://performingborders.live/whats-on/performingborderslive24-trans-glocal/) - Date: 26th October 2024 - Time: 4:45pm -7pm Where (in-person): Recreation Room at the Battersea Arts Centre, Lavender Hill, London SW11 5TN Booking: Free but please reserve your place here as tickets are limited Access: BSL interpreted. This performance will be Relaxed. A chillout room will be available. More info here trans[*] glocal sees three bodies - [Entangled Practices - Printed edition launch](https://performingborders.live/whats-on/entangled-practices-printed-edition-launch/) - December 9th, 7 - 9 PM In-person, Live Art Development Agency (London)Free, but please BOOK HERE “When I think of entanglement, I think of how ideas are smuggled across borders; their smuggling makes both the violent border politics and the forms of resistance that refuse them palpable. I think about relations, binds, networks, flight paths - [performingborders Pamphlet #5 - Slow Cooking](https://performingborders.live/whats-on/performingborders-pamphlet-5-slow-cooking/) - performingborders and Theatre in the Mill are excited to present Slow Cooking, a new multimedia podcast exploring the relationship between art making processes, communal food practices and contemporary colonial impacts around food and environmentalism. In this first season, host Xavier de Sousa meets artists Estabrak / إستبرق in London (UK), Rebecca Moradalizadeh in Porto (Portugal), - [performingborders e-Journal #3 - Entangled Practices: Embodying cross-border live art](https://performingborders.live/whats-on/performingborders-e-journal-3-entangled-practices-embodying-cross-border-live-art/) - It is good to see you here, friend, joining us once again; or maybe you’re new around here. Either way, welcome to Entangled Practices: Embodying cross-border Live Art. Our third e-journal gathers practitioners making visible the many ways we are connected and dependent on each other, our freedom held in each other’s hands. In the - [performingborders newsletter | July](https://performingborders.live/whats-on/performingborders-newsletter-july/) - In our July's newsletter we are thrilled to launch Rosa-Johan Uddoh's new digital commission New Apparitions. Co-commissioned with performance, possession + automation, New Apparitions is a blog documenting a re-enchantment with the world through afro-diasporic spiritual practice, textual, and visual apparitions. In this newsletter we also go back to the three amazing experimental writing commissions - [performingborders Pamphlet #4 - Party Office](https://performingborders.live/whats-on/performingborders-pamphlet-4-party-office/) - We are proud to launch Party Office's pamphlet commission “we are the ones we have been waiting for”. The autobiography of the only remaining witness to a genocide of their people is eventually called a false declaration. It is then a challenge to the integrity of the generation, to stand up and demand the dismantling - [performingborders in conversation with Rosa-Johan Uddoh and Party Office](https://performingborders.live/whats-on/performingborders-in-conversation-with-rosa-johan-uddoh-and-party-office/) - Where/When: Zoom, Wednesday 10th July, 6:30-8PM BST / 7:30 -9PM CET / 1:30-3PM EST Register here to receive the Zoom link to join the conversation or follow the conversation on the live stream on HowlRound TV at this link. English live captions will be available during the event and are provided by the National Captioning - [performingborders pamphlet # 3 - Part 2: an*dre neely](https://performingborders.live/whats-on/performingborders-pamphlet-3-part-2-andre-neely/) - We are thrilled to launch the second and final part of an*dre neely's experimental writing commission. An*dre was selected as part of the open call for experimental writing commissions launched last Autumn in collaboration with performance, possession + automation. Pre-Submission: FRAMED In part two, an*dre continues their layered exploration into border control systems and expands into - [performingborders pamphlet # 2 - Part 1: an*dre neely](https://performingborders.live/whats-on/performingborders-pamphlet-1-1-of-3-moi-tran-madalena-bettencourt-lucia-santos-2/) - We are excited to launch performingborders' second pamphlet presenting the work of an*dre neely, the third artist that was selected as part of the open call for experimental writing commissions launched last Autumn in collaboration with performance, possession + automation. This month we are thrilled to present: Pre-Submission: Fully Fledged tight guard breeding HIDDEN CAMERA - [performingborders newsletter | December 2023](https://performingborders.live/whats-on/performingborders-newsletter-december-2023/) - Our final newsletter of the year is out! In this issue, you can enjoy Bristol-based artists Howl Yuan and Ania Varez's conversation on re-imagining communities through joyful participation, co-commissioned in collaboration with Platforma 2023. Followed by the announcement of artists we at performingborders and performance, possession + automation selected for the 2024 performance to camera, - [performingborders newsletter | August 2023](https://performingborders.live/whats-on/newsletteraugust2023/) - Our August 2023 newsletter is a very special one, with performingborders' own Anahí Saravia Herrera expanding her research series Embodying Resistance/Encuerpando Resistencia. The focus on this month's newsletter is based on Anahí's research trip to Bolivia in late 2022-early 2023, where she interviewed artists and activists Mujeres Creando, Germinal, Movimiento Maricas Bolivia and Calle - - [RE-IMAGINE COMMUNITY PRACTICE: COOPERATION DISCO + ARTY FARTY KARAOKE (BRISTOL)](https://performingborders.live/whats-on/re-imagine-community-practice-social-muscle-club-arty-farty-karaoke-bristol/) - This event is co-commissioned by Counterpoint Arts and performingborders, as a part of PLATFORMA 2023. WHAT IS THE MIGRANT ARTS COMMUNITY? A CLUSTER NETWORK UNDER SPECIFIC LABELS? THE ACT OF SOLIDARITY OVER TRAUMA? OR CAN WE TAKE A DIFFERENT APPROACH? Join Bristol-based performance artist Howl Yuan on this social gathering, featuring friendship, celebration and joy-making practices. Date: Saturday - [performingborders newsletter | October 2023](https://performingborders.live/whats-on/performingborders-newsletter-october-2023/) - Our performingborders October newsletter is out! This month we have a few exciting announcements and invitations: RE-IMAGINE COMMUNITY PRACTICE: SOCIAL MUSCLE CLUB + ARTY FARTY KARAOKE (BRISTOL)4 November | 2 - 7 PM | ST. ANNE’S HOUSE, ST ANNE'S RD, BRISTOL, BS4 4AB, UNITED KINGDOMYou're all invited to join us for a day of mapping - [Open Call: performingborders and performance, possession + automation](https://performingborders.live/whats-on/open-call-performingborders-and-performance-possession-automation/) - EN: This open call for two experimental writing commissions can be accessed below. SP: La convocatoria abierta para dos comisiones de escritura experimentalse se puede leer a continuación. PT: A convocatória para duas comissões de texto experimental pode ser acedida no link em baixo. IT: Questa Open Call per due commissioni di scrittura sperimentale è accessibile - [performingborders pamphlet # 1: Moi Tran + Madalena Bettencourt & Lúcia Santos](https://performingborders.live/whats-on/performingborders-pamphlet-1-1-of-3-moi-tran-madalena-bettencourt-lucia-santos/) - We are excited to launch performingborders' first pamphlet presenting two out of three artist commissions selected as part of the open call for experimental writing commissions launched last Autumn in collaboration with performance, possession + automation. This month we are thrilled to present: Moi Tran - PERFORMANCE MAP WITH NO END FOR SOLO OR MANY - [Announcement | Experimental Writing Commissioned Artists](https://performingborders.live/whats-on/announcement-experimental-writing-commissioned-authors/) - Following our multi-lingual Open Call process last October and November, performingborders and performance, possession + automation are proud to announce the recipients of the experimental writing commissions: Madalena Bettencourt & Lúcia Santos, an*dre neely and Moi Tran. Over the next few months, we will be accompanying these artists' processes, to publish the commissions in full in March 2024. Read more about Madalena & - [Announcement | Performance to camera 2024: Rosa-Johan Uddoh](https://performingborders.live/whats-on/announcement-performance-to-camera-2024-rosa-johan-uddoh/) - For our 2024 annual Performance to Camera, we are very excited to announce that we will be commissioning interdisciplinary artist Rosa-Johan Uddoh. Over the next few months, we will be accompanying the artist's process and supporting her work. This work is co-commissioned in partnership with performance, possession + automation platform and we look forward to publishing the - [performingbordersLIVE: Our Bodies in the Commons](https://performingborders.live/whats-on/performingborderslive-our-bodies-in-the-commons/) - Venue: Battersea Arts Centre (address here)Date: 29th April 2023Time: 13:30 - 18:30Free - booking is required: book your ticket for each session here After three years of digital-only transnational collaborations, performingborders is opening a space for movement, sharing, and conversation, to re-center our bodies in the explorations of borders, live art, community, and resistance. In - [performingborders newsletter | April 2023](https://performingborders.live/whats-on/performingborders-newsletter-april-2023/) - We are thrilled to share the second newsletter of the year starting with a reminder to join us for Our Bodies in the Commons on Saturday 29th April at Battersea Arts Centre in London. The event is currently sold out, however, BAC is running a waiting list for both the morning and afternoon sessions, and we encourage you - [performingborders newsletter | February 2023](https://performingborders.live/whats-on/performingborders-newsletter-february-2023/) - Hello and welcome to 2023 with performingborders! We're so excited to open 2023 with a new performance-to-camera commission Puzzling Home 家的形狀 by Ghost and John, Michael and Jane. In this new performance to camera we see two travelers arrive home to a sandy beach, carrying with them visions of their former lives. In the work, - [Digital residency | mother tongues](https://performingborders.live/whats-on/digital-residency-mother-tongues/) - We're excited to announce that mother tongues is in residency at performingborders from February 2023! After a long time admiring their work from afar, we have invited Kaya and Vania to sit amongst our resources, to think through and with all of the practices that intersect our digital platform, and to respond to what they - [Collaborative Doctoral Award in partnership with Central School of Speech & Drama](https://performingborders.live/whats-on/collaborative-doctoral-award/) - performingborders and Central School of Speech and Drama are proud to announce a new Collaborative Doctoral Award, now open to application by any prospective student interested in borders, digital performance, live art and transnational research. Border-artists: Critiquing border logics in transnational digital performanceSupervised by Dr Diana Damian Martin (Royal Central School of Speech and Drama) - [performingborders e-journal: Rallying the Commons & newsletter December 2022](https://performingborders.live/whats-on/performingborders-e-journal-rallying-the-commons-newsletter-december-2022/) - Rallying the Commons is here - we couldn’t be more excited to share our second e-journal! READ the e-journal HERE The performingborders e-journal is a space to reflect on borders, live art, community, and resistance. Centering embodied knowledge and artists’ imagination as a space of knowledge production, the e-journal is a site to nourish and - [performingborders: Body, Politics & Live Art, Barbican 1st & 3rd Dec'22](https://performingborders.live/whats-on/barbican-dec22/) - We’re excited to announce that we will be running a series of workshops for young people (16-25) at the Barbican Centre, with the Creative Learning department in response to the exhibition Carolee Schneemann: Body Politics. Join us to reflect on Carolee Schneemann’s legacy, and explore how feminist performance has been carried on by artists working - [Newsletter October 2022 performingbordersConstellations Part II](https://performingborders.live/whats-on/newsletter-october-2022-performingbordersconstellations-part-ii/) - For this month’s newsletter the performingborders team continues to expand our new research paths, introduced back in June. For her next chapter of On Work, Alessandra questions are answered by teresa cisneros, a Chicanx Londoner curandera and curator of people originally from the Mexico-Texas border, in conversation with Dr. Marquard Smith. On Work is a - [performingborders newsletter | August 2022 | CITEMOR Festival 2022 & We Need Queer Liberation Now](https://performingborders.live/whats-on/performingborders-newsletter-august-2022-title/) - This month, performingborders newsletter is comprised of two series of reflections and creative responses from our own team's residency at CITEMOR Festival (Montemor-o-Velho, Portugal) and a collaboration with transnational queer project We Need Queer Liberation Now, an international residency and artist support project led by East Street Arts (Leeds, UK). Read our reflections on CITEMOR - [performingborders newsletter | June 2022](https://performingborders.live/whats-on/performingborders-newsletter-june-2022/) - In this month’s newsletter performingborders presents new research paths where the group's intertwined interests and ideas have manifested in a new constellation of work with the hope that the shared interviews will grow and develop into wider research. Based on her ongoing research of equitable forms of organising within the cultural and live art sector, Alessandra has - [performingborders newsletter | April 2022](https://performingborders.live/whats-on/performingborders-newsletter-april-2022/) - Our second newsletter of the year features the newly commissioned performance to camera 'It is impossible to say everything here so I leave you with this', an original immersive work around live art and borders created by SERAFINE1369. Read the full newsletter here. Subscribe to our newsletter here SERAFINE1369 (previously Last Yearz Interesting Negro) is the London - [Digital Conversation Commissions 2020 | Successful Applicants](https://performingborders.live/whats-on/digital-conversation-commissions-2020-successful-applicants/) - We are thrilled to announce the successful applicants of performingbordersLIVE20 Open call for Digital Conversations in partnership with the Live Art Development Agency: WHISKEY CHOW UK-based queer artist and activist Whiskey Chow will have a borderless digital conversation with US-based transmasculine artist Cassils about what art can do during and beyond global crises. London-based performance artist and Chinese drag king. Whiskey’s - [performingborders newsletter | February 2022](https://performingborders.live/whats-on/performingborders-newsletter-february-2022/) - Our first newsletter of the year has just gone out, including the launch of our new commissioned newsletter made by poet, artist and card reader Daniella Valz Gen. Titled 'On migration, kinship and (be)longings: Three meditations with cards' the new commission is made in collaboration with facilitator and somatic practitioner Meenadchi. Read the full newsletter here. Subscribe - [performingborders newsletter | December 2021](https://performingborders.live/whats-on/performingborders-newsletter-december-2021/) - Our end-of-year newsletter has just gone out, including the launch of our new performance to camera commission Amnion by Lynn Lu and a roundup of all the collective work and thinking that has happened at performingborders this year. Read the full newsletter and 2021 round-up here. Happy new year and see you back in February - [performingborders e-journal: fragments for borderless futures](https://performingborders.live/whats-on/performingborders-e-journal-fragments-for-borderless-futures/) - This month we’re happy to launch performingborders' first e-journal, tackling the theme of fragments for borderless futures. We hope that this will be the first in a yearly series, creating a space to collectively reflect on borders, live art, community, and resistance. We want these journals to be a space that centres embodied knowledge and - [performingborders newsletter | August 2021](https://performingborders.live/whats-on/performingborders-newsletter-august-2021/) - Over the past year, performingborders have been reflecting with our ‘critical friends’ on the systems and structures that we have employed in our work over the past few years. We want performingborders to be more border-free, borderless, or as borderless as it can be under capitalist structures that we are forced to navigate. The result - [performingborders newsletter | June 2021](https://performingborders.live/whats-on/performingborders-newsletter-june-2021/) - performingborders newsletter is out today!For this iteration of our bi-monthly newsletter, we invited the artist Syowia Kyambi to curate our June issue. In the newsletter, she shares an episode on 'Unthethered Magic' by Sauti Msituni, an independent radio station hosted by Kibe Wangunyu and Dennis Kiberu, as well as gifting us an advice booklet from - [Unbordering | A final gathering by performingbordersLIVE20](https://performingborders.live/whats-on/unbordering-final-event-of-performingborderslive20/) - 23-25 October 2020 A three-day gathering, bringing the performingbordersLIVE20 artists together to reimagine a borders-free, collaborative live art practice In partnership with Live Art Development Agency, Counterpoints Arts, East Street Arts, Queer Art Projects and HowlRound Theatre Commons. Supported by Arts Council England “It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.” - [performingborders newsletter | April 2021](https://performingborders.live/whats-on/performingborders-newsletter-april-2021/) - performingborders newsletter is out today! For our bi-monthly newsletter, we have invited artist and researcher Diana Damian Martin to curate our April issue. Her collaboration with Rusanda Curcă, Mihaela Drăgan, and Iulia Mărăcine gifts us the wonderful "Spells for a border town (retrocedare)" with interviews and a series of spells against fascists, against the states, for - [Collective Works | Workshop by Critical Interruptions](https://performingborders.live/whats-on/collective-works-workshop-by-critical-interruptions/) - Online Workshop Saturday 24th September 11am-1pm (BST) Free Tickets and Live captions: click here Temporary Works - COVID-19 Update is an open access archive documenting real, imagined, and potential closures and notices of termination in and around Deptford. The project explores the local response to a global crisis: how communities respond to emergencies, and how - [performingborders newsletter | February 2021](https://performingborders.live/whats-on/performingborders-newsletter-february-2021/) - Hello everyone, It feels good to come back after a time of deep listening, reflection, silence, and isolation. We are taking these first months of 2021 slowly, knowing that this year is for performingborders one of change, new collaborations and explorations. We are really looking forward to a series of gatherings with our new (and - [Guest post: Lisa Alexander | Provocation for TO YOU TO YOU TO YOU: Love Letters to A (Post)Europe](https://performingborders.live/whats-on/guest-post-lisa-alexander-provocation-for-to-you-to-you-to-you-love-letters-to-a-posteurope/) - Since then borders inside and outside have grown backwards in time. A clock that’s stopped can fool us for it shows the correct time twice a day. New languages have been created for these borders based on malappropriating old words. Our enemies were once the distant cousins we gave shelter to after a long journey. Is it - [There is (No) Time | Q&A with Joon Lynn Goh & PBLIVE2020 Digital Residencies Artists](https://performingborders.live/whats-on/there-is-no-time/) - Following from their digital residencies across the year, artists Jade Foster, The White Pube, Jade Montserrat, Istanbul Queer Art Collective and Àníké Bello talk with Joon Lynn Goh about their experience, their understanding of borders and time, and the current state of the UK arts sector. Click on names above to experience their residencies & - [open conversation | 30 March](https://performingborders.live/whats-on/open-conversation-30-march/) - performingborders. conversation on art | crossings | europe Wednesday 30th March 2016, 6.30-8pm Room E003 (new room updated 29/03/16), Central Saint Martins, 1 Granary Square N1C 4AA Book your free ticket here (for info contact Madeleine King: m.m.king@csm.arts.ac.uk) While newspapers speak of refugees’ crisis, Ukraine conflict, austerity measures, Brexit, and raising of right-wing rhetoric - ['Crisis' in Excess: Performing Europe Today](https://performingborders.live/whats-on/crisis-in-excess-performing-europe-today/) - Sound recording of the day The performingborders research has been invited to 'Crisis' in Excess: Performing Europe Today on Friday 29th April at Winchester University where I will present the work of Núria Güell with the 15-minute provocation 'Núria Güell: Exceeding financial and identity European policies through the body of the artist'. The event is - [There is (No) Time | An open conversation led by Joon Lynn Goh](https://performingborders.live/whats-on/there-is-no-timean-open-conversation-led-by-adelaide-bannerman-never-done/) - 25 October, 2:30-4pm | Free | Book here Not fully emergent from the global pandemic, what have we as individuals, and the respective communities that we are part of, learnt about time? Cultural organiser, producer and instigator, Joon Lynn Goh will be in conversation with performingbordersLIVE20 residency recipients: Àníké Bello, Jade Foster, Istanbul Queer Art Collective, - [Performance to Camera Commissions 2020 | Tania El Khoury and Jade Montserrat](https://performingborders.live/whats-on/performance-to-camera-commissions-2020-tania-el-khoury-and-jade-montserrat/) - performingbordersLIVE20 is thrilled to present the two new commissioned artists for its series of performance to camera that explore Live Art and notions and lived experiences of physical, cultural racial, gendered, economic, juridical, and everyday borders: TANIA EL KHOURY in partnership with Live Art Development Agency Lavender Man is an online conversation between two friends (Tania and Dali), - [Returning to Home Workshops | June - July 2020](https://performingborders.live/whats-on/returning-to-home-workshops-3-5-july-2020/) - "Returning to Home: A series of re/embodied workshops that focuses our attention to recognising, resetting and restoring." Sunday 28 June, 11:00am -12:30pm GMT+1 , Workshop 1: let me give you some breathing space, Facilitator: Annie Jael Kwan https://bit.ly/2AymcgS Saturday 4 July, 11:00am - 3:00pm GMT+1, Workshop 2: A Sky Full of Stars: A body-positive workshop centring sense - [Temporary Works: Covid-19 Update | Residency by Critical Interruptions](https://performingborders.live/whats-on/residency-critical-interruptions/) - Temporary Works: Covid-19 Update by Critical Interruptions Temporary Works is a digital archive of real, imagined and potential closures and notices of termination in and around Deptford. The project collects and speculates on disappearances and terminations prompted or made visible by the Covid-19 pandemic. Drawing on speculative fiction and queer approaches to the archive, Temporary - [Durational Performance: The Art of Walking by Pankaj Tiwari](https://performingborders.live/whats-on/durational-performance-the-art-of-walking-by-pankaj-tiwari/) - The Art of Walking by Pankaj Tiwar in collaboration with Abhishek Thapar 3rd July – 15th July 2020 ‘The Art of Walking’ is a durational performance walk of 312 km from Amsterdam to the refugee camps in Calais, France. 'The Art of Walking' is a performative project that raises awareness in Europe and beyond - [Be Ill-Disciplined | Performative Lecture & Workshop by Kai Syng Tan](https://performingborders.live/whats-on/be-ill-disciplined-public-lecture-workshop-by-kai-syng-tan/) - DIGITAL PERFORMATIVE LECTURE | Catalysing Change Through Artful Agitation: Part I: Be Ill-Disciplined 19 SEPTEMBER, 2:30-3:30pm | Free | Book here or write to chloecourtney@contactmcr.com “We need new compasses, fresh tools, and untried directions.” With the pandemic, Black Lives Matter, and the ongoing crises in climate, health, and technological control, we’ve all been thinking a lot about - [Twitter Residency| The White Pube ](https://performingborders.live/whats-on/twitter-residency-the-white-pube/) - performingbordersLIVE20 is excited to host The White Pube for the programme's first Twitter residency. From Wednesday 1st to Tuesday 7th July follow their residency at @perfbordersLIVE and while waiting for July, you can follow TWP at @thewhitepube. The White Pube is the collaborative practice of artists Gabrielle de la Puente and Zarina Muhammad under which they write criticism, exhibit, and curate. It is based at - [performingborders | LIVE - Open call for proposals for 2 digital conversations on Live Art and borders](https://performingborders.live/whats-on/performingborders-live-open-call-for-proposals-for-2-digital-conversations-on-live-art-and-borders/) - ***Successful applicants announced*** performingborders | LIVE 2019 is a programme of events and new commissions curated by Alessandra Cianetti and Xavier de Sousa and focusing on the exploration of artistic practices happening within the UK Live Art sector around notions of cultural, juridical, racial, gendered, class, physical and everyday borders. In partnership with the Live - [Lexicon of Tanjas Ostojic | Book Launch, 6 March](https://performingborders.live/whats-on/lexicon-of-tanjas-ostojic-book-launch-6-march/) - Lexicon of Tanjas Ostojic - Book Launch 6 March, 7pm The Live Art Development Agency, London Join LADA for the launch of Lexicon of Tanjas Ostojić (2011-17), a publication based on an interdisciplinary participatory project by the Serbian artist Tanja Ostojić that included academic and artistic research, five creative workshops, a number of public events, one group performance, and - [Xavier de Sousa: POST + Queer Migrant Takeover Party, 11 Nov](https://performingborders.live/whats-on/xavier-de-sousa-post-queer-migrant-takeover-party-11-nov/) - On Saturday 11 November, performingborders will have a station for people to navigate the website's interviews and various resources at Artsamin as part of the Queer Migrant Takeover Party following Xavier de Sousa's show POST. Xavier de Sousa: POST + Queer Migrant Takeover Party (images of the event below!) Saturday 11 November, 7.30pm. Followed by a Queer Migrant Takeover - [Connecting Communities: International Conference, 11 Nov](https://performingborders.live/whats-on/connecting-communities-international-conference/) - On Saturday 11 November, performingborders has been invited to Connecting Communities International Conference. Alessandra Cianetti will present the research-platform shortly before introducing 'A Short Table on Live Art | Crossings | Europe'. A Short Table on Live Art | Crossings | Europe is a participatory conversation where the public is actively invited to contribute to the discussion - [Recording Resistance Symposium](https://performingborders.live/whats-on/recording-resistance-symposium/) - Sat 30 September 2017, 10:30 – 18:00 MayDay Rooms – 88 Fleet St, London EC4Y 1DH Tickets are free but spaces are limited. Please book here. What vulnerabilities and benefits lay in recording resistance to late capitalism? Through a series of presentations, video pieces and a workshop this one-day event examines tensions between the progressive documentation of radical - [performingborders | Year-Round, Feb 2016 - Feb 2017](https://performingborders.live/whats-on/performingborders-feb-2016-feb-2017/) - So here we are, the first year of performingborders ends in February! Although the project was thought as a one-year interview-based research, I feel I've just scratched the surface of a much deeper journey into live art, borders and Europe (and whatever these words mean in our current socio-political climate). The February newsletter presents the last interviewee of this - [Open Call for Digital Conversations | PBLIVE20](https://performingborders.live/whats-on/open-call-for-digital-conversations-pblive20/) - For 2020’s edition of performingbordersLIVE (March – November 2020), performingbordersLIVE20 and the Live Art Development Agency invite proposals for two digital conversations by curators, artists, researchers, activists, thinkers and/or other professionals working in Live Art. Applicants will be interested in adding new perspectives on the relations between the ideas and the lived experiences of borders - [Open Call for Digital Conversations on Live Art and borders - Successful applicants announced](https://performingborders.live/whats-on/open-call-for-digital-conversations-on-live-art-and-borders-successful-applicants-announced/) - We are delighted to announce Burong and Critical Interruptions as the successful applicants for the performingborders | LIVE Open Call for Digital Conversations on Live Art and borders. We do look forward to publishing their contributions in June 2019! Burong (曾不容) is a Beijing/Brighton based live art practitioner-researcher and theatre-maker. 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[Bill Aitchison](https://performingborders.live/tag/bill-aitchison/) - [BIOS](https://performingborders.live/tag/bios/) - [Birkbeck Centre for Contemporary Theatre](https://performingborders.live/tag/birkbeck-centre-for-contemporary-theatre/) - [Birkbeck College](https://performingborders.live/tag/birkbeck-college/) - [Black Sheroes](https://performingborders.live/tag/black-sheroes/) - [Bob Karper](https://performingborders.live/tag/bob-karper/) - [Bobby Sands](https://performingborders.live/tag/bobby-sands/) - [Boedi Widjaja](https://performingborders.live/tag/boedi-widjaja/) - [Bojana Barltrop](https://performingborders.live/tag/bojana-barltrop/) - [Bojana Cvejić](https://performingborders.live/tag/bojana-cvejic/) - [Bojana Janković](https://performingborders.live/tag/bojana-jankovic/) - [Border](https://performingborders.live/tag/border/) - [Borderline Offensive](https://performingborders.live/tag/borderline-offensive/) - [Borders](https://performingborders.live/tag/borders/) - [Borka Pavićević](https://performingborders.live/tag/borka-pavicevic/) - 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[capitalism](https://performingborders.live/tag/capitalism/) - [Cardiff University](https://performingborders.live/tag/cardiff-university/) - [care](https://performingborders.live/tag/care/) - [Carolyn Defrin](https://performingborders.live/tag/carolyn-defrin/) - [Catalonia](https://performingborders.live/tag/catalonia/) - [Catherine Hoffmann](https://performingborders.live/tag/catherine-hoffmann/) - [Cécile Kyenge](https://performingborders.live/tag/cecile-kyenge/) - [Celeste Prize](https://performingborders.live/tag/celeste-prize/) - [Central American Women’s Network (CAWN)](https://performingborders.live/tag/central-american-womens-network-cawn/) - [Central Saint Martins](https://performingborders.live/tag/central-saint-martins/) - [Centre for Political Beauty](https://performingborders.live/tag/centre-for-political-beauty/) - [Channel 4](https://performingborders.live/tag/channel-4/) - [Charles Baudelaire](https://performingborders.live/tag/charles-baudelaire/) - [Charles Heller](https://performingborders.live/tag/charles-heller/) - [Charles Merewether](https://performingborders.live/tag/charles-merewether/) - [Charlie Ashwell](https://performingborders.live/tag/charlie-ashwell/) - [Cheuk Yin Lee](https://performingborders.live/tag/cheuk-yin-lee/) - [Chilcot inquiry](https://performingborders.live/tag/chilcot-inquiry/) - [China](https://performingborders.live/tag/china/) - [Chris Thorpe](https://performingborders.live/tag/chris-thorpe/) - [Christie’s](https://performingborders.live/tag/christies/) - [CIKE](https://performingborders.live/tag/cike/) - [Claire Bishop](https://performingborders.live/tag/claire-bishop/) - [Claire MacDonald](https://performingborders.live/tag/claire-macdonald/) - [Colchester Arts Centre](https://performingborders.live/tag/colchester-arts-centre/) - [Collaborative Arts Partnership Programme](https://performingborders.live/tag/collaborative-arts-partnership-programme/) - [Conflict+Culture](https://performingborders.live/tag/conflictculture/) - [Contact Theatre](https://performingborders.live/tag/contact-theatre/) - [Counterpoints Arts](https://performingborders.live/tag/counterpoints-arts/) - [Cristina Delgado-García](https://performingborders.live/tag/cristina-delgado-garcia/) - [Critical Interruptions](https://performingborders.live/tag/critical-interruptions/) - [Crossings: Journal of Migration & Culture](https://performingborders.live/tag/crossings-journal-of-migration-culture/) - [Culture Ireland](https://performingborders.live/tag/culture-ireland/) - [Curatorial residencies](https://performingborders.live/tag/curatorial-residencies/) - [Cuttitta](https://performingborders.live/tag/cuttitta/) - [Dagmawi Yimer](https://performingborders.live/tag/dagmawi-yimer/) - [Dana Olărescu](https://performingborders.live/tag/dana-olarescu/) - [Daniel Oliver](https://performingborders.live/tag/daniel-oliver/) - [Daniela Contreras López](https://performingborders.live/tag/daniela-contreras-lopez/) - [Danielle Brathwaite-shirley](https://performingborders.live/tag/danielle-brathwaite-shirley/) - [David Shrigley](https://performingborders.live/tag/david-shrigley/) - [David Tolley](https://performingborders.live/tag/david-tolley/) - [De Genova](https://performingborders.live/tag/de-genova/) - [Dean Atta](https://performingborders.live/tag/dean-atta/) - [Delfina Foundation](https://performingborders.live/tag/delfina-foundation/) - [Despina Syrri](https://performingborders.live/tag/despina-syrri/) - [Diana Damian Martin](https://performingborders.live/tag/diana-damian-martin/) - [Diaspora](https://performingborders.live/tag/diaspora/) - [Dictaphone group](https://performingborders.live/tag/dictaphone-group/) - [DIY](https://performingborders.live/tag/diy/) - [Documenta](https://performingborders.live/tag/documenta/) - [Dominic Thorpe](https://performingborders.live/tag/dominic-thorpe/) - [Dr Carali McCall](https://performingborders.live/tag/dr-carali-mccall/) - [Dr Debbie Lisle](https://performingborders.live/tag/dr-debbie-lisle/) - [Dr Nicola Kirkham](https://performingborders.live/tag/dr-nicola-kirkham/) - [Dr. Anna Marazuela Kim](https://performingborders.live/tag/dr-anna-marazuela-kim/) - [Dr. Lina Dencik](https://performingborders.live/tag/dr-lina-dencik/) - [Dr. Natasha Davis](https://performingborders.live/tag/dr-natasha-davis/) - [Dr. Steve Presence](https://performingborders.live/tag/dr-steve-presence/) - [East London](https://performingborders.live/tag/east-london/) - [East Street Arts](https://performingborders.live/tag/east-street-arts/) - [Eastern Europe](https://performingborders.live/tag/eastern-europe/) - [Eca Eps](https://performingborders.live/tag/eca-eps/) - [Eddie Ladd](https://performingborders.live/tag/eddie-ladd/) - [Edge Hill University](https://performingborders.live/tag/edge-hill-university/) - [Edge of an Era](https://performingborders.live/tag/edge-of-an-era/) - [EL Putnam](https://performingborders.live/tag/el-putnam/) - [Elena Marchevska](https://performingborders.live/tag/elena-marchevska/) - [Ella Gibbs](https://performingborders.live/tag/ella-gibbs/) - [Elvira Santamaría-Torres](https://performingborders.live/tag/elvira-santamaria-torres/) - [Embodied Movement for Social Change](https://performingborders.live/tag/embodied-movement-for-social-change/) - [Emeka Okereke](https://performingborders.live/tag/emeka-okereke/) - [Emily Elizabeth Sweeney](https://performingborders.live/tag/emily-elizabeth-sweeney/) - [Emmanuel Guillaud](https://performingborders.live/tag/emmanuel-guillaud/) - [Erica Scourti](https://performingborders.live/tag/erica-scourti/) - [Es Morgan](https://performingborders.live/tag/es-morgan/) - [ESKA](https://performingborders.live/tag/eska/) - [Esther Planas](https://performingborders.live/tag/esther-planas/) - [Etienne Balibar](https://performingborders.live/tag/etienne-balibar/) - [Ettijahat Independent Culture](https://performingborders.live/tag/ettijahat-independent-culture/) - [EU](https://performingborders.live/tag/eu/) - [European Theatre Research Network](https://performingborders.live/tag/european-theatre-research-network/) - [Exile](https://performingborders.live/tag/exile/) - [Exit](https://performingborders.live/tag/exit/) - [Exodus](https://performingborders.live/tag/exodus/) - [Facebook](https://performingborders.live/tag/facebook/) - [Federica Mazzara](https://performingborders.live/tag/federica-mazzara/) - [Fete de Tuiles](https://performingborders.live/tag/fete-de-tuiles/) - [Filippos Tsitsopoulos](https://performingborders.live/tag/filippos-tsitsopoulos/) - [Fire Station Artists Studios](https://performingborders.live/tag/fire-station-artists-studios/) - [Florence Peake](https://performingborders.live/tag/florence-peake/) - [Florian Thamer](https://performingborders.live/tag/florian-thamer/) - [Foreign Actions Productions](https://performingborders.live/tag/foreign-actions-productions/) - [Fortress Europe](https://performingborders.live/tag/fortress-europe/) - [Frances Stonor Saunders](https://performingborders.live/tag/frances-stonor-saunders/) - [Francis Alÿs](https://performingborders.live/tag/francis-alys/) - [Franko B](https://performingborders.live/tag/franko-b/) - [Fuocoammare](https://performingborders.live/tag/fuocoammare/) - [Gabriella Ghermandi](https://performingborders.live/tag/gabriella-ghermandi/) - [Gabrielle de la Puente](https://performingborders.live/tag/gabrielle-de-la-puente/) - [gamelan](https://performingborders.live/tag/gamelan/) - [Gardens Speak](https://performingborders.live/tag/gardens-speak/) - [Günter Grass](https://performingborders.live/tag/gunter-grass/) - [Georgia Kalogeropoulou](https://performingborders.live/tag/georgia-kalogeropoulou/) - [Gianfranco Rosi](https://performingborders.live/tag/gianfranco-rosi/) - [Giulia Palladini](https://performingborders.live/tag/giulia-palladini/) - [Gob Squad](https://performingborders.live/tag/gob-squad/) - [Goethe-Institut London](https://performingborders.live/tag/goethe-institut-london/) - [Goethe-Institute](https://performingborders.live/tag/goethe-institute/) - [Grand Union Canal](https://performingborders.live/tag/grand-union-canal/) - [Greece](https://performingborders.live/tag/greece/) - [Greg Wohead](https://performingborders.live/tag/greg-wohead/) - [Grenoble Festival](https://performingborders.live/tag/grenoble-festival/) - [Guillelmo Gómez-Peña](https://performingborders.live/tag/guillelmo-gomez-pena/) - [Hand-in-Hand](https://performingborders.live/tag/hand-in-hand/) - [Haraway](https://performingborders.live/tag/haraway/) - [Hari Marini](https://performingborders.live/tag/hari-marini/) - [Harun Morrison](https://performingborders.live/tag/harun-morrison/) - [Harvest & Wine](https://performingborders.live/tag/harvest-wine/) - [Heddon](https://performingborders.live/tag/heddon/) - [Helen Walker](https://performingborders.live/tag/helen-walker/) - [Helena Walsh](https://performingborders.live/tag/helena-walsh/) - [Hephzibah Israel](https://performingborders.live/tag/hephzibah-israel/) - [HomeTeam History](https://performingborders.live/tag/hometeam-history/) - [Hosking Houses Trust](https://performingborders.live/tag/hosking-houses-trust/) - [House of Humor and Satire](https://performingborders.live/tag/house-of-humor-and-satire/) - [Housssam Mchaimesh](https://performingborders.live/tag/housssam-mchaimesh/) - [Hrair Sarkissian](https://performingborders.live/tag/hrair-sarkissian/) - [Iain Chambers](https://performingborders.live/tag/iain-chambers/) - [Iain Sinclair](https://performingborders.live/tag/iain-sinclair/) - [Ila Nicole Sheren](https://performingborders.live/tag/ila-nicole-sheren/) - [Ilaria Vecchi](https://performingborders.live/tag/ilaria-vecchi/) - [Index on Censorship](https://performingborders.live/tag/index-on-censorship/) - [Indonesia](https://performingborders.live/tag/indonesia/) - [INMUNE – O Instituto da Mulher Negra em Portugal](https://performingborders.live/tag/inmune-o-instituto-da-mulher-negra-em-portugal/) - [Inside/Outside Europe Research Network](https://performingborders.live/tag/inside-outside-europe-research-network/) - [Instant Dissidence](https://performingborders.live/tag/instant-dissidence/) - [Institute of Contemporary Arts](https://performingborders.live/tag/institute-of-contemporary-arts/) - [Internal Terrains](https://performingborders.live/tag/internal-terrains/) - [Iran](https://performingborders.live/tag/iran/) - [Iraq](https://performingborders.live/tag/iraq/) - [Ireland](https://performingborders.live/tag/ireland/) - [Irina Arishtarkova](https://performingborders.live/tag/irina-arishtarkova/) - [Israel](https://performingborders.live/tag/israel/) - [Istanbul Queer Art Collective](https://performingborders.live/tag/istanbul-queer-art-collective/) - [Istanbul Queer Arts Collective](https://performingborders.live/tag/istanbul-queer-arts-collective/) - [Ivana Müller](https://performingborders.live/tag/ivana-muller/) - [Jade Foster](https://performingborders.live/tag/jade-foster/) - [Jade Montserrat](https://performingborders.live/tag/jade-montserrat/) - [Jamila Johnson-Small](https://performingborders.live/tag/jamila-johnson-small/) - [Jananne Al-Ani](https://performingborders.live/tag/jananne-al-ani/) - [Jelili Atiju](https://performingborders.live/tag/jelili-atiju/) - [Jon John](https://performingborders.live/tag/jon-john/) - [Jonas Staal](https://performingborders.live/tag/jonas-staal/) - [Joseph Morgan Schofield](https://performingborders.live/tag/joseph-morgan-schofield/) - [Joshua Sofaer](https://performingborders.live/tag/joshua-sofaer/) - [Joyce Carol Oates](https://performingborders.live/tag/joyce-carol-oates/) - [Juliet Davis](https://performingborders.live/tag/juliet-davis/) - [Jumana Hokan](https://performingborders.live/tag/jumana-hokan/) - [Junaid Sarieddeen](https://performingborders.live/tag/junaid-sarieddeen/) - [June Lam](https://performingborders.live/tag/june-lam/) - [Kai Syng Tan](https://performingborders.live/tag/kai-syng-tan/) - [KAIR](https://performingborders.live/tag/kair/) - [Karmadavis](https://performingborders.live/tag/karmadavis/) - [Kassel](https://performingborders.live/tag/kassel/) - [Kate Adams](https://performingborders.live/tag/kate-adams/) - [Katherine Nolan](https://performingborders.live/tag/katherine-nolan/) - [Katy Baird](https://performingborders.live/tag/katy-baird/) - [Kayo Chingony](https://performingborders.live/tag/kayo-chingony/) - [Kelvin Atmadibrata](https://performingborders.live/tag/kelvin-atmadibrata/) - [Kevin Biderman](https://performingborders.live/tag/kevin-biderman/) - [Kira O'Reilly](https://performingborders.live/tag/kira-oreilly/) - [La Frontera](https://performingborders.live/tag/la-frontera/) - [Lampedusa](https://performingborders.live/tag/lampedusa/) - [Lasse Lau](https://performingborders.live/tag/lasse-lau/) - [Laura Ríos](https://performingborders.live/tag/laura-rios/) - [leadership](https://performingborders.live/tag/leadership/) - [Leman Daricioğlu](https://performingborders.live/tag/leman-daricioglu/) - [Levi Orta](https://performingborders.live/tag/levi-orta/) - [Licia Cianetti](https://performingborders.live/tag/licia-cianetti/) - [Lidia Curti](https://performingborders.live/tag/lidia-curti/) - [LIFT](https://performingborders.live/tag/lift/) - [Lin Hixson](https://performingborders.live/tag/lin-hixson/) - [Lisa Alexander](https://performingborders.live/tag/lisa-alexander/) - [Live Art Development Agency](https://performingborders.live/tag/live-art-development-agency/) - [Livstycket](https://performingborders.live/tag/livstycket/) - [Lois Keidan](https://performingborders.live/tag/lois-keidan/) - [Lola Joksimović](https://performingborders.live/tag/lola-joksimovic/) - [London](https://performingborders.live/tag/london/) - [Loredana Paracciani](https://performingborders.live/tag/loredana-paracciani/) - [Lucia Palmero](https://performingborders.live/tag/lucia-palmero/) - [Lucy Cash](https://performingborders.live/tag/lucy-cash/) - [Lynn Lu](https://performingborders.live/tag/lynn-lu/) - [MACBA](https://performingborders.live/tag/macba/) - [Maddy Costa](https://performingborders.live/tag/maddy-costa/) - [Mahamed Aman](https://performingborders.live/tag/mahamed-aman/) - [MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum](https://performingborders.live/tag/maiiam-contemporary-art-museum/) - [Malcolm Whittaker](https://performingborders.live/tag/malcolm-whittaker/) - [Malik Nashad Sharpe](https://performingborders.live/tag/malik-nashad-sharpe/) - [Manaf Halbouni](https://performingborders.live/tag/manaf-halbouni/) - [Manchester](https://performingborders.live/tag/manchester/) - [Manchester International Festival](https://performingborders.live/tag/manchester-international-festival/) - [Manuel Vason](https://performingborders.live/tag/manuel-vason/) - [Margarita Dorovska](https://performingborders.live/tag/margarita-dorovska/) - [Maria Cristina Fumagalli](https://performingborders.live/tag/maria-cristina-fumagalli/) - [Maria Sideri](https://performingborders.live/tag/maria-sideri/) - [Marikiscrycrycry](https://performingborders.live/tag/marikiscrycrycry/) - [Marilena Zaroulia](https://performingborders.live/tag/marilena-zaroulia/) - [Martin Bureau](https://performingborders.live/tag/martin-bureau/) - [Martin O’Brien](https://performingborders.live/tag/martin-obrien/) - [Martina Tazzioli](https://performingborders.live/tag/martina-tazzioli/) - [Marty Langthorne](https://performingborders.live/tag/marty-langthorne/) - [Mary Paterson](https://performingborders.live/tag/mary-paterson/) - [Matthew Goulish](https://performingborders.live/tag/matthew-goulish/) - [Matthew Taylor](https://performingborders.live/tag/matthew-taylor/) - [Maurice Stierl](https://performingborders.live/tag/maurice-stierl/) - [Maya Ramsay](https://performingborders.live/tag/maya-ramsay/) - [Medang Kamulan](https://performingborders.live/tag/medang-kamulan/) - [Mengting Zhuo](https://performingborders.live/tag/mengting-zhuo/) - [Mexico](https://performingborders.live/tag/mexico/) - [Michaela Crimmin](https://performingborders.live/tag/michaela-crimmin/) - [Michelangelo Pistoletto](https://performingborders.live/tag/michelangelo-pistoletto/) - [migrant](https://performingborders.live/tag/migrant/) - [Migration](https://performingborders.live/tag/migration/) - [Migration Matters Festival](https://performingborders.live/tag/migration-matters-festival/) - [Mikhail Karikis](https://performingborders.live/tag/mikhail-karikis/) - [MitOst](https://performingborders.live/tag/mitost/) - [Mona Hatoum](https://performingborders.live/tag/mona-hatoum/) - [Moran Been-noon](https://performingborders.live/tag/moran-been-noon/) - [My Belly is Mine](https://performingborders.live/tag/my-belly-is-mine/) - [Nadine El Enany](https://performingborders.live/tag/nadine-el-enany/) - [Najia Bagi](https://performingborders.live/tag/najia-bagi/) - [Natalia Kaliada](https://performingborders.live/tag/natalia-kaliada/) - [Natasha Davis](https://performingborders.live/tag/natasha-davis/) - [Natasha Reid](https://performingborders.live/tag/natasha-reid/) - [Níamh Murphy](https://performingborders.live/tag/niamh-murphy/) - [Núria Güell](https://performingborders.live/tag/nuria-guell/) - [Nehra Stella](https://performingborders.live/tag/nehra-stella/) - [Never Done](https://performingborders.live/tag/never-done/) - [Nicholas de Genova](https://performingborders.live/tag/nicholas-de-genova/) - [Nigeria](https://performingborders.live/tag/nigeria/) - [Nikki Tomlinson](https://performingborders.live/tag/nikki-tomlinson/) - [Nikola Zelmanovic](https://performingborders.live/tag/nikola-zelmanovic/) - [Nikolaj Bendix Skykum Larsen](https://performingborders.live/tag/nikolaj-bendix-skykum-larsen/) - [Nima Séne](https://performingborders.live/tag/nima-sene/) - [Nina Katchadourian](https://performingborders.live/tag/nina-katchadourian/) - [No Borders Kitchen](https://performingborders.live/tag/no-borders-kitchen/) - [Noel Kelly](https://performingborders.live/tag/noel-kelly/) - [Noelia Diaz Vicedo](https://performingborders.live/tag/noelia-diaz-vicedo/) - [Northern Ireland](https://performingborders.live/tag/northern-ireland/) - [Nwando Ebizie](https://performingborders.live/tag/nwando-ebizie/) - [O’Sullivan](https://performingborders.live/tag/osullivan/) - [Observatory Caribbean Migrants](https://performingborders.live/tag/observatory-caribbean-migrants/) - [Olga Lagun](https://performingborders.live/tag/olga-lagun/) - [Omar Kholeif](https://performingborders.live/tag/omar-kholeif/) - [open call](https://performingborders.live/tag/open-call/) - [Oreet Ashery](https://performingborders.live/tag/oreet-ashery/) - [osborn&møller](https://performingborders.live/tag/osbornmoller/) - [Palestine](https://performingborders.live/tag/palestine/) - [Pankaj Tiwar](https://performingborders.live/tag/pankaj-tiwar/) - [Pankaj Tiwari](https://performingborders.live/tag/pankaj-tiwari/) - [Pao Houa Her](https://performingborders.live/tag/pao-houa-her/) - [Paula McCloskey](https://performingborders.live/tag/paula-mccloskey/) - [pendapa](https://performingborders.live/tag/pendapa/) - [perfomingborders](https://performingborders.live/tag/perfomingborders/) - [Performance Art-Berlin](https://performingborders.live/tag/performance-art-berlin/) - [performinbordersLIVE20](https://performingborders.live/tag/performinborderslive20/) - [Performingborders](https://performingborders.live/tag/performingborders/) - [performingbordersLIVE20](https://performingborders.live/tag/performingborderslive20/) - [philip](https://performingborders.live/tag/philip/) - [Pincha](https://performingborders.live/tag/pincha/) - [Pippa Bacca](https://performingborders.live/tag/pippa-bacca/) - [Platforma Arts](https://performingborders.live/tag/platforma-arts/) - [poetry](https://performingborders.live/tag/poetry/) - [Porto M](https://performingborders.live/tag/porto-m/) - [Porto Novo](https://performingborders.live/tag/porto-novo/) - [Pr. Carmine Pariante](https://performingborders.live/tag/pr-carmine-pariante/) - [queer](https://performingborders.live/tag/queer/) - [queeringborders](https://performingborders.live/tag/queeringborders/) - [Queertopia](https://performingborders.live/tag/queertopia/) - [Rabih Mroué](https://performingborders.live/tag/rabih-mroue/) - [Radage ▽ Hardaker](https://performingborders.live/tag/radage-▽-hardaker/) - [Radical Film Network](https://performingborders.live/tag/radical-film-network/) - [Raju Rage](https://performingborders.live/tag/raju-rage/) - [Raven Row](https://performingborders.live/tag/raven-row/) - [Red Cross](https://performingborders.live/tag/red-cross/) - [Referendum](https://performingborders.live/tag/referendum/) - [Refugee Network](https://performingborders.live/tag/refugee-network/) - [Refugee Week](https://performingborders.live/tag/refugee-week/) - [religion](https://performingborders.live/tag/religion/) - [Restock, Rethink, Reflect](https://performingborders.live/tag/restock-rethink-reflect/) - [Reverend Billy and The Stop Shopping Choir](https://performingborders.live/tag/reverend-billy-and-the-stop-shopping-choir/) - [Riccardo Matlakas](https://performingborders.live/tag/riccardo-matlakas/) - [Rich Mix](https://performingborders.live/tag/rich-mix/) - [Richard DeDomenici](https://performingborders.live/tag/richard-dedomenici/) - [Richard Long](https://performingborders.live/tag/richard-long/) - [RichMix](https://performingborders.live/tag/richmix/) - [Rita Marcalo](https://performingborders.live/tag/rita-marcalo/) - [rituals](https://performingborders.live/tag/rituals/) - [Roberta Mock](https://performingborders.live/tag/roberta-mock/) - [Robin Deacon](https://performingborders.live/tag/robin-deacon/) - [Rosana Cade](https://performingborders.live/tag/rosana-cade/) - [RoseLee Goldberg](https://performingborders.live/tag/roselee-goldberg/) - [Royal College of Arts](https://performingborders.live/tag/royal-college-of-arts/) - [Royal Court Theatre](https://performingborders.live/tag/royal-court-theatre/) - [Royal Holloway University of London](https://performingborders.live/tag/royal-holloway-university-of-london/) - [Running](https://performingborders.live/tag/running/) - [Rupture](https://performingborders.live/tag/rupture/) - [Saliha Yavuz](https://performingborders.live/tag/saliha-yavuz/) - [Sally Labern](https://performingborders.live/tag/sally-labern/) - [Sam Vardy](https://performingborders.live/tag/sam-vardy/) - [Sandra Stanionyte](https://performingborders.live/tag/sandra-stanionyte/) - [SanQtuary](https://performingborders.live/tag/sanqtuary/) - [Sara Zaltash](https://performingborders.live/tag/sara-zaltash/) - [Sarah Brown](https://performingborders.live/tag/sarah-brown/) - [Sarah Naqvi](https://performingborders.live/tag/sarah-naqvi/) - [Sarah Peace](https://performingborders.live/tag/sarah-peace/) - [Schengen agreement](https://performingborders.live/tag/schengen-agreement/) - [Science Gallery](https://performingborders.live/tag/science-gallery/) - [Science Gallery London](https://performingborders.live/tag/science-gallery-london/) - [Sea Sharp](https://performingborders.live/tag/sea-sharp/) - [Season Butler](https://performingborders.live/tag/season-butler/) - [Sebastian Aguirre](https://performingborders.live/tag/sebastian-aguirre/) - [Sebastian Hau-Walker](https://performingborders.live/tag/sebastian-hau-walker/) - [Seda Ergul](https://performingborders.live/tag/seda-ergul/) - [Sepake Anigama](https://performingborders.live/tag/sepake-anigama/) - [Serra Ozhan](https://performingborders.live/tag/serra-ozhan/) - [Shambala festival](https://performingborders.live/tag/shambala-festival/) - [Sheffield Doc/Fest](https://performingborders.live/tag/sheffield-doc-fest/) - [Sheree Rose](https://performingborders.live/tag/sheree-rose/) - [Sim Chi Yin](https://performingborders.live/tag/sim-chi-yin/) - [Situationist International](https://performingborders.live/tag/situationist-international/) - [Sneja Gunew](https://performingborders.live/tag/sneja-gunew/) - [Somerset House](https://performingborders.live/tag/somerset-house/) - 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[Suzanne Walsh](https://performingborders.live/tag/suzanne-walsh/) - [Sybilla Peters](https://performingborders.live/tag/sybilla-peters/) - [Symbiosis](https://performingborders.live/tag/symbiosis/) - [Syowia Kyambi](https://performingborders.live/tag/syowia-kyambi/) - [Syria](https://performingborders.live/tag/syria/) - [Tania Bruguera](https://performingborders.live/tag/tania-bruguera/) - [Tania El Khoury](https://performingborders.live/tag/tania-el-khoury/) - [Tanja Ostojić](https://performingborders.live/tag/tanja-ostojic/) - [Tara Fatehi Irani](https://performingborders.live/tag/tara-fatehi-irani/) - [Tarik Elmoutawakil](https://performingborders.live/tag/tarik-elmoutawakil/) - [Tate Liverpool](https://performingborders.live/tag/tate-liverpool/) - [Tate Modern](https://performingborders.live/tag/tate-modern/) - [Teatro Griot](https://performingborders.live/tag/teatro-griot/) - [Teeth Show](https://performingborders.live/tag/teeth-show/) - [Tehran](https://performingborders.live/tag/tehran/) - [The Art of Walking](https://performingborders.live/tag/the-art-of-walking/) - [The Arts Centre](https://performingborders.live/tag/the-arts-centre/) - [The Center for Cultural Decontamination](https://performingborders.live/tag/the-center-for-cultural-decontamination/) - [The Collective Liberation Project](https://performingborders.live/tag/the-collective-liberation-project/) - [The Department of Feminist Conversations](https://performingborders.live/tag/the-department-of-feminist-conversations/) - [The Institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent at Home](https://performingborders.live/tag/the-institute-for-the-art-and-practice-of-dissent-at-home/) - [The Lowry](https://performingborders.live/tag/the-lowry/) - [The Royal Court](https://performingborders.live/tag/the-royal-court/) - [The White Pube](https://performingborders.live/tag/the-white-pube/) - [There There](https://performingborders.live/tag/there-there/) - [Tiago Prata](https://performingborders.live/tag/tiago-prata/) - [TILTT](https://performingborders.live/tag/tiltt/) - 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[University of Exeter](https://performingborders.live/tag/university-of-exeter/) - [University of Kent](https://performingborders.live/tag/university-of-kent/) - [University of Oxford](https://performingborders.live/tag/university-of-oxford/) - [University of Winchester](https://performingborders.live/tag/university-of-winchester/) - [US](https://performingborders.live/tag/us/) - [UWE Bristol](https://performingborders.live/tag/uwe-bristol/) - [V&A](https://performingborders.live/tag/va/) - [Valentina Zagaria](https://performingborders.live/tag/valentina-zagaria/) - [Venice International Performance Art Week](https://performingborders.live/tag/venice-international-performance-art-week/) - [Ventimiglia](https://performingborders.live/tag/ventimiglia/) - [Visa](https://performingborders.live/tag/visa/) - [Wafaa Bilal](https://performingborders.live/tag/wafaa-bilal/) - [Wellcome Collection](https://performingborders.live/tag/wellcome-collection/) - [Werner Herzog](https://performingborders.live/tag/werner-herzog/) - [Wheatley Fine Art Fellowship](https://performingborders.live/tag/wheatley-fine-art-fellowship/) - [Whiskey Chow](https://performingborders.live/tag/whiskey-chow/) - [Whitworth Art Gallery](https://performingborders.live/tag/whitworth-art-gallery/) - [Will Self](https://performingborders.live/tag/will-self/) - [women](https://performingborders.live/tag/women/) - [Xavier de Sousa](https://performingborders.live/tag/xavier-de-sousa/) - [Yoko Tawada](https://performingborders.live/tag/yoko-tawada/) - [Yoruba](https://performingborders.live/tag/yoruba/) - [Zahra Haji Fath Ali Tehrani](https://performingborders.live/tag/zahra-haji-fath-ali-tehrani/) - [Zakaria Mohamed Ali](https://performingborders.live/tag/zakaria-mohamed-ali/) - [Zarina Muhammad](https://performingborders.live/tag/zarina-muhammad/) - [Zoom](https://performingborders.live/tag/zoom/) - [Zoran Todorović](https://performingborders.live/tag/zoran-todorovic/) - [Zoukak Theater](https://performingborders.live/tag/zoukak-theater/) - [Zuzana Kotikova](https://performingborders.live/tag/zuzana-kotikova/) - []performance space[](https://performingborders.live/tag/performance-space/) - [Temporary Works](https://performingborders.live/tag/temporary-works/) - [COVID-19](https://performingborders.live/tag/covid-19/) - [SERAFINE 1369](https://performingborders.live/tag/serafine-1369/) - [Sepake Angiama](https://performingborders.live/tag/sepake-angiama/) - [interview](https://performingborders.live/tag/interview/) - [Spell](https://performingborders.live/tag/spell/) - [Ana Rocha](https://performingborders.live/tag/ana-rocha/) - [live art](https://performingborders.live/tag/live-art/) - [fronteiras](https://performingborders.live/tag/fronteiras/) - [mandla rae](https://performingborders.live/tag/mandla-rae/) - [language](https://performingborders.live/tag/language/) - [pb Fronteiras](https://performingborders.live/tag/pb-fronteiras/) - [Anahi Saravia Herrera](https://performingborders.live/tag/anahi-saravia-herrera/) - [Bodies in Resistance | Encuerpando Resistencia](https://performingborders.live/tag/bodies-in-resistance-encuerpando-resistencia/) - [teresa cisneros](https://performingborders.live/tag/teresa-cisneros/) - [Marquard Smith](https://performingborders.live/tag/marquard-smith/) - [on work](https://performingborders.live/tag/on-work/) - [Spirals](https://performingborders.live/tag/spirals/) - [PartSuspended](https://performingborders.live/tag/partsuspended/) - [Sarahleigh Castelyn](https://performingborders.live/tag/sarahleigh-castelyn/) - [Noelia Diaz-Vicedo](https://performingborders.live/tag/noelia-diaz-vicedo-2/) - [Dimitra Adamopoulou](https://performingborders.live/tag/dimitra-adamopoulou/) - [Ruth Asidi](https://performingborders.live/tag/ruth-asidi/) - [Niya B](https://performingborders.live/tag/niya-b/) - [Banerjee](https://performingborders.live/tag/banerjee/) - [Suparna Banerjee](https://performingborders.live/tag/suparna-banerjee/) - [Sally Pomme Clayton](https://performingborders.live/tag/sally-pomme-clayton/) - [Colin Cruise](https://performingborders.live/tag/colin-cruise/) - [Krishna Goswami](https://performingborders.live/tag/krishna-goswami/) - [Nikos Kabasele](https://performingborders.live/tag/nikos-kabasele/) - [John London](https://performingborders.live/tag/john-london/) - [Kostis Ntemos](https://performingborders.live/tag/kostis-ntemos/) - [Simon Persighetti](https://performingborders.live/tag/simon-persighetti/) - [bodies on the line](https://performingborders.live/tag/bodies-on-the-line/) - [bolivia](https://performingborders.live/tag/bolivia/) - [feminism](https://performingborders.live/tag/feminism/) - [creativity as a tool for struggle](https://performingborders.live/tag/creativity-as-a-tool-for-struggle/) - [mujeres creando](https://performingborders.live/tag/mujeres-creando/) - [Movimiento Maricas Bolivia](https://performingborders.live/tag/movimiento-maricas-bolivia/) - [Calle](https://performingborders.live/tag/calle/) - [Embodying Resistance/ Encuerpando Resistencia'](https://performingborders.live/tag/embodying-resistance-encuerpando-resistencia/) - [Germinal](https://performingborders.live/tag/germinal/) - [Calle Bienal de Performance](https://performingborders.live/tag/calle-bienal-de-performance/) - [Alejandra del Carpio](https://performingborders.live/tag/alejandra-del-carpio/) - [ejournal](https://performingborders.live/tag/ejournal/) - [parallaxing](https://performingborders.live/tag/parallaxing/) - [misplaced women](https://performingborders.live/tag/misplaced-women/) - [Yudi Wu](https://performingborders.live/tag/yudi-wu/) - [Heba Hayek](https://performingborders.live/tag/heba-hayek/) - [commission](https://performingborders.live/tag/commission/) - [Giulia Casalini](https://performingborders.live/tag/giulia-casalini/) - [Byuka aka Fortune Tailed Beast](https://performingborders.live/tag/byuka-aka-fortune-tailed-beast/) - [Mimosa House](https://performingborders.live/tag/mimosa-house/) - [Burned House Horizon](https://performingborders.live/tag/burned-house-horizon/) - [performance art](https://performingborders.live/tag/performance-art/) - [Rahila Haque](https://performingborders.live/tag/rahila-haque/) - [Bangladesh](https://performingborders.live/tag/bangladesh/) - [Farida Yesmin](https://performingborders.live/tag/farida-yesmin/) - [Live Art Writers Network](https://performingborders.live/tag/live-art-writers-network/) - [LAWN](https://performingborders.live/tag/lawn/) - [Writing](https://performingborders.live/tag/writing/) - [FIERCE Festival](https://performingborders.live/tag/fierce-festival/) - [Sheila Ghelani](https://performingborders.live/tag/sheila-ghelani/) - [Burong Zeng](https://performingborders.live/tag/burong-zeng/) - [claudia galhos](https://performingborders.live/tag/claudia-galhos/) - [pedro vilela](https://performingborders.live/tag/pedro-vilela/) - [linha de fuga](https://performingborders.live/tag/linha-de-fuga/) - [collective writing](https://performingborders.live/tag/collective-writing/) - [critical writing](https://performingborders.live/tag/critical-writing/) - [critica pingue-pongue](https://performingborders.live/tag/critica-pingue-pongue/) - [escrita critica colectiva](https://performingborders.live/tag/escrita-critica-colectiva/) - [escrita critica](https://performingborders.live/tag/escrita-critica/) - [ping-pong criticism](https://performingborders.live/tag/ping-pong-criticism/) - [ed freitas](https://performingborders.live/tag/ed-freitas/) - [linha de fuga 2025](https://performingborders.live/tag/linha-de-fuga-2025/) - [Nonconforming Criticisms](https://performingborders.live/tag/nonconforming-criticisms/) - [DDD2026](https://performingborders.live/tag/ddd2026/) - [Dori Nigro](https://performingborders.live/tag/dori-nigro/) - [Arquivo](https://performingborders.live/tag/arquivo/) - [Porto](https://performingborders.live/tag/porto/) - [Wura Moraes](https://performingborders.live/tag/wura-moraes/) - [Mario Calixto](https://performingborders.live/tag/mario-calixto/) - [Claire Sivier](https://performingborders.live/tag/claire-sivier/) - [Hilda de Paulo](https://performingborders.live/tag/hilda-de-paulo/) - [Leena Habiballa](https://performingborders.live/tag/leena-habiballa/) - [Amel Moyersoen](https://performingborders.live/tag/amel-moyersoen/) - [afraid of losing the echoes](https://performingborders.live/tag/afraid-of-losing-the-echoes/) - [An* Neely](https://performingborders.live/tag/an-neely/) - [Copenhagen Landscapes](https://performingborders.live/tag/copenhagen-landscapes/) - [Sara Hamming](https://performingborders.live/tag/sara-hamming/) - [Lukas Racky](https://performingborders.live/tag/lukas-racky/) - [Jupiter Child](https://performingborders.live/tag/jupiter-child/) - [Jørgen Callesen](https://performingborders.live/tag/jorgen-callesen/) - [Emma Møller](https://performingborders.live/tag/emma-moller/) - [Warehouse9](https://performingborders.live/tag/warehouse9/) ## Issues - [Issue 1](https://performingborders.live/issue/issue-1/) - [Issue 2](https://performingborders.live/issue/issue-2/) - [Issue 3](https://performingborders.live/issue/issue-3/) ## First Pages - [First Page](https://performingborders.live/first_page/first-page/)