Inhabiting borders

Catalina Hernández-Cabal

Are borders a division? A site of encounter? A membrane? Regardless, they are a place. During the Covid-19 pandemic, I developed a practice for examining the physical and symbolic borders that contain us, using creative prompts (scores), movement and art methods. In practicing with different groups, we explored borders as “containers”: they limit, restrict, and exclude. However, borders can also “hold us” and offer refuge when they soften to our needs. Inspired by feminisms and queer of color theory, this project proposed movement as a tactic to inhabit borders as spaces that can yield to our bodies and trajectories.

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