performingborders: Recent Episodes
performingborders
performingborders is a platform that explores the relations between the notion of border and live art. The ‘performingborders. conversation on live art | crossing | europe' project is disseminated as an interview-based research-blog and series of related events and writing commissions which interrogate the practices of performers that are responding to the challenging notion of contemporary borders and the shifting concept of Europe.
From February 2016, each month the blog publishes an interview with a live artist, academic, thinker or art professional, as a way to explore the debate on what the contemporary meaning of ‘border’ in live art is, how live artists are addressing this issue within Europe, and how the curatorial tool of the interview can be challenged. The multi- media interviews take a discursive and conversational approach in order to delve into the boundaries of the ever-developing notion of Europe and its proliferating and increasingly heterogeneous borders.
Images credits: Human Chain, 2016. Image by Lucia Palmero
Slow Cooking, a new podcast & video art experiment exploring the relationship between art making processes, communal food practices and contemporary colonial impacts around food and environmentalism.Created by Xavier de SousaGuest: Guya & Untethered MagicAudio created and edited by Olive MondegreenStrategic Producing & Consultancy by The UnculturedCommissioned by Theatre in the Mill, performingborders and Migrant Actions ProductionsAdditional funding by Arts Council England
Slow Cooking, a new podcast & video art experiment exploring the relationship between art making processes, communal food practices and contemporary colonial impacts around food and environmentalism.Created by Xavier de SousaGuest: Rebecca MoradalizadehAudio created and edited by Olive MondegreenStrategic Producing & Consultancy by The UnculturedCommissioned by Theatre in the Mill, performingborders and Migrant Actions ProductionsAdditional funding by Arts Council England
Slow Cooking, a new podcast & video art experiment exploring the relationship between art making processes, communal food practices and contemporary colonial impacts around food and environmentalism.Created by Xavier de SousaGuest: Audio created and edited by Olive MondegreenStrategic Producing & Consultancy by The UnculturedCommissioned by Theatre in the Mill, performingborders and Migrant Actions ProductionsAdditional funding by Arts Council England
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 and Ania Varez in a conversation about social gathering, identity, collaborative friendship, celebration, and joy-making practices.
Original Broadcast: Montez Press Radio24th November 20234pm at radio.montezpress.comperformingbordersRadio 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 residency with a conversation between performingborders and Howl Yuan to discuss socially engaged performance practices and the importance of using cultural work to weave connections between people and communities. Throughout the episode, we’ll hear excerpts from Howl’s work with sound, from song-making to podcasts and audio walks. Howl Yuan, or Yuan Cheng-Po, is a Taiwanese performance maker/writer/curator/researcher. His interests cross-cultural identity, mobility, site/place/space, and decolonized narratives. His works span different formats but are primarily performance-based, and are presented in theatres, galleries, festivals, beaches or gardens.
Given the on-going genocide in Gaza, performingborders created this episode as a space to share resources in the form of texts, poems, music, and the reading of manifestos and call-outs generated around the world from groups in solidarity with Palestinian liberation. It is a radio space to echo the voices of those demanding justice and voicing the way in which all of our struggles are entangled - none of us are free until we all are. Tune in to find a space for collective grief, solidarity, seeds of resistance, and calls to action.SONG: Hassan Shaikh - Ana Dammi FalasteeniEXCERPT FROM: DAYRA AND COMMUNAL DEBT by Lara Khaldi on behalf of and with The Question of FundingSONG: Lowkey- Long Live PalestinePOEM: IN CASE OF EMERGENCY, Lena Khalaf TuffahaSONG: يا فلسطينية | فرقة يلالان وفرقة اسكندريلا | Ya Falastinia | Yalalan Band & Eskenderella BandSONG: Ana Tijoux - Somos SurCALL OUT: COMO FEMINISTAS NO PODEMOS PERMANECER EN SILENCIO // COMO FEMINISTAS DECIMOS NO AL GENOCIDIO EN PALESTINASONG: KOFIA - Leve Palestina, Krossa SionismenCALL OUT: An Urgent Call from Palestinian Trade Unions: End all Complicity, Stop Arming IsraelSONG: Emel Mathlouthi - Naci en Palestina آمال مثلوثيOPEN LETTER: AN OPEN LETTER FROM THE ART COMMUNITY TO CULTURAL ORGANIZATIONSSONG: Sabreen - Smoke Of The VolcanoesSONG: Sabreen - On Wishes
📻 This month we’re talking to Pouya Ehsaei about the Lips To The Moon project, listening to some of their favourite recordings from the performances, talking about multidisciplinary collaboration, and thinking more about what it means to work transnationally through sound.✨🌙 From the Lips to the Moon is an unusual music and poetry performance. An immersive space made through the synergies of words, melodies, languages and beats. Created by electronic musician and composer Pouya Ehsaei and performance maker and word trickster Tara Fatehi, From the Lips to the Moon is a regular music and poetry night in London where they invite other poets and musicians to join them in creating live improvised performances. It is an event full of riveting live music, mind-bending beats, fierce poetry, absurd texts and goosebumps. The performances are often streamed to the Palestine-based Radio-Alhara.This episode was recorded live Montez Press Radio studios in London, on Thursday 28 September | 4 PM
performingbordersRADIO: Episode 3 with Untethered Magic | July 2023This month performingborders shares an audio collage of their time working with Untethered Magic, from visiting their space on the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya in February 2023 during a two-week residency, to ongoing digital conversations on transnational collaboration. Untethered Magic, run by artists Syowia Kyambi, Kibe Wangunyu, and Ciaran Nash, is both a home and an independently run residency space that encourages growth, independence, and processes of unlearning. It is a space being set up to live with the land, thinking through sustainability in environmental and social terms.During their time collaborating, performingborders and Untethered Magic have discussed ideas of place, sustainability, and live art, thinking through the creation of alternative spaces for experimental work. In this show, they share conversations between the two collectives, alongside readings and short performative interventions by artists who joined them during the residency in Kenya including Nekoye Ommeh, Ngwatilo Mawiyoo, Esther Kamba, and Joseph Kanyenje.Edited by: Olive Mondegreen Artists (including pronouns):Anahi Saravia Herrera she/herAlessandra Cianetti she/herXavier de Sousa he/him + they/themSyowia Kyambi she/herKibe Wangunyu he/himNgwatilo Mawiyoo she/herNekoye Ommeh she/herEsther Kamba she/herJoseph Kanyenje he/him Ciaran Nash he/him Brief description of show: 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.
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 created with and by artists in their network.In our second episode as Radio residents, we meet with artist Diana Damian Martin to talk through her commission Spells for a border town (retrocedare) which was originally commissioned for the performingborders platform in April 2021. 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. In this episode, we’ll be re-sharing some of the audio work from this commission, re-visiting the political situation of the territories that mark the commission and talking, as well as touching on the entanglement between the process of re-ceding and decolonial practices on the peripheries of Europe.The episode and commission features work and thinking by artists: Diana Damian Martin, Mihaela Drăgan, Rusanda Curcă, Iulia Mărăcine, and Flo Thamer. Diana Damian Martin is an artist and researcher, working at the intersection between writing, politics and performance. Her work concerns alternative critical epistemologies and feminist modes of exchange, interventionist and political performance and the ecological and representational poetics of migration, with a distinct focus on Eastern Europe. Recent collaborations include performingborders, The Albany, Dansehallerne, The Wellcome Collection and Tate Modern. She co-hosts The Department of Feminist Conversations and Something Other, and co-runs the Serbo-Romanian critical cooperative Critical Interruptions, artistic research committee Generative Constraints and is a core member of Migrants in Culture. Her recent publications include (states of) wake: Dedicating Performance and Critical Interruptions Vol 1: Steakhouse LIVE. She is currently Senior Lecturer in Performance Arts at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, and once appeared in an issue of Private Eye, where her work was described as obscure, impenetrable and unclear. Twitter: @DianaADamian
performingbordersRadio: THREE LISTENING RITUALS IN SONIC MIGRATIONS | TRES RITUALES DE ESCUCHA EN MIGRACIONES SÓNICAS - by Ximena Alarcón-Díaz Join us for 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 collaborative, sound-based performance work created with and by artists in our network. We hope you enjoy it. We open this series with three listening rituals by Ximena Alarcón-Díaz, which were originally commissioned for performingborders’ annual e-Journal #2: Rallying the Commons, published 14th December 2022. The pieces are offered as a trilogy of rituals to connect your body to the dream world, to childhood memories of curiosity about nature, and to other beings that are more than human. Through the rituals we hope to explore sonic migration, deep listening, and strengthen our individual and collective sense of agency.In this re-release of the rituals, we tell you more about this new radio series and hear more from Ximena about the rituals and her practice after the creation of the work. The rituals mix Spanish and English but welcome listeners in all languages. There are transcriptions freely available in the e-journal, through which you can also revisit the rituals. Access the transcriptions on our e-journal here: https://performingborders.live/ejournal/three-listening-rituals-in-sonic-migrations/
Performed live by Sayang on 28/04/22 using modular synthesis, as part of We Need Queer Liberation Now project
This soundscape is part of the performingborders 2021 commission Spell for a border town (retrocedare) by Daria Damian Martin.
For more information on performingborders visit performingborders.live (a monthly newsletter and new posts out on 14th of each month)
Image: Alesa Herero by Bruno Simão
queeringborders | Copenhagen Landscapes | Lasse Lau Interview by Xavier de Sousa and André Neely
queeringborders | Copenhagen Landscapes | Lasse Lau Interview by Xavier de Sousa and André Neely
queeringborders | Copenhagen Landscapes | Sara Hamming & Lukas Racky Interview by Xavier de Sousa and Andre Neely
ALL THE TEA IN CHINA BY BURONG (曾不容) | DIGITAL CONVERSATION 2019
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).
READ, LISTEN TO, AND ENJOY BURONG (曾不容)' s COMMISSION HERE: performingborders.live/2019/06/14/al…rsation-2019/
ALL THE TEA IN CHINA By Burong (曾不容) is a performingborders | LIVE 2019 writing commission supported by the Live Art Development Agency.
Image credit: Next Performance (Belgrade, 2016) Credit: Tina Maric
ALL THE TEA IN CHINA BY BURONG (曾不容) | DIGITAL CONVERSATION 2019
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).
READ, LISTEN TO, AND ENJOY BURONG (曾不容)' s COMMISSION HERE: performingborders.live/2019/06/14/al…rsation-2019/
ALL THE TEA IN CHINA By Burong (曾不容) is a performingborders | LIVE 2019 writing commission supported by the Live Art Development Agency.
Image credit: VestAndPage
ALL THE TEA IN CHINA BY BURONG (曾不容) | DIGITAL CONVERSATION 2019
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).
READ, LISTEN TO, AND ENJOY BURONG (曾不容)' s COMMISSION HERE: performingborders.live/2019/06/14/al…rsation-2019/
ALL THE TEA IN CHINA By Burong (曾不容) is a performingborders | LIVE 2019 writing commission supported by the Live Art Development Agency.
Image credit: Alejandro Chellet
ALL THE TEA IN CHINA BY BURONG (曾不容) | DIGITAL CONVERSATION 2019
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).
READ, LISTEN TO, AND ENJOY BURONG (曾不容)' s COMMISSION HERE: performingborders.live/2019/06/14/al…rsation-2019/
ALL THE TEA IN CHINA By Burong (曾不容) is a performingborders | LIVE 2019 writing commission supported by the Live Art Development Agency.
Image credit: Richard Dedomenici
ALL THE TEA IN CHINA BY BURONG (曾不容) | DIGITAL CONVERSATION 2019
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).
READ, LISTEN TO, AND ENJOY BURONG (曾不容)' s COMMISSION HERE: performingborders.live/2019/06/14/al…rsation-2019/
ALL THE TEA IN CHINA By Burong (曾不容) is a performingborders | LIVE 2019 writing commission supported by the Live Art Development Agency.
Image credit: Alejandro Chellet
ALL THE TEA IN CHINA BY BURONG (曾不容) | DIGITAL CONVERSATION 2019
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).
READ, LISTEN TO, AND ENJOY BURONG (曾不容)' s COMMISSION HERE: https://performingborders.live/2019/06/14/all-the-tea-in-china-by-burong-曾不容-digital-conversation-2019/
ALL THE TEA IN CHINA By Burong (曾不容) is a performingborders | LIVE 2019 writing commission supported by the Live Art Development Agency.
Image credit: TIME, SPACE, NOTHING workshop by Franko B
ALL THE TEA IN CHINA BY BURONG (曾不容) | DIGITAL CONVERSATION 2019
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).
READ, LISTEN TO, AND ENJOY BURONG (曾不容)' s COMMISSION HERE: https://performingborders.live/2019/06/14/all-the-tea-in-china-by-burong-曾不容-digital-conversation-2019/
ALL THE TEA IN CHINA By Burong (曾不容) is a performingborders | LIVE 2019 writing commission supported by the Live Art Development Agency.
Image credit: TIME, SPACE, NOTHING workshop by Franko B
There There replies to Alessandra Cianetti's question:
From October 2018 you have been developing and touring Trigger Warning in Denmark and Romania as well as the UK. How those experiences have shaped the piece and its future iterations? What public engagement and responses you received in the different contexts? Finally, a personal curiosity, has the work’s reception changed before and after the Brexit referendum in the UK?
Full interview: http://performingborders.live/2018/12/12/there-there-december-2018
For more information on performingborders visit https://performingborders.live (a monthly newsletter and new posts out on 14th of each month)
Image by Maria Tanjala
There There replies to Alessandra Cianetti's question:
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 that playfully delve into a culture of fear and distrust of immigrants especially invisible and demonised communities from Eastern Europe. Why as a duo, you felt the urge to follow this research and how these works fit with the history of your shared practice? Also, how did you transitioned from the stage-based Eastern Europeans for Dummies to the more installative and participatory Trigger Warning?
Full interview: http://performingborders.live/2018/12/12/there-there-december-2018
For more information on performingborders visit https://performingborders.live (a monthly newsletter and new posts out on 14th of each month)
Image by Maria Tanjala
There There replies to Alessandra Cianetti's question:
From October 2018 you have been developing and touring Trigger Warning in Denmark and Romania as well as the UK. How those experiences have shaped the piece and its future iterations? What public engagement and responses you received in the different contexts? Finally, a personal curiosity, has the work’s reception changed before and after the Brexit referendum in the UK?
Full interview: http://performingborders.live/2018/12/12/there-there-december-2018
For more information on performingborders visit https://performingborders.live (a monthly newsletter and new posts out on 14th of each month)
Image by Maria Tanjala
There There replies to Alessandra Cianetti's question:
In our conversation this Summer, you talked about social change and advocacy for the Easter European diasporic identities as the very aim of your work that you seek through interdisciplinary projects that involve live and visual art, design, sociology, politics, and more. How do you see your collaborative practice go? What are the projects you are working on for the future?
Full interview: http://performingborders.live/2018/12/12/there-there-december-2018
For more information on performingborders visit https://performingborders.live (a monthly newsletter and new posts out on 14th of each month)
Image by Maria Tanjala
There There replies to Alessandra Cianetti's question:
From October 2018 you have been developing and touring Trigger Warning in Denmark and Romania as well as the UK. How those experiences have shaped the piece and its future iterations? What public engagement and responses you received in the different contexts? Finally, a personal curiosity, has the work’s reception changed before and after the Brexit referendum in the UK?
Full interview: http://performingborders.live/2018/12/12/there-there-december-2018
For more information on performingborders visit https://performingborders.live (a monthly newsletter and new posts out on 14th of each month)
Image by Maria Tanjala
There There replies to Alessandra Cianetti's question:
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 that playfully delve into a culture of fear and distrust of immigrants especially invisible and demonised communities from Eastern Europe. Why as a duo, you felt the urge to follow this research and how these works fit with the history of your shared practice? Also, how did you transitioned from the stage-based Eastern Europeans for Dummies to the more installative and participatory Trigger Warning?
Full interview: http://performingborders.live/2018/12/12/there-there-december-2018
For more information on performingborders visit https://performingborders.live (a monthly newsletter and new posts out on 14th of each month)
Image by Maria Tanjala
performingborders interview with The Center for Cultural Decontamination on the international project Borderline Offensive
More info: http://performingborders.live/2018/10/11/the-center-for-cultural-decontamination-october-2018
performingborders interview with The Center for Cultural Decontamination on the international project Borderline Offensive
More info: http://performingborders.live/2018/10/11/the-center-for-cultural-decontamination-october-2018
performingborders interview with The Center for Cultural Decontamination on the international project Borderline Offensive
More info: http://performingborders.live/2018/10/11/the-center-for-cultural-decontamination-october-2018
performingborders interview with The Center for Cultural Decontamination on the international project Borderline Offensive
More info: http://performingborders.live/2018/10/11/the-center-for-cultural-decontamination-october-2018
performingborders interview with The Center for Cultural Decontamination on the international project Borderline Offensive
More info: http://performingborders.live/2018/10/11/the-center-for-cultural-decontamination-october-2018
performingborders interview with The Center for Cultural Decontamination on the international project Borderline Offensive
More info: http://performingborders.live/2018/10/11/the-center-for-cultural-decontamination-october-2018
performingborders interview with The Center for Cultural Decontamination on the international project Borderline Offensive
More info: http://performingborders.live/2018/10/11/the-center-for-cultural-decontamination-october-2018
performingborders interview with The Center for Cultural Decontamination on the international project Borderline Offensive
More info: http://performingborders.live/2018/10/11/the-center-for-cultural-decontamination-october-2018
performingborders interview with The Center for Cultural Decontamination on the international project Borderline Offensive More info: http://performingborders.live/2018/10/11/the-center-for-cultural-decontamination-october-2018
performingborders interview with The Center for Cultural Decontamination on the international project Borderline Offensive
More info: http://performingborders.live/2018/10/11/the-center-for-cultural-decontamination-october-2018
Audio podcast Artist: Tarik Elmoutawakil | July 2018 queeringborders interview series by Xavier de Sousa for performingborders. conversations on live art | crossings | europe. performingborders.live
Audio podcast
Artist: Rachael Young
queeringborders interview series by Xavier de Sousa for performingborders. conversations on live art | crossings | europe.
www.performingborders.live Image by Xavier de Sousa
Audio podcast Artist: Sebastian H-W | April 2018 queeringborders interview series by Xavier de Sousa for performingborders. conversations on live art | crossings | europe. performingborders.live
ACT II of full interview with Greg Wohead. For the full experience, please follow this link:
Audio podcast Artist: Greg Wohead | March 2018 queeringborders interview series by Xavier de Sousa for performingborders. conversations on live art | crossings | europe. performingborders.live Image by Xavier de Sousa
Audio podcast Artist: Marikiscrycrycry | February 2018 queeringborders interview series by Xavier de Sousa for performingborders. conversations on live art | crossings | europe. https://performingborders.live Image by Xavier de Sousa