Border House1 A study of bodies – writing and talking about ideas of borders
ROSINA IVANOVA ivanova.r@transart.org
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Photos created throughout my performative actions explorations2 of my one-year research on borders and boundaries by Dimitrios Priftis Definition from ‘ Border House Terminology Booklet’ Quotes from artists My experimental writings ‘writing wrongs’ in the form of text in between the passages
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Border House: a space for writing wrongs, writing about borders, thinking about structures, building walls and a space for inviting people to experience, share and perform borders. 2
Action: pre-planned performative art works that are pre-conceived like in theater pieces or political actions (e.g. plan for action: I will walk 3 steps and throw a stone in the air, action: you walk 3 steps and throw the stone in the air). Performative: movement or continuation of movements that can be liner or non-linear, can have a pre defined structure, be spontaneous, situational or a mixture of those. Performative Action: actions that draw on observations of movement and are mixture of different performative languages. It re-interprets an action (e.g. you throw 3 walks and walk a stone, or you challenge the way walking and throwing (the action) is done). Action Exploration: spontaneous performative actions that search through movement to emphasize consciousness of the un-mediated self- [if such a thing exists].