Dangerous Border Crossers: performingborders x La Pocha Nostra
- Time and Date
- 19:00 - 02 Aug 2024
- Venue
Live Art Development Agency
Doors open at 18.30
- Location
The Garrett Centre, 117 Mansford Street, London, E2 6LX
- Price
- Free, but please RSVP
Join performingborders for a participatory conversation in response to La Pocha Nostra’s commitment to use performativity as a methodology of resistance and to erase the borders between art and politics, art practice and theory, and artist and spectator.
performingborders has been exploring performance and Live Art practices across notions and lived experiences of intersectional borders since 2016, inspired by La Pocha Nostra’s work. Drawing from Guillermo Gómez-Peña’s publication Dangerous Border Crossers: The Artist Talks Back (2000), they will delve into LADA Study Room’s resources around borders and performances, including the Performing Borders Study Room Guide. They will also draw from their own archive to highlight artists whose practices challenge the diversity of experiences at the intersections of cultural, juridical, racial, gendered, class, physical, economic, and everyday borders.
performingborders welcomes collective conversations on live artists whose practices have transcended borders, and would encourage you to bring and share any examples that resonate with you.
Free pizza and free drinks (alcoholic and non-alcoholic) will be provided.
This event is part of a programme celebrating La Pocha Nostra’s extraordinary work on the occasion of the screening of 100 Ways to Cross the Border on July 9. You can see all the upcoming events here.
Biography
performingborders is a collectively run platform for artistic research and creation, focused on notions and lived experiences of intersectional borders through international live art and performance practices. 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 experiments through interviews, artist commissions,open calls, publications, residencies, workshops, conversations, events, newsletters, and performingbordersLIVE. All our work is freely accessible online. Co-run by Alessandra Cianetti, Xavier de Sousa and Anahí Saravia Herrera, in collaboration with guest curators, thinkers, artists, activists and researchers.
Access information
The event will be BSL interpreted.
LADA and The Garrett Centre are wheelchair accessible by lift and provide gender inclusive bathrooms.
Should you have any particular access requirements, please email [email protected] and we will be happy to offer further support.
Banner image credit:
Dictaphone Group, This Sea is Mine. Image Houssam Mchaimesh
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