Performingborders: Entangled Practices – Printed Edition Launch

Biographies

performingborders is a collectively run, migrant-led platform for artistic research and creation, centred on notions and lived experiences of intersectional borders through live art and performance practices. performingborders is a knowledge-sharing platform created in dialogue with its contributors. Since 2016 performingborders has woven a digital and live tapestry of interconnected, cross-border experiments through interviews, artist commissions, open calls, publications, residencies, workshops, conversations, events, newsletters, and pamphlets – all freely accessible online.

setareh fatehi (او) is an artist-researcher NoT based in Tehran or London. setareh looks at the formation of trans-local collaborative bodies among ‘distanced’ localities by conducting the practice of Parallaxing (i). This practice explores the ethics of hosting remote bodies that are dealing with the debilitating effect of limiting the notion of ‘presence’ to its colonial definition where the differences between (i) and the other was used to legitimise the existence of the borders that have been brutally separating them. setareh has finished her MA in choreography at the Amsterdam School for the Arts and is currently a PhD candidate for the collaborative doctoral award offered by RCSSD and performingborders.

Fehras Publishing Practices was co-established in 2015 in Berlin. We are a cultural workers collective holding emotional capital, grandmother’s wisdom and loyalty to our ancestors. Our work engages in various participatory methods and artistic productions, focusing on the relationship between publishing and history-making. We examine the role of publishing as a tool to combat cultural domination, as well as a means to foster solidarity and deconstruct colonial power. Fehras serves as an observatory for publishing strategies and practices in relation to the geo-political transformations of southwest Asia and North Africa. Fehras Publishing Practices includes Kenan Darwich, Nancy Naser Al Deen, Sama Ahmadi and Sami Rustom.

Diana Damian Martin is a writer, artist and researcher interested in border-work as a mode of exploring new political formations and anti-colonial imaginaries, be they through critical, political or artistic acts, feminist and queer modes of exchange and experimental cultures of critique, publishing and reflection. She co-hosts the collective Something Other, and the Serbo-Romanian critical cooperative Critical Interruptions, is a member of artistic research committee Generative Constraints and a founding member of Migrants in Culture. She is currently Senior Lecturer in Performance Arts at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, where she leads the BA Hons Experimental Arts and Performance course.

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