Alessandra Cianetti: performingborders e-journal#3: Entangled Practices

Alessandra Cianetti: performingborders e-journal#3: Entangled Practices

“Entangled Practices: Embodying cross-border live art gathers practitioners making visible the many ways we are connected and dependent on each other, our freedom held in each other’s hands. In the e-journal, an expanded horizon of shared methodologies comes into view – rooted in territories, struggles and ecologies where the dynamics of resistance, collaboration, and organising offer new possibilities for creative practice. In these digital pages, we hope that a dialogue can unfold between practices that challenge dominant narratives and envision new forms of solidarity and survival. 

performingborders as a project has always held hands with artists thinking about how to cross-borders in their practices. Our work has been rooted in this lived experience and as we have continued to extend our network of relationships and tapestry of knowledge(s) with our collaborators, we have been deeply interested in cross-border practices that navigate and critique the power structures that render such work both precarious and vital.

In the third edition of our e-journal we have invited artists to reflect on their work through the lenses of the ethics and strategies of meaningful collaborative practices across territories. To open the third edition, we invited our dear friend and long-term collaborator, Diana Damian Martin to contribute with editorial support and write a foreword to contextualise the contributions within her rich frame of references and practice-based research. We hope this edition will offer both the readers and contributors ways to connect and keep expanding the routes in which live art practices can reframe what it means to work in, against, and across borders.”