BORDER MOVEMENT... [Grenzbewegung… / movimiento fronterizo…] 

BORDER MOVEMENT... [Grenzbewegung… / movimiento fronterizo…]. 2016
Performance in collaboration with Caro Ley. 
Die Beginen, Rostock, Germany.
Universität Rostock's ‘Transnational Performance in Practice’ event Curated by: Andrea Zittlau. 
Photos by Isil Sol Vil.

​-Publication of thoughts around this performance in the chapter "Border Movement: Transnational Performance in practice" by Marina Barsy Janer, Caro Ley, Denise Uyehara, Pia Wiegmink and Andrea Zittlau , in  American Cultures as Transnational Performance: Commons, Skills, Traces. (2021) Routledge: London.
ISBN 9780367501310

-Publication of my own reflections in the article "Movimiento fronterizo" (2018) for Revista FRONTERAS #4 (julio-diciembre). 

*The video-documentation of this performance is part of the permanent collection of the Contemporary Art Museum of Puerto Rico (MAC). 

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------The setting is cold, chirurgical, white, hostile and sterile. A long table with a white cloth holds the female naked body of M, all shaved and facing up. Dressed in a white cloth, head shaved and standing, C begins to open (by tattooing) the wound in M’s body. The wound is a continuous borderline that divides M’s body horizontally: scarring a future. C’s white garments become stained with the thin blood lines of M: breaking the continuity of the line created in the body of the other. The continuous scar in the body of one becomes the broken blood lines in the body of the other.    
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the constitution of a collective action
pierced through the relationality of the skin’s surface;
traversing boundaries while becoming borderland.

(un)desirable body-geographies become the border.
arrangements of a global space;
arrangements of intimacy
of affectivity.
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invisible borders situated everywhere and nowhere
breathing through a circulatory system.  

Documentation of the performance exhibited at:
-2021-22, exhibition "(Re)conocer el futuro". Contemporary Art Museum of Puerto Rico (MAC). Curated by: Marianne Ramírez Aponte.
-2020, "Latidoamérica Extendida: Europa" part of the Encuentro Latidoamericano de Performance. Exhibited at: FLUX CLUB- Antic Teatre (Barcelona), CC Convent de Sant Agustí (Barcelona), Third Space (Helsinki) and 12-14 Contemporary (Vienna). Curated by: Guadalupe Aldrete, Diana Soria and Marina Barsy Janer. 
-2020, IV Congress of Action Art "Acción Spring(t)". Faculty of Fine Arts, Universidad Complutense de Madrid. 
-2019-2020, exhibition "Anarquía y dialéctica en el deseo: géneros y marginalidades en Puerto Rico". Contemporary Art Museum of Puerto Rico (MAC). Curated by: Raquel Torres Arzola.
-2019, Festival "Zona de riesgo, Encuentro de arte acción" (Lima)​. Curated by: Liliana Albornoz & Fausto Luna, elgalpon.espacio
-2018, Festival "PerfoArtNet Bienal Internacional de Performance". (Bogotá) 
-2017, exhibition "Entredichos". Contemporary Art Museum of Puerto Rico (MAC). Curated by: Marianne Ramírez Aponte.
-2017, Festival "Performe-se:  Fronteiras Borradas/Fronteiras Erguidas". Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, (Vitòria).