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performingborders

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. 

https://performingborders.live 

Raju Rage

Raju Rage (UK) uses art, education and activism to forge creative survival. Their practice is expansive, combining print, sculpture, installation, writing, audio-video, anti/performance, workshops, culinary arts, curation + more. They are a member of Collective Creativity and Another Roadmap decolonial art-education collectives and a creative educator/independent scholar using radical pedagogy. Working transglobally, they have a theirstory in queer/transgender/people of colour social movements from which their creative practice draws on / from. 

Kaur Chimuk

Kaur Chimuk (India) is an independent curatorial decolonial methodologist exploring trans(non)binary viewership in collective research. Based in South-East Asia, they work between India, Bangladesh, and Sweden with Meteor International. Kaur co-founded TAC (Tracing A City) in India, facilitating collective research initiatives. They consult on cultural exchanges and curatorial programs, collaborating with platforms like Inventory Platform (UK), Bom Artist Residency (Sweden), and Zmayat (Bangladesh-India).  

Nad MA

Nad MA (Mexico) is a graphic artist, community arts worker, performer, dissident geographer and massage therapist, centring free pedagogies focused on art/body/space/gender. They facilitate workshops on corporeal awareness, collective mapping, graphic and audiovisual arts, collective care in arts and drag performance. They belong to the Feral engraving workshop, DescuartizadoraHack and Red King Latinoamericana collectives.

Heba Hayek

Heba Hayek is a palestinian london-based author, workshop facilitator, and communication consultant. Rooted in de-colonial and indigenous practices, Heba’s work pushes the boundaries of supremacist norms, engaging in various exploration of what lies beyond these constraints. She is committed to cultivating liberatory conditions amidst a backdrop of deep individualism and desensitization. Positioned on the other side of the Canon, Heba seeks out the stories of those who reject the limitations of traditional archives and resist imposed terms of visibility.  Heba is also a communication consultant who is passionate about projects that centre the nourishment and cultivation of working class, immigrant, queer, and global majority folk. Heba holds a Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Miami University, Ohio, where she taught composition and rhetoric, as well as creative writing, for two years. In 2019, she moved to London to pursue a Master of Arts in Social Anthropology at SOAS University. Heba’s debut book Sambac Beneath Unlikely Skies won the 2022 Palestine Book Award and was named a 2021 Book of the Year by The White Review, Middle East Eye, and The New Arab.

https://www.hajarpress.com/authors/heba-hayek