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BORDERLANDS ARCHIVE: OFFSITE


Social Practice, Installation Art, Participatory Research

Borderlands Archive at the Museum of Capital,  Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at Parsons School of Design
New York, NY
2019


The Borderlands Archive traces connection across territorial divide. It is a research project, an experiment in representation and an artistic gesture towards a collective knowledge about a contested space between two counties. This ongoing project traces a non-linear history across an ancestral landscape and explores ideas about place, territory, and border as urbanism in a bi-national context. The work employs the archive as a tool for capturing moving relationships in this complex built and natural environment, and invites others to contribute to the narrative. The objective of this research is to trump existing notions about fixed borders by reconceptualizing borders as a vast space in constant flux: the borderlands. Conceptualizing borders in this way prioritizes the spatiality of borders, which for a designer like me, is a profoundly important means for understanding the complex productivity of borders and further defining edge conditions.



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Installation View
Borderlands Archive at the Museum of Capital,  Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at Parsons School of Design
New York, NY
2019