ReSurfacing Borders Round III - Meena's links

I started a new collaboration with an old friend Sita Frederick. Sita has been working on a performance work "Otro Lado" dealing with issues of borders, statelessness, migrant bodies, cages, etc. for the last few years. I'm designing media projections for her show in January 2017. She sent me this photo essay as part of getting the ball rolling in our creative collaboration:

http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2015/11/citizens-of-nowhere/414741/

Also, I was in Hollywood this past weekend for a youth film festival and there was a musical and social justice pop-up happening on the street. Aztlan Underground, a musical group with indigenous roots in the Americas, was playing. Powerful. One song that stood out to me was a call and response with the refrain "we didn't cross the border, the border crossed us."

Here is a youtube video on them performing the song (at a different time).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mQ4KUojVVI

And lyrics to the song:

http://www.lyricsfreak.com/a/aztlan+underground/decolonize_21030867.html

Resurfacing Borders Round III Babli

Dear all, here my visuals (one is a conversation with choreographic examples- there are several, but its possible to skip through)

This is a project in Berlin

Queens against Borders
https://vimeo.com/155130067

And the choreographer of above project is one of the discussants in this (longer but interesting) conversation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIho7v5aABU

Resurfacing Borders Preliminary Round 3: Cynthia

Here are two sets of links to engage for this round.  Watch at least one from each project.

I. Vertigo Sea by John Akromfah
This 2015 work is a 3-screen video installation on the sea's relationship to migration, slavery, and colonialism.
Excerpt 1: https://vimeo.com/143478746 (3:35)
Excerpt 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6tbMrbvWwc (4:01)

Background Material:
Exhibition Guide: http://www.arnolfini.org.uk/whatson/john-akomfrah-vertigo-sea-1/JohnAkomfrahVertigoSeaExhibitionGuide.pdf

II. Migrant Bodies
This was a multiyear project bringing together 16 artists (dancers, writers, visual artists) from Europe and Canada to address the theme of migrant bodies.  Watch one of the videos below, or pick something else from the video documentation (those of you who know French will be able to understand more of the videos than me).

Lee Su-Feh á Vitry-sur-Seine (6:20): https://vimeo.com/123493398

Alessandro Sciarroni, "Turning" (23 min): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Bfp2SwY8Mc

More documentation available at:
http://www.migrantbodies.eu/results.html (video)

http://www.abcdance.eu/migrant-bodies-a-report/ (text)

Re-imagining Citizenship Revision "10 little"

I got inspired to add some context to my study about the "10 little..." because of Meena's feedback on my last assignment. I am grateful to Iyatunde who filmed it for me and helped as an outside eye.


10 little from Shyamala Moorty on Vimeo.
password: citizenship

Questions:
1.  What is your experience watching this?

2. Do you feel this revision addresses Meena's comment: "This study also makes light to me of the tension between the different uses of the word Indian in a colonial context, but is specific to Shyamala's positionality as a South Asian woman. Unless maybe there is a way to FLIP the original meaning of the song but smake it specific to people's identity and history"

Is there anything else that you imagine I could do to address the above comment? 

3.  Are there any other red flags or questions this brings up for you?

4. Do you have any ideas of what I should wear?  Iyatunde thought of a t-shirt with #noDAPL #BLM (of course the blacklivesmatter is not addressed in this section of our piece just yet).

5. Any other thoughts?