performingborders presented the "Our Bodies in the Commons" event at the Battersea Arts Centre in London, United Kingdom livestreaming on the global, commons-based, peer-produced HowlRound TV network on Saturday 29 April 2023.
After three years of digital only, transnational collaborations, performingborders opened a space for movement, sharing, and conversation, to re-center our bodies in the explorations of borders, live art, community, and resistance.
In this event, performingborders created a gathering that considers what we can do when we harness our resources, time, bodies, and care, to collectivize them. Starting from a place of lived experience, “Our Bodies in the Commons” moves away from disembodied and individualized discourse around solidarity and care, towards actions and gestures that are building and maintaining collective ways of working together.
Rallying the Commons Reading Karaoke: Rustling Words
Youngsook Choi guides through performingborders’ latest e-journal Rallying the Commons. Our journey through the journal includes embodied interventions into its content, texts, and images to collectively explore other ways of working together. Through the format of a Reading Karaoke, we experiment with communal reading as a site of radical joy, collective un/learning, and solidarity-building. This section is joined by contributors to the e-journal: Ximena Alarcón-Díaz, Harun Morrison and Helena Walsh.
The day ends with the screening of It is impossible to say everything here so I leave you with this (video), performingborders' 2022 performance to camera commission by artist SERAFINE1369.
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