The proposed events will think through the entanglements between borderlands, performance as well as epistemologies connected to border practices to extend our ongoing research on embodied wanderings and vagrancy across disparate localities. Through collective thinking, we will consider the material and temporal dimensions of hostile environments, debility, and other forms of exclusions that inhibit or render illegible movement of certain groups of people. We will tend to these erasures, in the form of creative or critical practices, and approaches that are more invested in frequencies, resonances, spells and other modes of listening.

Swati Arora is Senior Lecturer in Performance and Global South Studies at Queen Mary University of London. She co-edited Pluriversal Conversations on Transnational Feminisms: And Words Collide from a Place (2024) and is a recipient of the Early Career Researcher Prize 2024, awarded by the Theatre and Performance Research Association, UK.

Diana Damian Martin is an artist and researcher. Her work concerns alternative critical epistemologies and feminist modes of exchange, interventionist and political performance and border thinking and practices. She co-hosts The Department of Feminist Conversations and Something Other, and co-runs the Serbo-Romanian critical cooperative Critical Interruptions, artistic research committee Generative Constraints and is founding Director of Migrants in Culture. She is currently Senior Lecturer in Performance Studies at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, where she leads the BA (Hons) Experimental Arts and Performance course.