Inquiry

How can we contend with the manufactured nature of borders, the lines drawn around citizenship, and the regimes of nationalism that uphold these exclusions? How can we dismantle the enforcement of these logics on stolen lands? Artists working in parallel with struggles for migrant justice and Indigenous sovereignty harness narrative, aesthetic, activist, and participatory tactics: highlighting the colonial foundations of capitalist state formation by singing their mythologies back to them; tracing histories of land occupation, migrant work, and Indigenous labour; reclaiming, reimagining, and advocating for migrant care workers; unpacking archives of independence and statehood; storytelling migration, belonging, and home; grieving for victims of state violence, exclusion, and dispossession; and rehearsing new collectivities and participatory democracies.