Borderline Festival 2011

The three-day festival attempts to create artistic conditions that probe various lines of demarcation, challenging the prejudice that comes with conditions of identity, and the contradictions that underlie this ever-fluid condition, in an indirectly and subtle way; using experimentation to undermine the concept of division, but without ignoring the different sublayers that define distinct artistic approaches.

The programme will highlight the individuality of each artist, while seeking to achieve a counterpoint and interactivity between them in spatial, musical and audience terms. Distancing itself from psychological symbolisms, stasis and the lack of contact that comes with specialization, Borderline’s focus is on restlessly playful, relentlessly rhythmic movement, on instability and on formal variety.

And because, for some, the term ‘experimentation’ calls to mind the austerity of manifestos or academic approaches, we imagine building our three-day festival and the prospects entailed by the above as a call to participation and as personal interpretation; as something open—hence multidimensional—and poetic.