For the
Love of
Inquiry

With the rise of new digitised technologies at the nation-state border, the border itself has become more difficult to identify, demanding new tools and methods to recognize it and intervene. In this paper, we explore how artists are being impacted by borders but also how they respond, critique and interfere. Artists have long been experimenting, breaching, and revealing the weakness of the border, both in terms of symbolic borders like categorical associations and the nation-state border. Artistic interventions into conventional, physical borders include painting the border invisible, simulating the border, rendering a border permeable via audio technology and designing seesaws with which people on either side of the wall can interact. But how can artists respond to new digitised border technologies? How can they react to a border that is no longer symbolising a “line-in-the-sand,” but a border that is “everywhere”?