Spanning seven years, our process - one that required us to travel to work together - felt, necessarily, wandering and indefinite and a bit vague. During this transatlantic process, we encountered a number of people to whom we feel indebted. These individuals supported us by offering various in-kind contributions and favours, ranging from time and skills to housing, rehearsal space, and materials. Their kindness and generosity stimulated and sustained our collaboration and became a part of the work’s methodology. From the onset and by necessity of circumstances, boundarymind has been about sharing.
For a couple of nights 6018 N will become our personal space, where we hope to explore the mysteries and challenges of creating shared meaning. Throughout the process, we have asked ourselves:
In what ways do our variously distant cultural and geographical identities keep us grounded and give us a sense of permanency and belonging, even after repetitive migration?
How are these identities transformed and reapplied in the places where we now live?
How can we communicate to each other our past experiences so that who we are now becomes more richly legible?
What does a significant object or sharing a story convey about what it was like growing up in a certain culture? What if we could share the sounds of these moments, these memories?
How have we distorted these stories and memories to serve our current projection of ourselves to other people, and how have they really understood what motivates and inspires us?
These questions of collaboration, process and of creating shared meaning, significance, and empathy are, of course, central to how we build relationships and communities through and beyond an explicitly artistic space.
To acknowledge the importance of relying on others, of openness and generosity, of expressing oneself through the various things we possess and do, and to honour the many participants in our process, we invited everyone to contribute to our performance/installation. We asked them to donate an object, which could be of any possible meaning to them - important, indifferent, emotional or inconsequential. Molly is weaving these objects into her sculpture, which figures significantly in the performance and installation. Symbols of the personal exchanges we had found their way into boundarymind’s very fabric.
Contributors
2013-20:
Ayres Violins Manchester - Aaron Cassidy
Sandra Binion - Brinley Bruton - Nick Butcher - Tricia van Eck
Carrie Frey - Hanna Hartman - Myra Hynrichs - Andrew Mausert-Mooney
Alex Inglizian - Aleksander Jankowski - Jadwiga Jankowska - Olivia Junell
Mario Kladis - Julian Kladis - Ralph Loza - Kera MacKenzie
Lou Mallozzi - Gabriel Montagné - Nadine Nakanishi - Helen Newby
Ryan Packard - Mauricio Pauly - David Pocknee - Alice Purton
Emma Richards - Molly Scranton - Maciej Strabużyński
Katalin Takacs - Adam Vida - Olga Wojciechowska - Julia Young
Call-for-Sounds 2021:
Henna Chou - Colin Frank - Magdalena Jaroszewicz
Kristin Wendland - Hunjoo Jung - Amelia Li Cavoli - Ibukun Sunday
2021- present:
Nathan Smith - Mark Diaz - Katinka Kleijn - Ryan Ingebritsen
Sam Salem - Third Coast Percussion - Emma & Tim Daisy
Teresa Borowski - Joseph Spilberg - Eliza Fernand - Jessica Mueller
André Porter - Vicki Lin - Kaleb Wulf - Sam Scranton - Anke Zoh
Barbara Dumas - Alden Beaman - Deirdre Harrison - Diane Ponder
Eric Bartholomew - Erica Stone - José Santiago Pérez - Karolina Gnatowski
Kevin Stuart - Lewis Dunham - Kristin Abhalter - Nora M. Lloyd
Rachel Steele - Nia Easley - Edith Scranton - Penny Roth - Fred Sasaki & Family
Jenn Sodini - Jenna Lyle - Sahar Steiner - Andre Fibig - Veronica Salinas
Arno Rotbart - Emmett Ramstadt - Sima Cunningham - Stafford Garrett
Valerie Pohlhaus - William Bacarella - B.Laswick
Jakob Bragg - Joe Christman - Charlotte Roe - Anthony J. Stillabower - Ryoko Akama
