“Cuando vives en la frontera
people walk through you, the wind steals your voice,
you're a burra, buey, scapegoat,
forerunner of a new race,
half and half—both woman and man, neither—
a new gender;” Gloria Andalúza
selina is currently researching abandoned post-conflict architecture through performance
and sound. They hope to develop an affective trail of embodied witnessing of marginalized
voices through the borders drawn into the landscape around these structures.
They seek to explore the spaces outside of language by expanding on a listening through
what touch could be to uncover the resonances trapped in ruins, utterances and
hauntings.
The weight and silence of the failed document in performance acts as a prosthesis to
gestures that try and approximate an ethical sensitivity to what witnessing can be.
" i will not have the words for a type of loss that is so distant it is intimate." ALOK from funeral in Femme in Public.
They are a current researcher at Ulster University, Belfast; an associate artist at
]performance space[ and co-deliver SITE, which invites artists to come together to
generate site responsive work in collaboration with others at locations of socio-historic,
architectural, and ecological interest in rural areas.