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To fragment, to uproot lives, to cross livelihoods, to respond to everything else before responding to the responsibility towards a people’s sovereignty, and to interrupt the ancestral movement of life across land—this is the legacy of border regimes.
pensamientos en la frontera is a project that comes as a new generation of Nicaraguan youth are forced into immigration. As they begin to explore and respond to their forced uprooting they look back to the experiences of past generations. The project follows histories of displacement—creating a bridge to connect culture-specific ways forced movement is carried in language, image, and sense of home across cultures. The hope is to foster kinship and inclusive celebration of differences amongst each other, beyond la frontera.
pensamientos en la frontera is an ongoing project compiled by andi and collaboratively riso printed and published with the support of Moniker Press. It consists of a continuously growing folder of publications and prints that feature many perspectives on displacement and borders.
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El fragmentar, el desarraigar vidas, el atravesar formas de subsistencia, el responder a un millar de cosas antes que a la responsabilidad para con la soberanía de un pueblo, y el poner en peligro el movimiento ancestral de la vida a través de la tierra —ese es el legado de los regímenes fronterizos.
Este proyecto surge de una generacion de jovenes Nicaraguenses forzados a emigrar, girando la mirada hacia el desplazamiento generacional por décadas antes que la nuestra. A través de él, esperamos proveer un espacio para historias diferentes a las nuestras. Queremos crear puentes con las maneras específicas en que cada pueblo carga el desplazamiento dentro de sus propios lenguajes, y cultivar una afinidad inclusiva y jubilosa de las diferencias entre nosotrxs, más allá de la frontera.
pensamientos en la frontera es un proyecto en expansión, recopilado por andi e impreso en risografía y publicado en colaboración con Moniker Press. La compilación busca crecer adjuntando diversas perspectivas sobre desplazamiento y fronteras.
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ARTIST BIOS
anonymous is a Nicaraguan exilee, illustrator and graphic designer.
Roxanne Charles is a member of Semiahmoo First Nation, a trans-boundary Nation crossed by the US-Canada border. As a cultural historian she employs means of visual representation, oral history, and ceremony -methods utilized by Semiahma People for thousands of years. Roxanne holds two bachelor degrees from KPU and is currently completing her MFA at SFU. Roxanne’s work responds to a troubling colonial present and documents issues that reflect her daily life such as spirituality, identity, urbanization, food security, resource extraction, trauma, and various forms of systemic violence.
andi collaborates transnationally, continues turning towards the poetics and community interdependence of practice, and misses their dogs on a daily basis.
