Borders v.02

Borders v.02 is an audiovisual installation based on the artist’s personal experience as a Colombian dealing with borders that are crossed when one moves from country to country. Borders are visible and invisible - existing as divisions between people in the form of geopolitical lines, languages, cultures and philosophies. Borders cause a restriction of movement, both physical and emotional, that can be hard or even impossible to overcome, depending on where you are from and how that place is viewed within the world.  Borders may be easier for some to cross than for others.  

Borders are made by people, and therefore, people have the ability to transform them. This project is about manipulating those borders by abstracting, modulating, breaking down and reconstructing them. In doing so the artist asks us to re-conceive of our understanding of borders, treating them as something that are malleable instead of rigid.

Eight CRT televisions encircle the viewer, surrounding them with oscillating sound and light that is equally hypnotic and jarring. The content on each screen is created by ‘hacking’ the television - interrupting the electrical signal that normally creates the image, and replacing it with signals generated from an analog modular synthesizer and real-time computer program. By disrupting the normal flow of the signal and injecting her own electrical performance into the system, Anzola aims to subvert traditional concepts of borders, opening them to reinterpretation and alternative points of view.

ON EXHIBITION:

January 31 - February 29, 2020
EMMEDIA’s gallery
Group exhibition part of Particle + Wave Festival
Calgary, Canada

July 20 - October 20, 2019
Art Gallery of Alberta
Group exhibition: Processor: Digital and Analogue Retranslations
Edmonton, Canada

Video Documentation
Kara Artym

This project has been assisted by the Province of Alberta through Alberta Foundation for the Arts, its arts funding agency. 

Featured in the last edition of Canadian Art Magazine, Frequencies Issue 2021

EMMEDIA’s gallery
Group exhibition part of Particle + Wave Festival
Photos by EMMEDIA and Aran Wilkinson-Blanc

Art Gallery of Alberta
Group exhibition: Processor: Digital and Analogue Retranslations