Walking Borders

Walking Borders is an arts activist project led by arts activist Scotia Monkivitch that utilised metaphor to provoke attention for refugee and asylum seeker rights. Gravel-laden boats were placed in continuous lines along imposed borders of restricted and declared zones of Brisbane’s CBD during the G20 in November 2014. The project explores the lived and metaphoric experience of enforced borders, civic engagement through walking as activism and the relational, corporeal and sensory experience of walking as arts activism. Documentation of Walking Borders involved experimentation with visual recording devices strapped to walking bodies, and recording environmental and bodily traces of walking.