You Are Here is one’s virtual journey to home, where home is an unreachable space in memory. Borders—these imposed political constructs on land—are impactful and internalized. When crossing borders, migrants are forced to become vulnerable monitored bodies, performing identities that allow them the right of passage in their rite of passing through life in this contemporary world. They drag their memories of land and culture all along their journey with the hope to relive those memories in their reality. And You Are Here recreates that journey on stage.
Performed by Kaya Lovestrad for Choreographer's Evening 2018
Photos by Bobby Rogers, courtesy of the Walker Art Center
