Impediment

Impediment (2011, 2015) is a collaborative work by Jenny Donovan, Gabriela Torres Olivares, Nina Waisman and Flora Wiegmann. It explores the choreographies of displacement and limitation in the state of citizenship: prerogative, dispossession, privileges or paucity, as well as the cultural and geopolitical motions provoked by the border between Mexico and the United States. In what ways does the border influence the bodily movements of those who cross it and those who cannot? Impediment is a collaborative, experimental sketch that explores the postures, gestures and experiences mapped and imprinted on our bodies by both built and virtual borders.

This project was initially conceived of for the Collective Show (2011, Los Angeles) as an extension of the CUBO project.