(no)borders

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Issue 3

FEBRUARY – MAY 2021

(no)borders

What is the function and meaning of borders? Which borders are benign and which are malign? How can we cross real and imaginary borders? Who sets the borders? Is it possible to live in a world without borders? How do humans and nonhumans live within and without borders? For our third issue we consider these vital yet tricky questions.

The Sincerest Form of Flattery: Imitation and Creativity in Turkmen Wedding Music

Yan Matusevich tracks the global influences of a national scene

Circassian Chanson: From Ritual to Subculture and Back

An essay in the wake of an expedition to the North Caucasus

The Disappearance of Qatar from European Maps

Dr. James Onley on territories lost in translation

Digital Labor Between Germany and Romania

Research by Mira Wallis for Black Box East

Tungus

Wang Tuo introduces his newest film

The Doors Are Always Open

Kamilla Akhmedova and Kamila Rustambekova explore the mahallas of Tashkent

“When You Share, You Become Enriched”

Photographer Christina Abdeeva interviews designer Asiya Bareeva

Muqata'a on the Reality of Sound and Fiction of Borders

An interview with a Palestinian musician

Ottoman Vampires and Magic Letters

Marinos Sariyannis on the transcultural supernatural

Glory to the Conquerors of Space

Artist Sasha Puchkova explores the astrophysical laboratory of Nizhny Arkhyz

Jeff Sahadeo. Voices from the Soviet Edge (2019)

On migration processes in the late USSR

Homesickness Is a Bolt of Beautiful Silk

Artist Zhu Xiaowen on her book and film Oriental Silk

You Mi on the Shared Cosmologies of One Northeast

Contact Zones: a series of interviews with cultural practitioners

Balancing Tradition and Modernity in Qatar

Shua’a Ali Al Muftah on heritage and her artistic project

Born in Ghostland Vol.2—Sepand Shahab

Yelena Zhelezov discusses "home" with the Iran-born composer

Borderless Resonances

Yiannis Christidis attends to the sounds of a divided Cyprus

Towards Post-Pandemic Commons

Curators of the Tbilisi Architecture Biennial discuss their project and its context

Digital Emotionality Beyond Borders

Manishankar Prasad on Khaleeji migrants’ feelings of belonging

Beyond the Treaty of Kars

Bella Radenović on the legacy of disputed borders in the South Caucasus

Towards a Surface Crossed

Aslı Uludag on the effects of geothermal energy development in Turkey

Born in Ghostland: When the Country of Your Origin No Longer Exists

The first in a podcast series from open call finalist Yelena Zhelezov

Life in Fallout Zones

Makar Tereshin on hunters of space metal debris

Gestures of Potentiality

Mari Bastashevski introduces distributed utopias of rhythms, time, and 10,000 Things Out of China

East of the Borders, West of Nostalgia

Diana Khamis on the mutating identities of Lebanon

The Travels of Mariko Horo

Tamiko Thiel presents her VR piece and talks about her career

Georgian Fashion Designers on Lockdown, Virtuality, and Heritage

A discussion organized by IERI concept store

Open Call Finalists Share Their Memories of Borders

Introducing our new (no)borders issue