This November, I traveled to Salzburg to co-create a new full-length performance installation, Back to the Beautiful (Cellar), with Sandra Chatterjee.

Inspired by the Saalach river as both a site of natural beauty and potential border tension, Back to the Beautiful (Cellar) layers poetic and political video images, participatory encounters with the audience, and moments of live performance around the contradictory motifs of borders and beauty.  While grounded in the Saalach, this participatory performative installation also incorporates images and resonances from other sites of border anxiety globally.  Back to the Beautiful  (Cellar) has been developed by Sandra Chatterjee and Cynthia Ling Lee, in part through Borders Resurfacing, a long distance creative exchange by members of the Post Natyam Collective.

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photo: Hubert Auer

photo: Hubert Auer

photo: Hubert Auer