Bernadette Hopkins Artist
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Our Bodies Their Borders

​The act of performing the border explores the idea of borders being patriarchal in their colonial construction and political usage. The performance ‘Our Bodies Their Borders’ explores the border between Derry in Northern Ireland and Donegal in the Republic of Ireland and its impact on women and took place on a small border road in November 2021. Looking out from the road, one can see the River Foyle in Derry and from the opposite direction ' An Grianán of Aileach' the 5th century ring-fort and ancient seat of kings in Inishowen Co Donegal. It is part memory and part an acknowledgement of everyday life along the border, where the body acts as border. It interrogates the daily act of crossing and ‘breaking’ the border. 

Our Bodies Their Borders was exhibited in GOMA Gallery of Modern Art Waterford in January and February 2022 as part of 'Breaking Borders' curated by Valeria Ceregini entitled Breaking Borders.

Film and photography by Jacqui Devenney Reed
Kind Permission on soundtrack by Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh
Supported by Donegal County Council


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  • Home
  • Performance Art
    • Cyber Horse and I
    • We Are Not Alone
    • 'Orchid and Crab Shell'
    • Ancestors
    • Sad Oranges
    • Salt and Prussian Blue
    • Leaving Patriarchy
    • Wild Swans Performance Art
    • Forgotten Places
    • Our Bodies Their Borders
    • Dust of Destruction: Breathe
    • Margaritifera margaritifera
    • Gothenburg performance
    • Fem 20 Performance
    • The Politics of Water
    • Bound for your Pleasure
    • Fem 2019 Girona, Spain
    • Tainted Cyan
    • 'Voicing the Bridge' Clady Border
    • Three People in a Room at a Table
    • We are all I know is there
    • Please Open the Door Behind You
    • Buried Deeds
    • The Invisible Red Line
    • The Broken Column
    • Administration of Occupation
  • Participatory Art
    • The Great Hunger Project
    • Rights of Nature
    • Breaking Borders 2022
    • Radical ReThink
    • Roots of Disarmament
    • Call for the Wild
    • Night of the Utopian Bonfire
    • Toxic Blush
    • Cyan SOS The Occupation
    • Drawn From Borders
    • Culture Crossroads
    • Utopia Ducks
    • Art of Resistance
    • Social Practice Art Collaborations
    • Bread and Roses Theatre
  • About
    • Artist Statement
    • CV
    • Biography
    • Recent Events
    • Publication Donegal Intercultural Framework Document
    • Contact
    • Misc.
    • Media