Part 2: Lejanía — performed in June at 100° Diaspora, Berliner Festspiele.

Captured beautifully by Camille Blake.

This work carries the voices of those who generously shared their stories with me during my field research on borderland identities — your words shaped the heartbeat of the final sound mix, and I am deeply grateful.

Sound: Joaquin Flores-Valdes

Lighting: Hannah Flittig-Aardalen

Part 2: Lejani, Berliner Festspiele

Today I went for a walk and I started to sing:

> "Oh, how it makes me, how sad it makes me

> Oh how it gives me, it gives me homesickness

> how sad it makes me

To be so far from my land"

Part 2: Lejania is an ongoeing call to action to honor the borders in our bodies.

Part 2: Lejania, Arthaus Berlin Festival

I started this year by wearing a clown nose in an indoor pool. Then again in the shower. And once more in a river after a long walk. Each time I found the same sense of “home” in my body that I never feel when I think about the few geographical coordinates that I actually call home.

  
This poem came to me as I sat in this feeling of place and “no-place.” Do I have a place that is mine? Are there people from the past who guide me? Is there a “God” who sees me? It is a never ending cycle that I drown and resurface in. When one moment of clarity manages to break the surface a new blind spot pushes it back down.

  
These questions and reflections manifested as a site specific performance that then turned into a visual poem. This is dedicated to the questions I’ll never have an answer too.

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