ABSTRACT
My chapter is about contemporary artists, who, with their works manifest conceptual change in thinking about borders. I shall also employ the concept of borderscape as a means to relate borders to questions of identity and to understand borders as narratives and imaginaries. I think that art can speak about problems of our reality in new and different ways and I believe, as Spivak (2003, p.13) had argued, that imagination is ‘the great inbuilt instrument of othering’. Our imaginations are thus central to our lives: fictions of literature, art and theatre allow us to become other persons, to feel as other persons, but with the consciousness of distance. We can therefore be very close to others without having fear of them, because we know that it is not reality, real life. This is a very simple, but very important idea, because it allows us to speak with the deepest portion of human being in a direct way. In reality, I believe that the power of imaginary is incredible and it is necessary to work with it for changing the world around us.
