ABSTRACT
The chapter covers the pivotal role of boundaries and liminality in contemporary semantic production and social action from an artistic perspective by comparing a selection of recent curatorial cases. The chapter partially presents the outcomes of ongoing research that fits methodologically into the interpretive line about the concept of border proposed by Rodríguez (1996), Iveković (2010), and especially Mezzadra & Neilson (2013) and seeks to give it novel application to the historical-artistic sphere. The conceptual frame emerging from this analysis results in three interconnected dimensions of the border as a space of the state of exception, a privileged site for social intervention, and an epistemic territory of possibilities. This frame also provides a disruptively inclusive definition of the border from a cross-cultural, utopian, gendered, and historical perspective that reflects the counter-narrative potential of this space and its communities.
