Aleatoric geopolitics: art, chance and critical play on the border

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This research is conducted within the field of art, through making and presenting artworks related to, and investigating the geopolitical border. It aims to challenge and question the normative notions of the geopolitical border while proposing ways to illuminate the key issues of critical geopolitics concerning the relationship between geography and power. It does so by re-examining the geopolitical border as an entity that is constantly in a state of renegotiation through the discursive actions of those involved in border politics. It focuses on individuals as active participants – or actors – of critical play in order to simulate the production of chance in the re-presentation of border dynamics in art. <br><br>The research sits in the context of globalisation in contemporary art. It also considers the globalising context of the contemporary world, with globalisation defined as a set of social, cultural, economic and political processes. Rather than advocating the pure cosmopolitan

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