Reunión Northborder

Reunion comprises various acts that involve conversing, reading and writing; quotidian yet strange acts that always implicate being next to one another. Zelko writes down poems that others dictate to him. After completing his homework of how to listen and how to write, he edits the books within the next coming days. In a round of nine people, the writings are presented to the author’s neighbors, friends, and family. The writer reads his poems, listening to himself while being heard by others.

The second part of the project consists of an extension of the first project in other places. In a round of nine chairs, the writer’s poems are read by spokespeople who lend their bodies, eyes and voices, forming a chain of situations and encounters: subjects dictating and reading; a writer and a listener; books and poems... Actions and procedures that bring us together.

This edition, titled North Border, was realized between September 2017 and October 2018, taking place in Mexico, USA, and Canada (Tijuana, Veracruz, Texas, Florida, New York, Princeton and Toronto). The cover’s photograph was taken just before the presentation of Maritza’s book. Maritza read her poems aloud to her caravan friends. Then they gave away some books to people who were passing by, and walked to the USA in order to seek political asylum.