February 6, 2006

Parachute 120 (2005). 150 pages.

Stefano Boeri, "Border Devices" (28-39): "From a study of the infinite restrictions that space places on an uncontrolled flow of population into a particular territory and the social relations that follow it, a kaliedoscope of boundary devices can be called up that has nothing to do with the traditional mirroring of geographical fluctuations in population, or even with the traditional subdividing of the modern map in large political, social, and cultural areas" (28). The article ends with an eight page visual poem/essay engaging the idea of borders.

Michelle Debat, "Gilbert Boyer: The Language of Art: For a Language in Migration" (72-91). A good discussion of Boyer's text images and sculptures.