Biting Nations

Biting Nations, a video produced in collaboration with Luna Montenegro, Lisa Bradley, Arantxa Johnson questions the assumption of fixed national identities and investigates one’s multiple notions of geographical belonging. In the performance the bitting of the fake nails with painted flags from the countries where the artists are culturally or personally related to create a disturbing feeling in the spectator. It looks at how diasporic identities can be defined across various nations and in between distant cultures. It reflects how transcultural identities are not fixed within a national setting and belong within different locations and cultures. This piece refers to the impact of immigration for the creation of contemporary hybridization culture. Within this contemporary hybridization process older certainties and hierarchies of national identity are eroded and are called into question in a world of dissolving boundaries and disrupted continuities.