Tomas Percival is an artist, researcher, and writer. His work critically investigates the intersections of space and security, with a particular interest in structures of assessment, risk governance, carceral geographies, data infrastructures, and border administration. He holds an MFA from the University of California–Los Angeles, and was an artist-in-residence at the Jan van Eyck Academie. He completed his PhD at the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London, where he was also a Lecturer on the MA Research Architecture / Forensic Architecture programme. He is currently an Affiliated Fellow at the ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry.
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Border Environments
Editor with Riccardo Badano and Susan Schuppli
Date: April 2023
Publisher: Spector Books
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Border Environments, the first publication in the Research Architecture series, investigates the entanglement of ecology and migration. It examines the interplay between discriminatory politics, emergent technologies, and bordering practices within the context of (constructed) natures by highlighting a variety of interventions, investigative techniques, visual projects, and modes of witnessing that address the role of both human and more-than-human actors in border struggles. As such, the book is also a provocation that can be used to identify and organise new lines of struggle connecting environmental and mobility justice.
Contributors: Dimitra Andritsou; Areej Ashhab; Border Ecologies Network; Nadine El-Enany; Mustapha Jundi; Stefanos Levidis; Lorenzo Pezzani, Tomas Percival, & Riccardo Badano; Tara Plath; Hanna Rullmann & Faiza Ahmad Khan; Susan Schuppli; Ishita Sharma; Juanita Sundberg; Avi Varma; Gabrielle Wolf.
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