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. He was previously a visiting research fellow at the Institute of Political Science at Leiden University and artist-in-residence at the Jan van Eyck Academie. He is currently a Lecturer at the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London.
 
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Border Environments

Editor with Riccardo Badano and Susan Schuppli

Date: April 2023
Publisher: Spector Books

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The first publication in the Centre for Research Architecture book series exploring pedagogy, politics, and practices.

Border Environments 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 include Dimitra Andritsou, Areej Ashhab, Riccardo Badano, Border Ecologies Network, Nadine El-Enany, Mustapha Jundi, Stefanos Levidis, Tomas Percival, Lorenzo Pezzani, Tara Plath, Hanna Rullmann & Faiza Ahmad Khan, Susan Schuppli, Ishita Sharma, Juanita Sundberg, Avi Varma, Gabrielle Wolf.
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