Compulsion to Repeat
Arantxa Ortiz
Compulsion to Repeat excavates the imprint of borders on the illegalized body. Centering the role of the senses, it asks how repetition and re-enactment might offer the body a reprieve from the sensory violence enacted by border assemblages.
About the artist
Arantxa Ortiz is a researcher and multimedia artist working across film, photography, poetry, performance, and voice. Her research engages visual and material cultures of surveillance, citizenship, and mobility through a focus on the senses and embodiment. She holds a PhD in Sociocultural Anthropology from Brandeis University.