Andreas Rutkauskas’s Borderline Project: an Intermedial Mapping of the Canadian-American Border
This article is concerned with the intermedial rewriting of the Canada-U.S. border active in Andreas Rutkauskas’s online Borderline project. In Borderline, the photographer embeds his combinations of short texts and photographs of various border locations within Google mapping tools such as Google M...
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Polysèmes
2025
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| Online Zugang: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Zusammenfassung: | This article is concerned with the intermedial rewriting of the Canada-U.S. border active in Andreas Rutkauskas’s online Borderline project. In Borderline, the photographer embeds his combinations of short texts and photographs of various border locations within Google mapping tools such as Google Maps or Google Earth, depending on the interface one chooses. The intermedial confrontation of digital mapping with the photographs and associated texts in Andreas Rutkauskas’s Borderline project invites its viewers to explore visually the line between Canada and the U.S. The border which the viewer is invited to travel along takes on infinite guises, sometimes confirming hard-border imaginaries of barriers and border posts but mostly delivering idiomatic glimpses into a border that never ceases to surprise us in its porosity, impermanence and complexities. Beyond the abstract and vertical gaze active at the border and its divisive politics, Rutkauskas’s combinations of texts and images produce knowledge about the lived border in its banal and contested forms. If Borderline undoes the map of the border, as such it constitutes an invitation not only to explore but to perform the border in a countermapping performance which at once confirms and erases the border in its technological guises and offers to decolonize the map and our imaginaries. |
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