A passport is one of the most important documents—it determines which borders you can and cannot cross. It serves as our identification and indicates where we are coming from and, in many cases, decides where we are allowed to go. It essentially defines the bureaucratic map of the world for an individual.
I hosted this workshop at the Interference Archive in Brooklyn, New York, as an exploration into understanding the roles that passports and paperwork play in shaping our ability to move through the world. Amidst ongoing dramatic changes in visa policies and travel restrictions—with travelers from around the world continually being detained at U.S. borders, and persistent calls to expel “illegals” from the country this workshop invites reflection on our relationships to places and traveling and make our own passports that imagine new ways of belonging, traveling, or existing.
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