The Geopolitics of Passages in Dan Halter's Beitbridge Moonwalk

ABSTRACT

This article presents a reading of Beitbridge Moonwalk, a video by the Zimbabwean artist Dan Halter, pointing out significant elements in the current configuration of geopolitics of crossings. To this end, the text resorts to the concept of necropolitics developed by Achille Mbembe, which allows thematizing and problematizing the networks of territorial controls and the criminalization of the mobility of people and objects, engendered through a policy of death. The growing hardening of national borders has become an important limiting factor for sociocultural and artistic existences and practices on the African continent.

KEYWORDS:
African Contemporary Art; Borders; Human Displacements; Necropolitics; Migration