Tufts University presents a special performance event, “Territory,” written by Zavé Martohardjono in collaboration with Raha Behnam. “Territory” is a performance series with an installation element that considers histories of man-made colonial borders and the migrations and genocides that are archived in the land. It features a parable of a fictional island split by a colonial border. Half of this island is home to an autonomous community that has resisted colonization yet remains unrecognized by world powers. The parable draws from research on colonial history and indigenous political movements from around the globe, asking: How do nations come to be? Who conquers and who is disappeared in the process? What are our continued and complex relationships to those legacies?

Supported by the Tufts Department of Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies, the Department of Studies in Race Colonialism and Diaspora, the Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Tufts Art Galleries.

Free and open to the public.