The project that I would pursue in Kandersteg is research on Partition and its boundaries and borders in South Asian art. Since Indian Independence in 1947, the division of the country resulted in violence creating a wave of refugees who experienced the horrors of forced displacement, shattered identity and a trauma which has still not yet been fully resolved. Can the legacy of Partition be confronted through aesthetic practice? How does trauma relate to borders and border control? In what way does the diaspora reinstate and trouble the question of border on a national and international level? Conversely, what could a ‘borderless’ state mean in terms of utopian desire? I would be interested in looking at a generation of South Asian artists after Independence in order to relocate the question of the border in aesthetic and literary practice by reconfiguring its politics and thinking through the line via trauma and its recurrent forms.