Performing Nation Making: On Landscape Architectural Choreographies and Performative Borders in the South China Sea

The phrase ‘secure the area’ is a common one in military and police situations. What happens if we take the sectional, the altitudinal as a key question, taking the additional vertical dimension into account, if security has to contend with volume? What would it mean to secure the atmospheric? How does thinking about the atmospheric instead of surfaces, three dimensions instead of territories change how we think about the geopolitics of space? Territories are bordered, divided and demarcated, but not understood in terms of their altitudinal dimension. This paper investigates how borders can become complex systems in evolution, whose physical manifestations coincide with the terms of their representation.

Volume Editors
David Ruy & Lola Sheppard

ISBN
978-0-935502-95-4