Border erasures and talking art

The Rufaro Centre? I admit that until the email came to my inbox in late December, I had no idea what the Rufaro Centre was. I had never heard of it. Reading the document circulated on behalf of its “Reimagining Borders: Talking Art…” event scheduled for January 27 to February 3, 2023, I felt encouraged that perhaps an autonomous meeting space for artists was coming into existence. But autonomous does not mean without an agenda and I am weary. Nonetheless, I was equally encouraged by the use of a system of democracy to include a wide cross-section of artists. They had in essence prepared a Call-for-Artists. This system is relatively unused in Guyana.