Borderline/Decameron exhibited at Disjecta, looks back at the polarization brought about during an earlier period where the world seemed to be coming to an end, the Black Plague of the late middle ages and early Renaissance. What I was interested in with this piece was not so much the plague itself but how half the society, as exemplified in Boccaccio's Decameron, was challenging every societal piety and norm, while the other half was clinging ever more tightly to established doctrine and not only burning books and works of art that challenged the establishment, but even burning people who expressed what seemed to be heretical views. In Boccaccio’s story cycle, set during the first outbreak of the plague in Florence, a group of seven women and three men escaped into the countryside. Each night for ten nights each of them told a story. These stories questioned every dogma of the time. This is the frame for Boccaccio's Decameron which is to this day considered one of the most transgressive literary works ever produced. During times of crisis some retreat into pieties and some question everything. Borderline/Decameron aims to revisit that spirit of questioning and rebellion in a contemporary setting. Mirroring the social construct and framework of Boccaccio's tales, Borderline/Decameron also included an evening of guided story telling around dinner tables, focusing on stories of migration and facilitated by an artist made story telling card deck, and a cohort of guides representing the growing diversity of the city. This card game and our evening together recreated some of that same spirit of openness and interrogation, leading both to uncomfortable moments and to shared warmth and laughter.