BOUNCE THE BALL OVER THE BORDER
While activists throw tennis balls over the barbed wire fences of detention centres in Australia, tennis stars play exclusive private matches for the ultra-wealthy gated-community dwellers of Dubai. Meanwhile at Wimbledon female tennis players are subjected to ‘grunt rules’ and airports across the world crack open cocaine filled tennis balls originally manufactured in China’s Export Processing Zones. Heidi Hasbrouk and Rachel Palmer attempt an exploration of contemporary borders and exceptional spaces linked together by the bouncing of rubber balls. Who throws them? Who catches them? Who gets to play with them? Who makes them? What happens when they hit the border?
