Borderland was a contribution to the Transborder Festival, which was organised to mark the hundredth anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Saint-Germain in 2019 and the establishment of the modern border between Styria and Slovenia – a border that follows the river Mur for a considerable part of its length. The six-hour performance Borderland took place on the premises of the cable ferry across the Mur in Weitersfeld, and it interrogated a particularly virulent phenomenon of the modern-day, global tourist society: cruise ships. These can be seen on the one hand as heterotopic spaces subject to their own rules, and on the other as mass transgressors of international borders. The simple goods ferry in Weitersfeld, which constantly carries passengers back and forth between Austria and Slovenia, and the loading area on the Austrian side of the river were transformed into a laboratory situation in order to raise questions about borders and how to overcome them, as well as the borders of our own lifeworlds.

With the help of eight performers wearing piggyback elephant costumes, an absurd scenario was created that allowed visitors to re-examine some of the key features and stages of a cruise holiday. The entire site was strewn with items of bulky refuse borrowed from the local recycling centre, which were continuously packaged, repackaged, carried away and brought back again by the performers throughout the entirety of the performance. In the middle of this setting was a bar serving cocktails and snacks in small disposable packages. The two artists participated not only as cabin crew and bartenders, but also as live musicians, singing "Orinoco Flow" to the audience at regular intervals. The whole performance took the form of an endlessly recurring loop, playing out on a site that grew increasingly wild, chaotic and confusing.