Producing a boundary object is itself a boundary object. To borrow from a Foucauldian lexicon, it is the doing, as well as the structures that shape what is "doable" in a given situation, that is central to boundary objecthood. In framing that production, we discovered collaboration exists within the dynamic push/pull, give/take of minds and bodies working in tandem — against, within and beyond the confines of pedagogical and institutional structures. For our boundary event, we decided to plan a zinefest: a one-night collaboration with any and all interested individuals. We hoped for a sharing of experiences, ideas and moments of affective convergence. Planning, participating and preserving an event such as a zinefest requires myriad intersecting and disparate forms of knowledge. Through this process, there have been multiple (dis)ruptures, (dis)connections, and moments of seeming (im)possibility. Below is the proposal outlining our boundary object and its feminist theoretical framework. This was sent to Michelle Hyun, curator of the University Art Gallery:

"We are a collective of scholars working at the intersection of feminist technocultures, disability studies, and embodied scholarship at the University of California, San Diego. In association with UCFemTechNet, a UC-wide interdisciplinary working group supported by the UC Humanities Research Institute, we investigate questions of knowledge production, temporality, and memory-making.

Cultural productions -- films, art works, comics -- are often centered on the lone virtuoso who sees the completion of a project from its inception to its completion. In opposition to such singular perspectivism, embodied knowing privileges the multiplicities of memory-building practices, the writing of history, the creation of objects, and the telling of stories from multiple subject positions. It is at this conceptual nexus of partiality and embodiment that our project is situated. Our current project centers on the technoscientific notions of "archive" and "access" and the relational histories they share both within and beyond the sites of the academy. Both terms conjure up epistemic and ontological inquiries that are central to our collective: What does it mean to know? How do institutional forms of knowledge intersect or (dis)connect with forms of knowledge outside the walls of academia? How is collective memory-making connected to material practices in cross-disciplinary spaces of engagement?

As a means of practicing a mode of collective doing, we are inviting members of the public to engage in an evening of collective storytelling and memory-making across and between intersubjective bodies. Using the site of the gallery as a locus of potential creative activity, we will spend a 3-hour period constructing a fanzine in tandem with other bodies, beings, and modes of knowing particular to each attendant. Collaborating with others, visitors will make/construct/draw/write their own zine pages in response to the ideas of “archive” and “access” that often cultivate discourses of (dis)connection, (im)mobility, (de)fragmentation, (dis)ability and (un)knowing. Additionally, disposable cameras will be provided for participants as a means of documenting the event and the activities performed during the night, further illustrating the commitment to distributed, partial modes of remembering and documentation that are central to projects of feminist pedagogy and praxis."

 - FemSociality, a collective