| Sumario: | This article explores the relationship that migrant artist Nezaket Ekici constructs in her performances between double foreignness and the desire for a universal body. Ekici's position of double foreignness stems from her dual cultural belonging; this position becomes manifest in her desire to create an interval where everyone is equally familiar or unfamiliar to one another. In this interval, where identities, cultures, and languages lose their potential to function as boundaries and become entangled with one another, no subjectivity feels foreign to another. Ekici's performances invite us to consider alternative possibilities of subjectivity inherent in identity. This article was written to reiterate the illusory nature of belonging. It aims to demonstrate that the concept of belonging, is a narrative inscribed onto our subjectivities, and that belonging's fragility can be revealed within the fluidity of identity. I argue that the concept of double foreignness opens alternative possibilities inherent in the identities we consider ourselves to belong to.
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