Transborders was an artistic and documentary review of the transdisciplinary happening that took place from August 29th to September 1st 2019 along the border between Austria and Slovenia up to the triangle Austria / Slovenia / Hungary. The Transborders fixed format was a sequence of events within 72 hours at different locations in public space. Permanent installations, interventions, performances and actions along with citizens were implemented on site along the rivers Mur and the Kutschenitza. Transborders took place under the motto "Fluxus am Fluss" 100 years after the border was drawn from Austria in the contract of St Germain instead. The themes taken up by the invited artists were symptomatic of the reality at the national and cultural borders of the world and in the minds of people. The issue of language played an important role for transborders, as it is associated with various forms of discrimination, particularly in this border area.

Smrekar publicly conducted the border line intervention on 30th August 2019 on the Kuchenica River. Her site specific performance began when the audience arrived by bus to an unpopulated location on the Slovenian river bank. Visitors got off the bus and placed themselves on the bridge from where they could view the event. When the artist came down the slope from the bushes with her two dogs, she was expected to cross the river. She stoped on the shore instead, take off her backpack and started throwing her personal items into the river, such as: a book, childhood drawings, shoes, dresses, New Year's decorations, art portfolio, folders with tender materials, copies of a family house records, etc ... While throwing objects into the river, the artist’s dogs brought some items back while the rest of the objects float on water. When she dumped all her personal belongings into the water, including the clothes and shoes she wore, she began to pack only the items brought back by the dogs while the rest of the items got lost forever. The performance ended when she crossed the river into Austria, half-dressed with a backpack and dogs, disappearing into the bushes on the other side in order to continue her journey.

The content of the performance was based on the artist's own experience growing up along the Slovenian-Croatian border, namely along the river Sotla. This area became a 'green' border in the 1990s, which, in addition to legal ones, served as a gateway to many illegal refugee crossings. The artist's upbringing was marked by this problem, and in the late 1990s her family's home was seized because of her parents' bankruptcy, which made them move out, as happened to many families during the transition due to reckless loans. Thus, by crossing the river in performance, while sweeping personal belongings of the past, she showed her own loss of home. Her purpose was however not to fully identify with the refugees whose stories are always much more difficult than her own. Through the border line performance, she communicated that the loss of a home along with any form of (economic) migration can be understood as an indirect consequence of neoliberal capitalism, which - whenever possible, destroys almost every individual down to the last subatomic particle and thus allways creating feelings of deep loss.