Border Communities: Art Organizing in the Zone
Date: 2022-04-09 17:00:00 – 2022-04-09 18:30:00
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Live from the Rubin Center for the Visual Arts at UTEP! What does it mean to work with artists and communities in a highly contested and militarized border zone? This conversation highlights the work of organizers and artists who are forging new ways of creating fluidity and exchange across the border. Christian Diego Diego will talk about Border: Narratives and Cartographies of Migration (showing at Museo de Arte Ciudad Juu00e1rez), a collective art project developed by a group of migrant asylum seekers who use embroidery (a relative of the world u201cborderu201d) to illustrate and document their journeys. Scholar Sylvia Fernandrez and poet Gris Muu00f1oz (The Fund for the Ethical Practices Transborder Art) will discuss their project titled u201cGeotestimonixu201d – an interactive mapping cartography projectu2026.literary workshops with women from the community to bring about stories of living on the border and creating a cartography based on that. Moderator Leu00f3n De la Rosa Carrillo will talk about The Fund for Ethical Practices of Transborder Art, which emerged from Rafael Lozano-Hemmeru2019s Border Tuner project to give voice and visibility to transborder art emerging from Ciudad Juu00e1rez and El Paso. Gabriela Muu00f1oz will speak about Mujeres Nourishing Fronterix Bodies: Resistance in the Time of Covid-19, about two collectives on either side of the US/Mexico border highlighting the female experience in the borderlands (showing at MOCA Tucson).
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