Tuesday, November 3, 2015

Bi-national Art Show in tandem with Post-Commodity’s Repellent Fence




This October, I was lucky enough to hop on a train and head out to Arizona to be part of the first bi-national art show in Douglas, Arizona/Agua Prieta, Sonora. The show featured exhibitions, a bi-national art walk, and incredible artists’ talks on working in liminal spaces. Mending Patriotism quilts were featured on both sides of the border. The quilts were on display at the Migrant Resource Center in Agua Prieta, right next to the border wall.



Later the same day, we got to see the first ever performance of both faldas together in the plaza in Douglas, Arizona. It was an emotional moment.



This bi-national art show was in conjunction with the installation of Repellent Fence, a land art piece by Post-Commodity Art Collective. Raven Chacon, Cristobal Martinez, and  Kade L. Twist spoke about their piece, which featured gigantic balloons spanning laterally across the border, as a metaphorical suture across the land. It was a treat to be involved in several days of inflating, tying down, and transporting these enormous seeing eyes.


I heard people who see the border every day say that it changed how they looked at the fence.


Many thanks to Jenea Sanchez for her incredible coordination of the show, to Post-Commodity for their diligent work over the past 8 years (!) to make their installation a reality.




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