CONSIGNED TO BORDER
Consigned to Border: The Terror and Possibilities in The Things not Seen, 1997
First exhibited inSITE97, San Diego 1997
This set of 5 interlocking images poses questions of landscape and land use across the shared and identical geography of Tijuana and San Diego. It uses the violence of collage (video graphics) — in particular, it’s ability to radically rupture and transform an environment — to foreground the differences in infrastructures, flows of capital, and culture between these two sites. The T-shaped structure sets up a number of antinomies or contradictions that might be provoked by comparing the various landscapes.
Installation
5 channel video-sound projection on a T shaped sign. Dimensions variable.
Related publications:
There is nothing so _____ as that border in the mind, 2006, Press release from Karin Sachs show Download Link
Liminal Zones, Download Link
Interview, LAPIZ 243, Download Link
Space that Art Makes, Judith Barry, Download Link