Border Crossers

A project by Chico MacMurtrie and Amorphic Robot Works

Thursday, March 17

6:30pm

Followed by a Q&A with Chico MacMurtrie

Inflatable robotic sculptures are remotely deployed at various spatial and geopolitical borders to create a soft archway, a peaceful metaphor for the desire for more connection. Read more…

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Documentary: Frontera. A Sketch for the Creation of a Future Society (2014)

A Project by Laboratorio 060

Direction: Lourdes Morales, Javier Toscano, Iván Lomelí

Thursday, March 17

8:30pm

Followed by a Q&A with: Javier Toscano and Ruth Estevez

A documentary about the implications of taking contemporary art to the Lacandon Jungle, on the border between Mexico and Guatemala, in the only area in Southern Mexico where going “north” implies arriving to Central America. Read more…

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Virtual Reality: Use of Force (2014)

By Nonny de la Peña

Friday, March 18

4:00pm

Followed by a Q&A with: Nonny de la Peña

When thirty-five year old Anastasio Hernandez Rojas was beaten and tasered to death by the border patrol, an incident that the San Diego coroner’s office ruled was a homicide, he was one of more than a dozen migrants who have been killed by the border patrol under questionable circumstances in the past two years. Read more…