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mexico
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Erasing the Border
Read more: Erasing the BorderFrom Public Delivery: “Her piece, Erasing the Border, is one of her most commanding works in which, alongside several other artists, residents, students and activists, she led an attack against the Mexico-US border wall, with the goal of “erasing” sections…
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Teeter-Totter Wall, 2019
Read more: Teeter-Totter Wall, 2019hot pink see-saws installed along the US-Mexico border where one person on each side can sit and see-saw with the other. installed at Sunland Park, nine miles northwest of El Paso, on the 18 feet slats border wall between Mexico…
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Colectivo Sublevarte Retrospective
Read more: Colectivo Sublevarte RetrospectiveSublevarte, a Collective of Mexican artists, was born out of the ENAP (National School of Fine Arts) of UNAM (the National Autonomous University of Mexico), during the student strike of 1999-2000, the longest student strike in history. With more than…
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Estados de excepción
Read more: Estados de excepciónEstados de excepción (States of Exception) is series of participatory cultural interventions created for women to freely and joyfully exercise our rights in public and secure environments, currently being produced in Mexico and abroad. Conceived in response to the growing…
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Uncle Sam’s Cultural Dissonance
Read more: Uncle Sam’s Cultural DissonanceUncle Sam’s Cultural Dissonance looks at the issues facing The United States, including Canada and Mexico. In countries like the United States, where some states are dotted with countless lakes and many people live within easy reach of an ocean,…
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Palas Por Pistolas
Read more: Palas Por PistolasPalas por Pistolas initiated in the city of Culiacán, a city in western Mexico with a high rate of deaths by gunshot. The botanical garden of Culiacán has been comissioning artist to do interventions in the park and my proposal…
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GIMME THE POWER
Read more: GIMME THE POWERDirected by Fernando Sariñana, Todo el poder centers around the politics and corruption that shroud the Mexican police system. Featuring Demián Bichir as Gabriel, a filmmaker whose career has left him assaulted and robbed in broad daylight more times than…
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“Guerras Electorales”….a game that mimics electoral fraud
Read more: “Guerras Electorales”….a game that mimics electoral fraudRight before the presidential elections in Mexico, planned for July of 2012, a local software enterprise has developed a smart-phone game that shows how to commit fraud at the elections. The game, called Guerras Electorales (Electoral Wars)and created by a…