Year: 2017
Type: article
Abstract: Border CrossingsSuturing the Borderlands: Postcommodity and Indigenous Presence on the U.S.-Mexico Border 2 For three days in early October 2015, the art collective Postcommodity launched a temporary art installation that reached fifty feet above the desert and two miles across the U.S.-Mexico border.I watched that weekend as they anchored twenty-six heliumfilled balloons to the desert floor and let them ascend to create a visual and conceptual link between Douglas, Arizona and Agua Prieta, Sonora (fig.2).Each yellow, ten-foot diameter balloon had been inscribed with four sets of concentric circles-red, blue, black, and gray, with a black center-to form two pair of "scare eyes" (fig.3).
Source: InVisible Culture
Author: Matthew Irwin
Language: English
Topic: Art, Politics, and Modernism
Subfield: Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4299900675