Alter-Realities: Intervening in the Politics of Immigrant Incarceration and Migration Control
Thursday, April 22, 2021
6:00pm—7:30pm CT
Free and open to the public
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English / Español
Join the Sin Hellas Art Collective for a discussion between artists and collaborators about the process of representing immigrant detention and immigration control through art and cultural interventions. How are carceral geographies and hostile terrains produced and how can artists, scholars, and organizers work together to create alternative visualities, geographies, and collaborations?
Alter-realidades: Interviniendo en la Política de Control y Detención de Inmigrantes. Una discusión entre artistas y colaboradores sobre el proceso de representar el control y la detención de inmigrantes por medio de las artes y las intervenciones culturales. ¿Cómo se producen las geografías del encarcelamiento y las fronteras hostiles y cómo pueden colaborar los creadores, académicos y organizadores para crear representaciones, geografías y colaboraciones alternativas?
Moderated by Orlando Lara, Artist/Scholar and Co-founder, Sin Huellas Artist Collective. Recognition of Maria Jimenez by Stalina Emmanuelle Villarreal, Doctoral Candidate, Literature and Creative Writing, University of Houston. Opening Remarks by Nicholas De Genova, Professor and Chair of the Department of Comparative Cultural Studies, University of Houston.
Panelists: Delilah Montoya, Professor of Art, UH and Co-founder, Sin Huellas Artist Collective; Karen Y. Martinez, Artist & Filmmaker, Latina Filmmakers and Sin Huellas Artist Collective; Nicole Smith, Exhibition Coordinator, Undocumented Migration Project/UCLA; Gabriel Canter, Exhibition Coordinator, Undocumented Migration Project/UCLA; Mary Ellen Carroll, Co-organizer of the initiative DYKWTCA; Lucas Michael, Co-organizer of the initiative DYKWTCA, DYKWTCA stands for “Do You Know Where the Children Are.”
This program is held in conjunction with Hostile Terrain 94 / Detention Nation, on view at the Blaffer April 17—May 16, 2021. Learn more about the exhibition.