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U.S.-Mexico border holds tragic immigrant stories. A new L.A. exhibition lets them speak
The HT94 exhibition at the La Plaza Museum in Los Angeles was recently featured in the Los Angeles Times.
"Hostile Terrain 94: Art as a Means for Political Change"
Natalie Gomez writes about the current HT94 prototype up at the Art, Design, & Architecture Museum at the University of California, Santa Barbara in impactmania. The new impactmania and UCSB program Human Mind and Migration (HMM) serves as a platform for meaningful broad-based engagement to take place, considering the present historical moment and the sociopolitical and environmental cocktail of issues related to migration.
Jason De León in front of t-shirt collage with UCSB student-interns in the background.
"Data Visualization As an Act of Witnessing"
The Undocumented Migration Project pop-up installation “Hostile Terrain 94” visualizes the humanitarian crisis on the United States’ southern border. Featured in the Nightingale by Maria Aviles.
Scale drawing of installation. The small triangles on this grid would be replaced with hanging manila and orange toe-tags.
“Toe-Tag Art Honors Migrants Who Died Trying to Come to US”
Christian Flores, a Cypress Student, fills out toe tags during the HT94 installation. “ ‘I will definitely not forget this,’ said Flores”.
"Penn Museum hosts pop-up exhibit to commemorate those who died at U.S.-Mexico border"
Credit: Maria Murad
Jason De León and exhibition coordinators Gabe Canter and Nicole Smith answered questions from audience members in the Penn Museum Wednesday about De León's art installation "Hostile Terrain 94" and ethnography "The Land of Open Graves."