photos/press from "Zone of Contention: The US/Mexico Border"
Posted July 5, 2012 by nicolas_lampert in Events
For those interested in art that addresses border issues the Weatherspoon Art Museum at UNC Greensboro is currently exhibiting "Zone of Contention: The US/Mexico Border." Dan S. Wang and I contributed our collaborative-made letterpress print Caution Migrant Workers. This time around we enlarged it and wheat pasted it to a sheet of plywood to better mimic the look of a broadside.
The image itself voices our opposition to the Arizona Immigration Bill SB-1070 and references the look and the phrasing of a 1851 Broadside poster that was created in resistance to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 that was hung in Boston that alerted fugitive slaves and citizens to have a “Top Eye” open for the police who were empowered to detain all “suspected” escaped slaves so that they could be returned back to slavery in the South. Our print rejects SB-1070 law and the climate of xenophobia in Arizona and beyond and stands in solidarity with migrant workers the world over.
The Zone of Contention: The US/Mexico Border exhibition "focuses on artists’ investigations of issues related to the U.S./Mexico border, a geographic area of much debate and contention. Through photography, sculpture, works on paper, video, and new media, subjects such as migrant labor, immigration law, national sovereignty, the Dream Act, and border control will be examined in terms of their current social and ideological impact.
The exhibition features new and recent works by artists from the U.S., Mexico, and Canada, including Andrea Bowers (Los Angeles, CA), Blane de St. Croix (New York, NY), Todd Drake (Greensboro, NC), Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (Montreal, Canada), Nicolas Lampert & Dan S. Wang (Milwaukee, WI/Chicago, IL), Pedro Lasch (Durham, NC), Susan Harbage Page (Chapel Hill, NC), Pedro Reyes (Mexico City, Mexico), David Taylor (Las Cruces, NM), and Perry Vasquez/Victor Payan (San Diego, CA)."
Zone of Contention: The U.S./Mexico Border is organized by Xandra Eden, Curator of Exhibitions, and will be accompanied by a bilingual brochure.
The show runs from June 16 – September 2, 2012
Exhibition Page & Brochure:
http://weatherspoon.uncg.edu/exhibitions/show/?title=zone-of-contention-the-usmexico-border
Note: You can download a PDF of the brochure at the bottom of the page.
Press/Radio:
http://www.yesweekly.com/triad/article-14411-zones-of-contention-highlights-border.html
http://wunc.org/tsot/archive/SOT62012B.mp3/view#.T-JHoTPmCoQ.email
This is an interview with Pedro Lasch and Xandra Eden on the main NC public radio station.
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