September 28, 2016
I was invited to speak for 140 minutes on my project OUT HERE DEATH IS NO BIG DEAL and FIELDWORK as part of the prestigious Santa Fe Art Institute’s Immigration/Emigration Forum SFAI 140. I didn’t quite make the 140 minute cut-off, but it was good to share the work with an enthusiastic audience, and discuss my project in which I and other participants inhabit the VULTURE avatar, who digs up the bodies of femicided women in the US-Mexico border region. While I spoke about the project, they projected excerpts from the performance art installation on video. The lecture was accompanied by an exhibition of the images from FIELDWORK, as well as a collaborative installation, CASE HISTORIES, with artist Matthew Contos.
More about the FIELDWORK Project:
the original video installation:
https://vimeo.com/89473941
the original text and images
in Guernica magazine:
https://www.guernicamag.com/features/fieldwork/
an interview with me in Hyperallergic
on FIELDWORK exhibited at
the Ronald Feldman Gallery, NYC
http://hyperallergic.com/192680/in-the-desert-a-vulture-spirit-follows-a-trail-of-femicide/