fotografía por Ana González Mote
esta soy yo en uno de los obelizcos que se instalaron entre México y Estados Unidos para marcar la división de la frontera después del tratado de Guadalupe Hidalgo, tratado que otorgó a los Estados Unidos casi la mitad del “territorio Mexicano” en 1848.
this is me over one of the obelizcs that were installed between Mexico and United States to mark the border after the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which granted the United States about half of “Mexico’s territory” in 1848.
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extracto de Sirena con patas II de Liliana Felipe
“Si supiera lo que dicen las ballenas, ya te lo habría dicho. Si supiera lo que cantan las ballenas, pero no lo sé. Te voy a decir lo que pueda… Soy mamífera. Los acuarios me dan una tristeza infinita y el mar un miedo horroroso. Salgo a respirar solo de vez en cuando. Tengo ideas enormes pero solo por el tamaño de mi cerebro. Me han atacado muchas veces, pero herido de muerte solo una. He navegado mares incomprensibles, y compongo y canto canciones que tampoco entiendo. No sé dónde acaba el azul del mar y comienza el azul del cielo.”
“If I only knew what the whales say, I would have already told you. If I just knew what the whales sing, but I don’t know. I am going to tell you what I can… I am I am a mammal. The aquariums give me infinite sadness and the sea a horrible fear. I go out to breathe only once in a while. I have huge ideas only because of the size of my brain. I have been attacked many times but I was about to die only once. I have sailed incomprehensible seas and I compose and sing songs that I don’t really understand. I don’t know where the blue of the sea ends and where the blue of the sky starts.
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Inversa (articulo) / Soy una planta! no un ser humano! (ensayo) / Cuadernos Fronterizos (feature) / Memorias del Silencio (photography collaboration) / Encuentro binacional de mujeres artistas: Fincar correspondecias (participante) / Across (collective exhibition) / Gobernadora as a Site of Memory: Ecological Oral History on the US–Mexico Border (photography collaboration) / What does it mean to be Latino? by Héctor Tobar Harper’s Magazine (photography collaboration) / Paso del Sur (art auction) / Migración, activismo y documentación (dialogue) / Live in America (collective exhibition) /Hyperlocal Visions (photo talk) / Deep Red Press print project (print sale) / Uncaged Art: Artwork by Unaccompanied Minors Detained at the Texas Border (video collaboration) / Vero for Mayor spot (co-producer) English version Spanish version / Mexican Shoppers (feature) / Anne Pittman video altar for Paso del Sur - Dia de Muertos (producer) / Ingrid Leyva: Mexican Shoppers at Deep Red Press (interview) / Chapman University hosts exhibits, panels, screenings to examine issues surrounding the border (article) / La Frontera: The Border (exhibition catalog) / My identity, my dignity (workshop facilitator) / Nortern Exposure (scholarship recipient) / Clamp Light unveils a body of work on the body in ‘CuerposUnidos’ (article) / Survey (collective exhibition) / Ghostly Demacrations (collective exhibition) / Exhilios del imaginario (collective exhibition) / Visita guiada Bienal Transfronteriza (event) / 100 Ways to draw a line (article) / 7 Artists to Check Out at El Paso and Juarez’s Joint Border Art Biennial (article) / Women Street Photographers (collective exhibition) / Mexican Shoppers (ig feature) / #1 for 11 Years for Granting Degrees to Hispanic Students (collaboration) / Plan for the rebirth of Duranguito (editor) / A year after the bulldozers (editor) / #Paisaje #Migración y #ApropiaciónyRemix (comité editorial) / Migración 2.0 (photography book) / Reflexiones de luz II (invitación) / Reflexiones de luz de Ingrid Leyva (article) / Topertulia “La Luz del Olimpo” (event) / De Juárez a Bellas Artes: así recibieron los mexicanos las cenizas de Juan Gabriel (photography collaboration)