PARTING WATERS: Rio Grande Sonics
Sound Art & Video
2010, 4:33*
*above video is a 30 sec excerpt
This soundscape is an artwork of the sounds heard under the Rio Grande River in Texas. This river is known as a border area where Mexican immigrants cross (and have crossed) into the United States from Mexico. The video documents what the Rio Grande River looks like as one travels down the river. On the left is Mexico and on the right is the United States. The sounds heard are what is heard under the river at specific places known to be crossing points.
BORDER SPIRITS
Sound Art & Video
2010, 4:33*
*above video is a 30 sec excerpt
This soundscape is an artwork of the sounds heard inside the Barrier Fence between the United States and Mexico in Nogales, Arizona. A contact microphone was attached to the border fence, and what one hears are sounds within the fence/wall made of iron and sounds heard through the wall on the other side, which is Mexico. The video documents the area in Nogales where the left side is the United States and the right side is Mexico.
MAL AIGRE
Sound Art & Video
2014, 4:33*
This artwork is a video/sound art piece part of a series of artworks that focus on the United States/Mexico border wall. The border wall extends from Texas to California in the United States and was built by the American government to keep immigrants from Mexico from entering into the United States. MAL AIGRE is a work about the wall in San Diego, California that extends into the Pacific Ocean. The title, “mal aigre” or “mal aire” (evil air), refers to a common Mexican folk illness caused by bad (or evil) air and can be cured only by a curandero (Mexican folk healer/shaman).