3.8.15 The Border Again: dis-automation and the border (?), an open forum

An Open Forum — closing event for The Border Again.

Artists attending: Simon Pecco, Alfredo Gonzalez Reynoso, Luisa Fernanda Martinez and Reuben Torres.*

CLOSING EVENT FOR THE BORDER AGAIN

3/8 Sunday, 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm

We would like to invite you to an open forum, an un-moderated talk at Human resources for the closing of The Border Again. 

Open Forums are un-moderated talks that use prompts as starting points to engage in conversation through the discourse of aesthetics and politics.

Open Forums were started in Tijuana to open up the gallery space, in order to engage the community of Tijuana more intimately. Some of the prompts for past forums were drugs, apathy, and politics, and small instances in dissidence. Being that this iteration will be in Los Angeles, in addition to speaking of the border as a place where artistic practice can be socially engaged and also what it means to work in contested spaces, it might be useful to imagine what future borders will come, symbolically and in the real(?), what will the border look like (the aesthetics of the military?), what types of imaginary technologies will be used and how will we counteract surveillance (just some thoughts). For this iteration of Open Forums, there are two small texts that might be helpful. 

Audre Lorde, "The Transformation of Silence Into Language and Action" from I Am Your Sister, 39-44

and

"Bifo" Berardi's "The Mind’s We:Morphogenesis and the Chaosmic Spasm," p. 7-33. 

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*Open Forums were started by a curatorial collective with artists from Tijuana and Mexico City and included Jaqueline Andrade from Praxis Gallery, Anna Bon, Vidal Castillo, Carlos Matsuo, Marcel Miranda, Joey Muñoz, Christian Vargas, and Michael Ray-Von.