How Artists Rethink the US/Mexico Border Water Crisis

How Artists Rethink the US/Mexico Border Water Crisis

In this Border Chronicle feature article Caroline Tracey writes on taking back the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo as a river, not a border checkpoint. The post How Artists Rethink the US/Mexico Border Water Crisis appeared first on Havana Times.

How Artists Rethink the Border's Water Crisis

Subscribe nowStill from Treaty of Friendship/Tratado de Amistad, Ingrid Leyva and Nicole Antebi, 2024. Courtesy of the artists.ShareWater infrastructures and the documents that oversee them carry heavy conceptual baggage. Reservoirs, dams, and canals symbolize colonial mastery over landscapes. They make grandiose promises of modernity. They are emblems of inequality and dispossession. In their current states of disrepair, they symbolize disinves…