Alter-Realities: Intervening in the Politics of Immigrant Incarceration and Migration Control panel

Description: A discussion between artists and collaborators about the process of representing immigrant detention and immigration control through art and cultural interventions. How are carceral geographies and hostile terrains produced and how can artists, scholars, and organizers work together to create alternative visualities, geographies, and collaborations?

Alter-realidades: Interviniendo en la Política de Control y Detención de Inmigrantes

Descripción: Una discusión entre artistas y colaboradores sobre el proceso de representar el control y la detención de inmigrantes por medio de las artes y las intervenciones culturales. ¿Cómo se producen las geografías del encarcelamiento y las fronteras hostiles y cómo pueden colaborar los creadores, académicos y organizadores para crear representaciones, geografías y colaboraciones alternativas?

Moderated by Orlando Lara, Doctoral Student, UCI Anthro, Cultural Organizer and Co-founder, Sin Huellas Artist Collective

Recognition of Maria Jimenez by Stalina Emmanuelle Villarreal, Doctoral Candidate, Literature and Creative Writing, University of Houston

Opening Remarks by Nicholas De Genova, Professor and Chair of the Department of Comparative Cultural Studies, University of Houston

PANELISTS:

Mary Ellen Carroll, Co-organizer of the initiative DYKWTCA

Lucas Michael, Co-organizer of the initiative DYKWTCA

Delilah Montoya, Professor of Art, UH and Co-founder, Sin Huellas Artist Collective

Karen Y. Martinez, Artist & Filmmaker, Latina Filmmakers and Sin Huellas Artist Collective

Nicole Smith, Exhibition Coordinator, Undocumented Migration Project/UCLA

Gabriel Canter, Exhibition Coordinator, Undocumented Migration Project/UCLA


DYKWTCA stands for “Do You Know Where the Children Are?”

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