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Live Performance by Performance Artist Emilio Rojas

September 23, 2022 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm EDT

Mexican Performance artist Emilio Rojas will perform A Vague and Undetermined Place (A Gloria).
This performance examines what Rojas terms “border pedagogies,” or teaching opportunities to question and reimagine national borders. Rojas will be inviting participants to draw the U.S.-Mexican border on transparent paper, which he then layers and projects on a light box to reveal its variations in the imagination.
While the border has become an increasingly urgent topic for national immigration, ecological, and human rights legislation, people can rarely recall the shape of the border—its curves, twists, and turns. It is as Gloria E. Anzaldúa theorized, a “vague and undetermined place.”
In exchange for their drawings, he will offer visitors a paleta, or a Mexican popsicle, made with fruit that crosses this border, reminding us of the immense personal, political, and economic complexities embedded within borderlands.
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Date:
September 23, 2022
Time:
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
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emersoncontemporary.org

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Boylston Place Courtyard
2 Boylston place
Boston, 02116 United States
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Emerson Contemporary
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617-824-8667
Email
contemporary@emerson.edu
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