Dialogue in Transit: Workbook
2015
Zine + Public Distribution + Digital Prints
"Dialogue in Transit: Evolution of a Line" was a mobile conference that brought together researchers and artists from San Diego and Tijuana, to reflect on the evolution of the border's ideological and physical manifestations 20 years since the implementation of NAFTA (the North American Free Trade Agreement). The conversation took place in the “Cog•nate Cruiser” as we waited in line to cross the border and was live-broadcast over hyper-local pirate radio at the San Ysidro Port of Entry on 87.9 FM.
Segments of the conversation between Victor Clark Alfaro, Director of the Binational Human Rights Center, Norma Iglesias Prieto, Director of the Chicana and Chicano Studies Department at SDSU, and Tijuana-based visual artists and poet Omar Pimienta, were used to develop a workbook that was distributed to pedestrians at the San Ysidro Port of Entry, with exercises designed to continue dialogue + reflection.
The responses collected were subsequently superimposed to create collective registers of what about what the border was, what is, and what it might one day become.