Zoquetes Fronterizos / Mud Frontiers
Publication Date
1-20-2019
Document Type
Exhibition
Exhibition/Performance Dates
January 20 - April 6, 2019
Publication Title
New Cities, Future Ruins
Conference Location
Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for The Visual Arts, El Paso, TX
Abstract
New Cities, Future Ruins (NCFR) is a four-year curatorial initiative inviting artists, designers, and thinkers to re-imagine and engage the extreme urbanism of America's Western Sun Belt. Fast-growing symbols of opportunity and entrepreneurialism, the region’s cities are sprawling agglomerations in delicate ecosystems, marked by resource overuse, dramatic demographic change, and political struggle that particularize and illuminate global crises of rapid urbanization. Bringing critical and innovative practices from around the world to bear on this urban landscape, NCFR is designed to foster visionary thought and artistic experimentation at these urgent sites.
The Rubin Center’s contribution to New Cities Future Ruins is the collaborative exhibition Sections, featuring three projects that reflect on the border environment - earth (Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello), air (AGENCY Architecture) and water (Ivan Puig).The final projects in the gallery space will be complemented by a didactic installation under the artistic direction of Zeke Pena, who will tell the story of the projects development as well as highlight community projects that address the environment at the US Mexico Border.
Department
Design
Recommended Citation
Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello. "Zoquetes Fronterizos / Mud Frontiers" New Cities, Future Ruins (2019).
