Borderland Collective Public Lecture and Discussion

March 16th, 6-8pm (Wednesday)
Columbus Auditorium, 280 S. Columbus Dr.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL.

Please join members of Borderland Collective in a public lecture and moderated discussion. “Northern Triangle,” their most recent project and exhibition, responds to and complicates the ongoing Central American refugee crisis unfolding along the US-Mexico border. Through various constellations of archival materials, physical artifacts, contemporary artworks, and public programming, “Northern Triangle” explores the history of US interventionism in Central America, as well as issues surrounding the US-Mexico border in general—never with the aim to explain away complications, but to incite unpredictable connections and fresh engagements with this humanitarian crisis, its US-made origins, and its lived-life effects.

Borderland Collective members Jason Reed, Mark Menjivar, and Erina Duganne will be in attendance.
Moderator: Josh Rios

More about “Northern Triangle:”
http://www.borderlandcollective.org/archive/#/northern-triangle/
http://artforum.com/picks/id=50049

Borderland Collective is a social art project that facilitates the participatory exploration of geographic and sociocultural borders. Fueled by collaboration between artists, educators, youth, and community members, the project uses art as a means to engage complex issues and build space for diverse perspectives, meaningful dialogue, and modes of creation and reflection. Borderland Collective has worked with more than 200 participants to date, through public education workshops and in-school residencies, printed matter projects, and gallery and public space exhibitions in Texas, Illinois, Brooklyn, Washington, D.C. and Mexico City.

More about Borderland Collective:
http://www.borderlandcollective.org/

“Northern Triangle” opens March 18th at Rational Park, 2557 W. North Ave., Chicago, IL. Hosted by Threewalls and UNIDXS.