Please join us for a conversation around Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s latest publication Border Tuner | Sintonizador Fronterizo, published by Inventory Press, preceded by a screening of a documentary with the same title.

The publication documents Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s participatory art installation composed of powerful search-lights forming bridges of light across the US-Mexico border. At a time of intense anti-immigrant rhetoric, militarized surveillance, and nationalist violence, the artwork created in 2019 connected the sister cities of El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua. The book’s essays critically examine the legacy of this project and presents its activation by tens of thousands of people who gathered to honour the interdependence of life in the borderlands.

This event is free of charge, but space is limited, so registration is recommended. 

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer is Mexican-Canadian media artist who creates platforms for public participation by using robotic lights, digital fountains, computerized surveillance, and telematic networks. Inspired by phantasmagoria, carnival, and animatronics, his interactive works are “anti-monuments for people to self-represent.” His works are in collections around the world such as MoMA, Guggenheim, TATE, Reina Sofía, and Hirshhorn. Recent exhibitions include Unstable Presence, a mid-career retrospective co-produced by the MAC de Montreal and SFMOMA; Common Measures, his first solo exhibition at PACE Gallery; and Unfinished Garden at the Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico City.