Aural Fragmentation

Storefront for Art and Architecture 2025

1 online resource (1 audio file)

"Aural Fragmentation is the fourth and final installment of season two of Storefront: Broadcasts. This special episode is produced and sound-designed by Mexican artist, researcher, and community organizer Jerónimo Reyes-Retana. He expands upon the ideas explored in our previous episode, Fugitive Terrain, such as the tension of water bodies as contested sites of catastrophe, conflict, and violence, but also as frontiers of freedom and retreat. Aural Fragmentation compiles a selection of ideas, provocations, and speculations stemming from a unique encounter at the easternmost edge of the Mexico-US borderlands. In this hidden corner of Tamaulipas, an oyster field vital to the local economy of the marginalized community of El Campo Pesquero de Playa Bagdad is now in alarming proximity to the SpaceX launch port at Boca Chica, Texas. In this context, confluence extends beyond the meeting of the waters of the Rio Grande and the Gulf of Mexico, creating a threshold not only between Mexico and the US but also between the so-called Third World and the First, inviting reflection on the emergence of new frontiers in outer space."-- provided by distributor.

Border security.
Ecology.
Geopolitics.
Natural resources.
Space (Architecture)
Violence.
Sécurité frontalière.
Géopolitique.
Ressources naturelles.
Espace (Architecture)
geopolitics.
natural resources.
violence.

Podcasts.

Reyes-Retana