The Perpetuation of Site-Specific Installation Artworks in Museums: Staging Contemporary Art

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Composed of powerful “bridges” of searchlights and sound across the US每Mexico border, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s (born 1967) work
forges a platform for local dialogue between El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Ju芍rez, Chihuahua, at a time of fraught border rhetoric, militarized surveillance and nationalist violence. In opposition to the modes of control and the regulation of bodies profusely developed along the border line, Lozano-Hemmer proposed a momentary alternative. To this extent, it is a critically important artistic work that strove to cultivate relations beyond the limits and perpetual violence of the nation-state. The 12 essays comprising this bilingual English/Spanish record求written by a range of historians, theorists, curators, artists and cultural workers求enter into convivial exchange with the voices and language, bodies and performances of those who activated the work.