Texas Finn
Exterminating Angels
Art And Museums Challenge - November 2016
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Section of border wall, Border Patrol drag chain, wood blocking used in construction of border wall
"Think of the sounds you might hear if you were standing along the U.S. border and Mexico-distant voices ande laughter in some places, generators in others, occasional vehicles, barking dogs, birds, and most often, silence. Instruments reflect the border's complicated atmosphere and culture. Designed an assembled by experimental composer and performance artist Guillermo Galindo from discarded objects picked up and brought back to his home in Oakland, California, often by his photographer friend, Richard Misrach.
This multi-dimensional collaboration between heralded photographer Richard Misrach and innovative artist-musician Guillermo Galindo examines the border between the United States and Mexico through a revelatory, humanistic lens. Border Cantos brings together Misrach’s often large-scale photographs with musical instruments that Galindo has created out of artifacts like clothing, shotgun shells, drag tires, and toys found along the border fence. These items, together with the sound and video installations of Galindo playing his instruments, evoke the raw authority of the wall while conjuring the quiet unease that suffuses the U.S. side of the border.
Amon Carter Museum of American Art
Exterminating Angels
Art And Museums Challenge - November 2016
www.flickr.com/groups/challenges_community_group/discuss/...
Section of border wall, Border Patrol drag chain, wood blocking used in construction of border wall
"Think of the sounds you might hear if you were standing along the U.S. border and Mexico-distant voices ande laughter in some places, generators in others, occasional vehicles, barking dogs, birds, and most often, silence. Instruments reflect the border's complicated atmosphere and culture. Designed an assembled by experimental composer and performance artist Guillermo Galindo from discarded objects picked up and brought back to his home in Oakland, California, often by his photographer friend, Richard Misrach.
This multi-dimensional collaboration between heralded photographer Richard Misrach and innovative artist-musician Guillermo Galindo examines the border between the United States and Mexico through a revelatory, humanistic lens. Border Cantos brings together Misrach’s often large-scale photographs with musical instruments that Galindo has created out of artifacts like clothing, shotgun shells, drag tires, and toys found along the border fence. These items, together with the sound and video installations of Galindo playing his instruments, evoke the raw authority of the wall while conjuring the quiet unease that suffuses the U.S. side of the border.
Amon Carter Museum of American Art