Hostile Terrain 94 - Virtual Opening Ceremony

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Binghamton University is bringing HT94 to our campus with funding provided by the Material and Visual Worlds TAE. The exhibit will open in the Grand Corridor of the Fine Arts building on October 1 and will run in that location through October 17. We will hold an online panel conversation about the exhibit on October 1 from 5 – 7 pm, on Zoom, featuring Binghamton faculty, students, and guest speaker Vicente Rodriguez from Aguilas del Desierto Inc.

Hostile Terrain 94 (HT94) is a participatory art project raising awareness of this humanitarian crisis. HT94 was developed by the Undocumented Migration Project (UMP), a non-profit research-art-education-media collective directed by UCLA anthropologist Jason De León (https://www.undocumentedmigrationproject.org/hostileterrain94). The exhibit is being mounted simultaneously at over 150 national and global institutions. The interactive exhibit invites volunteers to write the names of deceased migrants, along with their age, sex, cause of death, condition of their body, and location of their recovery, on color-coded toe tags. Yellow tags represent people whose remains have been identified, while orange tags symbolize nearly 1000 unidentified individuals. These tags are then geolocated and pinned to a wall map of the desert showing the exact locations where remains were found. On the completed map, the mass of 3200 colored tags graphically illustrates the severity of the crisis.


Featuring Panelists - Cinthia Campos, Randy McGuire, Max Pensky, Ana Sanchez-Bachman, Dara Silberstein, Ruth Van Dyke, and special guest, Vicente Rodriguez from Aguilas Del Desierto Inc. The event will take place over Zoom.

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