Crossings
Channel: Reluctant Conquistador
Date: 29/05/2017

Crossings is a show by Rafael Fajardo highlighting the immigration dynamics at the US/Mexico border at El Paso/Ciudad Juárez through the games "Crosser" and "La Migra."

Rafael Fajardo is an electronic artist, founder of SWEAT, and professor at the University of Denver. Crossings is showing at the Emmanuel Gallery in Denver Colorado. "Crosser" and "La Migra" were made by the SWEAT Collaborative.
Rafael discusses building empathy in the immigration narrative, the femicides of Juárez, and the killings of Esequiel Hernández and Anastasio Hernández-Rojas.

Crossings is running at the Emmanuel Gallery in Denver, CO from May 25, 2017 — June 29, 2017


Filmed and Edited by Diego Fajardo
Emmanuel Gallery curated by Jeff Lambson

Rafael Fajardo
http://rafaelfajardo.com/

"Use of Force" by Nonny De La Peña
http://useofforce.immersivejournalism.com/

Music by Chris Zabriskie
"Virtues Inherited, Virtues Passed On"
https://chriszabriskie.bandcamp.com/album/reappear


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