Hostile Terrain 94
Hostile Terrain 94 is a participatory art project sponsored and organized by the Undocumented Migration Project. The installation is composed of more than 3,200 hand-written toe tags filled out by the community, each representing a migrant who has died trying to cross the US-Mexico border at the Sonoran Desert of Arizona between the mid-1990s and 2019. The exhibition is installed on the first floor and the accompanying publication was written by both graduate and undergraduate students at Stanford University.
Hostile Terrain 94 is a participatory art project sponsored and organized by the Undocumented Migration Project. The installation is composed of more than 3,200 hand-written toe tags filled out by the community, each representing a migrant who has died trying to cross the US-Mexico border at the Sonoran Desert of Arizona between the mid-1990s and 2019. The exhibition is installed on the first floor and the accompanying publication was written by both graduate and undergraduate students at Stanford University.
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EKALAN HOU is a junior double majoring in English and Art History. She is a<br />
Student Guide at the Cantor Arts Center and the Anderson Collection.<br />
OTHER WORKS CONSULTED:<br />
Aviles, Mary. “Data Visualization as an Act of Witnessing.” Nightingale, March 4,<br />
2020. https://medium.com/nightingale/data-visualization-as-an-act-ofwitnessing-33e346f5e437.<br />
De León, Jason, Cameron Gokee, and Ashley Schubert. “ ‘By the Time I Get to<br />
Arizona’: Citizenship, Materiality, and Contested Identities along the US-<br />
Mexico Border.” Anthropological Quarterly 88, no. 2 (2015): 445–79. https://doi.<br />
org/10.1353/anq.2015.0022.<br />
De León, Jason, Cameron Gokee, and Anna Forringer-Beal. “ ‘Disruption,’ Use Wear,<br />
and Migrant Habitus in the Sonoran Desert.” In Migration and Disruptions,<br />
edited by Brenda J. Baker and Takeyuki Tsuda, 145–78. Gainesville: University<br />
Press of Florida, 2015. https://doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813060804.003.0007.<br />
EMBODIMENT: MANUEL NERI, HOSTILE<br />
TERRAIN <strong>94</strong>, AND THE DEPICTION OF<br />
VIOLENCE IN ART<br />
MELISSA SANTOS<br />
The human body has long been used in art to explore the human<br />
condition—life and death, the personal and the political. In paintings<br />
and in sculpture, the depiction of the body beckons us to reflect on<br />
our own fragility and humanity. Manuel Neri’s life-size sculptures of<br />
women in plaster are an example of an artist’s attempt to capture body<br />
language and movement. The textured surface of pieces like Marble Relief<br />
Maquette No. 3 (1983) (fig. 3) and Standing Figure II (1982) (fig. 4) evidence<br />
his handiwork and evoke a profound emotional response; the sculptures<br />
convey the sense of intimacy Neri felt with his subjects, such as his lifelong<br />
muse, Mary Julia Klimenko, who posed for both aforementioned works. 1<br />
Gokee, Cameron, and Jason De León. “Sites of Contention: Archaeological<br />
Classification and Political Discourse in the US-Mexico Borderlands.” Journal<br />
of Contemporary Archaeology 1, no. 1 (2014): 133–63. https://doi.org/10.1558/jca.<br />
v1i1.133.<br />
Gokee, Cameron, Haeden Stewart, and Jason De León. “Scales of Suffering in the<br />
US-Mexico Borderlands.” International Journal of Historical Archaeology, 2020.<br />
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10761-019-00535-6.<br />
Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt. “On Nonscalability: The Living World Is Not Amenable to<br />
Precision-Nested Scales.” Common Knowledge 18, no. 3 (2012), 505–24. https://<br />
doi.org/10.1215/0961754x-1630424.<br />
Toe tags, <strong>Hostile</strong> <strong>Terrain</strong> <strong>94</strong> at the Anderson Collection {detail}, 2020<br />
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1<br />
Sidney Simon, “Standing Figure II,” Anderson Collection at Stanford University website, accessed<br />
July 21 2020, https://anderson.stanford.edu/collection/untitled-standing-figure-by-manuel-neri/.<br />
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