Detention Nation Virtual Panel Discussion 1
Thursday, April 22, 2021
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
The
Sin
Huellas
Artist
Collective
and
the
Department
of
Comparative
Cultural
Studies,
University
of
Houston
present
Detention
Nation
alongside
the
Hostile
Terrain
94
Installation
and
two
Virtual
Panel
Discussions.
Panel
Discussion
1
-
Alter-Realities:
Intervening
in
the
Politics
of
Immigrant
Incarceration
and
Migration
Control
Detention
Nation’s
first
panel
will
be
streamed
via
Sin
Huellas
Artist
Collective
YouTube
Channel.
The
panel
will
bring
together
artists
and
scholars
to
discuss
the
process
and
politics
of
representing
immigrant
detention
and
immigration
control
through
art
and
public
intellectual
projects.
Panelists
will
probe
how
carceral
geographies
and
hostile
terrains
are
produced
and
how
artists,
scholars,
and
organizers
can
work
together
to
create
alternatives.
View
the
English
Livestream
here
View
the
Spanish
Livestream
here
The
installation
will
be
on
view
from
April
17
to
May
16,
2021.
The
artist-activist
installations
will
be
exhibited
in
the
front
lobby
space
of
the
Blaffer
Art
Museum.
The
Detention
Nation
virtual
art
space
launches
on
April
17
at
www.detentionnation.com
with
virtual
performances
by
Julia
Barbosa
Landois,
Veronica
Gaona,
Jessica
Gonzalez,
Karen
Martinez,
and
Erick
Zambrano.