Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Border Tuner (Paperback)

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

ISBN 10: 1941753884 / ISBN 13: 9781941753880

Published by Inventory Press LLC, NY, 2026

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Paperback. As a large-scale, participatory installation, Lozano-Hemmer's "bridges of light" create a channel of communication beyond the limits of the nation-stateComposed of powerful "bridges" of searchlights and sound across the USMexico border, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer's (born 1967) work Border Tuner forges a platform for local dialogue between El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, at a time of fraught border rhetoric, militarized surveillance and nationalist violence. In opposition to the modes of control and the regulation of bodies profusely developed along the border line, Lozano-Hemmer proposed a momentary alternative. To this extent, it is a critically important artistic work that strove to cultivate relations beyond the limits and perpetual violence of the nation-state. The 12 essays comprising this bilingual English/Spanish recordwritten by a range of historians, theorists, curators, artists and cultural workersenter into convivial exchange with the voices and language, bodies and performances of those who activated the work. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Border Tuner (Paperback)
• Publisher: Inventory Press LLC, NY
• Publication Date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1941753884
• ISBN 13: 9781941753880
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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As a large-scale, participatory installation, Lozano-Hemmer's "bridges of light" create a channel of communication beyond the limits of the nation-state

Composed of powerful "bridges" of searchlights and sound across the US–Mexico border, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer's (born 1967) work Border Tuner forges a platform for local dialogue between El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, at a time of fraught border rhetoric, militarized surveillance and nationalist violence. In opposition to the modes of control and the regulation of bodies profusely developed along the border line, Lozano-Hemmer proposed a momentary alternative. To this extent, it is a critically important artistic work that strove to cultivate relations beyond the limits and perpetual violence of the nation-state. The 12 essays comprising this bilingual English/Spanish record―written by a range of historians, theorists, curators, artists and cultural workers―enter into convivial exchange with the voices and language, bodies and performances of those who activated the work.