Uploaded September 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Moderated by Yansi Pérez
Introduced by MOCA and Kyle Stephan, IPS Cultural Partnerships and Programming
This program features an evening of readings and discussion with acclaimed poets Javier Zamora (New York, NY) and Raquel Gutiérrez (Tucson, AZ), two participants in the In Plain Sight artist intervention. Sharing roots in El Salvador, they will read selections from their writings that explore experiences of immigration and borderland politics. Following their presentation, they will be joined in conversation by Yansi Pérez, Associate Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies at Carleton College and author of Más allá del duelo: Otras formas de imaginar, sentir y pensar la memoria en Centroamérica. At the end of the program, viewers will learn about accessible actions they can take to join the movement against immigrant detention.
RSVP in advance for this panel here as space is limited and available on a first come, first serve basis.
About In Plain Sight:
In Plain Sight is a coalition of 80 artists lead by Cassils and rafa esparza, united to create an artwork dedicated to the abolition of immigrant detention and the United States culture of incarceration. A highly orchestrated mediagenic spectacle and poetic action, this project is conceived in five parts: a poetic elegy enacted on a national scale, an interactive website an anthology docuseries, accessible actions for the public to take to join the movement against immigrant detention, and cultural partnerships producing arts-related education and engagement.
Over Independence Day weekend and into the Fall 2020, In Plain Sight (IPS) will continue to launch the nation’s sky typing fleets to write eighty artist-generated messages in the sky over detention facilities, immigration courts, border, and other sites of historic relevance in the United States. As the planes soar, they made visible what is too often unseen and unspoken on the ground: the appalling, profoundly immoral imprisonment of immigrants. Each celestial message is followed by #XMAP, a hashtag that directs viewers to an interactive website that locates immigrant detention centers in their vicinity and connects them to on-the-ground campaigns of organizational partners fighting against immigrant detention. Dedicated to amplifying immigrant voices inside and outside of detention centers, IPS will continue with additional flight paths, social impact campaign through 2022, augmented reality exhibitions, an anthology documentary series, and arts-related cultural partnerships and educational programming on issues of immigrant justice.
Follow @inplainsightmap for additional information and updates on activations.
Moderated by Yansi Pérez
Introduced by MOCA and Kyle Stephan, IPS Cultural Partnerships and Programming
This program features an evening of readings and discussion with acclaimed poets Javier Zamora (New York, NY) and Raquel Gutiérrez (Tucson, AZ), two participants in the In Plain Sight artist intervention. Sharing roots in El Salvador, they will read selections from their writings that explore experiences of immigration and borderland politics. Following their presentation, they will be joined in conversation by Yansi Pérez, Associate Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies at Carleton College and author of Más allá del duelo: Otras formas de imaginar, sentir y pensar la memoria en Centroamérica. At the end of the program, viewers will learn about accessible actions they can take to join the movement against immigrant detention.
RSVP in advance for this panel here as space is limited and available on a first come, first serve basis.
About In Plain Sight:
In Plain Sight is a coalition of 80 artists lead by Cassils and rafa esparza, united to create an artwork dedicated to the abolition of immigrant detention and the United States culture of incarceration. A highly orchestrated mediagenic spectacle and poetic action, this project is conceived in five parts: a poetic elegy enacted on a national scale, an interactive website an anthology docuseries, accessible actions for the public to take to join the movement against immigrant detention, and cultural partnerships producing arts-related education and engagement.
Over Independence Day weekend and into the Fall 2020, In Plain Sight (IPS) will continue to launch the nation’s sky typing fleets to write eighty artist-generated messages in the sky over detention facilities, immigration courts, border, and other sites of historic relevance in the United States. As the planes soar, they made visible what is too often unseen and unspoken on the ground: the appalling, profoundly immoral imprisonment of immigrants. Each celestial message is followed by #XMAP, a hashtag that directs viewers to an interactive website that locates immigrant detention centers in their vicinity and connects them to on-the-ground campaigns of organizational partners fighting against immigrant detention. Dedicated to amplifying immigrant voices inside and outside of detention centers, IPS will continue with additional flight paths, social impact campaign through 2022, augmented reality exhibitions, an anthology documentary series, and arts-related cultural partnerships and educational programming on issues of immigrant justice.
Follow @inplainsightmap for additional information and updates on activations.
