Mexicali Biennial
This is not a homage. A Mini-Epic Tale of Alien Assault: Yízus the man and the Kiosko Boys by Alejandro Espinoza is a conversation and virtual walk through both current and vanished sites featured in the narrative journey of the novel Yízus the Man y los Kiosko Boys, with the aim of creating a memory-based map […]
Screen Memories, a solo exhibition by María José Crespo, is an immersive, research-driven installation that explores Tijuana as a haunted city saturated with sensorial excess, systemic violence, and poetic resonance. This project proposes a counter-infrastructure through a speculative data center where ghosts, understood as social figures, lead us into fractured temporalities and hidden memory circuits. […]
This event is at capacity. If you RSVP'd but have not received directions/information, please email info@mexicalibiennial.org. Thank you. The PARA/normal Borders Supper Club continues by bringing a traditional Mexicali-style asada with an extra-terrestrial twist as imagined by Colectivo Bajaghost and Bibiana Padilla Maltos. Asada/Transborder Aesthetics - Part II will be held at a private residence […]
Please join us on Friday, October 3rd from 6 - 9:00 p.m. at the MXCL BNL LAB - Whittier for the second in a series of salons aimed at engaging artists, humanities experts, and community members in cross-cultural exchanges through casual conversations. This event invites stakeholders within the city of Whittier and surrounding areas who […]
Beginning December 6, MexiCali Biennial artist-in-residence Guillermo Estrada, will create a window installation at the MXCL BNL LAB. As part of Estrada's current exhibition Almendroides, Aliens & Indígenas, the artist will create a graphic window "portal" as a parallax experience of the artwork, while also referencing the liminality and impermanence of borders. Please note that […]
Join us for a discussion by transborder artist Guillermo Estrada and Rubén Ortiz-Torres. The artists will discuss Estrada's current residency at the MXCL BNL LAB and themes around topics related to the border as a supernatural zone. This event is part of an artist residency and exhibition, Guillermo Estrada: ALMENDROIDS, ALIEN & INDÍGENA on view […]
Alien Excavations is an exhibition built around the small-run artist book ALIEN, unfolding through ephemeral source materials, and interactive stations. PURCHASE ALIEN HERE. ALIEN began as an idea “in space,” emerging from the MexiCali Biennial’s PARA/normal Borders Lab as a speculative publishing project that both embodies and interrogates the concept of alienness within and beyond […]