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SUMMARY:Alien Excavations
DESCRIPTION:Alien Excavations is an exhibition built around the small-run artist book ALIEN\, unfolding through ephemeral source materials\, and interactive stations. \nPURCHASE ALIEN HERE. \nALIEN 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 the U.S.–Mexico borderlands. Designed by Taller California with curator Armando Pulido the publication takes the form of a three-book architecture—interlocking yet separable volumes printed in offset\, glow-in-the-dark\, and Risograph processes. Artists Ed Gómez\, Luis G. Hernandez\, Lorena Gómez Mostajo\, Omar Pimienta\, and Jessica Sevilla each produced distinct image series that are pulled apart\, recombined\, and reorganized. In this way\, ALIEN functions as a curatorial archive: a modular documentation system where meaning is produced through assembly\, misalignment\, and reconfiguration. \nThe publication situates the term “alien” within overlapping historical registers: from the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798\, which codified the legal dehumanization of non-citizens\, to the science-fiction mythology of Alien (1979)\, which aestheticized fear of the unknown. Rather than treating “alienness” as extraterrestrial fantasy\, the artists excavate terrestrial histories embedded in Baja California and the American Southwest—resource extraction\, Indigenous knowledge systems\, ecological transformation\, and contemporary border enforcement. Through this lens\, ALIEN reframes the archive itself as haunted: a site where legal language\, pop culture\, and material landscapes converge to produce enduring structures of othering. \nALIEN will be available for purchase during the exhibition. \nArtist Reception January 31 at 5:00 – 8:00 p.m. \nTaller California is a small press & printing workshop located in the San Diego-Tijuana region. It publishes vibrant artist books that engage with the border as a sociopolitical place and as a liminal and creative space. It is committed to hybrid forms and multilingualism. Taller California’s collaborative and experimental ethos creates new modes of production and distribution of printed matter and books. Visit tallercalifornia.org for more info. \nThis publication was made possible through generous support\nfrom the American Council of Learned Societies.
URL:https://mexicalibiennial.org/event/taller-california-paranormal-borders-book-exhibition/
LOCATION:MXCL BNL LAB\, 6545 Greenleaf Ave\, Whittier\, CA\, 90601
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Alien Excavations Closing & Pop-up
DESCRIPTION:To mark the closing of Alien Excavations at the MXCL BNL LAB\, Taller California will host a pop-up featuring the workshop’s past projects! Books and prints will be available from 12-5pm\, including ALIEN\, a three-part artist book produced by Taller California and the MexiCali Biennial. At 3pm\, Taller’s founder and editor Lorena Mostajo will be in conversation with Armando Pulido to speak about this collaboration and the making of the exhibition. We hope you can join us for the final day of this project! \nThis exhibition marks the launch of ALIEN\, collaborative book project between Taller California and the MexiCali Biennial. On the occasion of the PARA/normal Borders Lab\, artists Ed Gómez\, Luis G. Hernandez\, Lorena Mostajo\, Omar Pimienta\, and Jessica Sevilla contend with the notion of the “alien” in relation to the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. Each created a series of images produced via digital offset prints (AL)\, glow-in-the-dark screen printing (I)\, and Risograph prints (EN) to produce three books that interlock to create ALIEN. \nThe artists collectively look to natural and built environments as sites of “alien” intervention that take many forms: traces of ancestral knowledge\, Indigenous mythology\, resource extraction\, human migration\, and extraterrestrial imagination. Alien\nExcavations intends to expand on these presentations\, showing visitors the texts\, images\, and visual culture that informed the final images produced by each artist.
URL:https://mexicalibiennial.org/event/alien-excavations-closing-pop-up/
LOCATION:MXCL BNL LAB\, 6545 Greenleaf Ave\, Whittier\, CA\, 90601
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