This essay is an excerpt from Tunnel Below / Skyjacking Above: Deconstructing the Border, published by nGbK Gallery, Berlin, in conjunction with the 2017 exhibition of the same name.
Read MoreArtists, Surveillance and Patrol at the Border
A view of the Pacific from Bunker Hill at the US-Mexico Border | Watercolor by Hillary Mushkin
Incendiary Traces visits the U.S.-Mexico Border to view the binational boundary from the perspective of U.S. Border Patrol agents.
Read MoreCrossing the Line: A History of Medical Inspection at the Border
Mexicans quarantined at the Santa Fe Bridge Disinfection Plant, 1917 | USPHS, National Archives
In the early 1900s, medical inspection and photographic documentation ushered in a new set of surveillance procedures for state oversight at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Read MoreReport: Tracing the US/Mexico Border Wall
Drawing by Hillary Mushkin
Artists, art historians, and students gathered to draw the most southwestern edge of the U.S./Mexico border as part of a continued investigation by Incendiary Traces.
Read MoreThe Journey to Border Monument Number 140
Border Monument No. 2 - N31º47.032' W106º32.239', 2012 | Photo courtesy of David Taylor
David Taylor set out to photograph each of the 276 obelisks installed by the International Boundary Commission following the Mexican/American War.
Read MoreA Brief History of Border Walls
Graffiti and trash along the barrier that divides Israel from the Palestinians in West Bank | Courtesy of Goatmilk, via NYTimes.com
Incendiary Traces lists historical and contemporary border walls to provide some global and historical context for understanding Southern California's contested US/Mexico border.
Read MoreDrawing a Line: Encounters with the U.S.-Mexico Border
David Taylor, Boundary Monument No. 210, 2009. From the series Working the Line. Archival inkjet print, 31 x 24 in. | Photo courtesy of David Taylor
Susanna Newbury examines the history of the U.S./Mexico border and its geopolitical importance to the United States.
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