A CLUI Independent Interpreter exhibit featuring the work of Sarah Cowles, Alan Smart and John Also Bennett. From CLUI:
"THE CENTER'S INDEPENDENT INTERPRETER PROGRAM continued in 2010, following a display of Cindy Hooper’s video work with two more programs about the US/Mexico border.
In March, an installation of Sarah Cowles and Alan Smart’s project about the border structures of El Paso/Juarez opened, Fence Ditch Repeat, which included a lecture about the project, and an accompanying sound installation by John Also Bennett.
Large printed display panels lined the walls of the CLUI, depicting and describing the history and physical landscape of the 2,000 mile-long border. Roughly at the halfway point, at Juarez/El Paso, the border makes its transition from a linear landform of cartography (over the land westward, to the Pacific), and as a chaotic, dendritic river channel (following the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo eastward to the Atlantic).
It is also a diverse river of steel protrusions, at least on the American side, employing a variety of boundary defences, including recycled Gulf-War landing mat used as fence, 18 foot steel beam fence, three-foot mesh panels fence, straight rail vehicle barrier, cattle fence, staggered concrete column fence, Sandia Fence, curved First Defence-type fence, and the various electronic forms of fence, including seismic sensors, sky boxes, TARS blimps, camera stations, and SBI Net towers."
