MexiCali Biennial

Josh Kun + Alex Rivera Part I of the PARA/normal Borders Conversation Series Scholar Josh Kun ( Cultural historian; USC Vice Provost for the Arts and USC Annenberg Professor of Communication) and Alex Rivera (Filmmaker and Co-Founder of Borderlands Cinematic Arts at ASU) explore how music, film, media, and speculative storytelling shape the ways histor

Sky Hopinka + Maggie Nelson Part II of the PARA/normal Borders Conversation Series Through film, writing, and critical inquiry, Sky Hopinka and Maggie Nelson explore how artistic practice becomes a way of knowing. Working across experimental film, creative nonfiction, philosophy, and visual culture, their presentations of individual work and conversation will consider how memory, perception, language, and embodied experience s

Cristina Rivera Garza + Fred Moten Part III of the PARA/normal Borders Conversation Series Language is one of the many borders that shape our lives. It carries histories, preserves memory, and creates new possibilities for connection across difference. Writers Cristina Rivera Garza and Fred Moten will both read from their work and then engage in a conversation about translation, poetry, and colle