Chasing the Beast: Tijuana, Mexico, 2021/ 2025

Community art laboratory and performances  

In collaboration with Chaparral Refugee Camp & Embajada Migrante

3-channel video, 31 min. 

Supported by Creative Capital 

Chasing the Beast: Tijuana, Mexico is composed of documentation of the performances and collective practices between a team of artists and asylum seekers gathered in El Chaparral refugee sanctuary and the Embassy of the Migrante, in Tijuana, Mexico. From 2019- 2021, collaborators worked to create objects and perform invisible theater at the Mexico/ US Border. Evoking the Zapatista’s use of the snail, which carries its home on its back, as a symbol of the patience and pace of revolution, the collaborators designed homes to carry about their heads and to set on fire in front of the border wall.