At ArtLab, Valeria Luiselli will collaborate with Leonardo Heiblum and Ricardo Giraldo to develop Echoes From The Borderlands, a sound-based artwork that documents the history of violence against land and bodies in the US-Mexico borderlands. By merging narratives, soundscapes, voices, melodies, rhythms, archival recordings, and sound constellations, the piece connects issues that have marked the borderlands, such as the genocide of native peoples, nuclear testing, migration, femicide, vigilantism, human trafficking, and mass detention. Echoes from the Borderland is being developed at Harvard ArtLab with support from the Dia Art Foundation.
This project is part of Valeria Luiselli’s faculty artist residency (2022-24).
Echoes from the Borderlands was performed at ArtLab as an ArtsThursday event in February 2023.