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Repellent Fence: Schedule of Events

Two mile long ephemeral land art installation and social engagement.
Located at US/Mexico Border: Douglas, Arizona and Agua Prieta, Sonora.
Installation and public events on October 9 - 12, 2015.

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The following is a schedule of public events that will take place throughout the installation of Repellent Fence, including the first ever bi-national art walk in Douglas, Arizona and Agua Prieta, Sonora!!!

In the spirit of Repellent Fence, we invite the citizens of Douglas and Agua Prieta, as well as guests from abroad to enjoy a full Saturday of art, design, regional and national food, and music between border neighbors.

Friday, October 9, 2015

Sunrise – Community Installation of Repellent Fence (Delayed due to high winds!!!)

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM @ Highway 2 and Installation -- Repellent Fence walking tour in Aqua Prieta (Cancelled due to high winds!!!)
Designated parking will be available
(For safety, please carry water, and wear your walking shoes with appropriate apparel for walking in the desert!)

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM @ E. Geronimo Trail and Apache Bird Rd./N. Bohmfalk Rd. -- Repellent Fence walking tour in Douglas (Cancelled due to high winds!!!)
Important: Please park all vehicles at Airport Park, located at the SE Corner of N. La Cima Dr. and E. Geronimo Trail
Parking location is .86 miles from meeting area. Press can unload gear at the meeting site, but will have to park at designated parking
(For safety, please carry water, and wear your walking shoes with appropriate apparel for walking in the desert!)

Postcommodity will be preparing the the balloons for installation throughout the day.

7:00 PM @ Gadsden Hotel, 1046 G. Ave., Douglas, AZ -- Repellent Fence opening reception (On Schedule)

Saturday, October 10, 2015

Sunrise – Community Installation of Repellent Fence in Douglas and Agua Prieta

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM @ Highway 2 and Installation -- Repellent Fence walking tour in Aqua Prieta
Designated parking will be available
(For safety, please carry water, and wear your walking shoes with appropriate apparel for walking in the desert!)

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM @ E. Geronimo Trail and Apache Bird Rd./N. Bohmfalk Rd. -- Repellent Fence walking tour in Douglas
Important: Please park all vehicles at Airport Park, located at the SE Corner of N. La Cima Dr. and E. Geronimo Trail
Parking location is .86 miles from meeting area. Press can unload gear at the meeting site, but will have to park at designated parking
(For safety, please carry water, and wear your walking shoes with appropriate apparel for walking in the desert!)

11:00 AM @ E. Geronimo Trail and Apache Bird Rd./N. Bohmfalk Rd. -- Repellent Fence press tour in Douglas
Important: Please park all vehicles at Airport Park, located at the SE Corner of N. La Cima Dr. and E. Geronimo Trail
Parking location is .86 miles from meeting area. Press can unload gear at the meeting site, but will have to park at designated parking
(For safety, please carry water, and wear your walking shoes with appropriate apparel for walking in the desert!)

1:00 PM - 8:00 PM

AGUA PRIETA - The Agua Prieta cultural art tour will begin on Pan American Avenue and will feature presentations of art and history through downtown Agua Prieta. This tour will feature historical exhibitions of paintings, photography, and music by local artists. The art tour will continue with exhibitions of children's art and a culinary exhibition of Sonoran dishes from the region. Toward the end of the tour, visitors will take a pleasant walk through the Plaza Azueta. Lastly, the tour will culminate with a visit to Agua Prieta's House of Culture where visitors will experience an exhibition of painting and various artistic performances in dance, singing, and music. Tour buses will pick up people from Douglas at the Gadsden Hotel parking lot every 30 minutes. For those living in the U.S. and visiting from the U.S., please take advantage of this opportunity to visit the beautiful and vibrant city of Agua Prieta!!!

DOUGLAS - The Douglas art walk will take place on through the historic downtown on Avenue G. The festivites will include exhibits of paintings and performances of music by local artists.

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM @ Highway 2 and Installation -- Repellent Fence walking tour in Aqua Prieta
Designated parking will be available
(For safety, please carry water, and wear your walking shoes with appropriate apparel for walking in the desert!)

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM @ E. Geronimo Trail and Apache Bird Rd./N. Bohmfalk Rd. -- Repellent Fence walking tour in Douglas
Important: Please park all vehicles at Airport Park, located at the SE Corner of N. La Cima Dr. and E. Geronimo Trail
Parking location is .86 miles from meeting area. Press can unload gear at the meeting site, but will have to park at designated parking
(For safety, please carry water, and wear your walking shoes with appropriate apparel for walking in the desert!)

7:00 PM - 8:00 PM @ La Placita, accross the street from the Gadsden Hotel --
2015 Symposium on Indigenous Public Art: Experiential Practices of Re-Indigenizing the Borderlands
Panel Discussion featuring Postcommodity/ Ana Teresa Fernández /Jenea Sanchez

8:30 PM - 10:30 PM @ La Casa de la Cultura, Calle 14 Av. 44, Agua Prieta, Sonora --
The day's bi-national festivites culminate at La Casa de la Cultura in Agua Prieta with dances, singing, and music. Don't miss out on the opportunity to join the community of Aqua Prieta in viewing and celebrating a local Yaqui deer dance!!!

Sunday, October 11, 2015

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM @ Highway 2 and Installation -- Repellent Fence walking tour in Aqua Prieta
Designated parking will be available
(For safety, please carry water, and wear your walking shoes with appropriate apparel for walking in the desert!)

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM @ E. Geronimo Trail and Apache Bird Rd./N. Bohmfalk Rd. -- Repellent Fence walking tour in Douglas
Important: Please park all vehicles at Airport Park, located at the SE Corner of N. La Cima Dr. and E. Geronimo Trail
Parking location is .86 miles from meeting area. Press can unload gear at the meeting site, but will have to park at designated parking
(For safety, please carry water, and wear your walking shoes with appropriate apparel for walking in the desert!)

10:00 AM - 4:00 PM @ The Mexican Consulate, 1324 G. Ave., Douglas, AZ --
Symposium on Indigenous Public Art: Experiential Practices and Indigenous Borderlands

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM -- Symposium Workshop by Ana Teresa Fernández
This work shop has limited seating!!! For more information please visit http://azarts.gov/azartworker

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Lunch

1 - 2:30 PM Panel 1 Presentation: "Getting" Indian Country: Inviting Tactical Approaches to Transborder Knowledge Building
---------------------2:30 PM - 3:00 PM Panel 1 Q & A / Discussion @ The Mexican Consulate, 1324 G. Ave., Douglas, AZ
This panel will feature Pat Riggs, former director of economic development at Yselta del Sur Pueblo, whose work centers on protecting and promoting culture and rebuilding sovereignty and assets through community engagement and capacity building. As a tribal leader committed to working collaboratively with internal and external agencies to seek the betterment of the Pueblo and all Native American people, Pat will discuss partnering with Harvard and the University of Arizona to build capacity and resources for the Pueblo while honoring core values, culture, and traditional practices of Tigua ancestors. Jennifer Clifton, professor at The University of Texas at El Paso, and Elenore Long, professor at Arizona State University, will respond to Riggs’ invitation for tactical approaches and culturally sustaining relationships capable of building transborder knowledges and will interpret the significance of Repellent Fence in light of the possibilities and implicit challenges that Riggs’ invitation carries with it. Specifically, Clifton, who is forging an emergent partnership with the Tigua, will offer grounded narratives that illustrate the need for universities to partner with Indian Country to construct more expansive transborder knowledges capable of interrogating and re-imagining borders and infrastructure based on the logics and self-other relations of imperialism and capitalism. Finally, in light of Riggs’ invitation, Long will consider the ways Repellent Fence re-writes polity as a key concept of public life inviting us to re-imagine who we are stuck with and how.

3 PM - 4:30 PM Panel 2 Presentation: De-socializing Social Art Practices, Views from Borderzones
--------------------4:30 PM - 5:00 PM Panel 2 Q & A / Discussion @ The Mexican Consulate, 1324 G. Ave., Douglas, AZ
This panel discussion will focus on refining ideas around de-socializing and intersections between social practice and border politics from Indigenous perspectives. Our question is how practices consciously looking at strategies of “de-socialization” might be sites of temporary sovereignty, a place from which the increasing militarization and politicization of the border can be addressed. Aligned with de-colonial discourses, de-socialization implies an awareness of social structures and expected behaviors and practices imposed and embodied by Indigenous people by dominant society. This panel asks how social space is created as well as how living in borderzones socializes us. For many Indigenous peoples, the border was not a fixed, clearly demarcated site, but a place of continual movement and flux, influenced by negotiation, consensus, and also conflict. During the formation of nation-states like Canada, United States, and Mexico, Indigenous territories were delineated (and radically reduced) in order to gain legitimacy relative to this new political context. Indigenous “borders” between territories are often sharply contested and overlapping, while those traversing reserves, reservations, and territorial boundaries daily may not realize that they are crossing borders at all. With this in mind, what potential do these other conceptions of borders, as well as the conscious and active creation of social spaces as practices of resistance to oppression offer in the context of the U.S./Mexico border?

5:00 - 6:00 PM @ The Mexican Consulate, 1324 G. Ave., Douglas, AZ -- Keynote by Roberto Bedoya: The Sovereignty of Context.

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM @ Highway 2 and Installation -- Repellent Fence walking tour in Aqua Prieta
Designated parking will be available
(For safety, please carry water, and wear your walking shoes with appropriate apparel for walking in the desert!)

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM @ E. Geronimo Trail and Apache Bird Rd./N. Bohmfalk Rd. -- Repellent Fence walking tour in Douglas
Important: Please park all vehicles at Airport Park, located at the SE Corner of N. La Cima Dr. and E. Geronimo Trail
Parking location is .86 miles from meeting area. Press can unload gear at the meeting site, but will have to park at designated parking
(For safety, please carry water, and wear your walking shoes with appropriate apparel for walking in the desert!)

Monday, October 12, 2015

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM @ Highway 2 and Installation -- Repellent Fence walking tour in Aqua Prieta
Designated parking will be available
(For safety, please carry water, and wear your walking shoes with appropriate apparel for walking in the desert!)

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM @ E. Geronimo Trail and Apache Bird Rd./N. Bohmfalk Rd. -- Repellent Fence walking tour in Douglas
Important: Please park all vehicles at Airport Park, located at the SE Corner of N. La Cima Dr. and E. Geronimo Trail
Parking location is .86 miles from meeting area. Press can unload gear at the meeting site, but will have to park at designated parking
(For safety, please carry water, and wear your walking shoes with appropriate apparel for walking in the desert!)

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM @ Highway 2 and Installation -- Repellent Fence walking tour in Aqua Prieta
Designated parking will be available
(For safety, please carry water, and wear your walking shoes with appropriate apparel for walking in the desert!)

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM @ E. Geronimo Trail and Apache Bird Rd./N. Bohmfalk Rd. -- Repellent Fence walking tour in Douglas
Important: Please park all vehicles at Airport Park, located at the SE Corner of N. La Cima Dr. and E. Geronimo Trail
Parking location is .86 miles from meeting area. Press can unload gear at the meeting site, but will have to park at designated parking
(For safety, please carry water, and wear your walking shoes with appropriate apparel for walking in the desert!)

Repellent Fence closes at nightfall

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