Join Border/Arte and artist-researchers for a 5-day investigation with Cristina Tohono to learn with Tohono O'odham culture bearers about cultural relationships to water, land, migration, as well as pressing political issues regarding borders, mining, and migration.
This trip is part of Border/Arte's DELTA project, which focuses on water, borders, and land in the Colorado River Delta. DELTA works with cultural workers and artists to establish public dialogues and engagements of social concern as a means of base-building and resource redistribution.
FEB 19 - 23, 2025: Cultural Histories of the Rio del Colorado
Day 1: Yuma / Somerton with Cucapah leaders
Day 2: Mexicali / History of Chinese in Mexicali, Planta Libre, Centro Cultural de Mexicali, El Sitio
Day 3: El Ejido Cucapah Mayor y El Museo de Cucapah
Day 4: El Doctor e El Delta del Rio Colorado
Day 5: Cucapah Language School en San Luis del Rio Colorado
November 13 - 18, 2024: El Pinacate & Campo La Salina
The artist-research trip begins in El Pinacate desert, volcanic landforms provide an exceptional combination of features of great scientific interest. The vast sea of sand dunes that surrounds the volcanic shield is considered the largest and most active dune system in North America. It includes a diverse range of dunes that are nearly undisturbed, and include spectacular and very large star-shaped dunes that occur both singly and in long ridges up to 48km in length. The volcanic exposures provide important complementary geological values, and the desert environment assures a dramatic display of a series of impressive large craters and more than 400 cinder cones, lava flows, and lava tubes. Taken together the combination of earth science features is an impressive laboratory for geological and geomorphological studies.
Two hours from Pinacate, we will drive to Bahia del Adair and Campo La Salina. The Campo is a natural salt lagoon that carries great importance for the Tohono O'odham people, serving as a sacred pilgrimage site. This silver-blue lagoon is situated apart from the Sea of Cortez by a narrow sandbar. Its formation is attributed to the Colorado River channels flowing beneath the delta. Currently, there are illegal mining corporations extracting resources from the lagoon, prompting members of the Tohono O'odham Nation to protest and take action against this unlawful encroachment.
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This trip is part of Border/Arte's DELTA project, which focuses on water, borders, and land in the Colorado River Delta. DELTA works with cultural workers and artists to establish public dialogues and engagements of social concern as a means of base-building and resource redistribution.
FEB 19 - 23, 2025: Cultural Histories of the Rio del Colorado
Day 1: Yuma / Somerton with Cucapah leaders
Day 2: Mexicali / History of Chinese in Mexicali, Planta Libre, Centro Cultural de Mexicali, El Sitio
Day 3: El Ejido Cucapah Mayor y El Museo de Cucapah
Day 4: El Doctor e El Delta del Rio Colorado
Day 5: Cucapah Language School en San Luis del Rio Colorado
November 13 - 18, 2024: El Pinacate & Campo La Salina
The artist-research trip begins in El Pinacate desert, volcanic landforms provide an exceptional combination of features of great scientific interest. The vast sea of sand dunes that surrounds the volcanic shield is considered the largest and most active dune system in North America. It includes a diverse range of dunes that are nearly undisturbed, and include spectacular and very large star-shaped dunes that occur both singly and in long ridges up to 48km in length. The volcanic exposures provide important complementary geological values, and the desert environment assures a dramatic display of a series of impressive large craters and more than 400 cinder cones, lava flows, and lava tubes. Taken together the combination of earth science features is an impressive laboratory for geological and geomorphological studies.
Two hours from Pinacate, we will drive to Bahia del Adair and Campo La Salina. The Campo is a natural salt lagoon that carries great importance for the Tohono O'odham people, serving as a sacred pilgrimage site. This silver-blue lagoon is situated apart from the Sea of Cortez by a narrow sandbar. Its formation is attributed to the Colorado River channels flowing beneath the delta. Currently, there are illegal mining corporations extracting resources from the lagoon, prompting members of the Tohono O'odham Nation to protest and take action against this unlawful encroachment.
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