On Thursday April 6 at 7:30 pm in LA 120, No más muertes / No More Death & Latin American Studies presents as part of the Immigration Awareness Series . . .
Artist and professor Susan Harbage Page — “Objects from the Borderlands and NonBelonging.”
For ten years, artist Susan Harbage Page has made annual pilgrimages to traverse the borderlands between Texas and Mexico from Brownsville/Matamoros to Eagle Pass, Texas in the Rio Grande Valley. As Page walks, she makes photos of the objects people have left behind and archives them, assembling a collection of 867 to date.
This “anti-archive” challenges the historical record and complicates our notion of archival collections and how we create memory. Page’s documentary endeavor also concretizes the borderlands, a contested space that lives large in people’s imaginations on either side.
Susan Harbage Page is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is also a fellow at the Institute for Arts and Humanities at UNC.