Featuring dozens of compelling images, this transformative reading
of borderland and Mexican cultural production-from body art to
theater, photography, and architecture-draws on extensive primary
research to trace more than two decades of social and political
response in the aftermath of NAFTA. Honorable Mention, Humanities
Book Prize, Mexico Section of the Latin American Studies
Association, 2018 Honorable Mention, Arvey Foundation Book Award,
Association for Latin American Art, 2019 REMEX presents the first
comprehensive examination of artistic responses and contributions
to an era defined by the North American Free Trade Agreement
(1994-2008). Marshaling over a decade's worth of archival research,
interviews, and participant observation in Mexico City and the
Mexico-US borderlands, Amy Sara Carroll considers individual and
collective art practices, recasting NAFTA as the most fantastical
inter-American allegory of the turn of the millennium. Carroll
organizes her interpretations of performance, installation,
documentary film, built environment, and body, conceptual, and
Internet art around three key coordinates-City, Woman, and Border.
She links the rise of 1990s Mexico City art in the global market to
the period's consolidation of Mexico-US border art as a genre. She
then interrupts this transnational art history with a sustained
analysis of chilanga and Chicana artists' remapping of the figure
of Mexico as Woman. A tour de force that depicts a feedback loop of
art and public policy-what Carroll terms the "allegorical
performative"-REMEX adds context to the long-term effects of the
post-1968 intersection of D.F. performance and conceptualism,
centralizes women artists' embodied critiques of national and
global master narratives, and tracks post-1984 border art's
"undocumentation" of racialized and sexualized reconfigurations of
North American labor pools. The book's featured artwork becomes the
lens through which Carroll rereads a range of events and phenomenon
from California's Proposition 187 to Zapatismo, US immigration
policy, 9/11 (1973/2001), femicide in Ciudad Juarez, and Mexico's
war on drugs.
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