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Crossing Over : A Floating Intervention
Crossing Over – A Floating Intervention
Art at the International Bridge
Brownsville, Texas and Matamoros, Mexico
May 24, 2009
Artist Susan Harbage Page sponsored by Galeria 409 of Brownsville, Texas held a community art intervention/happening using children's inner tubes to make a floating bridge between Mexico and the United States in protest of the border wall scheduled to be built in downtown Brownsville. Community members on both sides of the International Bridge between Brownsville, Texas and Matamoros, Mexico inflated inner tubes and tied them together end to end to form the bridge. Harbage Page swam a line of inner tubes to the middle of the Rio Grande from the Mexican side of the river where she was met by David Freeman with a line of inner tubes from the U.S. side.
Art at the International Bridge
Brownsville, Texas and Matamoros, Mexico
May 24, 2009
Artist Susan Harbage Page sponsored by Galeria 409 of Brownsville, Texas held a community art intervention/happening using children's inner tubes to make a floating bridge between Mexico and the United States in protest of the border wall scheduled to be built in downtown Brownsville. Community members on both sides of the International Bridge between Brownsville, Texas and Matamoros, Mexico inflated inner tubes and tied them together end to end to form the bridge. Harbage Page swam a line of inner tubes to the middle of the Rio Grande from the Mexican side of the river where she was met by David Freeman with a line of inner tubes from the U.S. side.
