Susan Harbage Page

Gingerbread Borderland: HAPPY HOLIDAYS 2018

Susan Harbage Page – https://susanharbagepage.com/

Gingerbread, Icing, Candy

Gingerbread Borderland is a recreation of the U.S.–Mexico Border in Brownville, Texas and Matamoros, Mexico in the Rio Grande Valley. It depicts the Rio Grande which marks the actual borderline, the border fence running beside it, and the Gateway International Bridge in the Brownsville,Texas area. The objects in the scene all have particular meaning and are things I have photographed, and seen as I have walked, canoed, and ridden bikes in the border area since 2007. The intent of this work is to build awareness of the harrowing risks that immigrants take as they work to enter the U.S. and build better lives for their families in the U.S.

A couple of installation images from the exhibition Repeat After Me that opened Friday evening. These are small photographs of some of the circa 1,000 objects in the Anti-Archive of Trauma on the U.S.–Mexico Border. They are all objects left behind by immigrants and refugees along the banks of the Rio Grande in Texas. They include a backpack, eye shadow, a University of Texas Longhorns basketball jersey, a detention center bracelet and women's underwear among other objects.

Enjoyed seeing all the great art by UNC art undergraduates on Friday as I helped jury the Kachergis Awards with Andy Berner and JJ Bauer. Congrats to the winners.

A few images from the Erasing the Border Performance and Sound Piece at the University of Quebec, Montreal "Borders and Border Walls, A New Era?" conference on September 27.

Harbage Page's research methods are conceptual and experiential, grounded in her early studies of visual art, photography, experimental or "New"music, and feminist history and activism.

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REPEAT AFTER ME

Electro Studio Project Space,

St Leonards-on-Sea, TN38 0QE. 

November 10 &11 and 17 & 18 November 2018

Delighted to be a part of this exhibition opening on November 10 in England

The war to end all wars that wasn't. WW1. The supposed dawn of a peaceful age foreshadowed instead a century of repeated conflict; global migration; technology; memory; megalomaniacs; murderers; mercenaries and money makers.

Thanks to the Nasher Museum of Art for using my image from the U.S. – Mexico Border Project for their publicity in the Oxford American for two great shows.  Hope you can make it to the opening in Durham on October 6.

Walked over to the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University yesterday and was delighted to see my photograph of an argyle sock left behind on the US–Mexico Border that will be in the upcoming exhibition "Across County Lines: Contemporary Photography from the Piedmont" in their fall brochure.

Now more than ever we have to pay attention to what is happening on our borders—who is being traumatized, who is making money from the hardening of our borders, and who is being criminalized.

Erasing the Border, Susan Harbage Page

2018 Performances:

April 5, Preview Party, Feminine Spectrum exhibition, Visual Arts Exchange, Raleigh, NC

April 23, META Conference, Black Mountain College, NC (at Camp Rockmont, the space of John Cage’s 1948 “happening”)

May 10, Performance Evening, Feminine Spectrum exhibition, Visual Arts Exchange, Raleigh, NC.