Customizing Language

Customizing Language critically examines how language reflects geopolitical realities. The project approaches language as a tool to reflect power relations, hierarchies, social differences, and historical problems, as well as a cultural system of belonging that can indicate the loss or reconfiguration of certain kinds of identities. The participating artists engage local and historical issues by using experimental language to create a dialogue with the audience, exploring issues of “custom” as cultural tradition, U.S. Customs as an immigration agency, and lowrider customization in popular culture.

Exhibiting artists include APT artists: Alexander Apóstol, Regina José Galindo, Camilo Ontiveros, Luis G. Hernández, Marcos Ramírez ERRE and Mely Barragán, Beatriz Cortez,  Rubén Ortiz-Torres, Gala Porras-Kim,  Clarissa Tossin.