the UC San Diego Department of Theatre + Dance presents: 

WHAT DOES A LANDSCAPE SAY?

a dance thesis by Melissa Cisneros MFA '22

PERFORMANCE DATES

Thursday March 10, from 12:00pm to 5:00pm 

GUEST LECTURE @ 1:00pm 

Borderline Unsustainable: Capitalism, Nationalism, and Environmental Management at the Tijuana-San Diego Divide

A conversation with Kevan Malone, PhD Candidate, Department of History, UC San Diego

PERFORMANCE / Activation @ 3:00pm

Eric Geiger & Melissa Cisneros 

Friday March 11, from 12:00pm to 4:00pm

GUEST LECTURE @ 1:00pm

BORDER LANDSCAPES: from territorial materiality to embodiments of space

A conversation with Fátima Khayar Cámara, PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology, UC San Diego

PERFORMANCE @ 3:00pm

Eric Geiger & Melissa Cisneros 

Saturday March 12, from 1:00pm to 5:00 pm 

PERFORMANCE @ 4:00pm

Eric Geiger & Melissa Cisneros 

VENUE

Visual Arts Main Gallery
252 Russell In
La Jolla, CA 92093, USA

DESCRIPTION

Since winter of 2021, we have been working on establishing an experiential practice at the Tijuana River Estuary near the San Ysidro-Tijuana border. Together, we are engaging with this geopolitically charged environment through different gestures that help us understand and sense this space from within. The exhibition shares part of the project’s process through archival material in the mediums of video, sound, photography, and movement, and informed by the guest lectures.