SATURDAY, 17 NOVEMBER

The Front at Casa Familiar

147 West San Ysidro Boulevard
San Ysidro, California 92173

10:00 AM

Intervention: Fences + Food
As a community-based non-profit organization, Casa Familiar engages in cultural, social, and urban activism at the US / México border, generating the material for collaborative and interventionist art works. Casa's recently inaugurated neighborhood center confronts the border in the neighborhood of San Ysidro: The Front is the site of an intervention involving two collaborative urban practices.

Tercerunquinto
Gabriel Cázares Salas, Julio Castro Carreón, Rolando Flores Tovar, Monterrey + México City

Torolab
Raúl Cárdenas, Tijuana

Moderators
Jennifer Flores Sternad, Art Critic and Curator; MA Candidate, Art History Department, UCLA

Felipe Zuñiga, Visual Artist and Art Facilitator; MFA Candidate, Visual Arts Department, UCSD

Tacos: Food for Thought

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Tijuana Border Checkpoint

1:00 PM

Southbound Border Crossing Participants will cross the border on foot with the general public, passing through the world’s busiest checkpoint and witnessing the manifold contradictions that fracture the natural and political territory of the border zone. Our border crossing will be amplified by a bus ride along the Tijuana River, taking us deep into the city's sprawling expanse of informal residential settlements, maquiladora factories, and miniature simulations of American-style suburban housing developments.

with Teddy Cruz, Architect + Associate Professor, Visual Arts Department, University of California, San Diego

Oscar Romo, Coastal Training Program Coordinator, Tijuana River National Estuarine Research Reserve

Centro Cultural Tijuana (CECUT)

Avenida Paseo de los Heroes
Tijuana, Baja California 22320

5:00 PM

Lecture by Gilles Clément:
The Third Landscape and its Share in the Planetary Garden
Clément’s theoretical project has evolved from his principle of the jardin en mouvement or dynamic gardening, to the broader notion of the jardin planetaire or planetary garden, to his political project on the potential of the fragment or spatial leftover to become a refuge for biodiversity: Clément’s Manifeste du Tiers paysage, or Manifesto on the Third Landscape (2004, forthcoming in English), is the basis for a preliminary survey and analysis of Third Landscape sites in the border zone along the Tijuana River.

Gilles Clément
Landscape Architect + Gardener, Paris + La Vallée, France; Professor, École nationale supérieure du paysage, Versailles

Respondent
Lesley Stern, Professor of Visual Arts + Chair, Visual Arts Department, UCSD

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8:00 PM

Conversation:
From Tijuana to the World
Political Equator II concludes at CECUT with a forum for discussion and reflection in which observations on the US / México border dividing San Diego and Tijuana will be refracted in light of territorial phenomena and practices characterizing border zones around the world.

John Palmesino
Architect + Principal of Territorial Agency, Basel, Switzerland; Co-founder of Multiplicity, Milan

Kyong Park
Associate Professor, Visual Arts Department, University of California, San Diego

Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss
Lecturer at University of Pennsylvania and found of Normal Architecture Office (NAO)

Moderators

Lieven de Cauter, Philosopher + Author of Capsular Civilization, Brussels

Markus Miessen, Architect + Co-editor of Did Someone Say Participate?, London

The Boredom Patrol