HOSTILE TERRAIN 94

Pop-up Exhibition Hosted by Penn Museum

Hostile Terrain 94 is a participatory political art project sponsored and organized by the Undocumented Migration Project based at UCLA. The project memorializes and bears witness to the thousands of migrants who have died as a result of Prevention Through Deterrence, the U.S. immigration policy between Mexico and the United States. The pop-up installation at Penn Museum—to be on display September 25th for one day only—will be created by hundreds of people throughout Penn and Philadelphia. Volunteers will meet at various locations to handwrite on toe tags the identifying details of the nearly 3200 people whose bodies have been recovered along the Southern Arizona border since 2000. The time commitment is 30 minutes.
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The tags are then be placed on a wall map of the Arizona/Mexico border in the exact location where corresponding human remains were found, to be on exhibition in Penn Museum September 25–27, 2019.
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The event is cosponsored by Penn’s Department of Anthropology, Center for Experimental Ethnography, Cinema and Media Studies Program, Latin American and Latino Studies Program, Penn Provost, Price Lab for Digital Humanities, and Sachs Program for Arts Innovation. ​

The Hostile Terrain 94 team discusses the installation at the Penn Museum

For those volunteering on MONDAY, September 23:

• Because the Museum is closed on Mondays, volunteers should enter through the Group (Kress) Entrance of the Penn Museum (3260 South Street). The entrance is located next to the Penn Museum Parking Garage, near the corner of South St. and Convention Ave.
• Please show proof of registration to the Visitor Services staff at the Kress Desk.  Either your registraion or any communications from the Wolf Humanities Center can function as proof of registration. Members of the Penn community need only show their Penn cards.
• Volunteers will meet in Mosaic Hall on the 1st floor of the Museum.
• Volunteers will fill out toe tags in Mosaic Hall from 10 am – 5 pm. Advance registration is not required.

For those volunteering on TUESDAY, September 24:

• Volunteers may enter through the Main or Group (Kress) Entrance.
• Please show proof of registration to the Visitor Services staff to gain free admission to the Museum for volunteering. Either your registraion or any communications from the Wolf Humanities Center can function as proof of registration. Members of the Penn community need only show their Penn cards.
• Volunteers will meet in the Japan Gallery on the 3rd floor.
• Volunteers will fill out toe tags in the Japan Gallery from 10 am – 5 pm. Advance registration is not required.
• Volunteers can show proof of registration (or this email) for free admission to the Museum Tuesday–Friday to explore the Museum and to see the final installation of Hostile Terrain 94 (slated for completion on Wednesday).