• #XMAP: In Plain Sight

  • 2020

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Grant Summary
Fellowship.
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Artist Statement
In Plain Sight is a coalition (co-founded by Cassils and rafa esparza) of 80 artists united to create an artwork dedicated to the abolition of immigrant detention and the United States culture of incarceration. A highly orchestrated mediagenic spectacle and poetic action, this project is conceived in five parts -- a poetic elegy enacted on a national scale, an interactive website, an anthology docuseries, accessible actions for the public to take to join the movement against immigrant detention, and cultural partnerships producing arts-related education and engagement.

  • NO CAGES NO JAULAS , Beatriz Cortez, Los Angeles - Immigration Court Performance Still: Dee Gonzalez, July 3, 2020. Part of In Plain Sight a coalition of 80 artists fighting immigrant detention and the culture of incarceration conceived of by Cassils and rafa esparza. Courtesy of In Plain Sight.

  • STOP CRIMMIGRATION NOW , Bamby Salcedo, LA Field Office Performance Still: David McNew July 3, 2020. Part of In Plain Sight a coalition of 80 artists fighting immigrant detention and the culture of incarceration conceived of by Cassils and rafa esparza. Courtesy of In Plain Sight.

  • CHINGA TU MIGRA , Yosimar Reys, LA Metropolitan Jail Performance Still: Dee Gonzalez, July 3, 2020. Part of In Plain Sight a coalition of 80 artists fighting immigrant detention and the culture of incarceration conceived of by Cassils and rafa esparza. Courtesy of In Plain Sight.

  • AZADI (Azadi means Freedom in Urdu, Farsi, Hindi, Kurdish, Pashto, Azeri, Balochi, Armenian, Kurdish, Punjabi, Bengali, and Kashmiri, amongst others) , Arshia Fatima Haq, Orange County Intake & Release Performance Still: Labkhand Olfatm, July 3, 2020. Part of In Plain Sight a coalition of 80 artists fighting immigrant detention and the culture of incarceration conceived of by Cassils and rafa esparza. Courtesy of In Plain Sight.

  • SHAME #DEFUNDHATE , Cassils, Geo Group West Coast Headquarters Performance Still: Robin Black, July 3, 2020. Part of In Plain Sight a coalition of 80 artists fighting immigrant detention and the culture of incarceration conceived of by Cassils and rafa esparza. Courtesy of In Plain Sight.