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*Due to ongoing COVID-19 related public health concerns,  viewings of Hostile Terrain 94 Nebraska will be by appointment and limited to small groups of 5 people or fewer. Please email peter@amplifyarts.org, or register through Eventbrite. Face masks are required.

Amplify Arts is pleased to join the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Hostile Terrain 94 organizing committee and the Office of Latino/Latin American Studies (OLLAS) at the University of Nebraska-Omaha to co-host Hostile Terrain 94 Nebraska, an exhibit about the humanitarian crisis at the US-Mexico border and how it connects with Nebraska stories and communities, at Amplify’s Generator Space.

Directed by UCLA anthropologist Jason De León, Hostile Terrain 94 (HT94) is a participatory art project sponsored and organized by the Undocumented Migration Project (UMP), a non-profit research-art-education- media collective. The exhibition is composed of ~3,200 handwritten toe tags that represent migrants who have died trying to cross the Sonoran Desert of Arizona between the mid-1990s and 2019.

During a series of Witnessing and Remembrance Workshops, volunteers inscribed the names of those who lost their lives on toe-tags that collectively bear witness to the humanitarian crisis at our border. This process infuses each hand-written tag with an embodied physical connection that moves beyond data on a sheet of paper or dots on a map to memorialize migrants who have died. In the exhibition space, these tags are geolocated on a quilted wall "map" of the desert showing the exact locations where remains were found, in a gesture of solidarity and solace.

Follow Hostile Terrain 94 Nebraska’s Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram accounts for additional updates and information, and see go.unl.edu/ht94 to access related programming.

Photo: Adria Sanchez-Chaidez
UNL City Campus Union, The Crib