6619, 03/05/2008, 3:32:35, archival inkjet print, 2008. All images courtesy of the artist.
Several historical moments, technological stages of development, and political agendas converge at Mount Livermore, which is located 50 miles from the US–Mexico border in far West Texas. It is a landmark for drug smugglers, undocumented workers, US Border Patrol trackers, scientists, and environmentalists. By exploring the continuously shifting figure-ground relations of this multivalent landscape, the series Slight Disturbances questions what constitutes viewpoint, wholeness of form, shape, and perceptual field.
4834, 08/31/2007, 10:32:51, archival inkjet print, 2007-8
5184, 09/01/2007, 4:21:53, archival inkjet print, 2008
This issue of First Proof is funded in part by the Bertha and Isaac Liberman Foundation and the Thanksgiving Foundation.
From Unnamed Road, 2010–15, a series of photographs taken in Israel and Palestine.
“We have to tell the truth in the image.”
Originally published in
Featuring interviews with Adam Bartos and A.M. Homes, Jacqueline Humphries, Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, Andrei Codrescu, Mary Gaitskill, Matthew Buckingham, and Pauline Oliveros.
How do I build a fugitive choreography, one that’s always in the process of escaping itself, then coming back to reaffirm itself, only to slide away again? The act of interpreting a choreography is made live by the performers, which is the invitation in my work.
Ligia Lewis
