BORDER TRIP tych / TRIP tico de la frontera - part 2 of the collaborative performance art project about an immigrant’s journey from El Salvador to the United States, includes a live performance by Secons y Mojados set in a gallery installation and a digital mural on an exterior wall of the gallery designed by Victor Cartagena. CROSSING The Mural, The Installation and A Live Perfomance The Performance: A BODY PARTED: Shrapnel of Present Time UN CUERPO PARTIDO: Esquirlas de tiempo presente Utopia/Nightmare: The American Dream - Installation Opening photos by Nora Reggio Digital Mural Mural by Victor Cartagena Presented as a world premiere, A Body Parted: Shrapnel of Present Time / Esquirlas de Tiempo Presente is Part II of the “Border (TRIP)tych” an interdisciplinary performance by San Francisco-based collective Secos & Mojados. The project is a visual narrative focused on a migrant’s journey as she leaves her home in Latin America and arrives in the United States searching for a better life and a A Body Parted examines the immigrant’s moment of crossing as she is compelled to leave her homeland in el Sur (the south). The process of being divided – by the landscape, memories, dreams, and a new life on the other side is the thrust of this 45 minute performance. A Body Parted features noted performance artist Violeta Luna, an original live score by David Molina, and is grounded in the multimedia installation Utopia/ Nightmare: The American Dream by Victor Cartagena, which will remain on view in MACLA's gallery through October 16. The piece is structured by Roberto Varea with dramaturgy by Antigone Trimis, and iincorporates audience participation. Secos & Mojados is a San Francisco based collective that focuses on exploring immigrant narratives through interdisciplinary performance. The collective derives its name from the effect that clandestine border crossings, particularly the most dangerous ones across deserts, rivers and seas, have on the body of the migrant. All members of the collective are immigrants, some with roots in two lands, some standing uprooted, all of them border-crossers, from Argentina, El Salvador, Greece and Mexico. This project is made possible in part by the following: The Creative Work Fund, a program of the Walter and Elise Haas Fund supported by generous grants from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the James Irvine Foundation. This is part II of the trilogy BORDER TRIP(tych) / TRIP(tico) de la frontera a project of Creative Capital. This activity is funded in part by the California Arts Council, a state agency, as well as the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. Secos y Mojados is a member of the Intersection Incubator, a program of Intersection for the Arts providing fiscal sponsorship, incubation and consulting services to artists. Visit www.theintersection.org. "A Body Parted was supported by CounterPULSE's Artist Commissioning Residency". Image Credits: Photographs by Nora Raggio.