Fragments of Migration
Monica Enriquez-Enriquez
Digital Arts and New Media MFA Thesis
Installation Source Video
fragments of migration is a Spanish-English video installation that
incorporates audio interviews with four transgender women from Mexico and one
lesbian from El Salvador involved in the asylum process. Three screens with rear
projection serve as dislocated frames that show representations of loss, asylum
and institutional violence through interactive engagement with the audience. The
audio is constantly playing but the screens are not inhabited by video and only
"perform" when an audience member “stands nearby.” Trinh T. Minh-ha’s quote:
“I do not intend to speak [for the other], just speak nearby” is offered in the center
screen as an invitation to “stand nearby” the screens in order to be able to
experience the video that accompanies the audio.