La Cadena de las Américas

La Cadena de las Américas is an intermedia installation that immerses the viewer in an aleatoric assemblage of unfixed possibilities, interlacing video dispatches collected from the Venezuelan diaspora with historical footage, field recordings, spatialized soundscapes, an e-waste “penetrable,” and hammocks. This work arises in the context of the largest displacement crisis in the history of the Americas, alongside the increasing vilification of migrants, a flood of hateful, xenophobic disinformation designed to alienate us from our American neighbors south of the border (for America is a continent, not a country). Cadena is a contrapuntal work that defines its own measures of distance, foregrounding interdependence - economic, sociopolitical and cultural - and framing authoritarianism and the asymmetric fractures and flows of migration through the lens of the contemporary Venezuelan experience.