About us
Miranda Harris-Martínez
As an Ecuadorian-American, Miranda has found herself engaging artistically and politically at the point where her Latinidad and privilege meet: the U.S.-Mexico border. Though she studied Biology at Macalester College, she is drawn to challenging dominant narratives in the natural and social sciences through artistic mediums.
As a dancer, her current work focuses on the ways movement can bridge gaps in learning and serve as a common language between different academic disciplines. She looks up to the work of artists in the El Paso/Juárez region who consistently use their practice as a means of constructing solidarity across social, psychological, and physical borders.
Mike Curran
Born and raised in Portland, ME, Mike relocated to the Twin Cities in 2014 to attend Macalester College, where he studied Geography and Urban Studies. That course of study has led to a deep interest in understanding how community and landscape is imagined, chosen, and shaped, from the neighborhood to the national level.
Influenced by his upbringing in the northern borderlands of the United States, his current academic work involves interrogating how the U.S.-Canada and U.S.-México borders are constructed as two very distinct imagined landscapes by national media sources, with immigration represented very differently through both borders. That project stems from the conversations with artists featured in this documentary.
As a white man and a millennial working and making art at this particular moment, Mike is concerned with the way that art is currently being consumed and how creative production intersects with gentrification and appropriation. His recent projects are concerned with questioning ideologies that often go unchallenged by himself and those who share his identity, and are meant to slow down this process of production and consumption to allow for the creation of works that can be chewed on, reflected upon, and spark deeper conversation.
