Investigation #3: A Tangle of Trajectories
Crossing the border into the US is not just risky; it is inhumane. Migrants and refugees cross into a tangle of brutalities and uncertainties; such as the psychological and physical discomforts and obtrusions of ankle monitors, forced upon migrants by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Through a tangle of sounds, the following piece engages with knowledge as always provisional. What we know always changes. It includes portions from my first interview with Maria Chavalan Sut, a Mayan Kaqchikel refugee and activist, and with whom I continue to experience as an extraordinary force. Rather than immediately define the meaning of our relationship, and the direction our relationship should take, in the traditional mode of scholarly certainty and resolution, I explore what it would sound like if I stayed in a space of intense fascination and confusion; of layered knowns and unknowns.