Hostile Terrain 94 (HT94) is a participatory art project sponsored and organized by the Undocumented Migration Project (UMP), a non-profit research-art-education-media collective directed by anthropologist Jason De León. The exhibition is composed of over 3,200 handwritten toe tags that represent migrants who have died trying to cross the Sonoran Desert of Arizona between the mid-1990s and 2019. These tags are geolocated on a wall map of the desert showing the exact locations where remains were found. This installation will simultaneously take place at a large number of institutions, both nationally and globally.
Students, faculty, staff, and community members are invited to participate in the Hostile Terrain 94 pop-up art exhibition. Stop by our table to fill out one or more toe tags of both identified (manila-colored toe tags) and unidentified migrants (orange-colored toe tags). This event is hosted by the Center for the Humanities at Temple.
Please contact chat@temple.edu with questions.
Dates for HT94 Tables:
- Monday, April 3: 11:00am–1:30pm Mazur Hall Lobby
- Tuesday, April 4: 11:00am–1:30pm Gladfelter Hall Lobby
- Monday, April 10: 11:00am–1:45pm Mazur Hall Lobby
- Wednesday, April 12: 10:00am–12:15pm Mazur Hall Lobby
- Thursday, April 13: 11:00am–1:45pm Gladfelter Hall Lobby
- Tuesday, April 18: 12:30pm–3:15pm Gladfelter Hall Lobby
- Wednesday, April 26: 1:00pm–3:45pm Gladfelter Hall Lobby
- Thursday, April 27: 1:00pm–3:45pm Mazur Hall Lobby