Continental

MEXUS

MEXUS is a visualization of the continental border region without the jurisdictional line, presented instead as a bioregion comprised of eight watershed systems shared by Mexico and the United States. By unwalling this thickened system of interdependencies, MEXUS provokes a pragmatic idea of citizenship based on coexistence, shared assets and cooperative opportunities across divided communities. MEXUS visualizes the conditions that a physical barrier wall along the political border cannot contain: watersheds, indigenous lands, ecological corridors and migratory patterns. This unrecognized geography of interdependence invites us to visualize the disruption that a jurisdictional border inflicts on the continental environmental commons.

MEXUS: A Geography of Interdependence was exhibited in Dimensions of Citizenship, in the US Pavilion at 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale.