Abstract This paper discusses how the visual arts engage in representing border crossing experiences and, more specifically, how art interrupts border security practices and their rituals. After introducing the history of North American border art and different approaches to issues of border crossing, the paper will concentrate on specific works. It argues that the selected works of art perform interventions that confront the public with the borderlands as a place of violence and death. At the same time, artists are shown to employ different artistic strategies of symbolically re-possessing the borderlands for undocumented migrants who – when crossing it – experienced it as an existential obstacle.

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收回边界空间：北美边界艺术中的安全实践

摘要本文讨论了视觉艺术如何参与代表过境经历，更具体地讲，艺术是如何打断边境安全实践及其仪式的。在介绍了北美边界艺术的历史和解决边界问题的不同方法之后，本文将重点介绍具体作品。它认为，选定的艺术品所进行的干预是使公众与边境地区面对暴力和死亡的场所。同时，艺术家被展示出采用不同的艺术策略，象征性地重新占领了无证移民的边境，这些移民在穿越边境时将其视为存在的障碍。