Hostile Terrain 94 (HT94) is a participatory art project sponsored and organized by the Undocumented Migration Project (UMP), a nonprofit research-arts-education collective, directed by anthropologist Jason De León. The exhibition is composed of over 4,000 handwritten toe tags that represent migrants who have died trying to cross the Sonoran Desert of Arizona between the mid-1990s and 2024. These tags are geolocated on a wall map of the desert showing the exact locations where remains were found.
Sound representation for Hostile Terrain'94. Six channel installation run by a Max MSP patch using the data of 3,400 toe tags that represent migrants who have died trying to cross the Sonoran Desert of Arizona between the mid-1990s and 2022 and free course field recordings from different part of the area.
This installation has been shown in a group exhibition at Amare, Den Hague.
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