Martín Rodríguez

In Search of Aztlan...
09.08–10.08.2022

In Search of Aztlan… (2019) is an intervention-based work following the Chicanx artist Martín Rodríguez as he explores the territory around his childhood home, investigating how borders, both physical and psychological, shape our individual and collective identities, and in doing so, cracking a window into the US/MX border. The recording featured in CLARK’s Poste audio is from Rodriguez’s initial radio investigations. The artist followed the migrant paths of the Sonoran desert, utilising a cassette deck radio, a crystal radio and an experimental radio antenna that fuses the Mexican folk craft known as an Ojo de Dios (God’s eye) with a traditional loop antenna. By merging audio recordings of various freely migrating radio signals along with field recordings, In Search of Aztlan… explores the ability for sound to embody the presence of human-made borders, and the identities of those who exist along their margins.