Cosmonaut
In 2007 Felipe Zuñiga staged a performance at the border crossing between Mexico and the United States. He was inspired by a mural of a ’space landscape’ painted on the highway wall as you approach by car the US border in Tijuana. Wearing a space suit he walks toward the border as an explorer seeking the land of the unknown. With the displacement of the suit, he confronts ideas of hostile and unliveable territories that might await him on the other side.
The video work adds other levels to the performance and crosses three coordinates in space and time. Firstly, the representation seeking of new lands in front of the mural; second, the actual border crossing in Tijuana, and third, the mediated space of a television news show imposing another reading to the performance afterwards. (6 minutes in loop.)