A Feigned Translucence

Situated at the intersection of two nations, embedded in a mountainside and televised across the US, Sun Bowl Stadium in El Paso,Texas demonstrates the role of architecture in the political economy of representation.The hills that compose the stadium and its televisual image are part building, landscape, and media apparatus. A Feigned Translucence builds on this hybridity to challenge the discrepancy in social, political, and economic agency the US/Mexico border creates as well as the imaginations of sovereignty and capital circulation embedded in who/what is (in)visible from the stadium, to whom it is visible, and to what end.

https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.AMP.105.59

Volume Editors
Luis Francisco Rico-Gutierrez & Martha Thorne

ISBN
978-1-944214-07-4