This sound piece records the names of 2,487 of the estimated eight thousand people who have died while trying to cross the US/Mexico border since 1993. The research was done in the Spring of 2006, during a 3-month period. Sources: Coalición de Derechos Humanos / Alianza Indígena Sin Fronteras; Stop Border Deaths Now! A project of the Border Working Group, Religious Task Force on Central America and Mexico (WTFCAM); How Many More? Stop Gatekeeper! The California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation’s Border Project; Centro de Documentación del Centro de Estudios Fronterizos y de Promoción de los Derechos Humanos A. C. (CEFPRODHAC); Mexican and US newspapers. Artpace San Antonio originally commissioned 2487 as part of the International Artist-in-Residence program New Works: 06.2 curated by Yuko Hasegawa, Chief Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan. Sound recorded by Luz María Sánchez. Sound edited by Álvaro J. Gómez and Luz María Sánchez at Aurix Producción Digital, Guadalajara, Mexico. Max/MSP object developed with Guillermo Galindo. Web page Romain Ré. Acknowledgements José Luis Aguilera, Kate Bickert, Jennifer Davy, Janet L. Flohr, Guillermo Galindo, Glassford family, Cheryl Haines, Guy Hundere, Cristina King, Joe Meade, Jeremiah Moore, Gary Nichols, Chuck Ramirez [†], Romain Ré, and Riley Robinson.

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