The Transborder Immigrant Tool, through the 10 lences

Poetry, Immigration, and the FBI: The Transborder Immigrant Tool

“…activists break the law, while artists change the conversation theatrically, by disturbing the law.”

1. CONTEXT: What were the circumstances that framed the meaning and process of this project?

-The company researches the information about the immigrants and Mexican border, about the struggle during immigration and they created statistic based on their research. They used “aesthetic disturbance” to achieve their goal, to help people.

2. CONTENT: What was the issue, need, idea or opportunity addressed by this project?

-Providing the useful tool to the hopeless immigrants in order to cross the Mexican border safely. Helping tired immigrants to reach the water in the desert.

3: FORM: What is the medium that was used to address or embody the content?

-Mobile phone technology that provides poetry.

4. STAKEHOLDERS: Which are the groups or individuals that were invested in the project?

-Electronic Disturbance Theater (EDT) 2.0./b.a.n.g. lab; Mexican immigrants, TBT; fundraisers, NGO’s, Latin American community, artists, and activists.

5. AUDIENCE: For whom was this project conceived? 

-Not clearly defined but I think the audience are also participants = the immigrants

6. ENGAGEMENT STRATEGIES: How were the stakeholders, audiences, and others engaged/connected to the project?

-It is very hard to answer this questions. It seems to me that stakeholders even didn’t know what was the purpose and that they are a part of the “art project”.

7. GOAL: What are this project's objectives?

Helping immigrants, and helping minorities in this society.

8. VALUES: What were the project's guiding values or core beliefs? How were they expressed in the process?

Breaking a law in order to help someone is fine J and it was not very well expressed I guess because they were in the trouble.

It was very controversial when it came out because they somehow broke a law. However, the company member expressed ideas clearly at the beginning of the project. At least they said that in this article. I haven’t seen their proposal and I was curious to see how the project was written.

9. RESOURCES: What tangible and intangible resources were used to pursue the project's goals?

-Funds; imagination, phones, the immigrants

10: OUTCOMES: What were the results of this project? 

The issue with the law. It is not clear what was happening with the immigrants after. I found this article very confusing and I am not very sure that I could fully engage with this article. I wish that we had more info about this project or somehow introduction.