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A Border Wall of Piñatas Brings a Community Together
11/2/2016 | 3m 55sVideo has Closed Captions
Artist Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik installed hundreds of handmade brick-shaped piñata.
During the Trump administration, artist Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik installed hundreds of handmade brick-shaped piñata assembled to mimic the border wall between the United States and Mexico in a collaborative cross-cultural project realized by countless artists, makers, and community members.
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Represent is a local public television program presented by KQED
Represent
A Border Wall of Piñatas Brings a Community Together
11/2/2016 | 3m 55sVideo has Closed Captions
During the Trump administration, artist Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik installed hundreds of handmade brick-shaped piñata assembled to mimic the border wall between the United States and Mexico in a collaborative cross-cultural project realized by countless artists, makers, and community members.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipEven though it's this fake wall, it's like the feelings around it are real.
-When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best.
We will build a great wall along the Southern border, and Mexico will pay for the wall.
Trump has proposed a border wall a thousand miles long.
The highest he ever said it would be was 55 feet tall.
So imagine a five-story building.
As artists, even in a symbolic way, how can we creatively respond.
All of us make things that aren't meant to exist for a very long time.
We are going to go on this side of the wall to take a picture.
Practices that we've done as a form of cultural survival.
So this is made by the Little Piñata Maker.
He made the scale model of the wall.
This is Trump's height at six foot two (inches) and a 55-foot wall he is proposing to build.
-What I love about this exhibition is .. we're taking the craft of piñata and bringing more visibility to how grand this idea is, how absurd this idea is.
I've been making little piñatas for about 13 years now.
And when I create my little piñatas it's always in memory of growing up in a big family of 12 kids and having piñatas at every birthday party.
-When you hit the wall, you want to aim for the part in between the cables and that'll get the most, like bam!
-The piñata exists only to be destroyed And in a couple weeks, folks will be invited to smash the wall, smash the border.
For a lot of us, that are collaborating on the show, in some way the magic has already happened.
# We who believe in freedom cannot rest ... -This idea of something that's trying to separate us and divide us, has actually brought us together.
# We who believe in freedom cannot rest until it's found.
- It really does feel like this wall kind took on a life of its own.
This is called a guajolota, it's a common food in Mexico City.
So it's a tamal and it's inside of a piece of bread, so it's really like one of those filling foods of labor that would propel your work through the, the course of the day.
Awww.
We're getting serious with this border smashing!
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