The Guantanamo Bay Museum /// Ongoing
On August 29th, 2012, the Guantanamo Bay Museum of Art and History was opened to the public. The project operates as a critical fiction and experimental documentary form, asserting that the Guantanamo Bay detention facilities have been […]
A Future Memorial For NAFTA /// 2014
“A Future Memorial For NAFTA” was a performance and installation produced by a collective of artists and activists on January 1st, 2014, the 20th anniversary of the free trade agreement. Installed at the border fence […]
Bird Migration Authority /// 2013
The “EU Bird Migration Authority” is a fictional agency created while Ian Alan Paul was participating in an artist residency at the HomeSession project in Barcelona, Spain. The project acts as an investigation into the […]
Drone Crash Incident /// 2012
In December of 2012, the artists Ricardo Dominguez, Ian Alan Paul and Jane Stevens performed as researchers and consultants from the UC Center for Drone Policy and Ethics and simulated a “Drone Crash Incident” on […]
Border Haunt /// 2011
On July 15th, 2011, 667 people from 28 different countries participated in the online collective action “Border Haunt” that targeted the U.S.-Mexico border. Participants collected entries from a database that holds the names and descriptions of […]
I Love You, Be Safe /// 2010
In late 2009, a document containing all of the text messages that were sent in Manhattan on September 11th, 2001 were anonymously leaked to the public. The document, over 35,000 pages long, operates as a […]
Border Machines /// 2010
BorderMachines.net is the result of Ian Alan Paul’s MA thesis project at SFAI and was completed in May of 2011. This website looks to three contemporary artists working in border territories and seeks to establish a ground on […]
Domestic Violence /// 2008
For the Domestic Violence project, images that were taken during the Iraq war were collected and then projected onto suburban facades throughout California. The projections/interventions lasted 1 hour for each iteration. Photographs of the projections were then […]