This presentation examines how both visual and aural artistic works that disclose the experience of perilous border crossings present us with the possibility of aesthetic unsettlement. Through aesthetic unsettlement, a possibility is opened for a perceiver to alter ready-made reactions, understandings, and interpretations of border-crossers as well as of the experience of border-crossing itself.

Mariana Ortega is author of In-Between:  Latina Feminist Phenomenology, Multiplicity, and the Self (SUNY, 2016).  She is co-editor of Theories of the Flesh, Latinx and Latin American Feminisms, Transformation and Resistance (Oxford University Press, 2020) and Constructing the Nation:  A Race and Nationalism Reader (SUNY, 2009).  Her new monograph, Carnal Aesthetics, The Art of Living in Latinidad is forthcoming with Duke University Press.

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