PENN AND PHILADELPHIA COMMUNITY: Register to volunteer now! Spaces available 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. on Monday and Tuesday, September 23 and 24, 2019.

Hostile Terrain 94 (HT94) is a global participatory political art project that memorializes and bears witness to the thousands of migrants who have died as a result of Prevention Through Deterrence, the U.S. immigration policy between Mexico and the United States. The project is sponsored and organized by the Undocumented Migration Project, a non-profit research-art-education-media collective directed by Jason De León, Professor of Anthropology and Chicana/o Studies at UCLA. The pop-up installation is a 20-foot long map of the Arizona/Mexico border populated with approximately 3200 handwritten toe tags containing information about those who have died while migrating.

In collaboration with the 2019–2020 Forum on Kinship at the Wolf Humanities Center, Penn Museum is host to one of HT94's eight prototype exhibitions in 2019. Those exhibitions will then culminate in the 2020 launch of Hostile Terrain 94 in approximately 150 locations around the world. As an activie community event at Penn, HT94 will be created by hundreds of volunteers across Penn and throughout the Philadelphia region. Those interested in participating sign up to handwrite on toe tags the name, age, sex, date, and cause of death, and other details for each of the approximately 3200 people whose bodies have been recovered along the Southern Arizona border since 2000. The tags are then be placed on a wall map of the Arizona/Mexico border in the exact location where corresponding human remains were found, to be on exhibition in Penn Museum September 25–27, 2019.

Cosponsored by Penn’s Department of Anthropology, Center for Experimental Ethnography, Cinema and Media Studies Program, Latin American and Latino Studies Program, Penn Provost, Price Lab for Digital Humanities, and Sachs Program for Arts Innovation.

For those volunteering on MONDAY, September 23:

• Because the Museum is closed on Mondays, volunteers should enter through the Group (Kress) Entrance of the Penn Museum (3260 South Street). The entrance is located next to the Penn Museum Parking Garage, near the corner of South St. and Convention Ave.
• Please show proof of registration to the Visitor Services staff at the Kress Desk.  Either your registraion or any communications from the Wolf Humanities Center can function as proof of registration. Members of the Penn community need only show their Penn cards.
• Volunteers will meet in Mosaic Hall on the 1st floor of the Museum.
• Volunteers will fill out toe tags in Mosaic Hall from 10 am – 5 pm. Advance registration is not required.

For those volunteering on TUESDAY, September 24:

• Volunteers may enter through the Main or Group (Kress) Entrance.
• Please show proof of registration to the Visitor Services staff to gain free admission to the Museum for volunteering. Either your registraion or any communications from the Wolf Humanities Center can function as proof of registration. Members of the Penn community need only show their Penn cards.
• Volunteers will meet in the Japan Gallery on the 3rd floor.
• Volunteers will fill out toe tags in the Japan Gallery from 10 am – 5 pm. Advance registration is not required.
• Volunteers can show proof of registration (or this email) for free admission to the Museum Tuesday–Friday to explore the Museum and to see the final installation of Hostile Terrain 94 (slated for completion on Wednesday).