Una serie de intervenciones de ciencia ficción en la garita de San Ysidro.

1. Rojo. 1.
DESDE AQUÍ SE VE EL FUTURO
YOUCANSEETHEFUTUREFROMHERE
was a series of science fiction based interven-
tions made during a two month period on the
San Ysidro border crossing. Two hundred art-
ists, mostly students, collaborated with images,
artwork, dance, theatre and conceptual perfor-
mances, installations, short stories, and read-
ings in a collective imagination exercise of the
near future. We even had a short wave radio
station for the cars waiting to cross the border.
On the following pages you’ll see highlights
of the 10 interventions, which ended with in-
ternational conferences by leading writers of
the field, including Bruce Sterling and Chris
Brown from the US, and Bernardo Fernández,
Gerardo Porcayo and Gabriel Trujillo from
Mexico.

2. Rojo. 2.
LA PROCESIÓN DE SANTA STE-LA.
Saint Ste-lla’s Procession.
We created a saint from the near-future, a clone who was able to conceive a child,
called Saint Stel-la. Our lady of the different faces protects you from technologi-
cally-induced problems, like growing three nipples thanks to fecundity drugs, or
being fired because your prosthetics are outdated for ma-
quila work. We made several images, wrote down her story
on a booklet, made prayer books, painted ex-votos praising
her miracles and marched from downtown Tijuana to the
borderline, where we mounted an altar. People approached
us asking for our temple’s address, some followed us for
several blocks. Some even wanted to be baptized. We end-
ed up calling our interventions “experiential fiction” (after
Stuart Candy’s “experiential futures”).

3. Rojo. 3.
TIJUANA’S LIBERATION FRONT
FRENTE DE LIBERACIÓN DE TIJUANA
De-evolve now!
The future needs to be imagined.
Stop clone breeding.
Experimental city.
We created an imaginary organization, the Frente de Liber-
ación de Tijuana, through which we made technological-re-
lated demands from alternate futures, trying to highlight the
radical character of our city. We pasted up posters and gave
away stickers.
“El Arco” is a 12-page tabloid newspaper from the year 2043 freely dis-
tributed on the borderline crossing at San Ysidro. It’s headline states:
“BORDER CLOSED”. Upon closer reading, you could find Tijuana was
closing the border due to the deluge of refugees coming in after an air
attack on San Diego and the Free States of North America Army’s im-
minent invasion. Tijuana was split in two zones after independence
from Mexico. One of the zones was controlled by the Frente de Liber-
ación de Tijuana, publishers of the newspaper, fighting to re-open the
border.

4. Rojo. 4.
Four-filter kidney.
Wet dreams.
TIANGUIS DEL FUTURO.
SWAP MEET FROM THE FUTURE.
Our last intervention was a swap meet where
you could buy artifacts from the future. Upon
entrance, a photo id was given to you stating a
random identity, like alien, A.I., transgender
or our favorite: borderline personality disor-
der. You could change your dollars or pesos
to ameros. You could buy a chip for a wedding
speech, prosthetic kidneys, fake Marlboro
marijuana cigarettes, clothing, accesories,
repurposed toys and sign petitions for time
travel. A sound installation provided the en-
trance, and Casa Wagner gave a free concert.