Home Without Borders
Community Engagement Exhibition
Gray Area
San Francisco, CA
2025
Clay + 3D scanning workshop, ICE Protection workshop, live performance, and exhibition
As a result of the billions of dollars spent on surveillance technology for the United States Immigration under the Trump administration, there has been an increase in mass deportations. Tensions are high as raids continue to escalate both in the Bay Area and around the country. Macro Waves explains: "As we focus our attention on the ways that ICE uses technology to detain, deport, and surveil, we must continue to uplift each other as a form of resistance."
In response, Home Without Borders is a collaborative community art project that encourages intersectional resistance. By celebrating immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers through shared stories, performance, and workshops, this project pays tribute to the resilience of immigrant communities and their contributions to the San Francisco Bay Area.
Commissioned by SF Arts Commission as part of the city-wide Shaping Legacy initiative in partnership with Gray Area, this exhibit brought a new hybrid physical/digital monument to life through the direct creative contributions of community members.
Workshops:
Sunday, August 3, 1 – 4 PM
Clay-making and 3D scanning workshop guided by visual artist Victor Saucedo. Participants will create their own monuments and memorials that will be scanned, uploaded, and then placed into a virtual environment.
Thursday, August 14
• 4 – 6 PM: Digital Security & ICE Protection Workshop
In response to state surveillance and deportation raids in California, we partnered with Turner Willman of 18 Million Rising to lead digital safety workshops for frontline communities, offering practical tools for resisting ICE monitoring. Initiatives like this advance socially engaged art by transforming pedagogy into practice—empowering marginalized groups and activating creative resistance.
7 PM: Performance by Truc Nguyen, a Vietnamese queer artist, who performed an audiovisual piece of an intergenerational story, blending a refugee's past with their child’s first time visiting their motherland.
In response, Home Without Borders is a collaborative community art project that encourages intersectional resistance. By celebrating immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers through shared stories, performance, and workshops, this project pays tribute to the resilience of immigrant communities and their contributions to the San Francisco Bay Area.
Commissioned by SF Arts Commission as part of the city-wide Shaping Legacy initiative in partnership with Gray Area, this exhibit brought a new hybrid physical/digital monument to life through the direct creative contributions of community members.
Workshops:
Sunday, August 3, 1 – 4 PM
Clay-making and 3D scanning workshop guided by visual artist Victor Saucedo. Participants will create their own monuments and memorials that will be scanned, uploaded, and then placed into a virtual environment.
Thursday, August 14
• 4 – 6 PM: Digital Security & ICE Protection Workshop
In response to state surveillance and deportation raids in California, we partnered with Turner Willman of 18 Million Rising to lead digital safety workshops for frontline communities, offering practical tools for resisting ICE monitoring. Initiatives like this advance socially engaged art by transforming pedagogy into practice—empowering marginalized groups and activating creative resistance.
7 PM: Performance by Truc Nguyen, a Vietnamese queer artist, who performed an audiovisual piece of an intergenerational story, blending a refugee's past with their child’s first time visiting their motherland.
