Govern yourself accordingly

The video installation is a collage on three channels that articulates through different surveillance devices and strategies to access to information, a way of feeling daily life in the Bordertown Tijuana: experiences and stories in Spanish and sometimes auto-translated into English. These translations are guided by a voice-over, layering different materialities as found objects, piecing together words and images from the internet like surveillance footage from a website of the Tijuana – San Diego border, images from a police chat, a social media group that is informing daily the best currency for the dollar, legal treatises, some stories from the streets of Tijuana, and observations on the different devices employed to administer this ambiguous space of existence.