A-Museum of Quickroots (“Raices Movedizas”) activates perceptions, stories, images, texts, and gatherings as iterations of a migrant museum.
A-Museum is a conceptual and curatorial project that ignites places with the cultural and interpretive agency of an institution at the hands of collective effort. Against the backdrop of establishments that undocument migrant imaginations, Raices Movedizas is a witness. It documents these emergent imaginations through exhibitions, performances, and publications. Co-founded by Mauricio Higuera and Myrna Lazcano, A-Museum’s iterative form models mutual aid and creative engagement among migrant communities.
Mauricio Higuera is an artist and educator born in Urabá, Colombia in 1985. Now hyphenated-American and having personally experienced the brutality of borders, he works through their psychic, conceptual and material vestiges to document the undocumented. His practice is located at the threshold where the material and immaterial permeate. Mauricio lives and works in the South Bronx. He teaches drawing in New York City at The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union. He has also taught at Rutgers University and the School of Art of The Cooper Union, his alma mater.
Myrna Lazcano is a migrants’ rights activist and community organizer in East Harlem, New York. Lazcano migrated to the United States from Puebla, México, and has dedicated her life and her work to fighting for the rights and dignity of all people who are impacted and displaced by state violence. Lazcano organizes rapid response networks with neighbors, community members, friends, and faith leaders, which provide immediate aid, support, and accompaniment to people targeted by ICE.