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Alien Toy Uco (Unidentified Cruising Object): Project Documentation
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Barrio Logan (San Diego, Calif.)
Film, Audio, Video and Digital Art
For inSITE97 Rubén Ortiz Torres collaborated with Salvador "Chava" Munoz to construct Alien Toy UCO (Unidentified Cruising Object)/La ranfla cosmica ORNI (Objeto rodante no identificado), a lowrider car that was converted into a dancing hydraulics wonder in the form of a Border Patrol vehicle. Chava, a world champion in radical bed dancing, reworked each section of the car to move and spin on its own set of hydraulics and arms. Ortiz Torres produced a film with alien imagery and clips of the car in action to accompany the installation. Ortiz Torres stated that the car was a product of cultural migration and exchange, a visual manifestation of the cultural hybridization in Southern California. --inSITE97
Sculpture and Installations
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca)
This video file was extracted from a DVD-R from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 256, DVD 97-10)
[Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.
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