Mexican American Art Since 1848 (MAAS1848)

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Title

Muezzin

Creator

Kaprow, Allan

Website

https://library.ucsd.edu/dc/object/bb90815558

Description

Centro Escolar Agua Caliente (Tijuana, Mexico)
Film, Audio, Video and Digital Art
Legendary pioneer of Happenings, Allan Kaprow, created a piece for inSITE94 that referenced his historic contribution to art in his use of the found, commonplace, and literal experience. Kaprow chose to use the minaret tower at Centro Escolar Agua Caliente as the site for his piece and elaborated on the associations it evoked, from Muslim prayer towers to rockets and war missiles. With the title MUEZZIN, Kaprow made a reference to the Islamic crier, or muezzin, who calls worshippers to prayer throughout the day. Rather than a human voice however, the artist used a recording of barking dogs calling out from the tower every hour, while a dense fog simultaneously was emitted from the base of the tower, simulating the firing of a missile. --inSITE94
Sculpture and Installations
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca)
This sound recording was extracted from a CD-R from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 254, CD 94-34)
[Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

Subject

City Noise
Dogs--Barking
Islam
Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico)
Noise
Dogs
San Diego (Calif.)
Sound Installations (Art)
Muezzins
Music
Mexican-American Border Region
Aleatoric Music
Insite94
Adhan
Sound Recordings
Public Address Systems
Border Art

Date

1994

Format

sound

Source

Library, Special Collections and Archives

Language

English

Contributor

Calisphere

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