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You Are Aquí: Freeway At Night
title You Are Aquí: Freeway At Nightdescription Cuban-born artist Arturo Cuenca was drawn to work with the visual language of billboards that crowd the US-Mexican border crossing at San Ysidro. With "You Are Aquí" Cuenca pointed to the obvious - locating border crossers exactly at the point of transition between the two countries. Borrowing from the visual language of the surrounding billboards. Cuenca constructed a new billboard with a manipulated satellite image of the border and had it installed on the Puente Mexico, the pedestrian bridge that crosses the lines of vehicular border traffic. Acting as a location marker, the work was seen by more than 45,000 commuters daily. --inSITE2000 Photographs Puente Mexico, San Ysidro, San Diego, California, United States Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 309, Folder 03, Item 077) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Political Art Satellite Imagery Boundaries Night Public Art Sculpture (Visual Work) Site-Specific Works Mexican-American Border Region Billboards (Site Elements) Commuting Traffic City Planning Express Highways Insite2000 Bridges (Built Works) Installations (Visual Works) Border Artcontributor Calisphere -
Tijuana Projection
title Tijuana Projectiondescription After a two-year process, Krzysztof Wodiczko's project culminated in two evenings of projections on the 60-foot-diameter façade of the Omnimax Theater at the Centro Cultural Tijuana. Known for his large-scale outdoor projections, with "Tijuana Projection/Proyección en Tijuana" Wodiczko wanted to use progressive technology to give voice and visibility to the women who work in the maquiladora industry in Tijuana. The projections consisted of prerecorded materials interspersed with live feeds from a headset with an integrated camera and microphone designed by the artist and worn by the participating women. This was Wodiczko's first time creating a projection incorporating live segments, adding a certain immediacy and potency to the presentation of these very personal accounts. In preparation for the projection, the artist conducted nearly one year of workshops with eight participating women. His work with these eight women was facilitated through two organizations based in Tijuana, (Factor X and Yeuani), that are dedicated to helping women who face difficulties in the workplace or at home. The pre-recorded and live personal testimonies given by the eight women focused on work-related and sexual abuse, family disintegration, alcoholism, and domestic violence. The scale at which these stories were heard and witnessed in the open space of the city and by an audience of more than 1,500 on the Centro plaza over the two nights created a powerful impact and literally magnified what so often never gets spoken about. The projections took place February 23 and 24, 2001. -- inSITE2000 Centro Cultural Tijuana Film, Audio, Video and Digital Art Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 311, Folder 01, Item 410) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Offshore Assembly Industry Testimonies Workers Boundaries Violence Face Labor Emotions Border Art Projections (Visual Works) Suffering Collective Biographies Biography Portraits Mexican-American Border Region Poverty Installations (Visual Works) Insite2000 Video Artcontributor Calisphere -
Tijuana Projection
title Tijuana Projectiondescription After a two-year process, Krzysztof Wodiczko's project culminated in two evenings of projections on the 60-foot-diameter façade of the Omnimax Theater at the Centro Cultural Tijuana. Known for his large-scale outdoor projections, with "Tijuana Projection/Proyección en Tijuana" Wodiczko wanted to use progressive technology to give voice and visibility to the women who work in the maquiladora industry in Tijuana. The projections consisted of prerecorded materials interspersed with live feeds from a headset with an integrated camera and microphone designed by the artist and worn by the participating women. This was Wodiczko's first time creating a projection incorporating live segments, adding a certain immediacy and potency to the presentation of these very personal accounts. In preparation for the projection, the artist conducted nearly one year of workshops with eight participating women. His work with these eight women was facilitated through two organizations based in Tijuana, (Factor X and Yeuani), that are dedicated to helping women who face difficulties in the workplace or at home. The pre-recorded and live personal testimonies given by the eight women focused on work-related and sexual abuse, family disintegration, alcoholism, and domestic violence. The scale at which these stories were heard and witnessed in the open space of the city and by an audience of more than 1,500 on the Centro plaza over the two nights created a powerful impact and literally magnified what so often never gets spoken about. The projections took place February 23 and 24, 2001. -- inSITE2000 Centro Cultural Tijuana Film, Audio, Video and Digital Art Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 311, Folder 01, Item 413) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Offshore Assembly Industry Testimonies Workers Boundaries Violence Face Labor Emotions Border Art Projections (Visual Works) Suffering Collective Biographies Biography Portraits Mexican-American Border Region Poverty Installations (Visual Works) Insite2000 Video Artcontributor Calisphere -
The Invisible Man (My Way): Wrestling Ring And Audience
title The Invisible Man (My Way): Wrestling Ring And Audiencedescription Auditoria Municipal de Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) Conceived by Mexico City artist Carlos Amorales as a further elaboration of the identity of his wrestling character, Amorales, his project for inSITE2000, "The Invisible Man (My Way)/El hombre invisible (A mi manera)," took the form of two public and distinct wrestling performances. On Friday, January 19, 2001, two wrestlers from Holland, Amorales and Amorales, were featured in a fight against Mexican wrestling stars Satanico and Ultimo Guerrero. The match was part of the regular Friday night program at the Auditorio Municipal, Tijuana. The crowd of 3,500 was quiet with uncertainty as these two unknown Dutch lucha libre personalities walked into the ring. The uncertainty was transformed to excitement as the audience realized that the two Amoraleses were not impostors, but professional lucha libre wrestlers. By the end of the fight, the audience was divided between those screaming, "Amorales, Amorales!" and those who were faithful to the national wrestlers, evil as they might be. At 8:00 pm, on Saturday, January 20, 2001, the sequel of the Amorales wrestling match took place as the centerpiece of a black-tie dinner at the prestigious Wyndham Emerald Plaza Hotel in downtown San Diego. The fight was followed by dancing with music mixed live by Silverio. -- inSITE2000 Performing Arts (including Performance Art) Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 309, Folder 01, Item 026) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Identity (Philosophical Concept) Boundaries Wrestlers Mexican-American Border Region Audiences Performance Art Sports Auditoriums Insite2000 Border Art Wrestlingcontributor Calisphere -
Avenida Revolución: Mule Painted To Look Like A Zebra
title Avenida Revolución: Mule Painted To Look Like A Zebradescription Avenida Revolución (Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico) Performing Arts (including Performance Art) Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 311, Folder 01, Item 382) Venezuelan artist Meyer Vaisman's initial proposal for inSITE2000 involved a performance in which he would impersonate a "lost" Border Patrol officer, in a car painted to resemble a Border Patrol vehicle, driving through various neighborhoods in Tijuana. After the performance, Vaisman planned to park the vehicle near the border fence at Playas de Tijuana, within sight of US Border Patrol officers, leaving it there to become a site registering local opinion. Yet given some obvious safety issues related to this proposal, the artist had to reconsider his project. With his original idea in mind Vaisman transformed one of the famous Tijuana zebra-painted mule carts into Border Patrol. With himself dressed in a Border Patrol uniform and the mule cart painted to look like an official vehicle, the Burro-Patrol was situated on a corner of Avenida Revolución for one weekend and functioned as a regular tourist photo-op station. -- inSITE2000 [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Tourist Information Centers Mule Humor Boundaries Border Art Tourism Mexican-American Border Region Satire (Artistic Device) Performance Art U.S. Border Patrol Zebras Law Enforcing Commercial Portraiture Parody Insite2000contributor Calisphere -
Picturing Paradise: Border Fence With Mirrored Surfaces At Sunset
title Picturing Paradise: Border Fence With Mirrored Surfaces At Sunsetdescription Border Field State Park, San Diego and Playas de Tijuana, Tijuana, BC. For inSITE2000 Brazilian artist Valeska Soares was drawn to work directly with the border fence that divides the US and Mexico. Soares wanted specifically to find a way for people on either side of the border to be able to come together around a common theme or event and in some way create an exchange, or the illusion of an exchange, across the fence. Her initial proposal was for a garden project that would require a reconfiguration of the fence, yet it proved to be impossible to obtain permission to realize this idea. Soares changed her proposal but remained faithful to her concept of creating an opening in the fence. With Picturing Paradise the artist installed two highly polished large sheets of steel directly onto a section of chain-link fence at Playas de Tijuana, back to back, and as it were, creating the illusion of an opening in the fence, except what was seen was a reflection. Each mirrored surface was inscribed with an excerpt from Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino, a text that speaks of two mirror cities and what describes their shared reality. --inSITE2000 Garden and Landscape Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 06, Item 369) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Political Art Boundaries Border Art Public Art Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Fences Suns (Stars) Reflections (Perceived Properties) Installations (Visual Works) Insite2000contributor Calisphere -
Avenida Revolución: "Street Vendor" Under Arrest By "Border Patrol Agent" (Meyer Vaisman)
title Avenida Revolución: "Street Vendor" Under Arrest By "Border Patrol Agent" (Meyer Vaisman)description Avenida Revolución (Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico) Performing Arts (including Performance Art) Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 311, Folder 01, Item 383) Venezuelan artist Meyer Vaisman's initial proposal for inSITE2000 involved a performance in which he would impersonate a "lost" Border Patrol officer, in a car painted to resemble a Border Patrol vehicle, driving through various neighborhoods in Tijuana. After the performance, Vaisman planned to park the vehicle near the border fence at Playas de Tijuana, within sight of US Border Patrol officers, leaving it there to become a site registering local opinion. Yet given some obvious safety issues related to this proposal, the artist had to reconsider his project. With his original idea in mind Vaisman transformed one of the famous Tijuana zebra-painted mule carts into Border Patrol. With himself dressed in a Border Patrol uniform and the mule cart painted to look like an official vehicle, the Burro-Patrol was situated on a corner of Avenida Revolución for one weekend and functioned as a regular tourist photo-op station. -- inSITE2000 [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Tourist Information Centers Alleys Mule Humor Boundaries Tourism Mexican-American Border Region Satire (Artistic Device) Performance Art U.S. Border Patrol Zebras Law Enforcing Insite2000 Commercial Portraiture Parody Border Artcontributor Calisphere -
Avenida Revolución: "Border Patrol Agent" (Meyer Vaisman) On Mule Painted To Look Like A Zebra
title Avenida Revolución: "Border Patrol Agent" (Meyer Vaisman) On Mule Painted To Look Like A Zebradescription Avenida Revolución (Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico) Performing Arts (including Performance Art) Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 311, Folder 01, Item 384) Venezuelan artist Meyer Vaisman's initial proposal for inSITE2000 involved a performance in which he would impersonate a "lost" Border Patrol officer, in a car painted to resemble a Border Patrol vehicle, driving through various neighborhoods in Tijuana. After the performance, Vaisman planned to park the vehicle near the border fence at Playas de Tijuana, within sight of US Border Patrol officers, leaving it there to become a site registering local opinion. Yet given some obvious safety issues related to this proposal, the artist had to reconsider his project. With his original idea in mind Vaisman transformed one of the famous Tijuana zebra-painted mule carts into Border Patrol. With himself dressed in a Border Patrol uniform and the mule cart painted to look like an official vehicle, the Burro-Patrol was situated on a corner of Avenida Revolución for one weekend and functioned as a regular tourist photo-op station. -- inSITE2000 [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Tourist Information Centers Alleys Mule Humor Political Art Boundaries Tourism Mexican-American Border Region Satire (Artistic Device) Performance Art U.S. Border Patrol Zebras Law Enforcing Insite2000 Commercial Portraiture Parody Border Artcontributor Calisphere