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Make Tacos Not War
title Make Tacos Not Wardescription Pink neon on clear plexiglass / neón rosa sobre plexiglás transparente. 6 1/2" x 63" x 4 5/8".artist/creator Diaz, Alejandrocontributor National Museum of Mexican Art (NMMA) -
Te pasaste de la raya
title Te pasaste de la rayadescription Woodblock, 21/35. Xilografía, 21/35. 15" x 11" (paper size). From the Posada Presente portfolio.artist/creator Serment, Ricardo X.subject Posada, José Guadalupe, 1852-1913 Printmaking Arroyo Chicago artists Hot dogs Borderlands Frontera Humor Border Patrol Tacos Food Lucha libre Luchador Masks Día de los muertos Day of the Dead Día de muertos Días de los muertos Calaveras Calacas Skeletons Food in art Homagecontributor National Museum of Mexican Art (NMMA) -
Refresco de cola
title Refresco de coladescription Linocut, 21/35. Linograbado, 21/35. 11 1/4" x 15 1/8" (paper size). From the Posada Presente portfolio.artist/creator Delgado, Franciscosubject Posada, José Guadalupe, 1852-1913 Printmaking Arroyo Skeletons Horses Homage Tails Coke Coca-cola Irony Humor Eaglescontributor National Museum of Mexican Art (NMMA) -
Baby Taco
title Baby Tacodescription Assembled found objects / objetos reciclados ensamblados. 7" x 7 1/4" x 7 1/4".artist/creator Mondini-Ruiz, Francosubject Found objects Children Girls Conceptual art Tacos Food in art Music Europe Humor Identity Candy Peanuts Games Checkers Chess Babies Sculpturecontributor National Museum of Mexican Art (NMMA) -
Mojada
title Mojadadescription Commercially manufactured glazed ceramic, glass and resin / cerámica vidriada y vidrio de fabricación comercial y resina. 11" x 6 1/2" x 6 1/2".artist/creator Mondini-Ruiz, Francosubject National Museum of Mexican Art (NMMA) 25th Anniversary Donation Found objects Women Nudes in art Conceptual art Immigration Humor Identity Undocumented immigrants Noncitizens Immigrants Sculpturecontributor National Museum of Mexican Art (NMMA) -
Christmas in L.A.
title Christmas in L.A.description Serigraph, 22/96 - serigrafía, 22/96. 14" x 25 1/4" (paper size).artist/creator Valdez, Vincentsubject National Museum of Mexican Art (NMMA) 25th Anniversary Donation California Self Help Graphics and Art (SHG) Hot dogs Plants Christmas Navidad California--Los Angeles Santa Claus Cities Urban landscapes Urbanization Cityscapes Animals Humorcontributor National Museum of Mexican Art (NMMA) -
Rings of Life
title Rings of Lifedescription Oil on canvas / óleo sobre lienzo. 77" x 49".artist/creator Huerta, Benitosubject Life Infinite Union Circles Western art history Film and television Cartoons Animation National Museum of Mexican Art (NMMA) 25th Anniversary Donation Pop art Conceptual art Animals Dominoes Games Unity Humor Caricaturescontributor National Museum of Mexican Art (NMMA) -
Marranos
title Marranosdescription Ceramic and mixed media / cerámica y técnica mixta. 35" x 21" x 16 1/2".artist/creator Nieves, Alfonso "Piloto"subject Capitalism Consumption Criticism Pigs Animals Capitalist pig Bank Money Greed Balance Checkers Chess Buildings Architecture Halo Angel Pyramids in art Games Humor Mixed media Sculpturecontributor National Museum of Mexican Art (NMMA) -
Untitled
title Untitleddescription Generated laser prints / impresiones generadas por laser. 18 1/4" x 13 1/4" (framed). Collage of 14 fraudulent Mexican stamps. Various dates.artist/creator Hernández de Luna, Michaelsubject Fraud Humor Día de los muertos Day of the Dead Día de muertos Días de los muertos Skull in art Skeletons Clowns in art Roosters Devil in art Diablo Chicago artists Negrete, Jorge, 1911-1953 Gallo Mexico--Chiapas Marcos, Subcomandante Bufónes Joker (Fictitious character) Postage stamps Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (EZLN) Religion in art Masks Music Popular culture Irony Fools and jesters Buffoonscontributor National Museum of Mexican Art (NMMA) -
Destiny: The Founding of Tenochtitlan
title Destiny: The Founding of Tenochtitlandescription Inkjet print / impresión inkjet. 11 1/4" x 16 1/2" (paper size). From The Omen Series.subject Tenochtitlan Mexican emblems Flags in art Animals Women artists Chicago artists Landscapes Symbolism Symbols Illinois--Chicago--Humboldt Park Humorcontributor National Museum of Mexican Art (NMMA) -
Untitled
title Untitleddescription Hubcap and mixed media / llanta tapacubos y técnica mixta. 15 1/2" (diam.) x 7 1/2".artist/creator Avalos, Davidsubject Corazón Hearts Cars Hub caps Chiles Industrial Humor Glass Peppers Plants Urbanization Miracles Milagro Transportation Sculpture Contemporary art Arte popular Automobilescontributor National Museum of Mexican Art (NMMA) -
Sobre Carlos
title Sobre Carlosdescription Acrylic on canvas / acrílico sobre lienzo. 16" x 20" x 1 1/2".artist/creator Macías, Juan Carlossubject Cortéz, Carlos A., 1923-2005 Mentorship Coyote Animals Children Humor Transportation Coyotes (Immigrant Smugglers)contributor National Museum of Mexican Art (NMMA) -
The Garden of Earthly Delights
title The Garden of Earthly Delightsdescription Customized tractor lawn mower / cortadora de césped personalizada. 43" x 93" x 37" (unopened).artist/creator Ortiz Torres, Rubéncontributor National Museum of Mexican Art (NMMA) -
Pepper Plant
title Pepper Plantdescription Polychrome wood / madera policromada. 29" x 14" x 16".artist/creator Trejo, Rubensubject Peppers Jalepeño Phallic symbol Humor Contemporary art Flowers Food in art Cooking Kitchens Sculpture Phallusescontributor National Museum of Mexican Art (NMMA) -
El visionario II
title El visionario IIdescription Glass and mixed media / vidrio y técnica mixta. 27" x 12 1/2" x 9".contributor National Museum of Mexican Art (NMMA) -
Adelaido Cruzas
title Adelaido Cruzasdescription Acrylic on unstretched canvas with brass grommets / acrílico sobre lienzo sin tensar con ojales de latón. 40 1/4" x 50 3/4".artist/creator Helguera, Pablosubject Circus Phonemics Bathers Adelaido Cruzas Men Smoking Memory Banners Posters Humor Image and text Advertisementscontributor National Museum of Mexican Art (NMMA) -
Chicano humor in art : for whom the Taco Bell tolls
title Chicano humor in art : for whom the Taco Bell tollsdescription Interested in reading more? Visit our partner's homepage by clicking on the 'View Item' button or visiting the url in the website sectionartist/creator Trejo, Ruben -
1992: Performance Stills
title 1992: Performance Stillsdescription A performance trilogy deconstructing the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus 500 years previous. Digital Library Development Program, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/digital-library) Most of Gómez-Peña’s characters are hybrids, half traditional and half contemporary, half Mexican and half Chicano. During the performance the characters undergo constant transformations seen through overlapping props, costumes and makeup. Each character articulates within himself a series of cultural contradictions which are at the core of the US-Latino experience. Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, California) Performing Arts (including Performance Art) Photographssubject Political Art Humor Imperialism Satire (Artistic Device) Performance Art Costumes Megaphones Gómez-Peña, Guillermocontributor Calisphere -
California Murals Off The Wall: Artists Working On Their Projects
title California Murals Off The Wall: Artists Working On Their Projectsdescription Centro Cultural de la Raza (San Diego, California) Digital Library Development Program, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/digital-library) Film, Audio, Video and Digital Art Satirical monolog by David Avalos about artists and works in the exhibit. Footage of Victor Ochoa and Guillermo Rosette painting. Footage of David Avalos describing his art piece titled "Loteria Chicana" which is based on the Mexican game Loteria. Footage of Nieto Pello working on his painting of young love against the backdrop of the mountains of Montana.artist/creator Unknownsubject Ochoa Orozco, Victor Avalos, David Mexican American Art Political Art Humor Landscapes Documentary Films Satire (Artistic Device) Pello, Nieto Rosette, Guillermocontributor Calisphere -
1992: Performance Still
title 1992: Performance Stilldescription A performance trilogy deconstructing the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus 500 years previous. Digital Library Development Program, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/digital-library) Most of Gómez-Peña’s characters are hybrids, half traditional and half contemporary, half Mexican and half Chicano. During the performance the characters undergo constant transformations seen through overlapping props, costumes and makeup. Each character articulates within himself a series of cultural contradictions which are at the core of the US-Latino experience. Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, California) Performing Arts (including Performance Art) Photographssubject Political Art Humor Imperialism Satire (Artistic Device) Performance Art Costumes Gesture Candles Masks Flagscontributor Calisphere -
1992: Performance Still
title 1992: Performance Stilldescription A performance trilogy deconstructing the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus 500 years previous. Digital Library Development Program, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/digital-library) Most of Gómez-Peña’s characters are hybrids, half traditional and half contemporary, half Mexican and half Chicano. During the performance the characters undergo constant transformations seen through overlapping props, costumes and makeup. Each character articulates within himself a series of cultural contradictions which are at the core of the US-Latino experience. Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, California) Performing Arts (including Performance Art) Photographssubject Lighting Political Art Humor Imperialism Satire (Artistic Device) Performance Art Costumes Candles Flagscontributor Calisphere -
1992: Performance Still
title 1992: Performance Stilldescription A performance trilogy deconstructing the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus 500 years previous. Digital Library Development Program, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/digital-library) Most of Gómez-Peña’s characters are hybrids, half traditional and half contemporary, half Mexican and half Chicano. During the performance the characters undergo constant transformations seen through overlapping props, costumes and makeup. Each character articulates within himself a series of cultural contradictions which are at the core of the US-Latino experience. Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, California) Performing Arts (including Performance Art) Photographssubject Political Art Humor Native American Satire (Artistic Device) Performance Art Costumes Gómez-Peña, Guillermo Headdressescontributor Calisphere -
Great Wall Of Los Angeles: Detail: 1890 Los Angeles Mountains To The Shore; San Pedro Harbor
title Great Wall Of Los Angeles: Detail: 1890 Los Angeles Mountains To The Shore; San Pedro Harbordescription A collaborative project by Judith Baca and over 400 employed youths and artists. The first one thousand feet were painted during the first summer of work in 1976. Additionally the first one thousand feet were divided into sections of 100 feet each. Although the content is highly integrated, each section was designed by a different artist under the general supervision of Judith Baca. Digital Library Development Program, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/digital-library) Los Angeles Valley College Narrative mural depicting California history from prehistory thru the 1920s. Designed by American Indian artist Charlie Brown, "From the Mountains to the Shore" depicts the San Pedro Harbor where, until recently, there was a great abundance of flying fish. The typical shops and buildings of turn of the century Los Angeles are depicted in this lyrical segment. Paintings Tujunga Wash, Los Angeles (California)artist/creator Baca, Judith Franciscasubject Missionaries Los Angeles Harbor (Calif.) Mural Painting And Decoration Humor History Cities And Towns Narrative Art Symbolism Californiacontributor Calisphere -
1992: Performance Still
title 1992: Performance Stilldescription A performance trilogy deconstructing the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus 500 years previous. Digital Library Development Program, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/digital-library) Most of Gómez-Peña’s characters are hybrids, half traditional and half contemporary, half Mexican and half Chicano. During the performance the characters undergo constant transformations seen through overlapping props, costumes and makeup. Each character articulates within himself a series of cultural contradictions which are at the core of the US-Latino experience. Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, California) Performing Arts (including Performance Art) Photographssubject Political Art Humor Imperialism Satire (Artistic Device) Drinking Vessels Performance Art Costumes Gesture Hearts (Motifs)contributor Calisphere -
1992: Performance Still
title 1992: Performance Stilldescription A performance trilogy deconstructing the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus 500 years previous. Digital Library Development Program, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/digital-library) Most of Gómez-Peña’s characters are hybrids, half traditional and half contemporary, half Mexican and half Chicano. During the performance the characters undergo constant transformations seen through overlapping props, costumes and makeup. Each character articulates within himself a series of cultural contradictions which are at the core of the US-Latino experience. Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, California) Performing Arts (including Performance Art) Photographscontributor Calisphere -
1992: Performance Stills
title 1992: Performance Stillsdescription A performance trilogy deconstructing the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus 500 years previous. Digital Library Development Program, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/digital-library) Most of Gómez-Peña’s characters are hybrids, half traditional and half contemporary, half Mexican and half Chicano. During the performance the characters undergo constant transformations seen through overlapping props, costumes and makeup. Each character articulates within himself a series of cultural contradictions which are at the core of the US-Latino experience. Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, California) Performing Arts (including Performance Art) Photographssubject Political Art Humor Imperialism Native American Satire (Artistic Device) Performance Art Costumes Gómez-Peña, Guillermo Headdressescontributor Calisphere -
1992: Performance Still
title 1992: Performance Stilldescription A performance trilogy deconstructing the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus 500 years previous. Digital Library Development Program, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/digital-library) Most of Gómez-Peña’s characters are hybrids, half traditional and half contemporary, half Mexican and half Chicano. During the performance the characters undergo constant transformations seen through overlapping props, costumes and makeup. Each character articulates within himself a series of cultural contradictions which are at the core of the US-Latino experience. Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, California) Performing Arts (including Performance Art) Photographssubject Political Art Humor Native American Satire (Artistic Device) Performance Art Costumes Gómez-Peña, Guillermo Candles Headdressescontributor Calisphere -
1992: Performance Stills
title 1992: Performance Stillsdescription A performance trilogy deconstructing the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus 500 years previous. Digital Library Development Program, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/digital-library) Most of Gómez-Peña’s characters are hybrids, half traditional and half contemporary, half Mexican and half Chicano. During the performance the characters undergo constant transformations seen through overlapping props, costumes and makeup. Each character articulates within himself a series of cultural contradictions which are at the core of the US-Latino experience. Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, California) Performing Arts (including Performance Art) Photographssubject Political Art Humor Imperialism Native American Satire (Artistic Device) Performance Art Costumes Gómez-Peña, Guillermo Headdressescontributor Calisphere -
1992: Performance Still
title 1992: Performance Stilldescription A performance trilogy deconstructing the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus 500 years previous. Digital Library Development Program, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/digital-library) Most of Gómez-Peña’s characters are hybrids, half traditional and half contemporary, half Mexican and half Chicano. During the performance the characters undergo constant transformations seen through overlapping props, costumes and makeup. Each character articulates within himself a series of cultural contradictions which are at the core of the US-Latino experience. Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, California) Performing Arts (including Performance Art) Photographssubject Political Art Humor Imperialism Native American Satire (Artistic Device) Performance Art Costumes Gómez-Peña, Guillermo Headdressescontributor Calisphere -
1992: Performance Stills
title 1992: Performance Stillsdescription A performance trilogy deconstructing the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus 500 years previous. Digital Library Development Program, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/digital-library) Most of Gómez-Peña’s characters are hybrids, half traditional and half contemporary, half Mexican and half Chicano. During the performance the characters undergo constant transformations seen through overlapping props, costumes and makeup. Each character articulates within himself a series of cultural contradictions which are at the core of the US-Latino experience. Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, California) Performing Arts (including Performance Art) Photographssubject Lighting Political Art Humor Imperialism Native American Satire (Artistic Device) Performance Art Costumes Gómez-Peña, Guillermo Candles Headdressescontributor Calisphere -
1992: Performance Still
title 1992: Performance Stilldescription A performance trilogy deconstructing the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus 500 years previous. Digital Library Development Program, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/digital-library) Most of Gómez-Peña’s characters are hybrids, half traditional and half contemporary, half Mexican and half Chicano. During the performance the characters undergo constant transformations seen through overlapping props, costumes and makeup. Each character articulates within himself a series of cultural contradictions which are at the core of the US-Latino experience. Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, California) Performing Arts (including Performance Art) Photographssubject Political Art Humor Imperialism Satire (Artistic Device) Performance Art Costumes Gesture Veilscontributor Calisphere -
1992: Performance Stills
title 1992: Performance Stillsdescription A performance trilogy deconstructing the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus 500 years previous. Digital Library Development Program, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/digital-library) Most of Gómez-Peña’s characters are hybrids, half traditional and half contemporary, half Mexican and half Chicano. During the performance the characters undergo constant transformations seen through overlapping props, costumes and makeup. Each character articulates within himself a series of cultural contradictions which are at the core of the US-Latino experience. Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, California) Performing Arts (including Performance Art) Photographssubject Lighting Political Art Humor Imperialism Satire (Artistic Device) Performance Art Costumes Gómez-Peña, Guillermo Candles Headdresses Flagscontributor Calisphere -
1992: Performance Still
title 1992: Performance Stilldescription A performance trilogy deconstructing the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus 500 years previous. Digital Library Development Program, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/digital-library) Most of Gómez-Peña’s characters are hybrids, half traditional and half contemporary, half Mexican and half Chicano. During the performance the characters undergo constant transformations seen through overlapping props, costumes and makeup. Each character articulates within himself a series of cultural contradictions which are at the core of the US-Latino experience. Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, California) Performing Arts (including Performance Art) Photographssubject Popular Culture Political Art Humor Imperialism Native American Satire (Artistic Device) Performance Art Costumes Gómez-Peña, Guillermo Maskscontributor Calisphere -
La La La Awards
title La La La Awardsdescription Begins with a parody of Alcoholics Anonymous meeting with jokes about Latino identity politics (Latins Anonymous). Next a parody of an awards/variety show, La La La Awards (Latins Anonymous Lifetime Achievement Awards) with a Cheech Marin impersonator as host. Talk show host interrogates family involved in the L.A. riots. Charo performs and speaks about bilingualism. Weather report parody jokes about Latin American cultural stereotypes. Café Cinema, San Diego (California) Digital Library Development Program, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/digital-library) Film, Audio, Video and Digital Art Latins Anonymous is made up of actors/writers Luisa Leschin, Diane Rodriguez, Armando Molina, and Chris Franco. Introduction skit filmed at Café Cinema in San Diego.artist/creator Unknownsubject Mexican American Art Political Art Comedy Sketches Humor Television Talk Shows Riots Weather Reporting Alcoholics Anonymous Bilingual Individuals Satire (Artistic Device) Performance Art Television Programs Parody Charocontributor Calisphere -
1992: Performance Still
title 1992: Performance Stilldescription A performance trilogy deconstructing Christopher Columbus's discovery of America 500 years previous. Digital Library Development Program, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/digital-library) Most of Gómez-Peña’s characters are hybrids, half traditional and half contemporary, half Mexican and half Chicano. During the performance the characters undergo constant transformations seen through overlapping props, costumes and makeup. Each character articulates within himself a series of cultural contradictions which are at the core of the US-Latino experience. Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, California) Performing Arts (including Performance Art) Photographssubject Political Art Humor Imperialism Native American Satire (Artistic Device) Performance Art Costumes Gesture Headdressescontributor Calisphere -
1992: Performance Still
title 1992: Performance Stilldescription A performance trilogy deconstructing Christopher Columbus's discovery of America 500 years previous. Digital Library Development Program, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/digital-library) Most of Gómez-Peña’s characters are hybrids, half traditional and half contemporary, half Mexican and half Chicano. During the performance the characters undergo constant transformations seen through overlapping props, costumes and makeup. Each character articulates within himself a series of cultural contradictions which are at the core of the US-Latino experience. Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, California) Performing Arts (including Performance Art) Photographssubject Popular Culture Political Art Humor Imperialism Wrestlers Satire (Artistic Device) Performance Art Costumes Maskscontributor Calisphere -
1992: Performance Still
title 1992: Performance Stilldescription A performance trilogy deconstructing the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus 500 years previous. Digital Library Development Program, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/digital-library) Most of Gómez-Peña’s characters are hybrids, half traditional and half contemporary, half Mexican and half Chicano. During the performance the characters undergo constant transformations seen through overlapping props, costumes and makeup. Each character articulates within himself a series of cultural contradictions which are at the core of the US-Latino experience. Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, California) Performing Arts (including Performance Art) Photographssubject Political Art Humor Imperialism Native American Satire (Artistic Device) Performance Art Costumes Gómez-Peña, Guillermocontributor Calisphere -
1992: Performance Still
title 1992: Performance Stilldescription "1992" a Performance Trilogy by Guillermo Gómez-Peña Assemblage of two "1992" performance stills advertising the performance. Digital Library Development Program, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/digital-library) Most of Gómez-Peña’s characters are hybrids, half traditional and half contemporary, half Mexican and half Chicano. During the performance the characters undergo constant transformations seen through overlapping props, costumes and makeup. Each character articulates within himself a series of cultural contradictions which are at the core of the US-Latino experience. Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, California) Performing Arts (including Performance Art) Photographssubject Advertisements Political Art Humor Imperialism Native American Microphone Satire (Artistic Device) Performance Art Costumes Gesture Headdressescontributor Calisphere -
1992: Performance Still
title 1992: Performance Stilldescription A performance trilogy deconstructing the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus 500 years previous. Digital Library Development Program, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/digital-library) Most of Gómez-Peña’s characters are hybrids, half traditional and half contemporary, half Mexican and half Chicano. During the performance the characters undergo constant transformations seen through overlapping props, costumes and makeup. Each character articulates within himself a series of cultural contradictions which are at the core of the US-Latino experience. Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, California) Performing Arts (including Performance Art) Photographssubject Political Art Humor Native American Satire (Artistic Device) Performance Art Costumes Gómez-Peña, Guillermo Candles Headdressescontributor Calisphere -
1992: Performance Stills
title 1992: Performance Stillsdescription A performance trilogy deconstructing the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus 500 years previous. Digital Library Development Program, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/digital-library) Most of Gómez-Peña’s characters are hybrids, half traditional and half contemporary, half Mexican and half Chicano. During the performance the characters undergo constant transformations seen through overlapping props, costumes and makeup. Each character articulates within himself a series of cultural contradictions which are at the core of the US-Latino experience. Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, California) Performing Arts (including Performance Art) Photographssubject Lighting Political Art Humor Imperialism Satire (Artistic Device) Performance Art Costumes Gómez-Peña, Guillermo Candles Flagscontributor Calisphere -
Spic Talk
title Spic Talkdescription Digital Library Development Program, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/digital-library) Film, Audio, Video and Digital Art Television host for a show called Spic Talk interviews an actor impersonating Julio Iglesias. Later "Iglesias" is kidnapped and the host is threatened by a masked "terrorist" with a gun.artist/creator Cinewest Productionssubject Mexican American Art Political Art Humor Comedy Sketches Television Talk Shows Video Art Satire (Artistic Device) Performance Art Iglesias, Julio, 1943- Television Programs Terrorists Parody Television Talk Show Hostscontributor Calisphere -
1992: Performance Still
title 1992: Performance Stilldescription A performance trilogy deconstructing the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus 500 years previous. Digital Library Development Program, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/digital-library) Most of Gómez-Peña’s characters are hybrids, half traditional and half contemporary, half Mexican and half Chicano. During the performance the characters undergo constant transformations seen through overlapping props, costumes and makeup. Each character articulates within himself a series of cultural contradictions which are at the core of the US-Latino experience. Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, California) Performing Arts (including Performance Art) Photographssubject Political Art Humor Native American Satire (Artistic Device) Performance Art Costumes Gómez-Peña, Guillermo Headdressescontributor Calisphere -
1992: Performance Still
title 1992: Performance Stilldescription A performance trilogy deconstructing the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus 500 years previous. Digital Library Development Program, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/digital-library) Most of Gómez-Peña’s characters are hybrids, half traditional and half contemporary, half Mexican and half Chicano. During the performance the characters undergo constant transformations seen through overlapping props, costumes and makeup. Each character articulates within himself a series of cultural contradictions which are at the core of the US-Latino experience. Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, California) Performing Arts (including Performance Art) Photographssubject Political Art Humor Native American Satire (Artistic Device) Performance Art Costumes Megaphones Gómez-Peña, Guillermo Headdressescontributor Calisphere -
1992: Performance Stills
title 1992: Performance Stillsdescription A performance trilogy deconstructing the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus 500 years previous. Digital Library Development Program, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/digital-library) Most of Gómez-Peña’s characters are hybrids, half traditional and half contemporary, half Mexican and half Chicano. During the performance the characters undergo constant transformations seen through overlapping props, costumes and makeup. Each character articulates within himself a series of cultural contradictions which are at the core of the US-Latino experience. Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, California) Performing Arts (including Performance Art) Photographssubject Lighting Political Art Humor Imperialism Satire (Artistic Device) Performance Art Costumes Gómez-Peña, Guillermo Candles Flagscontributor Calisphere -
The Virgin Of Guadalupe
title The Virgin Of Guadalupedescription California artist Jeffrey Vallance proposed to make an intervention at the Tijuana Wax Museum for inSITE2000. Collaborating with Mexico City-based wax-figure maker Victor Hugo Yanez, Vallance produced three new figures for the museum: the Virgin of Guadalupe, Dante, and former US President Richard Nixon. Vallance started with a list of about twenty-eight names of historical and contemporary figures as potential additions to the display at the museum, and arrive at the selection of the three figures based on the existing exhibition structure. The Virgin of Guadalupe could be seen in full figure situated on her own, while Nixon was placed in the presidential room holding in his hands the symbolic element that came to define his public career, a simulated set of reel-to-reel Watergate tapes, and Dante was placed at the entrance to hell with his hand pointing the way. With his project for the Wax Museum, Vallance deepened his own interest and fascination with the three selected figures. In this way, having followed stories for years from different parts of the world detailing apparitions of the Virgin of Guadalupe, Vallance, during a residency period in San Diego, could add yet another apparition to the list - he spotted her up high on a stone column at the Courtyard by Marriott downtown hotel. -- inSITE2000 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 386) Tijuana Wax Museum [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Wax Figures Popular Culture Religions (Concept) Humor Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Figurative Art Mexican-American Border Region Kitsch Piety In Art Visions Prayer Waxworks Gesture Insite2000 Installations (Visual Works) Border Art Christianity And Artcontributor Calisphere -
You Can'T Get There From Here
title You Can'T Get There From Heredescription Centro Cultural de la Raza (San Diego, Calif.) Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) The collaborative contribution to inSITE94 by San Diego artists Mario Lara and Barbara Sexton, "You Can't Get There from Here/No puedes ir allá desde aquí," was located at the Centro Cultural de la Raza in San Diego. Consisting of two main elements, the installation dealt with the relationship between trophies of achievement and the individual self-image that often dispels the very essence of what is publicly recognized. The artists created numerous plaques and trophies that were displayed salon style on the walls of the space, while the other central element, a billboard prop, outwardly proclaimed the word PARADISO. - inSITE94 This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 01, Item 199) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Collaboration Humor Pistols Collage--Technique Border Art Mexican-American Border Region Kitsch Insite94 Maps Plaques (Flat Objects) Trophies (Objects) Installations (Visual Works) Californiacontributor Calisphere -
Alien Toy Uco (Unidentified Crusing Object): Detail Of "Alien Toy" Logo
title Alien Toy Uco (Unidentified Crusing Object): Detail Of "Alien Toy" Logodescription 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 Http://www.track16.com/exhibitions/ruben/ruben.html 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 03, Item 260) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Popular Culture Unidentified Flying Objects Automobiles Political Art Humor Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Logos (Symbols) Performance Art Insite97 Hydraulics Installations (Visual Works) Border Art Video Artcontributor Calisphere -
Search: General View
title Search: General Viewdescription Chicago-based artist Inigo Manglano-Ovalle proposed a transformation of the bullring at Playas de Tijuana for inSITE2000. Working on a scale indicative of the vast site, Manglano-Ovalle transformed the bullring into a large radio telescope searching for "aliens." Titled Search/En Busqueda the piece functioned as a listening device searching the atmosphere for any discernible noise made by aliens. A suspended antenna above a receiving dish located at ground level of the bullring would pick up sounds that in turn would be broadcast, along with the white sound of listening, on speakers surrounding the bullring, as well as on FM radio and the web. The notion of possible contact with aliens both at the border and in space made the piece, according to the artist, "a global event, possibly cosmic." --inSITE2000 Plaza de Toros Monumental de Aguascalientes (Aguascalientes, Mexico) Science, Technology and Industry 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 02, Item 228) Tijuana, Playas de, Baja California Norte, Mexico [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Humor Bull Rings Sculpture (Visual Work) Antennas Mexican-American Border Region Architecture (Object Genre) Radio Telescopes Undocumented Immigrants Extraterrestrial Beings Installations (Visual Works) Insite2000contributor Calisphere -
Century 21: Shack In Courtyard Of The Centro Cultural Tijuana
title Century 21: Shack In Courtyard Of The Centro Cultural Tijuanadescription Architecture and City Planning Centro Cultural Tijuana Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects and Interior Design 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 04, Item 289) With "Century 21" Tijuana artist Marcos Ramirez ERRE created a piece for inSITE94 that captured significant public attention. Located prominently on the plaza of the Centro Cultural Tijuana, Ramirez replicated a common Tijuana shanty house and thereby placed the issue of socio-economic disparity where it would be difficult to avoid. The artist drew a sharp contrast to that of the modern façade of the CECUT and this apparent tension was further underscored when one ventured inside the building to find the trappings of common Mexican life. The installation included documentary photographs of five similar shanty homes. The artist stated that with this work he wanted to point to one of the sore spots of Mexican society and also posit that while some people may live in poverty they live equally with dignity and pride as members of the same society. --inSITE94 [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Ramírez Erre, Marcossubject Dwellings Satire Shacks Real Property Temporary Housing Housing (Concept) Political Art Public Art Insite94 Squatters Settlements Replicas Homelessness Humor Mexican-American Border Region Poverty Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) Sculpture (Visual Work) Architecture (Object Genre) Fences Installations (Visual Works) Border Artcontributor Calisphere -
One Flew Over The Void (Bala Perdida): Border Fence Decorated With Banners Behind Performance Stage
title One Flew Over The Void (Bala Perdida): Border Fence Decorated With Banners Behind Performance Stagedescription Building on a collaborative process that is evident throughout his artistic practice, Javier Téllez's project "One Flew Over the Void (Bala perdida)" involved a sustained engagement with psychiatric patients from the Baja California Mental Health Center in Mexicali to co-create a public event and to document its evolution and final performance. Inspired by the traditional "human cannonball" circus performer, Téllez explored the notion of spatial and mental borders in the context of Tijuana and San Diego, and developed an event that involves sending a "human cannonball" across the border between Mexico and the United States. Through successive creative workshops and exchanges the world's most famous human cannonball, Dave Smith, the psychiatric patients and Téllez collectively devised the backdrop, music, costumes, and radio and television announcements for the event. The performance occurred on August 27 at the site where the Mexico/US border fence disappears into the sea between Playas de Tijuana and Border Field State Park. Finally, Téllez created a video documenting the process and the event. --inSite_05 Imperial Beach, San Diego, California, United States Performing Arts (including Performance Art) Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image was extracted from a DVD-R from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 198, DVD 01) Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) Tijuana, Playas de, Baja California Norte, Mexico [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Téllez, Javiersubject Political Art Spectacular, The Flight Humor Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Public Art Insite_05 Audiences Mexican-American Border Region Performance Art Fences Daredevils Adventure And Adventurers Installations (Visual Works) Border Artcontributor Calisphere -
Aerial Bridge: Model Planes And Pilots
title Aerial Bridge: Model Planes And Pilotsdescription "Aerial Bridge," by Maurycy Gomulicki, brings together diverse members of model airplane clubs in San Diego and Tijuana through a creative process of personalizing model airplanes and co-creating a flying event at the border. In this piece the experience of personal fantasy that is expressed in the designing and building of model planes combines with the unique experience of forging relationships. Scheduled for September 24, 2005, the event was geld at the cemeted riverbed of the Tijuana River, at the point where the yellow border demarcation line painted down the center of the river channel is approximately level with the intersection of the Via Rápida and the border bridge. --inSite_05 Performing Arts (including Performance Art) Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image was extracted from a DVD-R from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 187, DVD 01) Tijuana River Tijuana River, California, United States [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Gomulicki, Maurycysubject Aeronautics Play Flight Humor Hobbies Political Art San Diego (Calif.) Insite_05 Mexican-American Border Region Model Airplane Racing Rockets (Aeronautics) Performance Art Uniforms Contests Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) Toys (Recreational Artifacts) Border Art Riverscontributor Calisphere -
Rain Bow: View With Blinds Open
title Rain Bow: View With Blinds Opendescription San Diego Natural History Museum San Diego-based artist Roman de Salvo created four distinct installations for inSITE94 at the San Diego Natural History Museum. Titled "Rain Bow/Arco de lluvia," "Santa Ana," "Exits/Salidas," and "Mouse Hole/Ratonera," respectively, the pieces were located in areas of the museum not normally used for exhibition. Drawing attention to the marginal with a certain measure of wit, de Salvo's minimal yet rich interjections invited visitors to contemplate freely, without detailed exposition from the artist. With "Rain Bow" engaging the drinking fountain pulls a cord which opens the shutter blinds, revealing an image of a rainbow over the park directly outside the museum. 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 088) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Salvo, Roman Desubject Rainbows Humor Sculpture (Visual Work) Windows Mexican-American Border Region Drinking Fountains Insite94 Installations (Visual Works) Views (Visual Works)contributor Calisphere -
Abandoned Ii
title Abandoned Iidescription Garden and Landscape Originally created for inSITE92 by San Diego artist Michael Schnorr and Swedish artist Ulf Rollof, "Abandonado II" was renovated for inSITE94. The project was from the beginning born of the particular circumstances that describe its location. Situated on an empty lot across the street from the Pacific Ocean at Playas de Tijuana, the installation was intended to serve the numerous abandoned children who live along the border in the beach area. The installation consisted of several pieces constructed from brick and concrete, among them two pieces of fire-heated outdoor furniture, the "Fire Sofa" and "Fire Chair." It also included a shell-like echo chamber titled "Habla/Head - Cabeza/Speak" and a circle of brick school desks titled "The Bricklayers' Class." The installation became a gathering place for locals and a playground for children. - InSITE94 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 04, Item 308) Tijuana, Playas de, Baja California Norte, Mexico [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Homelessness Humor Leisure Sculpture (Visual Work) Public Art Playgrounds Children (People By Age Group) Mexican-American Border Region Outdoor Furniture Chaises Longues Insite94 Artistic Collaboration Insite92 Installations (Visual Works) Border Art Furniturecontributor Calisphere -
America: Wall Of "Flags" Made Of Colored Sand
title America: Wall Of "Flags" Made Of Colored Sanddescription For inSITE94, Japanese artist Yukinori Yanagi contributed two distinct installations titled "Wandering Position/Vagamundos" and "America/America," which were installed at the Santa Fe Depot and the downtown space of the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, respectively. Yanagi's work "America" had been installed previously in variations at different institutions around the world. For this installation the artist chose to include thirty-six flags of each country of the Americas in his elaborate ant farm. Over the course of the exhibition the ants created tunnels through the various flags and the colored sand that was used was gradually mixed, thereby creating new symbols. -- inSITE94 Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego 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 02, Item 416) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Yanagi, Yukinorisubject Sandpaintings Political Art Humor Paintings (Visual Works) Sculpture (Visual Work) Nationalism Performance Art Insite94 Drawings (Visual Works) Process Art Border Art Flagscontributor Calisphere -
Popotla - The Wall Popotla - El Muro: Documentary Video
title Popotla - The Wall Popotla - El Muro: Documentary Videodescription For their InSITE97 Community Engagement project, artist collective RevolcionArte (RevArte) worked with local children and residents of the fishing village Popotla to create murals constructed of found materials to soften and embellish the concrete walls surrounding their community. Popotla had recently been subjected to the development of numerous modern buildings and projects, including the kilometer-long concrete wall constructed for 20th Century Fox's production set for the film Titanic. It was on this wall that the murals were created, giving the residents a sense of ownership over their village and its landscape. Popotla - The Wall/Popotla - El muro, was created over the course of four months, but even after the exhibition was over the community continued to add to the murals. --inSITE97 Popotla, Rosarito, Baja California, Mexico 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 97-11) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Revolucionartesubject Walls Documentaries Humor Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Public Art Children (People By Age Group) Assemblage (Sculpture Technique) Mexican-American Border Region Murals (Any Medium) Insite97 Border Art Video Artcontributor Calisphere -
Century 21: Interior With Dining Table
title Century 21: Interior With Dining Tabledescription Architecture and City Planning Centro Cultural Tijuana Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects and Interior Design 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 04, Item 290) With "Century 21" Tijuana artist Marcos Ramirez ERRE created a piece for inSITE94 that captured significant public attention. Located prominently on the plaza of the Centro Cultural Tijuana, Ramirez replicated a common Tijuana shanty house and thereby placed the issue of socio-economic disparity where it would be difficult to avoid. The artist drew a sharp contrast to that of the modern façade of the CECUT and this apparent tension was further underscored when one ventured inside the building to find the trappings of common Mexican life. The installation included documentary photographs of five similar shanty homes. The artist stated that with this work he wanted to point to one of the sore spots of Mexican society and also posit that while some people may live in poverty they live equally with dignity and pride as members of the same society. --inSITE94 [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Ramírez Erre, Marcossubject Dwellings Satire Shacks Real Property Temporary Housing Ceilings Housing (Concept) Political Art Public Art Insite94 Squatters Settlements Replicas Homelessness Humor Mexican-American Border Region Poverty Dining Rooms Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) Sculpture (Visual Work) Architecture (Object Genre) Installations (Visual Works) Border Artcontributor Calisphere -
Stairway Of The Ancients: Upper Landing With Drunken Figure And Lamppost
title Stairway Of The Ancients: Upper Landing With Drunken Figure And Lamppostdescription "Stairway of the Ancients" is a complex stairway, probably built in the 1920s, leading up to the Casa de la Cultura. It is in disrepair with parts that are eroded or broken. To try to keep within this context, the figurines that MacConnel has cast, purchased from street vendors, are irregular, broken and "antiqued." The "Ancients" are funny, sad, prideful, odd remnants of tourist art. La Escalinata, Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) 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 02, Item 211) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Macconnel, Kimsubject Popular Culture Stairs Aesthetics Graffiti Statues Humor Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Architecture (Object Genre) Decoration And Ornament Insite94 Kitsch Toys (Recreational Artifacts) Installations (Visual Works)contributor Calisphere -
Aerial Bridge: Model Planes And Pilots
title Aerial Bridge: Model Planes And Pilotsdescription "Aerial Bridge," by Maurycy Gomulicki, brings together diverse members of model airplane clubs in San Diego and Tijuana through a creative process of personalizing model airplanes and co-creating a flying event at the border. In this piece the experience of personal fantasy that is expressed in the designing and building of model planes combines with the unique experience of forging relationships. Scheduled for September 24, 2005, the event was geld at the cemeted riverbed of the Tijuana River, at the point where the yellow border demarcation line painted down the center of the river channel is approximately level with the intersection of the Via Rápida and the border bridge. --inSite_05 Performing Arts (including Performance Art) Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image was extracted from a DVD-R from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 187, DVD 01) Tijuana River Tijuana River, California, United States [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Gomulicki, Maurycysubject Aeronautics Play Flight Humor Hobbies Political Art San Diego (Calif.) Insite_05 Mexican-American Border Region Model Airplane Racing Rockets (Aeronautics) Performance Art Uniforms Contests Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) Toys (Recreational Artifacts) Border Art Riverscontributor Calisphere -
The Good Rumor Project
title The Good Rumor Projectdescription "The Good Rumor Project" appropriates and replicates the model of a social experiment. In seeking to invert the more common negative effects of rumor Wrange and his collaborators constructed two "good" rumors: one about people in Tijuana that was spread in San Diego and one about people in San Diego that was spread in Tijuana. In contrast to normal rumors, the "good" rumors were created in dialogue with the actual subjects of the rumors through a series of focus groups. The "good" rumors were disseminated through a multifaceted strategy that combines some of the most advanced marketing techniques - viral/ word of mouth marketing - with structures borrowed from rumor theory as well as recent research on small-world networks and social network analysis. By tracing the organization of the interdependent communication channels in the border zone, as well as the spatial and temporal development of the "good" rumor, Wrange/ OMBUD reveal how Society is predicated on an ever evolving communicative process. --inSite_05 Performing Arts (including Performance Art) Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image was extracted from a DVD-R from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 202, DVD 01) Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Wrange, Måns, 1961-subject Rumor Political Art Humor Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Public Art Insite_05 Mexican-American Border Region Performance Art Focus Groups Communication (Function) Installations (Visual Works) Border Art Information Signscontributor Calisphere -
Mouse Hole
title Mouse Holedescription San Diego Natural History Museum San Diego-based artist Roman de Salvo created four distinct installations for inSITE94 at the San Diego Natural History Museum. Titled "Rain Bow/Arco de lluvia," "Santa Ana," "Exits/Salidas," and "Mouse Hole/Ratonera," respectively, the pieces were located in areas of the museum not normally used for exhibition. Drawing attention to the marginal with a certain measure of wit, de Salvo's minimal yet rich interjections invited visitors to contemplate freely, without detailed exposition from the artist. 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 089) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Salvo, Roman Desubject Pests--Control Mice Humor Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Museums Labels Insite94 Installations (Visual Works)contributor Calisphere -
A Tourist'S Guide To San Diego And Tijuana: General View
title A Tourist'S Guide To San Diego And Tijuana: General Viewdescription For her inSITE97 project, Melanie Smith created "The Tourists' Guide to San Diego and Tijuana/La Guia turistica de San Diego y Tijuana," an installation at 958 Fifth Avenue in downtown San Diego. A spoof on a tourist information agency, the installation included, among other elements, large photographs of the region, postcards with commonly found imagery from the local landscape and city, and a tourist guidebook listing on the back the various hot spots in the city. The installation was a commentary on the massive tourism industry in San Diego and Tijuana and the loss of borders when dealing with consumers and their material desires. --inSITE97 San Diego (Calif.) 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 363) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Tourist Information Centers Humor Tourism Public Art Information Centers (Facilities) Mexican-American Border Region Satire (Artistic Device) Photography Insite97 Postcards Travel Guidebooks Parody Installations (Visual Works) Border Artcontributor Calisphere -
Installation: Model Wearing The Artist'S Clothes
title Installation: Model Wearing The Artist'S Clothesdescription A spoof of the fashion industry, the artist created a "design studio" with finished and unfinished garments on hangars and strewn across the floor of the exhibition space. Unconventional and even dangerous materials were used (bubble wrap, rusty nails, staples, rubber etc.) to construct the clothes and other artists modeled them for a series of photographs. Fashion, Costume and Jewelry Mission Brewery Plaza, San Diego (Calif.) 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 05, Item 320) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Ruff, Daphnesubject Humor Sculpture (Visual Work) Irony Mexican-American Border Region Models (Persons) Performance Art Clothing Insite92 Fashion Parody Installations (Visual Works)contributor Calisphere -
23 September 1994
title 23 September 1994description Estación del Ferrocarril, Colonia Libertad, Baja California Norte, Mexico 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 04, Item 309) Titled "23 September 1994" after the opening date of the entire inSITE94 exhibition, Ulf Rollof's installation consisted of a circular railroad situated at the defunct border rail-crossing site in Colonia Libertad in Tijuana. Just yards from the border fence, one could take a ride on this circular track where a single wagon with five fir trees planted in empty oil drums went around in endless circles to a dizzying effect. However, rather than being transported around on the track itself there was just a single seat at the hub of the circle and the view from the seat was directed straight at the fir trees, so that although movement occurred the outlook one had remained the same. -- inSITE94 [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Political Art Humor Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Irony Machinery Mexican-American Border Region Railroad Stations Insite94 Installations (Visual Works) Border Art Perspectivecontributor Calisphere -
Alien Toy Uco (Unidentified Cruising Object): Project Documentation
title Alien Toy Uco (Unidentified Cruising Object): Project Documentationdescription 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.artist/creator Ortiz Torres, Rubénsubject Popular Culture Unidentified Flying Objects Automobiles Documentaries Humor Political Art Sculpture (Visual Work) Marionettes Mexican-American Border Region Logos (Symbols) Performance Art Toys (Recreational Artifacts) Insite97 Installations (Visual Works) Border Art Video Artcontributor Calisphere -
America: Detail Of Ants Removing Sand From U.S. "Flag"
title America: Detail Of Ants Removing Sand From U.S. "Flag"description For inSITE94, Japanese artist Yukinori Yanagi contributed two distinct installations titled "Wandering Position/Vagamundos" and "America/America," which were installed at the Santa Fe Depot and the downtown space of the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, respectively. Yanagi's work "America" had been installed previously in variations at different institutions around the world. For this installation the artist chose to include thirty-six flags of each country of the Americas in his elaborate ant farm. Over the course of the exhibition the ants created tunnels through the various flags and the colored sand that was used was gradually mixed, thereby creating new symbols. -- inSITE94 Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego 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 02, Item 417) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Yanagi, Yukinorisubject Sandpaintings Political Art Humor Paintings (Visual Works) Sculpture (Visual Work) Nationalism Performance Art Insite94 Drawings (Visual Works) Process Art Border Art Flagscontributor Calisphere -
Century 21
title Century 21description Architecture and City Planning Centro Cultural Tijuana Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects and Interior Design 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 04, Item 291) With "Century 21" Tijuana artist Marcos Ramirez ERRE created a piece for inSITE94 that captured significant public attention. Located prominently on the plaza of the Centro Cultural Tijuana, Ramirez replicated a common Tijuana shanty house and thereby placed the issue of socio-economic disparity where it would be difficult to avoid. The artist drew a sharp contrast to that of the modern façade of the CECUT and this apparent tension was further underscored when one ventured inside the building to find the trappings of common Mexican life. The installation included documentary photographs of five similar shanty homes. The artist stated that with this work he wanted to point to one of the sore spots of Mexican society and also posit that while some people may live in poverty they live equally with dignity and pride as members of the same society. --inSITE94 [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Dwellings Satire Shacks Real Property Temporary Housing Housing (Concept) Political Art Public Art Insite94 Squatters Settlements Replicas Homelessness Humor Mexican-American Border Region Poverty Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) Sculpture (Visual Work) Architecture (Object Genre) Fences Installations (Visual Works) Border Artcontributor Calisphere -
The Jewel / In God We Trust: Junk Car Covered In Gold Leaf In Luxury Car Dealer Showroom
title The Jewel / In God We Trust: Junk Car Covered In Gold Leaf In Luxury Car Dealer Showroomdescription João Louro's project "The Jewel / In God We Trust" traces the inverted trajectory of the recycling dynamic that characterizes the border zone. His project begins with the selection of a European car recovered from a junkyard in Tijuana and transformed into a "jewel" through the addition of a skin of gold leaf. Once this trash object is transformed into a opulent gold sculpture it will be exhibited and auctioned in San Diego. Proceeds from the sale will be given to an elementary school in Tijuana and used to support visual art workshops for children, where students will be encouraged to add further layers of imagery to the paper money. --inSite_05 La Jolla, San Diego (Calif.) Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image was extracted from a DVD-R from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 189, DVD 01) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Louro, Joãosubject Automobiles Junkyards Humor Junk Sculpture Sculpture (Visual Work) Consumers Automobile Showrooms Insite_05 Mexican-American Border Region Poverty Wealth Performance Art Recycling Parody Installations (Visual Works) Border Art Ruinscontributor Calisphere -
Stairway Of The Ancients: Mid-Level Left Turn With Toltec, Guadalupe
title Stairway Of The Ancients: Mid-Level Left Turn With Toltec, Guadalupedescription "Stairway of the Ancients" is a complex stairway, probably built in the 1920s, leading up to the Casa de la Cultura. It is in disrepair with parts that are eroded or broken. To try to keep within this context, the figurines that MacConnel has cast, purchased from street vendors, are irregular, broken and "antiqued." The "Ancients" are funny, sad, prideful, odd remnants of tourist art. La Escalinata, Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) 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 02, Item 212) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Macconnel, Kimsubject Popular Culture Stairs Aesthetics Graffiti Statues Humor Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Architecture (Object Genre) Decoration And Ornament Insite94 Kitsch Toys (Recreational Artifacts) Installations (Visual Works)contributor Calisphere -
By The Night Tide
title By The Night Tidedescription Garden and Landscape Installed on the Mexican side of the border, "By the Night Tide/Junto a la marea nocturna" consisted of three sculptures that suggested ships made of wire mesh with catapults that could send coconuts across the border fence toward the US side. Performing Arts (including Performance 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 309, Folder 04, Item 108) Tijuana, Playas de, Baja California Norte, Mexico [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Walls Humor Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Catapults (Ancient Weapons) Mexican-American Border Region Vessels Insite94 Oceans Weapons Border Artcontributor Calisphere -
Aerial Bridge: Model Helicopter In Flight
title Aerial Bridge: Model Helicopter In Flightdescription "Aerial Bridge," by Maurycy Gomulicki, brings together diverse members of model airplane clubs in San Diego and Tijuana through a creative process of personalizing model airplanes and co-creating a flying event at the border. In this piece the experience of personal fantasy that is expressed in the designing and building of model planes combines with the unique experience of forging relationships. Scheduled for September 24, 2005, the event was geld at the cemeted riverbed of the Tijuana River, at the point where the yellow border demarcation line painted down the center of the river channel is approximately level with the intersection of the Via Rápida and the border bridge. --inSite_05 Performing Arts (including Performance Art) Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image was extracted from a DVD-R from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 187, DVD 01) Tijuana River Tijuana River, California, United States [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Gomulicki, Maurycysubject Aeronautics Play Flight Humor Hobbies Political Art San Diego (Calif.) Insite_05 Mexican-American Border Region Model Airplane Racing Performance Art Contests Helicopters Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) Toys (Recreational Artifacts) Border Artcontributor Calisphere -
Techno-Balero: Detail View Of Market
title Techno-Balero: Detail View Of Marketdescription Pasaje Gómez Market, Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) San Diego-based artist Roman de Salvo created a project for inSITE2000 that followed his line of tongue-in-cheek works while at the same time cleverly pointing at issues of relevance and depth in contemporary culture and society. Using the balero, an iconic, inexpensive Mexican toy most often bought by tourists visiting Tijuana, de Salvo created the simulation of a high-tech video arcade game. With elements high and low coming together, de Salvo installed three "Techno-balero" stations in a typical downtown Tijuana market where one could play the baleros by manipulating a joystick that moved a mock "video" screen or, in actuality, a low-tech blinky image, showing the balero being played. As participants would successfully win each time the game was played, chimes connected to the joystick would ring in the background. --inSITE2000 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 090) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Salvo, Roman Desubject Humor Color Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Tops Mexican-American Border Region Insite2000 Games Installations (Visual Works) Border Artcontributor Calisphere -
The Good Rumor Project
title The Good Rumor Projectdescription "The Good Rumor Project" appropriates and replicates the model of a social experiment. In seeking to invert the more common negative effects of rumor Wrange and his collaborators constructed two "good" rumors: one about people in Tijuana that was spread in San Diego and one about people in San Diego that was spread in Tijuana. In contrast to normal rumors, the "good" rumors were created in dialogue with the actual subjects of the rumors through a series of focus groups. The "good" rumors were disseminated through a multifaceted strategy that combines some of the most advanced marketing techniques - viral/ word of mouth marketing - with structures borrowed from rumor theory as well as recent research on small-world networks and social network analysis. By tracing the organization of the interdependent communication channels in the border zone, as well as the spatial and temporal development of the "good" rumor, Wrange/ OMBUD reveal how Society is predicated on an ever evolving communicative process. --inSite_05 Performing Arts (including Performance Art) Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image was extracted from a DVD-R from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 202, DVD 01) Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Wrange, Måns, 1961-subject Rumor Political Art Humor Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Public Art Insite_05 Mexican-American Border Region Performance Art Focus Groups Communication (Function) Installations (Visual Works) Border Art Information Signscontributor Calisphere -
Horn Of Fuentes
title Horn Of Fuentesdescription Architecture and City Planning As a late inclusion in inSITE94, Lee Boroson's project grew out of his extended involvement with inSITE as Head Preparator. Located at Agua Caliente in Tijuana and sited over one of the tiled fountains around the central pool, Boroson's installation consisted of a wooden canopy structure trapping cloth-covered balloons. --inSITE94 Centro Escolar Agua Caliente (Tijuana, Mexico) 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 309, Folder 02, Item 047) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Humor Pavilions (Garden Structures) Mexican-American Border Region Architecture (Object Genre) Decoration And Ornament Insite94 Public Sculpture Renovation Border Art Fountainscontributor Calisphere -
23 September 1994: General View
title 23 September 1994: General Viewdescription Estación del Ferrocarril, Colonia Libertad, Baja California Norte, Mexico 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 04, Item 310) Titled "23 September 1994" after the opening date of the entire inSITE94 exhibition, Ulf Rollof's installation consisted of a circular railroad situated at the defunct border rail-crossing site in Colonia Libertad in Tijuana. Just yards from the border fence, one could take a ride on this circular track where a single wagon with five fir trees planted in empty oil drums went around in endless circles to a dizzying effect. However, rather than being transported around on the track itself there was just a single seat at the hub of the circle and the view from the seat was directed straight at the fir trees, so that although movement occurred the outlook one had remained the same. -- inSITE94 [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Political Art Humor Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Irony Machinery Mexican-American Border Region Railroad Stations Insite94 Installations (Visual Works) Border Art Perspectivecontributor Calisphere -
America: Wall Of "Flags" Made Of Colored Sand
title America: Wall Of "Flags" Made Of Colored Sanddescription For inSITE94, Japanese artist Yukinori Yanagi contributed two distinct installations titled "Wandering Position/Vagamundos" and "America/America," which were installed at the Santa Fe Depot and the downtown space of the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, respectively. Yanagi's work "America" had been installed previously in variations at different institutions around the world. For this installation the artist chose to include thirty-six flags of each country of the Americas in his elaborate ant farm. Over the course of the exhibition the ants created tunnels through the various flags and the colored sand that was used was gradually mixed, thereby creating new symbols. -- inSITE94 Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego 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 02, Item 418) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Sandpaintings Political Art Humor Paintings (Visual Works) Sculpture (Visual Work) Nationalism Performance Art Insite94 Drawings (Visual Works) Process Art Border Art Flagscontributor Calisphere -
Tijuana'S Most Wanted Painting / San Diego'S Most Wanted Painting: Exhibition Of Paintings At The San Diego Museum Of Art
title Tijuana'S Most Wanted Painting / San Diego'S Most Wanted Painting: Exhibition Of Paintings At The San Diego Museum Of Artdescription Centro Cultural Tijuana Drawings and Watercolors Paintings Russian artist collaborators Vitaly Komar and Alex Melamid continued their "Most Wanted Paintings" series for inSITE2000, a series that employs a democratic process in creating "people's art" based on the aesthetic desires of the general population in a given area or country. As in previous versions of the series, the artists used multiple-choice survey questionnaires to discern, statistically, the personal preferences in art. The surveys were conducted in San Diego and Tijuana by graduate students from San Diego State University and from the Colegio de la Frontera Norte over the course of several weeks. The artists then used the data collected to create two paintings, San Diego's Most Wanted Painting and Tijuana's Most Wanted Painting. The two paintings were on view first at the San Diego Museum of Art and subsequently at the Centro Cultural Tijuana. --inSITE2000 San Diego Museum of 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 310, Folder 01, Item 195) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Conceptual Popular Culture Questionnaires Aesthetics Democracy Humor Paintings (Visual Works) Boundaries Public Art Installations (Exhibitions) Mexican-American Border Region Insite2000 Exhibitions (Events) Installations (Visual Works) Border Artcontributor Calisphere -
Toy-An-Horse: Construction Drawing
title Toy-An-Horse: Construction Drawingdescription For inSITE97, Marcos Ramirez ERRE collaborated with several artists to construct "Toy an Horse," a monumental wood and metal replica of the iconic Trojan Horse. Installed directly on top of the monument marking the border about 50 meters from the border cross-checkpoint at San Ysidro, the horse was visible to the 50,000 people crossing the border by car every day. Ramirez stated that the purpose of the project was to use the narrative symbolism of the Trojan horse to stimulate discussion about the border, invasion, cultural exchange, and dependency. --inSITE97 San Ysidro (San Diego, Calif.) 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 04, Item 292) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Border Crossing Boundaries Satire (Artistic Device) Insite97 Horses Trojan War Political Art Public Art Economics Emigration And Immigration Humor Mexican-American Border Region Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) Blueprints Sculpture (Visual Work) Architecture (Object Genre) Drawings (Visual Works) Trojan Horse (Greek Mythology) Installations (Visual Works) Border Art Janus-Facedcontributor Calisphere -
Stairway Of The Ancients: Upper Level Right With Toltec Feet, Rooster
title Stairway Of The Ancients: Upper Level Right With Toltec Feet, Roosterdescription "Stairway of the Ancients" is a complex stairway, probably built in the 1920s, leading up to the Casa de la Cultura. It is in disrepair with parts that are eroded or broken. To try to keep within this context, the figurines that MacConnel has cast, purchased from street vendors, are irregular, broken and "antiqued." The "Ancients" are funny, sad, prideful, odd remnants of tourist art. La Escalinata, Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) 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 02, Item 213) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Macconnel, Kimsubject Popular Culture Stairs Aesthetics Graffiti Statues Humor Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Architecture (Object Genre) Decoration And Ornament Insite94 Kitsch Toys (Recreational Artifacts) Installations (Visual Works)contributor Calisphere -
The Jewel / In God We Trust: Junk Car Covered In Gold Leaf In Luxury Car Dealer Showroom
title The Jewel / In God We Trust: Junk Car Covered In Gold Leaf In Luxury Car Dealer Showroomdescription João Louro's project "The Jewel / In God We Trust" traces the inverted trajectory of the recycling dynamic that characterizes the border zone. His project begins with the selection of a European car recovered from a junkyard in Tijuana and transformed into a "jewel" through the addition of a skin of gold leaf. Once this trash object is transformed into a opulent gold sculpture it will be exhibited and auctioned in San Diego. Proceeds from the sale will be given to an elementary school in Tijuana and used to support visual art workshops for children, where students will be encouraged to add further layers of imagery to the paper money. --inSite_05 La Jolla, San Diego (Calif.) Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image was extracted from a DVD-R from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 189, DVD 01) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Louro, Joãosubject Automobiles Junkyards Humor Junk Sculpture Sculpture (Visual Work) Consumers Automobile Showrooms Insite_05 Mexican-American Border Region Poverty Wealth Performance Art Recycling Parody Installations (Visual Works) Border Art Ruinscontributor Calisphere -
Aerial Bridge: Yellow Border Line And Border Patrol
title Aerial Bridge: Yellow Border Line And Border Patroldescription "Aerial Bridge," by Maurycy Gomulicki, brings together diverse members of model airplane clubs in San Diego and Tijuana through a creative process of personalizing model airplanes and co-creating a flying event at the border. In this piece the experience of personal fantasy that is expressed in the designing and building of model planes combines with the unique experience of forging relationships. Scheduled for September 24, 2005, the event was geld at the cemeted riverbed of the Tijuana River, at the point where the yellow border demarcation line painted down the center of the river channel is approximately level with the intersection of the Via Rápida and the border bridge. --inSite_05 Performing Arts (including Performance Art) Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image was extracted from a DVD-R from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 187, DVD 01) Tijuana River Tijuana River, California, United States [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Gomulicki, Maurycysubject Boundaries Hobbies San Diego (Calif.) Political Art Flight Insite_05 Performance Art Uniforms Contests Lines (Artistic Concept) Border Patrols Aeronautics Humor Mexican-American Border Region Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) Play Model Airplane Racing Toys (Recreational Artifacts) Border Artcontributor Calisphere -
Techno-Balero: Detail View Of Market
title Techno-Balero: Detail View Of Marketdescription Pasaje Gómez Market, Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) San Diego-based artist Roman de Salvo created a project for inSITE2000 that followed his line of tongue-in-cheek works while at the same time cleverly pointing at issues of relevance and depth in contemporary culture and society. Using the balero, an iconic, inexpensive Mexican toy most often bought by tourists visiting Tijuana, de Salvo created the simulation of a high-tech video arcade game. With elements high and low coming together, de Salvo installed three "Techno-balero" stations in a typical downtown Tijuana market where one could play the baleros by manipulating a joystick that moved a mock "video" screen or, in actuality, a low-tech blinky image, showing the balero being played. As participants would successfully win each time the game was played, chimes connected to the joystick would ring in the background. --inSITE2000 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 091) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Salvo, Roman Desubject Humor Color Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Tops Mexican-American Border Region Insite2000 Games Installations (Visual Works) Border Artcontributor Calisphere -
Horn Of Fuentes
title Horn Of Fuentesdescription Architecture and City Planning As a late inclusion in inSITE94, Lee Boroson's project grew out of his extended involvement with inSITE as Head Preparator. Located at Agua Caliente in Tijuana and sited over one of the tiled fountains around the central pool, Boroson's installation consisted of a wooden canopy structure trapping cloth-covered balloons. -- inSITE94 Centro Escolar Agua Caliente (Tijuana, Mexico) 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 309, Folder 02, Item 048) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Humor Pavilions (Garden Structures) Mexican-American Border Region Architecture (Object Genre) Decoration And Ornament Insite94 Public Sculpture Renovation Border Artcontributor Calisphere -
Under The Table: General View
title Under The Table: General Viewdescription Los Angeles-based artist Robert Therrien's work for inSITE94 was titled "Under the Table/Debajo de la mesa." Sited at the Santa Fe Depot, the work consisted of an oversized dining table and four chairs. Playing with the scale of everyday objects, the work dwarfed the viewer and proposed a reconsideration of the conventional relationship between the participants and their environment. --inSITE94 Santa Fe Depot (San Diego, Calif.) 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 379) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Scale (Relative Size) Humor Sculpture (Visual Work) Colossi Insite94 Installations (Visual Works) Furniturecontributor Calisphere -
America: Detail Of Plexiglas Case Where Ants Bring Colored Sand From "Flags"
title America: Detail Of Plexiglas Case Where Ants Bring Colored Sand From "Flags"description For inSITE94, Japanese artist Yukinori Yanagi contributed two distinct installations titled "Wandering Position/Vagamundos" and "America/America," which were installed at the Santa Fe Depot and the downtown space of the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, respectively. Yanagi's work "America" had been installed previously in variations at different institutions around the world. For this installation the artist chose to include thirty-six flags of each country of the Americas in his elaborate ant farm. Over the course of the exhibition the ants created tunnels through the various flags and the colored sand that was used was gradually mixed, thereby creating new symbols. -- inSITE94 Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego 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 02, Item 419) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Sandpaintings Political Art Humor Paintings (Visual Works) Sculpture (Visual Work) Nationalism Performance Art Insite94 Drawings (Visual Works) Process Art Border Art Flagscontributor Calisphere -
El Round Nuestro De Cada Día: General View Of "Boxers" In Ring
title El Round Nuestro De Cada Día: General View Of "Boxers" In Ringdescription Manolo Escutia's inSITE97 work, "El round nuestro de cada día/Our Daily Rounds," consisted of four monumentally scaled boxing figures in the style of traditional small wooden Mexican "thumb toys." Made to be fully operable by the viewer, the boxers were installed at the Palenque (cock-fighting pit) in Playas de Tijuana. In a statement about the work, Escutia referred to the endless fighting humans engage in, against the struggles of daily life, others, and the self. His work presented the stage for confrontation, but left it to the viewer to either realize victory or admit defeat. --inSITE97 Palenque, Cortijo San Jose, Tijuana, Playas de, Baja California Norte, Mexico Performing Arts (including Performance 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 309, Folder 04, Item 113) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Boxers (Sports) Arenas Battles Political Art Cockfighting Humor Sculpture (Visual Work) Public Art Mexican-American Border Region Violence Performance Art Toys (Recreational Artifacts) Insite97 Installations (Visual Works) Border Artcontributor Calisphere -
Toy An Horse: Installed At The U.S.-Mexico Border Crossing
title Toy An Horse: Installed At The U.S.-Mexico Border Crossingdescription For inSITE97, Marcos Ramirez ERRE collaborated with several artists to construct "Toy an Horse," a monumental wood and metal replica of the iconic Trojan Horse. Installed directly on top of the monument marking the border about 50 meters from the border cross-checkpoint at San Ysidro, the horse was visible to the 50,000 people crossing the border by car every day. Ramirez stated that the purpose of the project was to use the narrative symbolism of the Trojan horse to stimulate discussion about the border, invasion, cultural exchange, and dependency. --inSITE97 San Ysidro (San Diego, Calif.) 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 04, Item 293) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Border Crossing Boundaries Satire (Artistic Device) Insite97 Horses Trojan War Political Art Public Art Economics Emigration And Immigration Humor Mexican-American Border Region Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) Sculpture (Visual Work) Architecture (Object Genre) Trojan Horse (Greek Mythology) Installations (Visual Works) Border Art Janus-Facedcontributor Calisphere -
One Flew Over The Void (Bala Perdida): Video Documentation: Human Cannonball David Smith Ascends From Cannon And Across Border Fence
title One Flew Over The Void (Bala Perdida): Video Documentation: Human Cannonball David Smith Ascends From Cannon And Across Border Fencedescription Building on a collaborative process that is evident throughout his artistic practice, Javier Téllez's project "One Flew Over the Void (Bala perdida)" involved a sustained engagement with psychiatric patients from the Baja California Mental Health Center in Mexicali to co-create a public event and to document its evolution and final performance. Inspired by the traditional "human cannonball" circus performer, Téllez explored the notion of spatial and mental borders in the context of Tijuana and San Diego, and developed an event that involves sending a "human cannonball" across the border between Mexico and the United States. Through successive creative workshops and exchanges the world's most famous human cannonball, Dave Smith, the psychiatric patients and Téllez collectively devised the backdrop, music, costumes, and radio and television announcements for the event. The performance occurred on August 27 at the site where the Mexico/US border fence disappears into the sea between Playas de Tijuana and Border Field State Park. Finally, Téllez created a video documenting the process and the event. --inSite_05 Imperial Beach, San Diego, California, United States Performing Arts (including Performance Art) 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 257, DVD 05-49) Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) Tijuana, Playas de, Baja California Norte, Mexico [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Téllez, Javiersubject Boundaries Installations (Visual Works) Psychiatric Hospitals Daredevils Adventure And Adventurers Patients Political Art Flight Public Art Insite_05 Audiences Performance Art Musicians Spectacular, The Humor Cannons (Artillery) Mexican-American Border Region Caricatures Sculpture (Visual Work) Fences Masks Border Artcontributor Calisphere -
The Jewel / In God We Trust: Junk Car Covered In Gold Leaf In Luxury Car Dealer Showroom: View From Street
title The Jewel / In God We Trust: Junk Car Covered In Gold Leaf In Luxury Car Dealer Showroom: View From Streetdescription João Louro's project "The Jewel / In God We Trust" traces the inverted trajectory of the recycling dynamic that characterizes the border zone. His project begins with the selection of a European car recovered from a junkyard in Tijuana and transformed into a "jewel" through the addition of a skin of gold leaf. Once this trash object is transformed into a opulent gold sculpture it will be exhibited and auctioned in San Diego. Proceeds from the sale will be given to an elementary school in Tijuana and used to support visual art workshops for children, where students will be encouraged to add further layers of imagery to the paper money. --inSite_05 La Jolla, San Diego (Calif.) Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image was extracted from a DVD-R from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 189, DVD 01) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Louro, Joãosubject Automobiles Junkyards Humor Junk Sculpture Sculpture (Visual Work) Consumers Automobile Showrooms Insite_05 Mexican-American Border Region Poverty Wealth Performance Art Ferrari, S.P.A Recycling Parody Installations (Visual Works) Border Art Ruinscontributor Calisphere -
Stairway Of The Ancients: Upper Level View Of Tijuana With Buddha And Bart Simpson
title Stairway Of The Ancients: Upper Level View Of Tijuana With Buddha And Bart Simpsondescription "Stairway of the Ancients" is a complex stairway, probably built in the 1920s, leading up to the Casa de la Cultura. It is in disrepair with parts that are eroded or broken. To try to keep within this context, the figurines that MacConnel has cast, purchased from street vendors, are irregular, broken and "antiqued." The "Ancients" are funny, sad, prideful, odd remnants of tourist art. La Escalinata, Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) 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 02, Item 214) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Macconnel, Kimsubject Popular Culture Stairs Aesthetics Graffiti Statues Humor Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Architecture (Object Genre) Decoration And Ornament Insite94 Kitsch Toys (Recreational Artifacts) Installations (Visual Works)contributor Calisphere -
A Lesson In Civics
title A Lesson In Civicsdescription Casa de la Cultura de Tijuana Paintings 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 01, Item 203) With her project for inSITE94, San Diego artist Jean Lowe created an installation that mirrored much of her previous work as a cunning commentary on an issue relevant to the current times. At the Casa de la Cultura Municipal in Tijuana, Lowe chose to rework the interior of one classroom. Entitled "A Lesson in Civics/Una lección de civismo," the classroom was richly outfitted with elements such as school desks, books, educational charts, and posters created by the artist in painted papier-mâché that distinctly referenced the topic of civics and how we learn to relate to other species. As the artist herself said about the work, she wanted to create an environment that encouraged a rethinking of the already known. --inSITE94 [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Libraries Political Art Humor Books Education Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Animal Culture Classrooms Insite94 Kitsch Parody Installations (Visual Works)contributor Calisphere -
Aerial Bridge: Toy Helicopter Flying Over Yellow U.S. - Mexico Border Demarcation Line
title Aerial Bridge: Toy Helicopter Flying Over Yellow U.S. - Mexico Border Demarcation Linedescription "Aerial Bridge," by Maurycy Gomulicki, brings together diverse members of model airplane clubs in San Diego and Tijuana through a creative process of personalizing model airplanes and co-creating a flying event at the border. In this piece the experience of personal fantasy that is expressed in the designing and building of model planes combines with the unique experience of forging relationships. Scheduled for September 24, 2005, the event was geld at the cemeted riverbed of the Tijuana River, at the point where the yellow border demarcation line painted down the center of the river channel is approximately level with the intersection of the Via Rápida and the border bridge. --inSite_05 Performing Arts (including Performance Art) Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image was extracted from a DVD-R from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 187, DVD 01) Tijuana River Tijuana River, California, United States [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Gomulicki, Maurycysubject Boundaries Hobbies San Diego (Calif.) Rockets (Aeronautics) Political Art Flight Insite_05 Performance Art Contests Rivers Lines (Artistic Concept) Aeronautics Humor Mexican-American Border Region Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) Play Model Airplane Racing Toys (Recreational Artifacts) Border Artcontributor Calisphere -
Techno-Balero: Detail View Of Market
title Techno-Balero: Detail View Of Marketdescription Pasaje Gómez Market, Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) San Diego-based artist Roman de Salvo created a project for inSITE2000 that followed his line of tongue-in-cheek works while at the same time cleverly pointing at issues of relevance and depth in contemporary culture and society. Using the balero, an iconic, inexpensive Mexican toy most often bought by tourists visiting Tijuana, de Salvo created the simulation of a high-tech video arcade game. With elements high and low coming together, de Salvo installed three "Techno-balero" stations in a typical downtown Tijuana market where one could play the baleros by manipulating a joystick that moved a mock "video" screen or, in actuality, a low-tech blinky image, showing the balero being played. As participants would successfully win each time the game was played, chimes connected to the joystick would ring in the background. --inSITE2000 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 092) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Salvo, Roman Desubject Humor Color Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Tops Mexican-American Border Region Insite2000 Games Installations (Visual Works) Border Artcontributor Calisphere -
You Can'T Get There From Here
title You Can'T Get There From Heredescription Centro Cultural de la Raza (San Diego, Calif.) Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) The collaborative contribution to inSITE94 by San Diego artists Mario Lara and Barbara Sexton, "You Can't Get There from Here/No puedes ir allá desde aquí," was located at the Centro Cultural de la Raza in San Diego. Consisting of two main elements, the installation dealt with the relationship between trophies of achievement and the individual self-image that often dispels the very essence of what is publicly recognized. The artists created numerous plaques and trophies that were displayed salon style on the walls of the space, while the other central element, a billboard prop, outwardly proclaimed the word PARADISO. - inSITE94 This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 01, Item 200) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Collaboration Humor Pistols Collage--Technique Border Art Mexican-American Border Region Kitsch Insite94 Maps Plaques (Flat Objects) Trophies (Objects) Installations (Visual Works) Californiacontributor Calisphere -
Horn Of Fuentes
title Horn Of Fuentesdescription Architecture and City Planning As a late inclusion in inSITE94, Lee Boroson's project grew out of his extended involvement with inSITE as Head Preparator. Located at Agua Caliente in Tijuana and sited over one of the tiled fountains around the central pool, Boroson's installation consisted of a wooden canopy structure trapping cloth-covered balloons. -- inSITE94 Centro Escolar Agua Caliente (Tijuana, Mexico) 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 309, Folder 02, Item 049) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Humor Pavilions (Garden Structures) Mexican-American Border Region Architecture (Object Genre) Decoration And Ornament Insite94 Public Sculpture Renovation Border Art Fountainscontributor Calisphere -
Under The Table: View From Under The Gigantic Table And Chairs
title Under The Table: View From Under The Gigantic Table And Chairsdescription Los Angeles-based artist Robert Therrien's work for inSITE94 was titled "Under the Table/Debajo de la mesa." Sited at the Santa Fe Depot, the work consisted of an oversized dining table and four chairs. Playing with the scale of everyday objects, the work dwarfed the viewer and proposed a reconsideration of the conventional relationship between the participants and their environment. --inSITE94 Santa Fe Depot (San Diego, Calif.) 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 380) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Scale (Relative Size) Humor Sculpture (Visual Work) Colossi Insite94 Installations (Visual Works) Furniturecontributor Calisphere -
America: Detail Of Canadian And United States "Flags"
title America: Detail Of Canadian And United States "Flags"description For inSITE94, Japanese artist Yukinori Yanagi contributed two distinct installations titled "Wandering Position/Vagamundos" and "America/America," which were installed at the Santa Fe Depot and the downtown space of the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, respectively. Yanagi's work "America" had been installed previously in variations at different institutions around the world. For this installation the artist chose to include thirty-six flags of each country of the Americas in his elaborate ant farm. Over the course of the exhibition the ants created tunnels through the various flags and the colored sand that was used was gradually mixed, thereby creating new symbols. -- inSITE94 Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego 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 02, Item 420) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Yanagi, Yukinorisubject Sandpaintings Political Art Humor Paintings (Visual Works) Sculpture (Visual Work) Nationalism Performance Art Insite94 Drawings (Visual Works) Process Art Border Art Flagscontributor Calisphere -
Toy An Horse: Installed At The U.S.-Mexico Border Crossing
title Toy An Horse: Installed At The U.S.-Mexico Border Crossingdescription For inSITE97, Marcos Ramirez ERRE collaborated with several artists to construct "Toy an Horse," a monumental wood and metal replica of the iconic Trojan Horse. Installed directly on top of the monument marking the border about 50 meters from the border cross-checkpoint at San Ysidro, the horse was visible to the 50,000 people crossing the border by car every day. Ramirez stated that the purpose of the project was to use the narrative symbolism of the Trojan horse to stimulate discussion about the border, invasion, cultural exchange, and dependency. --inSITE97 San Ysidro (San Diego, Calif.) 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 04, Item 294) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Border Crossing Boundaries Satire (Artistic Device) Insite97 Horses Trojan War Political Art Public Art Economics Emigration And Immigration Humor Mexican-American Border Region Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) Sculpture (Visual Work) Architecture (Object Genre) Trojan Horse (Greek Mythology) Installations (Visual Works) Border Art Janus-Facedcontributor Calisphere -
The Jewel / In God We Trust: Junk Car Covered In Gold Leaf In Luxury Car Dealer Showroom
title The Jewel / In God We Trust: Junk Car Covered In Gold Leaf In Luxury Car Dealer Showroomdescription João Louro's project "The Jewel / In God We Trust" traces the inverted trajectory of the recycling dynamic that characterizes the border zone. His project begins with the selection of a European car recovered from a junkyard in Tijuana and transformed into a "jewel" through the addition of a skin of gold leaf. Once this trash object is transformed into a opulent gold sculpture it will be exhibited and auctioned in San Diego. Proceeds from the sale will be given to an elementary school in Tijuana and used to support visual art workshops for children, where students will be encouraged to add further layers of imagery to the paper money. --inSite_05 La Jolla, San Diego (Calif.) Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image was extracted from a DVD-R from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 189, DVD 01) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Louro, Joãosubject Automobiles Junkyards Humor Junk Sculpture Sculpture (Visual Work) Consumers Automobile Showrooms Insite_05 Mexican-American Border Region Poverty Receptions Performance Art Wealth Recycling Parody Installations (Visual Works) Border Art Ruinscontributor Calisphere -
Stairway Of The Ancients: Stairs Above Mid-Level With Girl Reading, Virgin Of Guadalupe, Bassett, Porky
title Stairway Of The Ancients: Stairs Above Mid-Level With Girl Reading, Virgin Of Guadalupe, Bassett, Porkydescription "Stairway of the Ancients" is a complex stairway, probably built in the 1920s, leading up to the Casa de la Cultura. It is in disrepair with parts that are eroded or broken. To try to keep within this context, the figurines that MacConnel has cast, purchased from street vendors, are irregular, broken and "antiqued." The "Ancients" are funny, sad, prideful, odd remnants of tourist art. La Escalinata, Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) 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 02, Item 215) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Macconnel, Kimsubject Popular Culture Stairs Aesthetics Graffiti Statues Humor Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Architecture (Object Genre) Decoration And Ornament Insite94 Kitsch Toys (Recreational Artifacts) Installations (Visual Works)contributor Calisphere -
A Lesson In Civics
title A Lesson In Civicsdescription Casa de la Cultura de Tijuana Paintings 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 01, Item 204) With her project for inSITE94, San Diego artist Jean Lowe created an installation that mirrored much of her previous work as a cunning commentary on an issue relevant to the current times. At the Casa de la Cultura Municipal in Tijuana, Lowe chose to rework the interior of one classroom. Entitled "A Lesson in Civics/Una lección de civismo," the classroom was richly outfitted with elements such as school desks, books, educational charts, and posters created by the artist in painted papier-mâché that distinctly referenced the topic of civics and how we learn to relate to other species. As the artist herself said about the work, she wanted to create an environment that encouraged a rethinking of the already known. --inSITE94 [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Libraries Political Art Humor Books Education Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Animal Culture Classrooms Insite94 Kitsch Parody Installations (Visual Works)contributor Calisphere