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  Alien Toy Uco (Unidentified Crusing Object): Detail Of "Alien Toy" Logo

  title Alien Toy Uco (Unidentified Crusing Object): Detail Of "Alien Toy" Logo 

  description 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. 

  artist/creator Ortiz Torres, Rubén  Reo, Sharon A. 

  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 Art 

  contributor Calisphere