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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

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The Great Balboa Park Landfill Exposition Of 1997: Sculptures Made From Adobe And Hay

title The Great Balboa Park Landfill Exposition Of 1997: Sculptures Made From Adobe And Hay

description Balboa Park (San Diego, Calif.) Cindy Zimmerman's Community Engagement project for inSITE97 was the development of a new park environment at the landfill adjacent to Florida Canyon in Balboa Park. Constructing the piece over several months, Zimmerman involved children and families in the creation and placement of straw bales and clay in the landfill to make labyrinths, temporary earthworks, and adobe structures. "The Great Balboa Park Landfill Exposition of 1997/La gran exposicion del relleno del Balboa Park 1997" transformed an unused and unattractive plot of land into a new community park and art installation. Zimmerman led workshops and meetings throughout the project to involve the community and collaborate with the participants to create art from organic materials. -- inSITE97 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 311, Folder 02, Item 426) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Zimmerman, Cindy Weissenburger, Renee

subject Landfills Community Arts Projects Play Workshops (Seminars) Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Insite97 Renovation Installations (Visual Works) Artistic Collaboration

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No Title: Detail

title No Title: Detail

description Installed in the basement of the Children's Museum in downtown San Diego, Quisqueya Henriquez's inSITE97 piece presented the viewer with an ordered, anti-labyrinth experience. Constructed from cardboard-covered wooden poles, the grid was built scaled to the human body to give a greater sensory impact as the viewer navigated the room. The experience was an attempt to balance the order of the grid with a sense of chaos derived from viewers' inability to easily decipher the intention of the installation. --inSITE97 Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) The New Children's Museum (American museum) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 309, Folder 05, Item 145) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Rittermann, Philipp Scholz Henríquez, Quisqueya 1966-

subject Space (Composition Concept) Sculpture (Visual Work) Labyrinths Mexican-American Border Region Insite97 Installations (Visual Works) Grids (Layout Features)

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Between The Eyes, The Desert

title Between The Eyes, The Desert

description Film, Audio, Video and Digital Art For inSITE97, Miguel Rio Branco presented "Between the Eyes, the Desert/Entre los ojos, el desierto," a triptych of shifting images of the border region's desert landscape, and faces of San Diego and Tijuana residents. The images were set to music and projected onto the wall of a dilapidated room in the ReinCarnation Project in downtown San Diego. Rio Branco wanted the dynamic mirage-like images to reflect the way in which people around the border blend with one another as well as with the surrounding geography. --inSITE97 ReinCarnation Project 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 300) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Rio Branco, Miguel

subject Multi-Channel Video Installations Landscapes (Representations) Triptychs Eye Video Art Portraits Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Music Mexican-American Border Region Deserts Mirages Insite97 Border Art Face

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Blue Students

title Blue Students

description Casa de la Cultura de Tijuana Liz Magor's inSITE97 project was an experiment in Photography that involved portraits of students from both the School of Creative and Performing Arts in San Diego and the Preparatoria Federal Lazaro Cardenas in Tijuana. For "Blue Students/Alumnos en Azul," Magor took portraits of numerous senior students and created various format negatives. She pressed the negatives with paper covered in iron salts that converted each into a positive blue image under exposure to Daylight. Magor placed the negatives throughout San Diego and Tijuana, and allowed the various states of light to produce the final pictures. By the end of the exhibition, only a few images had not been completely obscured by effects of the Daylight. Magor stated that the final images in their various stages of legibility represented the power of circumstance and chance that governs the path of people's lives. --inSITE97 Photographs 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 02, Item 221) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Magor, Liz Rittermann, Philipp Scholz

subject Portraits Boundaries Mexican-American Border Region Photography Insite97 Blue (Color) Installations (Visual Works)

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Toaster Work Wagon: Exhibition

title Toaster Work Wagon: Exhibition

description Centro Cultural Tijuana Kim Adam's for inSITE97, Toaster Work Wagon, was a grafting on existing nomadic street life (i.e. concession vehicles). The trailered unit, constructed from the hoods and ends of two Volkswagen vans, set out on daily wanderings around San Diego and Tijuana like a winged toaster. Popping open into a work-waiting station, the Wagon attracted crowds of children and bystanders with its unusual contents. Children's bicycles were grafted into two-headed tricycles that were left at the site for adoption. Children experimented with the bicycles, cooperating with one another to move in one direction or the other. Adam's project experimented with notions of form and function as well as movement and direction. During the public phase of inSITE97, the Wagon was displayed at the Centro Cultural Tijuana. --inSITE97 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 01, Item 009) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Rittermann, Philipp Scholz Adams, Kim

subject Walls Bicycles Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Trailers Fences Insite97 Public Sculpture Street Vendors Installations (Visual Works) Border Art

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Photographs

title Photographs

description Centro Cultural Tijuana For inSITE97, Ken Lum created two oversized large-scale photographs that were shown at the Centro Cultural Tijuana. The first photograph showed a young girl in San Diego talking on the phone about plans to eat either Mexican or Chinese food. The second photograph, with text from a popular Mexican children's rhyme, shows a young boy selling American soda and candy. The work suggests the blurring of cultural borders despite the adamantly divisive physical barrier. As a Canadian living near the northern US border, Lum stated that his experience in San Diego and Tijuana during inSITE97 caused him to rethink his notion of borders, and consider how the United States, with its pervasive capitalism and culture, borders nations throughout the world. --inSITE97 Photographs 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 210) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Lum, Ken Rittermann, Philipp Scholz

subject Cell Phones Boundaries Texts (Document Genres) Mexican-American Border Region Conversation Ethnicity Insite97 Photography Food Installations (Visual Works) Border Art

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Serpent Column, Auto-Sacrifice: Snakes Along Surface Of Column

title Serpent Column, Auto-Sacrifice: Snakes Along Surface Of Column

description Casa de la Cultura de Tijuana Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) Spring Hurlbut's work for inSITE97, "Columna serpiente, autosacrificio," was installed in the staircases of the Casa de la Cultura in Tijuana. Hurlbut designed cast-plaster Greek columns covered in coiling serpents, and column bases holding pairs of skeletal feet. Referencing symbols of victimization and bloodshed from Mexican and Greek history and mythology, Hurlbut wished to use architecture to examine the development of civilization and territories around the border. --inSITE97 This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 309, Folder 06, Item 160) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Hurlbut, Spring

subject Sculpture (Visual Work) Public Art Mexican-American Border Region Insite97 Snakes Sacrifice Columns (Architectural Elements) Installations (Visual Works) Border Art

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Death Perra

title Death Perra

description Casa de la Cultura de Tijuana Film, Audio, Video and Digital Art For inSITE97, Miguel Calderon created a short film spoofing satanic practices near the San Diego-Tijuana border, incorporating stereotypical UFO paraphernalia and imagery to emphasize the "cheesy" nature of both subjects. The film, "Death Perra," was shown on a small television at the Casa de la Cultural de Tijuana. Produced in the style of a music video, Calderon used satanic UFO records as the sound track, mixing scenes of his friends playing records on turntables with scenes of artificial UFOs in different locations. --inSITE97 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 056) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Calderón, Miguel

subject Satanism Motion Pictures Unidentified Flying Objects Music Videos Mexican-American Border Region Insite97 Parody Installations (Visual Works) Border Art

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Minicity: General View

title Minicity: General View

description For inSITE97's Community Engagement Program, Amanda Farber developed "miniCITY/miniCIUDAD," an ongoing project constructed by children visiting the San Diego Children's Museum. The miniature city was pieced together from cardboard, scrap materials, and other miscellaneous craft items gathered and donated from various local stores. The open-ended structure of the project allowed children to create their own image of a city based on their personal experiences and imagination. Farber commented that she wanted the piece to focus on the children's ideas and perceptions, not a reflection of her own opinions and preconceptions. The resulting conglomeration of buildings, parks, and spaces of "miniCITY/miniCIUDAD" became a representation not only of the children's individuality and diversity, but also the diversity within the border region of San Diego and Tijuana. --inSITE97 Paintings Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) The New Children's Museum (American museum) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 309, Folder 04, Item 117) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Fluker, Jimmy Farber, Amanda

subject Streets Play Collaboration Children'S Art Education Sculpture (Visual Work) Public Art Mexican-American Border Region Architecture (Object Genre) Cities Insite97 Installations (Visual Works) Border Art Crafts (Art Genres)

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The Great Balboa Park Landfill Exposition Of 1997: Painted Concrete Barrier

title The Great Balboa Park Landfill Exposition Of 1997: Painted Concrete Barrier

description Balboa Park (San Diego, Calif.) Cindy Zimmerman's Community Engagement project for inSITE97 was the development of a new park environment at the landfill adjacent to Florida Canyon in Balboa Park. Constructing the piece over several months, Zimmerman involved children and families in the creation and placement of straw bales and clay in the landfill to make labyrinths, temporary earthworks, and adobe structures. "The Great Balboa Park Landfill Exposition of 1997/La gran exposicion del relleno del Balboa Park 1997" transformed an unused and unattractive plot of land into a new community park and art installation. Zimmerman led workshops and meetings throughout the project to involve the community and collaborate with the participants to create art from organic materials. -- inSITE97 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 311, Folder 02, Item 427) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Zimmerman, Cindy

subject Landfills Community Arts Projects Play Workshops (Seminars) Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Insite97 Renovation Installations (Visual Works) Artistic Collaboration

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Popotla - The Wall Popotla - El Muro: Documentary Video

title Popotla - The Wall Popotla - El Muro: Documentary Video

description 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 Revolucionarte

subject 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 Art

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International Waters: Detail Of Pipe Penetrating The Border Fence

title International Waters: Detail Of Pipe Penetrating The Border Fence

description Architecture and City Planning Border Field State Park, San Diego, California, United States For inSITE97 San Diego artist Louis Hock constructed "International Waters/Aguas internacionales" at the Border Field State Park/Playas de Tijuana section of the border fence. Using water pumped from a well several miles northeast of the site, Hock built a double-sided drinking fountain with one head on each side of the border. People bending to drink from the heads could see each other through a hole cut in the metal fence. During the exhibition, US government authorities suddenly decided to replace the opaque metal fence with a chain link fence. "International Waters/Aguas internacionales" used the valuable resource, potable water, as an example of the flow and exchange that occurs along the border, despite the barriers and questions of ownership that try to hinder it. --inSITE97 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 06, Item 146) Tijuana, Playas de, Baja California Norte, Mexico [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Hock, Louis

subject Drinking Water Political Art Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Public Art Mexican-American Border Region Insite97 Natural Resources Installations (Visual Works) Border Art Fountains

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Between The Eyes, The Desert

title Between The Eyes, The Desert

description Film, Audio, Video and Digital Art For inSITE97, Miguel Rio Branco presented "Between the Eyes, the Desert/Entre los ojos, el desierto," a triptych of shifting images of the border region's desert landscape, and faces of San Diego and Tijuana residents. The images were set to music and projected onto the wall of a dilapidated room in the ReinCarnation Project in downtown San Diego. Rio Branco wanted the dynamic mirage-like images to reflect the way in which people around the border blend with one another as well as with the surrounding geography. --inSITE97 ReinCarnation Project 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 301) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Rio Branco, Miguel

subject Multi-Channel Video Installations Landscapes (Representations) Triptychs Eye Video Art Portraits Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Music Mexican-American Border Region Deserts Mirages Insite97 Border Art Face

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Podría Haber Muchos Más Que Éstos: General View

title Podría Haber Muchos Más Que Éstos: General View

description Installed in the Children's Museum in downtown San Diego, Anna Maria Maiolino's work was a mass collection of clay coils placed in random piles around the room. Using similar forms and processes from her previous work, "There Could Be Many More Than These/Podria haber muchos mas que estos" focused on the gesture and repetition used to create the clay coils. Molded over the course of several weeks, the number of coils was finite, but the infinite nature of the gesture creating them made the installation an act of chance. --inSITE97 Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) The New Children's Museum (American museum) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 02, Item 222) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Rittermann, Philipp Scholz Maiolino, Anna Maria

subject Repetition (Aesthetics) Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Rings Insite97 Gesture Installations (Visual Works)

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Toaster Work Wagon: Proposal Sketch

title Toaster Work Wagon: Proposal Sketch

description Kim Adam's for inSITE97, Toaster Work Wagon, was a grafting on existing nomadic street life (i.e. concession vehicles). The trailered unit, constructed from the hoods and ends of two Volkswagen vans, set out on daily wanderings around San Diego and Tijuana like a winged toaster. Popping open into a work-waiting station, the Wagon attracted crowds of children and bystanders with its unusual contents. Children's bicycles were grafted into two-headed tricycles that were left at the site for adoption. Children experimented with the bicycles, cooperating with one another to move in one direction or the other. Adam's project experimented with notions of form and function as well as movement and direction. During the public phase of inSITE97, the Wagon was displayed at the Centro Cultural Tijuana. --inSITE97 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 01, Item 010) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Adams, Kim

subject Walls Boundaries Mexican-American Border Region Presentation Drawings (Proposals) Fences Insite97 Street Vendors Preparatory Drawings Drawings (Visual Works)

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Family Trees

title Family Trees

description Centro Cultural Tijuana Drawings and Watercolors Ernest Silva's inSITE97 Community Engagement project, "Family Trees/Arboles de familias," was a collaboration with artist Alberto Caro-Limón that linked the Children's Museum in San Diego to the Centro Cultural in Tijuana. Each site allowed children to write their own family stories and draw family portraits. Both installations were brightly colored and filled with images of houses, trees, birds, and birdhouses to symbolize the exchange of memories and stories from one museum to the other. The space at the Children's Museum was a Rain House that functioned as a studio, reading room, and exhibition space for the children's family projects. At the Centro, the space contained children-sized houses, benches and work spaces, and painted wood-picket fences and trees. The projects created at each installation then traveled to the other to be exhibited to complete the exchange of stories and perspectives. --inSITE97 Paintings Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) The New Children's Museum (American museum) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 05, Item 334) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Silva, Ernest

subject Collaboration Color Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Trees Children (People By Age Group) Mexican-American Border Region Families Rain Fences Insite97 Drawings (Visual Works) Multimedia Works Installations (Visual Works) Border Art Crafts (Art Genres)

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The Line

title The Line

description Fernando Arias's project for inSITE97, The Line/La linea, was installed at the ReinCarnation Project in downtown San Diego. Using a piece of the US-Mexico border sheet metal fence slightly suspended above a concrete floor, Arias divided an interior space. Beneath the suspended edge of the fence the artist placed white powder - an image of cocaine about to be cut. Attempting to highlight the human issues raised by illegal drug trafficking among countries of the Americas, Arias focused particularly on the use of the human body as a vehicle for transport and smuggling. During the opening weekend of the exhibition, Arias invited viewers to look into an endoscope running into his body to illustrate the invasive ways in which drugs are transported. --inSITE97 ReinCarnation Project 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 309, Folder 01, Item 028) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Arias, Fernando Rittermann, Philipp Scholz

subject Walls Cocaine Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Drug Traffic Mexican-American Border Region Human Body Fences Insite97 Installations (Visual Works) Border Art

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Drill: General View

title Drill: General View

description Dolores Magdalena Memorial Recreation Center, Logan Heights, San Diego, California, United States Doug Ischar's inSITE97 project, "Drill/Taladro/Adiestramiento," was a series of video and audio installations that meandered through the gymnasium of the Dolores Magdelena Memorial Recreation Center in Logan Heights. Running for several hours on two weekends, the installations, named individually "Vent," "Seam," and "Patient," were connected by orange electrical cable, providing the viewer with a path to follow. Ischar pieced together the imagery and music that played while participants navigated the installation. --inSITE97 Film, Audio, Video and Digital Art Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 309, Folder 06, Item 161) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Rittermann, Philipp Scholz Ischar, Doug, 1948-

subject Sound Art Video Art Mexican-American Border Region Insite97 Installations (Visual Works) Backboards (Sports Equipment) Gymnasiums

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News Release: Insite97 Conference Explores Private Time In Public Space

title News Release: Insite97 Conference Explores Private Time In Public Space

description Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a surrogate of a document from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 82, folder 01) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Insite97

subject Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) Acconci, Vito (American Performance And Video Artist, Born 1940) Documents Boundaries Press Releases Public Art San Diego (Calif.) Mexican-American Border Region Press Kits Meetings Performance Art Insite97 Public Spaces Exhibitions (Events) Installations (Visual Works) Border Art

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A Tourist'S Guide To San Diego And Tijuana: General View

title A Tourist'S Guide To San Diego And Tijuana: General View

description 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.

artist/creator Smith, Melanie Rivera, Paul

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 Art

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Arrivals And Departures

title Arrivals And Departures

description Christina Fernandez's inSITE97 project, "Arrivals and Departres/Llegadas y salidas," consisted of two installations, one on each side of the border. Installed at the San Ysidro Bus Station in San Diego and Colonia Libertad, Tijuana, the works functioned as information and visitor centers for people passing through the space. Displaying information on historical migration patterns that have taken place over the border, the installation challenged the notion of legality as applied to immigration. --inSITE97 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 309, Folder 04, Item 118) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Fernandez, Christina

subject Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Public Art Views Mexican-American Border Region Landscapes (Environments) Insite97 Optical Instruments Installations (Visual Works) Border Art

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El Niño: Proposal Drawing

title El Niño: Proposal Drawing

description Centro Cultural Tijuana For inSITE97 Einar and Jamex de la Torre constructed "El Niño," a monumental pyramid based on pre-Hispanic design and iconography. The vinyl and glass structure was installed in the lobby of the CECUT in Tijuana, juxtaposing the contemporary architecture of the space with the ancient motifs on the pyramid. El Nino incorporated symbolism of the demigod that is part holy child, part weather demon, with the El Sexenio, the six year presidential term that prompts cycles of havoc/progress in the Mexican economy. The interior of the pyramid was visible through glass staircases on the sides of the pyramid, revealing plaster statues of Jesus in a womblike cavern. "El Niño" captured the intersection of different traditions and lifestyles within the Mexican region that create a hybridization of culture. --inSITE97 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 082) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Torre, Einar De La Torre, Jamex De La

subject Arms (Animal Components) Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Infants Signs And Symbols Insite97 Drawings (Visual Works) Hearts (Motifs) Pyramids Installations (Visual Works) Border Art

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Alien Toy Uco (Unidentified Cruising Object): Project Documentation

title Alien Toy Uco (Unidentified Cruising Object): Project Documentation

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 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, Rubén

subject 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 Art

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The Great Balboa Park Landfill Exposition Of 1997: Sculptures Made From Adobe And Hay

title The Great Balboa Park Landfill Exposition Of 1997: Sculptures Made From Adobe And Hay

description Balboa Park (San Diego, Calif.) Cindy Zimmerman's Community Engagement project for inSITE97 was the development of a new park environment at the landfill adjacent to Florida Canyon in Balboa Park. Constructing the piece over several months, Zimmerman involved children and families in the creation and placement of straw bales and clay in the landfill to make labyrinths, temporary earthworks, and adobe structures. "The Great Balboa Park Landfill Exposition of 1997/La gran exposicion del relleno del Balboa Park 1997" transformed an unused and unattractive plot of land into a new community park and art installation. Zimmerman led workshops and meetings throughout the project to involve the community and collaborate with the participants to create art from organic materials. -- inSITE97 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 311, Folder 02, Item 428) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Zimmerman, Cindy Rittermann, Philipp Scholz

subject Landfills Community Arts Projects Play Workshops (Seminars) Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Insite97 Renovation Installations (Visual Works) Artistic Collaboration

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Between The Eyes, The Desert

title Between The Eyes, The Desert

description Film, Audio, Video and Digital Art For inSITE97, Miguel Rio Branco presented "Between the Eyes, the Desert/Entre los ojos, el desierto," a triptych of shifting images of the border region's desert landscape, and faces of San Diego and Tijuana residents. The images were set to music and projected onto the wall of a dilapidated room in the ReinCarnation Project in downtown San Diego. Rio Branco wanted the dynamic mirage-like images to reflect the way in which people around the border blend with one another as well as with the surrounding geography. --inSITE97 ReinCarnation Project 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 302) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Rio Branco, Miguel

subject Multi-Channel Video Installations Landscapes (Representations) Triptychs Eye Video Art Portraits Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Music Mexican-American Border Region Deserts Mirages Insite97 Border Art Face

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Toaster Work Wagon: Wagon Situated By U.S. - Mexico Border Fence

title Toaster Work Wagon: Wagon Situated By U.S. - Mexico Border Fence

description Kim Adam's for inSITE97, Toaster Work Wagon, was a grafting on existing nomadic street life (i.e. concession vehicles). The trailered unit, constructed from the hoods and ends of two Volkswagen vans, set out on daily wanderings around San Diego and Tijuana like a winged toaster. Popping open into a work-waiting station, the Wagon attracted crowds of children and bystanders with its unusual contents. Children's bicycles were grafted into two-headed tricycles that were left at the site for adoption. Children experimented with the bicycles, cooperating with one another to move in one direction or the other. Adam's project experimented with notions of form and function as well as movement and direction. During the public phase of inSITE97, the Wagon was displayed at the Centro Cultural Tijuana. --inSITE97 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 01, Item 011) Tijuana, Playas de, Baja California Norte, Mexico [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Hughes, Terri Adams, Kim

subject Walls Pacific Ocean Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Trailers Fences Insite97 Public Sculpture Street Vendors Installations (Visual Works) Border Art

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Call Waiting

title Call Waiting

description Film, Audio, Video and Digital Art Lorna Simpson's contribution to inSITE97 is a film entitled Call Waiting, shown at the Santa Fe Depot in downtown San Diego. The film features two women in conversation over the phone, who are interrupted by other callers speaking in different languages. The result is an indecipherable web of open-ended stories and conversations that are carried out between the various speakers. --inSITE97 Performing Arts (including Performance Art) Santa Fe Depot (San Diego, Calif.) 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 255, DVD 97-03) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Simpson, Lorna

subject Language Motion Pictures Mexican-American Border Region Insite97 Telephone Border Art

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La Tierra Prometida: Detail

title La Tierra Prometida: Detail

description Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects and Interior Design Gonzalo Díaz's inSITE97 project, La tierra prometida/The Promised Land, was installed in the basement of the Children's Museum in San Diego. Following the fourteen Stations of the Cross, the installation was built upon fourteen columns each distinguished by a word with multiple meanings spelled out in blue neon. Each column was also marked by an illuminated bronze Roman numeral as well as enigmatic figure at the top of the column, shrouded in dark wrappings. Playing off of the large orthogonal space, Díaz created a mythological/spiritual space for the viewer. --inSITE97 Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) The New Children's Museum (American museum) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 309, Folder 04, Item 097) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Rivera, Paul Díaz, Gonzalo

subject Emigration And Immigration Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Stations Of The Cross Neon Sculpture Insite97 Installations (Visual Works) Border Art

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The Line

title The Line

description Fernando Arias's project for inSITE97, The Line/La linea, was installed at the ReinCarnation Project in downtown San Diego. Using a piece of the US-Mexico border sheet metal fence slightly suspended above a concrete floor, Arias divided an interior space. Beneath the suspended edge of the fence the artist placed white powder - an image of cocaine about to be cut. Attempting to highlight the human issues raised by illegal drug trafficking among countries of the Americas, Arias focused particularly on the use of the human body as a vehicle for transport and smuggling. During the opening weekend of the exhibition, Arias invited viewers to look into an endoscope running into his body to illustrate the invasive ways in which drugs are transported. --inSITE97 ReinCarnation Project 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 309, Folder 01, Item 029) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Arias, Fernando Rittermann, Philipp Scholz

subject Walls Cocaine Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Drug Traffic Mexican-American Border Region Human Body Fences Insite97 Installations (Visual Works) Border Art

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News Release: Insite97 Lecture Series Presents Leading Cultural Figures Of The Americas

title News Release: Insite97 Lecture Series Presents Leading Cultural Figures Of The Americas

description Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a surrogate of a document from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 82, folder 01) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Insite97

subject Boundaries San Diego (Calif.) Press Kits Cities Insite97 Public Spaces Gómez-Peña, Guillermo Fusco, Coco Fuentes, Carlos, 1928-2012 Monsiváis, Carlos, 1938-2010 Public Art Performance Art Estrada Rodríguez, Gerardo 1946- Documents Mexican-American Border Region González De León, Teodoro, 1926- Exhibitions (Events) Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) Press Releases Installations (Visual Works) Border Art

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Border Capsule Ritual Black Star

title Border Capsule Ritual Black Star

description Eduardo Abaroa's project for inSITE97, Cápsulas santánicas black star/Border Capsule Ritual Black Star, was installed at five locations in downtown San Diego, defining a black star on the city map. At each site was a gumball vending machine containing sculptural elements that reflected the machine's location. The work operated as a mini treasure hunt for the viewer, who found the machines using a map, purchased the prizes, and took them home to create their own satanic ritual. --inSITE97 Abaroa's project was located at Café Lulu, Master Tattoo Studio, The Gas Haus, William Burgett Booksellers, and La Fresqueria in downtown San Diego. 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 309, Folder 01, Item 001) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Abaroa, Eduardo Rivera, Paul

subject Gambling Satanism--Rituals Sculpture (Visual Work) Public Art Mexican-American Border Region Rituals (Events) Signs And Symbols Insite97 Toys (Recreational Artifacts) Installations (Visual Works) Border Art Treasure Hunt (Game)

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The Great Balboa Park Landfill Exposition Of 1997: Pyramid Made Of Adobe And Hay

title The Great Balboa Park Landfill Exposition Of 1997: Pyramid Made Of Adobe And Hay

description Balboa Park (San Diego, Calif.) Cindy Zimmerman's Community Engagement project for inSITE97 was the development of a new park environment at the landfill adjacent to Florida Canyon in Balboa Park. Constructing the piece over several months, Zimmerman involved children and families in the creation and placement of straw bales and clay in the landfill to make labyrinths, temporary earthworks, and adobe structures. "The Great Balboa Park Landfill Exposition of 1997/La gran exposicion del relleno del Balboa Park 1997" transformed an unused and unattractive plot of land into a new community park and art installation. Zimmerman led workshops and meetings throughout the project to involve the community and collaborate with the participants to create art from organic materials. -- inSITE97 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 311, Folder 02, Item 429) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Zimmerman, Cindy Rittermann, Philipp Scholz

subject Landfills Community Arts Projects Renovation Play Workshops (Seminars) Sculpture (Visual Work) Ziggurats Mexican-American Border Region Insite97 Pyramids Installations (Visual Works) Artistic Collaboration

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Toy-An-Horse: Construction Drawing

title Toy-An-Horse: Construction Drawing

description 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.

artist/creator Fluker, Jimmy Ramírez Erre, Marcos

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-Faced

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News Release: Ucsd Extension Offers Two-Day Course That Explores Public Space

title News Release: Ucsd Extension Offers Two-Day Course That Explores Public Space

description Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a surrogate of a document from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 82, folder 01) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Insite97

subject Promenades (Pedestrian Areas) Documents Boundaries Press Releases Public Art San Diego (Calif.) Mexican-American Border Region Press Kits Cities City Planning Herzog, Lawrence A. (Lawrence Arthur) Insite97 Public Spaces Urban Planning Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) Installations (Visual Works) Border Art University Of California, San Diego. University Extension

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The Great Balboa Park Landfill Exposition Of 1997: Aztec Dance Performance

title The Great Balboa Park Landfill Exposition Of 1997: Aztec Dance Performance

description Balboa Park (San Diego, Calif.) Cindy Zimmerman's Community Engagement project for inSITE97 was the development of a new park environment at the landfill adjacent to Florida Canyon in Balboa Park. Constructing the piece over several months, Zimmerman involved children and families in the creation and placement of straw bales and clay in the landfill to make labyrinths, temporary earthworks, and adobe structures. "The Great Balboa Park Landfill Exposition of 1997/La gran exposicion del relleno del Balboa Park 1997" transformed an unused and unattractive plot of land into a new community park and art installation. Zimmerman led workshops and meetings throughout the project to involve the community and collaborate with the participants to create art from organic materials. -- inSITE97 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 311, Folder 02, Item 430) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Zimmerman, Cindy

subject Landfills Renovation Play Border Art Sculpture (Visual Work) Public Art Mexican-American Border Region Rituals (Events) Insite97 Dance Installations (Visual Works) Headdresses

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El Round Nuestro De Cada Día: General View Of "Boxers" In Ring

title El Round Nuestro De Cada Día: General View Of "Boxers" In Ring

description 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.

artist/creator Escutia, Manolo Luis Rittermann, Philipp Scholz

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 Art

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Toy An Horse: Installed At The U.S.-Mexico Border Crossing

title Toy An Horse: Installed At The U.S.-Mexico Border Crossing

description 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.

artist/creator Fluker, Jimmy Ramírez Erre, Marcos

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-Faced

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Untitled Depot: View Of Space Between Walls With Bed Spring "Ring"

title Untitled Depot: View Of Space Between Walls With Bed Spring "Ring"

description Garden and Landscape Nari Ward's "Untitled Depot/Estacion sin titulo," installed at Playas de Tijuana, was an interactive piece that brought people together. Dedicated to the healer and child in everyone, the installation was constructed from doors, bed springs, and other found materials that visitors could walk through and experiment with. Ward felt that the physical interaction that brought visitors together inside the installation was vital for the totality of the piece. The bed springs that encouraged visitors to jump up and down on were based on Ward's interest in suspension, and the balance it implies between rest and motion -- inSITE97 Plaza de Toros Monumental de Aguascalientes (Aguascalientes, 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 311, Folder 01, Item 401) Tijuana, Playas de, Baja California Norte, Mexico [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Crowe, Jennifer Ward, Nari

subject Walls Play Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Public Art Mexican-American Border Region Insite97 Installations (Visual Works) Border Art

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Boletín De Prensa: Tiempo Privado En El Espacio Publico

title Boletín De Prensa: Tiempo Privado En El Espacio Publico

description Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a surrogate of a document from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 82, folder 01) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Insite97

subject Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) Acconci, Vito (American Performance And Video Artist, Born 1940) Documents Boundaries Press Releases Public Art San Diego (Calif.) Mexican-American Border Region Press Kits Performance Art Insite97 Public Spaces Exhibitions (Events) Installations (Visual Works) Border Art

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The Great Balboa Park Landfill Exposition Of 1997: Family Examining An Adobe Sculpture

title The Great Balboa Park Landfill Exposition Of 1997: Family Examining An Adobe Sculpture

description Balboa Park (San Diego, Calif.) Cindy Zimmerman's Community Engagement project for inSITE97 was the development of a new park environment at the landfill adjacent to Florida Canyon in Balboa Park. Constructing the piece over several months, Zimmerman involved children and families in the creation and placement of straw bales and clay in the landfill to make labyrinths, temporary earthworks, and adobe structures. "The Great Balboa Park Landfill Exposition of 1997/La gran exposicion del relleno del Balboa Park 1997" transformed an unused and unattractive plot of land into a new community park and art installation. Zimmerman led workshops and meetings throughout the project to involve the community and collaborate with the participants to create art from organic materials. -- inSITE97 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 311, Folder 02, Item 431) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Zimmerman, Cindy

subject Landfills Community Arts Projects Play Workshops (Seminars) Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Insite97 Renovation Installations (Visual Works) Artistic Collaboration

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Rowing In Eden

title Rowing In Eden

description Film, Audio, Video and Digital Art For inSITE97, Deborah Small created an installation and digital presentation at the Santa Fe Depot in downtown San Diego, entitled "Rowing in Eden/Remando en el Eden/Pelando en el Eden/Formando Hileras." A collaboration with three other artists, the installation explored the historical relationship between women and plants, focusing on the women who became labeled as witches for their unique knowledge as herbalists or healers. The installation included dried and live plants, a digital projection with images, text and voice, and an audio installation with voice and music. It emphasized not only the women's persecution but also celebrated their extraordinary powers and insight into consciousness and divinity. --inSITE97 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 310, Folder 06, Item 348) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Small, Deborah Rittermann, Philipp Scholz

subject Computer-Generated Women Collaboration Installations (Visual Works) Mexican-American Border Region Shamans Insite97 Herbalists Traditional Medicine Healers Video Art Curanderismo

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Awasinake (On The Other Side): General View Of Theatre Facade And Marquee

title Awasinake (On The Other Side): General View Of Theatre Facade And Marquee

description Casino Theatre, San Diego (Calif.) For inSITE97, Rebecca Belmore created a large-scale photographic work installed on the abandoned marquee of the historic Casino Theatre in downtown San Diego. "Awasinake (on the Other Side)/Awasinake (en el otro lado)" was based on the ritual of waiting to cross the border from Mexico to the US. Belmore wanted the photographs of indigenous women waiting at the border fence in Tijuana to reflect the mood of the dilapidated Casino Theatre itself, waiting to be reclaimed and refurbished by the city. The size and elongated format of the portraits evoked the feel of an epic narrative unfolding before the viewer. --inSITE97 Photographs 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 042) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Belmore, Rebecca Rittermann, Philipp Scholz

subject Refurbishment Façades Political Art Portraits Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Public Art Feminism Mexican-American Border Region Insite97 Marquees Renovation Installations (Visual Works) Border Art

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Drops: Gigantic Concrete Dice Installed At The Santa Fe Depot In San Diego

title Drops: Gigantic Concrete Dice Installed At The Santa Fe Depot In San Diego

description For Iran do Espírito Santo's inSITE97 project, "Drops," twenty concrete dice were scattered among sites in San Diego and Tijuana, ten in each city. The "Drops," situated in public places, could be seen or even sat upon by a number of passersby, but only chance could allow visitors to see more than one die and understand that they were viewing an artwork. Espírito Santo explained that the installation dealt with paradoxes on different levels. The entire installation could not be perceived at any one moment, and the oversized dice did not function as the objects they represented. By the end of the exhibition, many of the dice had been removed or damaged, their fate left to chance. A few dice remain in their original locations. --inSITE97 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 309, Folder 04, Item 114) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Rittermann, Philipp Scholz Espírito Santo, Iran Do

subject Play Gambling Sculpture (Visual Work) Public Art Floor Pieces (Art) Mexican-American Border Region Dice Games Insite97 Installations (Visual Works) Border Art

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Toy An Horse: Installed At The U.S.-Mexico Border Crossing

title Toy An Horse: Installed At The U.S.-Mexico Border Crossing

description 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.

artist/creator Ramírez Erre, Marcos Rittermann, Philipp Scholz

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-Faced

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Untitled Depot

title Untitled Depot

description Garden and Landscape Nari Ward's "Untitled Depot/Estacion sin titulo," installed at Playas de Tijuana, was an interactive piece that brought people together. Dedicated to the healer and child in everyone, the installation was constructed from doors, bed springs, and other found materials that visitors could walk through and experiment with. Ward felt that the physical interaction that brought visitors together inside the installation was vital for the totality of the piece. The bed springs that encouraged visitors to jump up and down on were based on Ward's interest in suspension, and the balance it implies between rest and motion -- inSITE97 Plaza de Toros Monumental de Aguascalientes (Aguascalientes, 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 311, Folder 01, Item 402) Tijuana, Playas de, Baja California Norte, Mexico [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Crowe, Jennifer Ward, Nari

subject Walls Play Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Public Art Mexican-American Border Region Insite97 Installations (Visual Works) Border Art

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Death Perra: Television Monitor Showing The Film At The Casa De La Cultura, Tijuana

title Death Perra: Television Monitor Showing The Film At The Casa De La Cultura, Tijuana

description Casa de la Cultura de Tijuana Film, Audio, Video and Digital Art For inSITE97, Miguel Calderon created a short film spoofing satanic practices near the San Diego-Tijuana border, incorporating stereotypical UFO paraphernalia and imagery to emphasize the "cheesy" nature of both subjects. The film, "Death Perra," was shown on a small television at the Casa de la Cultural de Tijuana. Produced in the style of a music video, Calderon used satanic UFO records as the sound track, mixing scenes of his friends playing records on turntables with scenes of artificial UFOs in different locations. --inSITE97 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 057) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Rittermann, Philipp Scholz Calderón, Miguel

subject Satanism Motion Pictures Unidentified Flying Objects Music Videos Mexican-American Border Region Insite97 Parody Installations (Visual Works) Border Art Furniture

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Boletín De Prensa: Conferencia Magistral De Carlos Fuentes: "Rio Grande, Rio Bravo: La Frontera Inquieta"

title Boletín De Prensa: Conferencia Magistral De Carlos Fuentes: "Rio Grande, Rio Bravo: La Frontera Inquieta"

description Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a surrogate of a document from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 82, folder 01) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Insite97

subject Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) Fuentes, Carlos, 1928-2012 Documents Boundaries Press Releases Public Art San Diego (Calif.) Mexican-American Border Region Press Kits Meetings Performance Art Insite97 Public Spaces Exhibitions (Events) Installations (Visual Works) Border Art

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My House Is Your House

title My House Is Your House

description Film, Audio, Video and Digital Art Sculpture and Installations Sheldon Brown's project for inSITE97, "Mi casa es tu casa/My House is Your House," was a networked virtual reality environment installed at the Children's Museum in San Diego and the Centro Nacional de las Artes, Mexico, DF. Providing an interactive space for children to play and explore, the project used innovative computer technology to connect the environments in both cities to allow children to participate in the construction of a virtual house. Both rooms were equipped with costumes and tools to build the house, and as children moved through the room, they could watch their virtual body double mirroring their actions. Brown's project imparted notions of home, nation, heritage, and cultural construction through child's play. --inSITE97 Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) The New Children's Museum (American museum) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 309, Folder 02, Item 050) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Brown, Sheldon

subject Houses Play Boundaries Children (People By Age Group) Mexican-American Border Region Virtual Reality (Vr) Children'S Playhouses Insite97 Technology Border Art Video Art

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International Waters: Pipe From Mexican Side Of The Border Fence

title International Waters: Pipe From Mexican Side Of The Border Fence

description Architecture and City Planning Border Field State Park, San Diego, California, United States For inSITE97 San Diego artist Louis Hock constructed "International Waters/Aguas internacionales" at the Border Field State Park/Playas de Tijuana section of the border fence. Using water pumped from a well several miles northeast of the site, Hock built a double-sided drinking fountain with one head on each side of the border. People bending to drink from the heads could see each other through a hole cut in the metal fence. During the exhibition, US government authorities suddenly decided to replace the opaque metal fence with a chain link fence. "International Waters/Aguas internacionales" used the valuable resource, potable water, as an example of the flow and exchange that occurs along the border, despite the barriers and questions of ownership that try to hinder it. --inSITE97 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 06, Item 147) Tijuana, Playas de, Baja California Norte, Mexico [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Hock, Louis

subject Drinking Water Political Art Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Public Art Mexican-American Border Region Insite97 Natural Resources Installations (Visual Works) Border Art Fountains

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Rowing In Eden

title Rowing In Eden

description Film, Audio, Video and Digital Art For inSITE97, Deborah Small created an installation and digital presentation at the Santa Fe Depot in downtown San Diego, entitled "Rowing in Eden/Remando en el Eden/Pelando en el Eden/Formando Hileras." A collaboration with three other artists, the installation explored the historical relationship between women and plants, focusing on the women who became labeled as witches for their unique knowledge as herbalists or healers. The installation included dried and live plants, a digital projection with images, text and voice, and an audio installation with voice and music. It emphasized not only the women's persecution but also celebrated their extraordinary powers and insight into consciousness and divinity. --inSITE97 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 310, Folder 06, Item 349) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Small, Deborah Rittermann, Philipp Scholz

subject Computer-Generated Women Collaboration Installations (Visual Works) Mexican-American Border Region Shamans Insite97 Herbalists Traditional Medicine Healers Video Art Curanderismo

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Green Card

title Green Card

description Architecture and City Planning Community Engagement Program, Tijuana. Garden and Landscape Mexican-American Border Region 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 432) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Lorenzana, Alfonso Zuniga Padilla, Juan

subject Emigration And Immigration Walls Humor Boundaries Materials--Deterioration Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Conversation Fences Insite97 Gesture Installations (Visual Works) Border Art

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La Casita En La Colonia Altamira Calle Rio De Janeiro No. 6757, Tijuana: View From Street

title La Casita En La Colonia Altamira Calle Rio De Janeiro No. 6757, Tijuana: View From Street

description Architecture and City Planning Colonia Altamira, Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects and Interior Design Patricia Patterson's inSITE97 project was a collaborative effort to transform a small home in Tijuana into a visually captivating space for the surrounding community to meet, talk, eat, and engage in activities with one another. Working over a period of nine months, Patterson and her team of students and craftsmen renovated, painted, and landscaped the home of the Resendiz family to create a vibrant center in the residential colonia. Once complete, "La Casita en la Colonia Altamira, Calle Rio de Janeiro No. 6757, Tijuana" hosted numerous parties, brunches, and other gatherings of both local residents and visitors from San Diego, making the house a space for cross-cultural exchange and diversity. --inSITE97 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 269) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Chávez, Patricio

subject Landscape Architecture Painting (Coating) Houses Color Neighborhoods Public Art Mexican-American Border Region Architecture (Object Genre) Gardening Insite97 Renovation Installations (Visual Works) Border Art

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Podría Haber Muchos Más Que Éstos: Detail Of Pile Of Clay Rings

title Podría Haber Muchos Más Que Éstos: Detail Of Pile Of Clay Rings

description Installed in the Children's Museum in downtown San Diego, Anna Maria Maiolino's work was a mass collection of clay coils placed in random piles around the room. Using similar forms and processes from her previous work, "There Could Be Many More Than These/Podria haber muchos mas que estos" focused on the gesture and repetition used to create the clay coils. Molded over the course of several weeks, the number of coils was finite, but the infinite nature of the gesture creating them made the installation an act of chance. --inSITE97 Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) The New Children's Museum (American museum) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 02, Item 223) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Rittermann, Philipp Scholz Maiolino, Anna Maria

subject Repetition (Aesthetics) Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Rings Insite97 Gesture Installations (Visual Works)

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Popotla - The Wall: Mosaic Of Found Objects Representing Waves

title Popotla - The Wall: Mosaic Of Found Objects Representing Waves

description For their InSITE97 Community Engagement project, artist collective RevolucionArte (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 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 295) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Fluker, Jimmy Revolucionarte

subject Walls Humor Color Boundaries Mosaics (Visual Works) Public Art Sculpture (Visual Work) Children (People By Age Group) Assemblage (Sculpture Technique) Mexican-American Border Region Wave Pattern Murals (Any Medium) Insite97

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Untitled Depot: Visitors Inside And Outside Bed Spring "Ring"

title Untitled Depot: Visitors Inside And Outside Bed Spring "Ring"

description Garden and Landscape Nari Ward's "Untitled Depot/Estacion sin titulo," installed at Playas de Tijuana, was an interactive piece that brought people together. Dedicated to the healer and child in everyone, the installation was constructed from doors, bed springs, and other found materials that visitors could walk through and experiment with. Ward felt that the physical interaction that brought visitors together inside the installation was vital for the totality of the piece. The bed springs that encouraged visitors to jump up and down were based on Ward's interest in suspension, and the balance it implies between rest and motion -- inSITE97 Plaza de Toros Monumental de Aguascalientes (Aguascalientes, 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 311, Folder 01, Item 403) Tijuana, Playas de, Baja California Norte, Mexico [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Ward, Nari

subject Walls Play Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Public Art Mexican-American Border Region Insite97 Installations (Visual Works) Border Art

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Family Trees: Painting Depicting Cross Border Relationship Between Installations

title Family Trees: Painting Depicting Cross Border Relationship Between Installations

description Centro Cultural Tijuana Drawings and Watercolors Ernest Silva's inSITE97 Community Engagement project, "Family Trees/Arboles de familias," was a collaboration with artist Alberto Caro-Limón that linked the Children's Museum in San Diego to the Centro Cultural in Tijuana. Each site allowed children to write their own family stories and draw family portraits. Both installations were brightly colored and filled with images of houses, trees, birds, and birdhouses to symbolize the exchange of memories and stories from one museum to the other. The space at the Children's Museum was a Rain House that functioned as a studio, reading room, and exhibition space for the children's family projects. At the Centro, the space contained children-sized houses, benches and work spaces, and painted wood-picket fences and trees. The projects created at each installation then traveled to the other to be exhibited to complete the exchange of stories and perspectives. --inSITE97 Paintings Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) The New Children's Museum (American museum) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 05, Item 335) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Silva, Ernest

subject Collaboration Color Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Trees Children (People By Age Group) Mexican-American Border Region Families Rain Fences Insite97 Drawings (Visual Works) Multimedia Works Installations (Visual Works) Border Art Crafts (Art Genres)

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Drill

title Drill

description Dolores Magdalena Memorial Recreation Center, Logan Heights, San Diego, California, United States Doug Ischar's inSITE97 project, "Drill/Taladro/Adiestramiento," was a series of video and audio installations that meandered through the gymnasium of the Dolores Magdelena Memorial Recreation Center in Logan Heights. Running for several hours on two weekends, the installations, named individually "Vent," "Seam," and "Patient," were connected by orange electrical cable, providing the viewer with a path to follow. Ischar pieced together the imagery and music that played while participants navigated the installation. --inSITE97 Film, Audio, Video and Digital Art Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 309, Folder 06, Item 162) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Rittermann, Philipp Scholz Ischar, Doug, 1948-

subject Sound Art Video Art Mexican-American Border Region Insite97 Installations (Visual Works) Gymnasiums

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A Tourist'S Guide To San Diego And Tijuana: View Of Facade Of "Tourist Office"

title A Tourist'S Guide To San Diego And Tijuana: View Of Facade Of "Tourist Office"

description 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 364) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Smith, Melanie Rivera, Paul

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 Art

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Death Perra

title Death Perra

description Casa de la Cultura de Tijuana Film, Audio, Video and Digital Art For inSITE97, Miguel Calderon created a short film spoofing satanic practices near the San Diego-Tijuana border, incorporating stereotypical UFO paraphernalia and imagery to emphasize the "cheesy" nature of both subjects. The film, "Death Perra," was shown on a small television at the Casa de la Cultural de Tijuana. Produced in the style of a music video, Calderon used satanic UFO records as the sound track, mixing scenes of his friends playing records on turntables with scenes of artificial UFOs in different locations. --inSITE97 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 058) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Calderón, Miguel

subject Satanism Motion Pictures Unidentified Flying Objects Music Videos Mexican-American Border Region Insite97 Parody Installations (Visual Works) Border Art

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Boletín De Prensa: Simposium Del 20 Al 22 De Noviembre: "Arte En Contexto" Tiempo Privado En Espacio Publico - Romance Y Violencia En La Ciudad

title Boletín De Prensa: Simposium Del 20 Al 22 De Noviembre: "Arte En Contexto" Tiempo Privado En Espacio Publico - Romance Y Violencia En La Ciudad

description Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a surrogate of a document from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 82, folder 01) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Insite97

subject Symposia Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) Documents Boundaries Press Releases Public Art San Diego (Calif.) Mexican-American Border Region Press Kits Performance Art Insite97 Public Spaces Exhibitions (Events) Installations (Visual Works) Border Art

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Arrivals And Departures: Telescope With Children

title Arrivals And Departures: Telescope With Children

description Christina Fernandez's inSITE97 project, "Arrivals and Departres/Llegadas y salidas," consisted of two installations, one on each side of the border. Installed at the San Ysidro Bus Station in San Diego and Colonia Libertad, Tijuana, the works functioned as information and visitor centers for people passing through the space. Displaying information on historical migration patterns that have taken place over the border, the installation challenged the notion of legality as applied to immigration. --inSITE97 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 309, Folder 04, Item 119) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Fernandez, Christina

subject Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Public Art Views Children (People By Age Group) Mexican-American Border Region Landscapes (Environments) Insite97 Optical Instruments Installations (Visual Works) Border Art

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My House Is Your House: Exterior View Of Virtual Reality Playhouse

title My House Is Your House: Exterior View Of Virtual Reality Playhouse

description Film, Audio, Video and Digital Art Sculpture and Installations Sheldon Brown's project for inSITE97, "Mi casa es tu casa/My House is Your House," was a networked virtual reality environment installed at the Children's Museum in San Diego and the Centro Nacional de las Artes, Mexico, DF. Providing an interactive space for children to play and explore, the project used innovative computer technology to connect the environments in both cities to allow children to participate in the construction of a virtual house. Both rooms were equipped with costumes and tools to build the house, and as children moved through the room, they could watch their virtual body double mirroring their actions. Brown's project imparted notions of home, nation, heritage, and cultural construction through child's play. --inSITE97 Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) The New Children's Museum (American museum) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 309, Folder 02, Item 051) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Rittermann, Philipp Scholz Brown, Sheldon

subject Houses Play Boundaries Children (People By Age Group) Mexican-American Border Region Virtual Reality (Vr) Children'S Playhouses Insite97 Technology Border Art Video Art

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International Waters: Mexican Side Of The Border Fence

title International Waters: Mexican Side Of The Border Fence

description Architecture and City Planning Border Field State Park, San Diego, California, United States For inSITE97 San Diego artist Louis Hock constructed "International Waters/Aguas internacionales" at the Border Field State Park/Playas de Tijuana section of the border fence. Using water pumped from a well several miles northeast of the site, Hock built a double-sided drinking fountain with one head on each side of the border. People bending to drink from the heads could see each other through a hole cut in the metal fence. During the exhibition, US government authorities suddenly decided to replace the opaque metal fence with a chain link fence. "International Waters/Aguas internacionales" used the valuable resource, potable water, as an example of the flow and exchange that occurs along the border, despite the barriers and questions of ownership that try to hinder it. --inSITE97 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 06, Item 148) Tijuana, Playas de, Baja California Norte, Mexico [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Hock, Louis

subject Drinking Water Political Art Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Public Art Mexican-American Border Region Insite97 Natural Resources Installations (Visual Works) Border Art Fountains

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Rowing In Eden

title Rowing In Eden

description Film, Audio, Video and Digital Art For inSITE97, Deborah Small created an installation and digital presentation at the Santa Fe Depot in downtown San Diego, entitled "Rowing in Eden/Remando en el Eden/Pelando en el Eden/Formando Hileras." A collaboration with three other artists, the installation explored the historical relationship between women and plants, focusing on the women who became labeled as witches for their unique knowledge as herbalists or healers. The installation included dried and live plants, a digital projection with images, text and voice, and an audio installation with voice and music. It emphasized not only the women's persecution but also celebrated their extraordinary powers and insight into consciousness and divinity. --inSITE97 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 310, Folder 06, Item 350) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Small, Deborah Weissenburger, Renee

subject Computer-Generated Women Collaboration Installations (Visual Works) Mexican-American Border Region Shamans Insite97 Herbalists Traditional Medicine Healers Video Art Curanderismo

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News Release: Insite97 Catalogue Now Available

title News Release: Insite97 Catalogue Now Available

description Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a surrogate of a document from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 143, folder 01) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Insite97

subject Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) Installation Gallery Documents Boundaries Press Releases Public Art San Diego (Calif.) Mexican-American Border Region Press Kits Performance Art Insite97 Catalogs Public Spaces Yard, Sally Exhibitions (Events) Installations (Visual Works) Border Art

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The Loop: Box Of Correspondance

title The Loop: Box Of Correspondance

description Centro Cultural Tijuana From June 1 to July 5, 1997, Francis Alys traveled from Tijuana to San Diego without crossing the US-Mexico border by circumnavigating the globe. His project, The Loop, took him from his starting point at the border fence in Tijuana, to the same point on the border fence in San Diego. Stopping in places such as Australia, China, and Canada, Alys documented the trip through email, journal entries, photographs, and mementos found along the way. Alys stated that his project was an investigation of the verbal, visual, and bicultural, and was to remain independent from any critical implications and conclusions beyond the physical displacement of the artist. This documentation, as well as a series of postcards created by the artist during his travels, was displayed at the CECUT during the public phase of inSITE97. --inSITE97 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 01, Item 023) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Alÿs, Francis Rittermann, Philipp Scholz

subject Conceptual Boundaries Travel Mexican-American Border Region Insite97

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La Casita En La Colonia Altamira Calle Rio De Janeiro No. 6757, Tijuana: Entry

title La Casita En La Colonia Altamira Calle Rio De Janeiro No. 6757, Tijuana: Entry

description Architecture and City Planning Colonia Altamira, Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects and Interior Design Patricia Patterson's inSITE97 project was a collaborative effort to transform a small home in Tijuana into a visually captivating space for the surrounding community to meet, talk, eat, and engage in activities with one another. Working over a period of nine months, Patterson and her team of students and craftsmen renovated, painted, and landscaped the home of the Resendiz family to create a vibrant center in the residential colonia. Once complete, "La Casita en la Colonia Altamira, Calle Rio de Janeiro No. 6757, Tijuana" hosted numerous parties, brunches, and other gatherings of both local residents and visitors from San Diego, making the house a space for cross-cultural exchange and diversity. --inSITE97 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 270) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Rittermann, Philipp Scholz Patterson, Patricia

subject Landscape Architecture Painting (Coating) Houses Color Neighborhoods Public Art Mexican-American Border Region Architecture (Object Genre) Gardening Insite97 Renovation Installations (Visual Works) Border Art

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Popotla - The Wall: Assemblage Of Found Objects In The Form Of A Cowboy

title Popotla - The Wall: Assemblage Of Found Objects In The Form Of A Cowboy

description For their InSITE97 Community Engagement project, artist collective RevolucionArte (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 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 296) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Fluker, Jimmy Revolucionarte

subject Walls 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 Cowboys

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Sonic Zoo: Noise, Sound, And Rhythm On The Border Between Two Worlds

title Sonic Zoo: Noise, Sound, And Rhythm On The Border Between Two Worlds

description Film, Audio, Video and Digital Art From artist statement: " 'Sonic Zoo: Noise, Sound, and Rhythm on the Border Between Two Worlds' comprises thirteen Sound installations (Art) on a compact disc; these encompass the core of the project. Sonic armatures lasting between three and five minutes each, illustrated with eloquent photographs in color and in black and white. The CD also includes, in booklet form, a bilingual introduction to the project. There is a 'Zooful' of noises and sounds that are revealed every day and every night. They range from the simple inhalation and exhalation of the urban core to the guttural song of machinery and other beasts. Overarching the pervasive physical differences between Tijuana and San Diego, there is a ringing fountainhead of sound that rises above the barriers of language to give life its rhythm." Performing Arts (including Performance Art) Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Hernández Díaz, Octavio

subject City Noise Electronic Music Repetition In Music Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) Noise San Diego (Calif.) Sound Installations (Art) Music Transportation Noise Mexican-American Border Region Aleatoric Music Insite97 Sound Recordings Public Address Systems Border Art

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La Tierra Prometida: Detail Of Column With Neon Sculpture

title La Tierra Prometida: Detail Of Column With Neon Sculpture

description Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects and Interior Design Gonzalo Díaz's inSITE97 project, La tierra prometida/The Promised Land, was installed in the basement of the Children's Museum in San Diego. Following the fourteen Stations of the Cross, the installation was built upon fourteen columns each distinguished by a word with multiple meanings spelled out in blue neon. Each column was also marked by an illuminated bronze Roman numeral as well as enigmatic figure at the top of the column, shrouded in dark wrappings. Playing off of the large orthogonal space, Díaz created a mythological/spiritual space for the viewer. --inSITE97 Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) The New Children's Museum (American museum) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 309, Folder 04, Item 098) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Rivera, Paul Díaz, Gonzalo

subject Emigration And Immigration Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Stations Of The Cross Neon Sculpture Insite97 Installations (Visual Works) Border Art

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Island On The Fence: Proposal Drawing

title Island On The Fence: Proposal Drawing

description For inSITE97, Vito Acconci proposed to extend the existing US-Mexico border fence out into the Pacific Ocean by constructing a floating island that would move with the tides. Fabricated with sand and rocks atop a fiberglass structure, the island would have Umbrellas to provide shade and space for swimmers from either side of the border to rest. Envisioned to represent a liminal space, the island would allow people to escape the border's constraints on people's lives and movement, if only temporarily. Due to various obstacles, including permissions and construction costs, Island of the Fence/Isla en la muralla remains unrealized. --inSITE97 Graphic Design and Illustration 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 01, Item 005) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Acconci, Vito

subject Artificial Islands Walls Leisure Pacific Ocean Boundaries Proposals Sculpture (Visual Work) Flotation Islands Mexican-American Border Region Fences Insite97 Public Sculpture Drawings (Visual Works) Umbrellas Installations (Visual Works) Border Art

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Family Trees: Benches, Tables And Murals Of Trees And Birds

title Family Trees: Benches, Tables And Murals Of Trees And Birds

description Centro Cultural Tijuana Drawings and Watercolors Ernest Silva's inSITE97 Community Engagement project, "Family Trees/Arboles de familias," was a collaboration with artist Alberto Caro-Limón that linked the Children's Museum in San Diego to the Centro Cultural in Tijuana. Each site allowed children to write their own family stories and draw family portraits. Both installations were brightly colored and filled with images of houses, trees, birds, and birdhouses to symbolize the exchange of memories and stories from one museum to the other. The space at the Children's Museum was a Rain House that functioned as a studio, reading room, and exhibition space for the children's family projects. At the Centro, the space contained children-sized houses, benches and work spaces, and painted wood-picket fences and trees. The projects created at each installation then traveled to the other to be exhibited to complete the exchange of stories and perspectives. --inSITE97 Paintings Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) The New Children's Museum (American museum) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 05, Item 336) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Silva, Ernest

subject Collaboration Color Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Trees Children (People By Age Group) Mexican-American Border Region Families Rain Fences Insite97 Drawings (Visual Works) Multimedia Works Installations (Visual Works) Border Art Crafts (Art Genres)

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Drill: Two Video Monitors

title Drill: Two Video Monitors

description Dolores Magdalena Memorial Recreation Center, Logan Heights, San Diego, California, United States Doug Ischar's inSITE97 project, "Drill/Taladro/Adiestramiento," was a series of video and audio installations that meandered through the gymnasium of the Dolores Magdelena Memorial Recreation Center in Logan Heights. Running for several hours on two weekends, the installations, named individually "Vent," "Seam," and "Patient," were connected by orange electrical cable, providing the viewer with a path to follow. Ischar pieced together the imagery and music that played while participants navigated the installation. --inSITE97 Film, Audio, Video and Digital Art Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 309, Folder 06, Item 163) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Fluker, Jimmy Ischar, Doug, 1948-

subject Sound Art Video Art Mexican-American Border Region Insite97 Installations (Visual Works) Gymnasiums

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Piñatas Encantadas: General View

title Piñatas Encantadas: General View

description Centro Cultural de la Raza (San Diego, Calif.) For his inSITE97 Community Engagement project, San Diego artist Roberto Salas collaborated with artists in Tijuana and San Diego as well as San Diego students to create a piñata installation at the Centro Cultural de la Raza. Salas designed the piñatas in reference to his perceptions of traditional, popular, and personal iconography and allowed the artists to incorporate their own perspectives as the piñatas were fabricated. With bold colors and unusual imagery, "Piñatas encantadas" visually reinterpreted the traditional Mexican piñata while celebrating its history and mythology. As part of the installation, the piñata blueprints were displayed and students painted a mural that echoed themes from the piñatas. --inSITE97 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 329) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Salas, Roberto Crawford, Steve

subject Humor Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Skull Guitars Mexican-American Border Region Piñatas Toys (Recreational Artifacts) Insite97 Hats Installations (Visual Works) Border Art Crafts (Art Genres)

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Death Perra

title Death Perra

description Casa de la Cultura de Tijuana Film, Audio, Video and Digital Art For inSITE97, Miguel Calderon created a short film spoofing satanic practices near the San Diego-Tijuana border, incorporating stereotypical UFO paraphernalia and imagery to emphasize the "cheesy" nature of both subjects. The film, "Death Perra," was shown on a small television at the Casa de la Cultural de Tijuana. Produced in the style of a music video, Calderon used satanic UFO records as the sound track, mixing scenes of his friends playing records on turntables with scenes of artificial UFOs in different locations. --inSITE97 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 059) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Calderón, Miguel

subject Satanism Motion Pictures Unidentified Flying Objects Music Videos Mexican-American Border Region Insite97 Parody Installations (Visual Works) Border Art

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Boletín De Prensa: La University Of California, San Diego (Ucsd) Ofrecera Un Curso Intensive Sobre El Espacia Publico

title Boletín De Prensa: La University Of California, San Diego (Ucsd) Ofrecera Un Curso Intensive Sobre El Espacia Publico

description Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a surrogate of a document from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 82, folder 01) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Insite97

subject Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) Documents Boundaries Press Releases Public Art San Diego (Calif.) Mexican-American Border Region Press Kits Performance Art Insite97 Public Spaces University Of California, San Diego Exhibitions (Events) Installations (Visual Works) Border Art

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Inaugural Speech

title Inaugural Speech

description Andrea Fraser: "The opening events planned for inSITE97 were more extensive and official than those of most contemporary art exhibitions. Central to those events were the speeches delivered by representatives of various sponsoring organizations and participants. Such speeches function primarily to integrate (if only symbolically) the groups and organizations represented through their common demonstration of support. My contribution to inSITE97 was to deliver the speech inaugurating the exhibition." Film, Audio, Video and Digital Art Performing Arts (including Performance Art) 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 255, DVD 97-04) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Fraser, Andrea

subject Officials Speeches Documentaries Humor Irony Mexican-American Border Region Satire (Artistic Device) Inauguration Insite97 Parody Border Art Video Art

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The Other Side

title The Other Side

description ReinCarnation Project 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 01, Item 196) Using a room with a large wall of windows at the ReinCarnation Project in downtown San Diego, David Lamelas constructed "The Other Side/El otro lado." Dividing the room in half with a fifth wall, Lamelas plunged one side of the room into total darkness, while leaving the second half full of natural light from the window. Lamelas then cut a small hole in the fifth wall at eye level, allowing a single shaft of light to beam through into the darkness. Viewers could approach the room from either side of the fifth wall and peer into the dark or light side of the space. Positing the division of resources and rights between powers, Lamelas created his own border zone of privileged and unprivileged spaces. --inSITE97 [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Fluker, Jimmy Lamelas, David

subject Political Art Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Light (Energy) Insite97 Installations (Visual Works) Border Art

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International Waters: Detail Of Pipe From Mexican Side Of The Border Fence

title International Waters: Detail Of Pipe From Mexican Side Of The Border Fence

description Architecture and City Planning Border Field State Park, San Diego, California, United States For inSITE97 San Diego artist Louis Hock constructed International Waters/Aguas Internacionales at the Border Field State Park/Playas de Tijuana section of the border fence. Using water pumped from a well several miles northeast of the site, Hock built a double-sided drinking fountain with one head on each side of the border. People bending to drink from the heads could see each other through a hole cut in the metal fence. During the exhibition, US government authorities suddenly decided to replace the opaque metal fence with a chain link fence. International Waters/Aguas Internacionales used the valuable resource, potable water, as an example of the flow and exchange that occurs along the border, despite the barriers and questions of ownership that try to hinder it. --KB 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 06, Item 149) Tijuana, Playas de, Baja California Norte, Mexico [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Hock, Louis

subject Drinking Water Political Art Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Public Art Mexican-American Border Region Insite97 Natural Resources Installations (Visual Works) Border Art Fountains

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Alien Toy Uco (Unidentified Crusing Object)

title Alien Toy Uco (Unidentified Crusing Object)

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 257) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Ortiz Torres, Rubén

subject Popular Culture Unidentified Flying Objects Automobiles Political Art Humor Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Performance Art Insite97 Installations (Visual Works) Border Art Video Art

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La Casita En La Colonia Altamira Calle Rio De Janeiro No. 6757, Tijuana: View Toward Entry Hall

title La Casita En La Colonia Altamira Calle Rio De Janeiro No. 6757, Tijuana: View Toward Entry Hall

description Architecture and City Planning Colonia Altamira, Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects and Interior Design Patricia Patterson's inSITE97 project was a collaborative effort to transform a small home in Tijuana into a visually captivating space for the surrounding community to meet, talk, eat, and engage in activities with one another. Working over a period of nine months, Patterson and her team of students and craftsmen renovated, painted, and landscaped the home of the Resendiz family to create a vibrant center in the residential colonia. Once complete, "La Casita en la Colonia Altamira, Calle Rio de Janeiro No. 6757, Tijuana" hosted numerous parties, brunches, and other gatherings of both local residents and visitors from San Diego, making the house a space for cross-cultural exchange and diversity. --inSITE97 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 271) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Rittermann, Philipp Scholz Patterson, Patricia

subject Landscape Architecture Painting (Coating) Houses Color Neighborhoods Public Art Mexican-American Border Region Architecture (Object Genre) Gardening Insite97 Renovation Installations (Visual Works) Border Art

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Popotla - The Wall: Crushed Beer Cans Used To Color Mural

title Popotla - The Wall: Crushed Beer Cans Used To Color Mural

description For their InSITE97 Community Engagement project, artist collective RevolucionArte (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 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 297) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Fluker, Jimmy Revolucionarte

subject Walls Humor Color Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Public Art Children (People By Age Group) Assemblage (Sculpture Technique) Mexican-American Border Region Murals (Any Medium) Insite97 Recycling

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La Tierra Prometida: Detail Showing Row Of Columns With Neon Sculptures

title La Tierra Prometida: Detail Showing Row Of Columns With Neon Sculptures

description Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects and Interior Design Gonzalo Díaz's inSITE97 project, La tierra prometida/The Promised Land, was installed in the basement of the Children's Museum in San Diego. Following the fourteen Stations of the Cross, the installation was built upon fourteen columns each distinguished by a word with multiple meanings spelled out in blue neon. Each column was also marked by an illuminated bronze Roman numeral as well as enigmatic figure at the top of the column, shrouded in dark wrappings. Playing off of the large orthogonal space, Díaz created a mythological/spiritual space for the viewer. --inSITE97 Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) The New Children's Museum (American museum) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 309, Folder 04, Item 099) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Rittermann, Philipp Scholz Díaz, Gonzalo

subject Emigration And Immigration Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Stations Of The Cross Neon Sculpture Insite97 Installations (Visual Works) Border Art

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Island On The Fence: View Of Proposal Model With Floating Island And Border Fence Extending Into The Pacific Ocean

title Island On The Fence: View Of Proposal Model With Floating Island And Border Fence Extending Into The Pacific Ocean

description For inSITE97, Vito Acconci proposed to extend the existing US-Mexico border fence out into the Pacific Ocean by constructing a floating island that would move with the tides. Fabricated with sand and rocks atop a fiberglass structure, the island would have Umbrellas to provide shade and space for swimmers from either side of the border to rest. Envisioned to represent a liminal space, the island would allow people to escape the border's constraints on people's lives and movement, if only temporarily. Due to various obstacles, including permissions and construction costs, Island of the Fence/Isla en la muralla remains unrealized. --inSITE97 Graphic Design and Illustration 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 01, Item 006) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Acconci, Vito

subject Artificial Islands Walls Leisure Pacific Ocean Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Flotation Islands Mexican-American Border Region Fences Insite97 Public Sculpture Umbrellas Installations (Visual Works) Border Art

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Family Trees: Benches, Tables And Murals Of Trees And Birds

title Family Trees: Benches, Tables And Murals Of Trees And Birds

description Centro Cultural Tijuana Drawings and Watercolors Ernest Silva's inSITE97 Community Engagement project, "Family Trees/Arboles de familias," was a collaboration with artist Alberto Caro-Limón that linked the Children's Museum in San Diego to the Centro Cultural in Tijuana. Each site allowed children to write their own family stories and draw family portraits. Both installations were brightly colored and filled with images of houses, trees, birds, and birdhouses to symbolize the exchange of memories and stories from one museum to the other. The space at the Children's Museum was a Rain House that functioned as a studio, reading room, and exhibition space for the children's family projects. At the Centro, the space contained children-sized houses, benches and work spaces, and painted wood-picket fences and trees. The projects created at each installation then traveled to the other to be exhibited to complete the exchange of stories and perspectives. --inSITE97 Paintings Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) The New Children's Museum (American museum) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 05, Item 337) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Silva, Ernest Reo, Sharon A.

subject Collaboration Color Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Trees Children (People By Age Group) Mexican-American Border Region Families Rain Fences Insite97 Drawings (Visual Works) Multimedia Works Installations (Visual Works) Border Art Crafts (Art Genres)

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Photographs

title Photographs

description Centro Cultural Tijuana For inSITE97, Ken Lum created two oversized large-scale photographs that were shown at the Centro Cultural Tijuana. The first photograph showed a young girl in San Diego talking on the phone about plans to eat either Mexican or Chinese food. The second photograph, with text from a popular Mexican children's rhyme, shows a young boy selling American soda and candy. The work suggests the blurring of cultural borders despite the adamantly divisive physical barrier. As a Canadian living near the northern US border, Lum stated that his experience in San Diego and Tijuana during inSITE97 caused him to rethink his notion of borders, and consider how the United States, with its pervasive capitalism and culture, borders nations throughout the world. --inSITE97 Photographs 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 207) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Lum, Ken Rittermann, Philipp Scholz

subject Songs (Oral Or Performed Works) Boundaries Texts (Document Genres) Children (People By Age Group) Mexican-American Border Region Poverty Photography Insite97 Street Vendors Installations (Visual Works) Border Art

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Untitled Depot

title Untitled Depot

description Garden and Landscape Nari Ward's "Untitled Depot/Estacion sin titulo," installed at Playas de Tijuana, was an interactive piece that brought people together. Dedicated to the healer and child in everyone, the installation was constructed from doors, bed springs, and other found materials that visitors could walk through and experiment with. Ward felt that the physical interaction that brought visitors together inside the installation was vital for the totality of the piece. The bed springs that encouraged visitors to jump up and down were based on Ward's interest in suspension, and the balance it implies between rest and motion -- inSITE97 Plaza de Toros Monumental de Aguascalientes (Aguascalientes, 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 311, Folder 01, Item 398) Tijuana, Playas de, Baja California Norte, Mexico [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Rittermann, Philipp Scholz Ward, Nari

subject Arenas Walls Play Boundaries Bull Rings Public Art Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Insite97 Installations (Visual Works) Border Art

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Drill: General View

title Drill: General View

description Dolores Magdalena Memorial Recreation Center, Logan Heights, San Diego, California, United States Doug Ischar's inSITE97 project, "Drill/Taladro/Adiestramiento," was a series of video and audio installations that meandered through the gymnasium of the Dolores Magdelena Memorial Recreation Center in Logan Heights. Running for several hours on two weekends, the installations, named individually "Vent," "Seam," and "Patient," were connected by orange electrical cable, providing the viewer with a path to follow. Ischar pieced together the imagery and music that played while participants navigated the installation. --inSITE97 Film, Audio, Video and Digital Art Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 309, Folder 06, Item 164) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Jaar, Alfredo Ischar, Doug, 1948-

subject Sound Art Video Art Mexican-American Border Region Insite97 Installations (Visual Works) Gymnasiums

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The Good Neighbor

title The Good Neighbor

description Casa de la Cultura de Tijuana Installed at the Casa de la Cultura in Tijuana, Tony Capellan's inSITE97 piece, El buen vecino/The Good Neighbor, was a symbol of the border and the consequences brought by partitioning land between two powers. The two chairs at the heads of table represented to United States and Mexican governments, and the table, covered in chili peppers, was dissected by a raucous, spinning buzz saw. Originally conceived to represent two hundred years of land treaties between the two countries, the final installation emphasized the violence and loss experienced by Mexico when the country was divested of its lands. --inSITE97 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 03, Item 060) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Capellán, Tony Rittermann, Philipp Scholz

subject Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Machinery Deaths Mexican-American Border Region Violence Hazards Insite97 Installations (Visual Works) Border Art Furniture

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Serpent Column, Auto-Sacrifice

title Serpent Column, Auto-Sacrifice

description Casa de la Cultura de Tijuana Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) Spring Hurlbut's work for inSITE97, "Columna serpiente, autosacrificio," was installed in the staircases of the Casa de la Cultura in Tijuana. Hurlbut designed cast-plaster Greek columns covered in coiling serpents, and column bases holding pairs of skeletal feet. Referencing symbols of victimization and bloodshed from Mexican and Greek history and mythology, Hurlbut wished to use architecture to examine the development of civilization and territories around the border. --inSITE97 This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 309, Folder 06, Item 157) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Rivera, Paul Hurlbut, Spring

subject Sculpture (Visual Work) Public Art Mexican-American Border Region Sacrifice Insite97 Snakes Foot Columns (Architectural Elements) Installations (Visual Works) Border Art

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Alien Toy Uco (Unidentified Crusing Object)

title Alien Toy Uco (Unidentified Crusing Object)

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 258) [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 Performance Art Insite97 Installations (Visual Works) Border Art Video Art

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The Great Balboa Park Landfill Exposition Of 1997

title The Great Balboa Park Landfill Exposition Of 1997

description Balboa Park (San Diego, Calif.) Cindy Zimmerman's Community Engagement project for inSITE97 was the development of a new park environment at the landfill adjacent to Florida Canyon in Balboa Park. Constructing the piece over several months, Zimmerman involved children and families in the creation and placement of straw bales and clay in the landfill to make labyrinths, temporary earthworks, and adobe structures. "The Great Balboa Park Landfill Exposition of 1997/La gran exposicion del relleno del Balboa Park 1997" transformed an unused and unattractive plot of land into a new community park and art installation. Zimmerman led workshops and meetings throughout the project to involve the community and collaborate with the participants to create art from organic materials. -- inSITE97 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 311, Folder 02, Item 424) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Fluker, Jimmy Zimmerman, Cindy

subject Landfills Community Arts Projects Play Workshops (Seminars) Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Insite97 Renovation Installations (Visual Works) Artistic Collaboration

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La Casita En La Colonia Altamira Calle Rio De Janeiro No. 6757, Tijuana: View From Street

title La Casita En La Colonia Altamira Calle Rio De Janeiro No. 6757, Tijuana: View From Street

description Architecture and City Planning Colonia Altamira, Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects and Interior Design Patricia Patterson's inSITE97 project was a collaborative effort to transform a small home in Tijuana into a visually captivating space for the surrounding community to meet, talk, eat, and engage in activities with one another. Working over a period of nine months, Patterson and her team of students and craftsmen renovated, painted, and landscaped the home of the Resendiz family to create a vibrant center in the residential colonia. Once complete, "La Casita en la Colonia Altamira, Calle Rio de Janeiro No. 6757, Tijuana" hosted numerous parties, brunches, and other gatherings of both local residents and visitors from San Diego, making the house a space for cross-cultural exchange and diversity. --inSITE97 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 272) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Chávez, Patricio Jimmy Fluker

subject Landscape Architecture Painting (Coating) Houses Color Neighborhoods Public Art Mexican-American Border Region Architecture (Object Genre) Gardening Insite97 Renovation Installations (Visual Works) Border Art

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Popotla - The Wall: Mural Of Figures On A Boat

title Popotla - The Wall: Mural Of Figures On A Boat

description For their InSITE97 Community Engagement project, artist collective RevolucionArte (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 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 298) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Fluker, Jimmy Revolucionarte

subject Walls Humor Color Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Public Art Children (People By Age Group) Mexican-American Border Region Boats Murals (Any Medium) Insite97

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Blue Students

title Blue Students

description Casa de la Cultura de Tijuana Liz Magor's inSITE97 project was an experiment in Photography that involved portraits of students from both the School of Creative and Performing Arts in San Diego and the Preparatoria Federal Lazaro Cardenas in Tijuana. For "Blue Students/Alumnos en Azul," Magor took portraits of numerous senior students and created various format negatives. She pressed the negatives with paper covered in iron salts that converted each into a positive blue image under exposure to Daylight. Magor placed the negatives throughout San Diego and Tijuana, and allowed the various states of light to produce the final pictures. By the end of the exhibition, only a few images had not been completely obscured by effects of the Daylight. Magor stated that the final images in their various stages of legibility represented the power of circumstance and chance that governs the path of people's lives. --inSITE97 Photographs 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 02, Item 219) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Magor, Liz

subject Portraits Boundaries Mexican-American Border Region Photography Insite97 Blue (Color) Installations (Visual Works)

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Island On The Fence: View Of Proposal Model: Floating Island With Border Fence In Background

title Island On The Fence: View Of Proposal Model: Floating Island With Border Fence In Background

description For inSITE97, Vito Acconci proposed to extend the existing US-Mexico border fence out into the Pacific Ocean by constructing a floating island that would move with the tides. Fabricated with sand and rocks atop a fiberglass structure, the island would have Umbrellas to provide shade and space for swimmers from either side of the border to rest. Envisioned to represent a liminal space, the island would allow people to escape the border's constraints on people's lives and movement, if only temporarily. Due to various obstacles, including permissions and construction costs, Island of the Fence/Isla en la muralla remains unrealized. --inSITE97 Graphic Design and Illustration 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 01, Item 007) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Acconci, Vito

subject Artificial Islands Walls Leisure Pacific Ocean Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Flotation Islands Mexican-American Border Region Fences Insite97 Public Sculpture Umbrellas Installations (Visual Works) Border Art

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Kiosko Esotérico: Kiosk Outside The Centro Cultural In Tijuana

title Kiosko Esotérico: Kiosk Outside The Centro Cultural In Tijuana

description Architecture and City Planning Centro Cultural Tijuana Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects and Interior Design For inSITE97, Pablo Vargas Lugo constructed "Esoteric Kiosk/Kiosko Esotérico," a futuristic piece of portable architecture with fake newspapers displaying fantastical imagery. Installed outside the Centro Cultural Tijuana, the kiosk was open for public viewing everyday and folded up each night to convey a sense of secrecy about its contents. The structure was divided into four sections showing two intersecting images, each referencing scientific discoveries about extraterrestrial life and life inside the core of planet Earth. Vargas Lugo related the images of the discoveries to images of heaven and hell, creating a work that functioned as an altarpiece, advertisement, and newspaper stand. --inSITE97 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 392) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Vargas Lugo, Pablo Rittermann, Philipp Scholz

subject Advertisements Pavilions Public Art Sculpture (Visual Work) Altarpieces Mexican-American Border Region Newspaper Vendors Information Insite97 Extraterrestrial Beings Installations (Visual Works) Newspaper

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Awasinake (On The Other Side): Detail Of Photographs On Marquee

title Awasinake (On The Other Side): Detail Of Photographs On Marquee

description Casino Theatre, San Diego (Calif.) For inSITE97, Rebecca Belmore created a large-scale photographic work installed on the abandoned marquee of the historic Casino Theatre in downtown San Diego. "Awasinake (on the Other Side)/Awasinake (en el otro lado)" was based on the ritual of waiting to cross the border from Mexico to the US. Belmore wanted the photographs of indigenous women waiting at the border fence in Tijuana to reflect the mood of the dilapidated Casino Theatre itself, waiting to be reclaimed and refurbished by the city. The size and elongated format of the portraits evoked the feel of an epic narrative unfolding before the viewer. --inSITE97 Photographs 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 043) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Belmore, Rebecca Rittermann, Philipp Scholz

subject Refurbishment Façades Political Art Portraits Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Public Art Feminism Mexican-American Border Region Insite97 Marquees Renovation Installations (Visual Works) Border Art

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Drops: Concrete Die

title Drops: Concrete Die

description For Iran do Espírito Santo's inSITE97 project, "Drops," twenty concrete dice were scattered among sites in San Diego and Tijuana, ten in each city. The "Drops," situated in public places, could be seen or even sat upon by a number of passersby, but only chance could allow visitors to see more than one die and understand that they were viewing an artwork. Espírito Santo explained that the installation dealt with paradoxes on different levels. The entire installation could not be perceived at any one moment, and the oversized dice did not function as the objects they represented. By the end of the exhibition, many of the dice had been removed or damaged, their fate left to chance. A few dice remain in their original locations. --inSITE97 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 309, Folder 04, Item 115) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Rittermann, Philipp Scholz Espírito Santo, Iran Do

subject Play Gambling Sculpture (Visual Work) Public Art Floor Pieces (Art) Mexican-American Border Region Dice Games Insite97 Installations (Visual Works) Border Art

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