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  One Flew Over The Void (Bala Perdida): Video Documentation: Human Cannonball David Smith Ascends From Cannon And Across Border Fence

  title One Flew Over The Void (Bala Perdida): Video Documentation: Human Cannonball David Smith Ascends From Cannon And Across Border Fence 

  description Building on a collaborative process that is evident throughout his artistic practice, Javier Téllez's project "One Flew Over the Void (Bala perdida)" involved a sustained engagement with psychiatric patients from the Baja California Mental Health Center in Mexicali to co-create a public event and to document its evolution and final performance. Inspired by the traditional "human cannonball" circus performer, Téllez explored the notion of spatial and mental borders in the context of Tijuana and San Diego, and developed an event that involves sending a "human cannonball" across the border between Mexico and the United States. Through successive creative workshops and exchanges the world's most famous human cannonball, Dave Smith, the psychiatric patients and Téllez collectively devised the backdrop, music, costumes, and radio and television announcements for the event. The performance occurred on August 27 at the site where the Mexico/US border fence disappears into the sea between Playas de Tijuana and Border Field State Park. Finally, Téllez created a video documenting the process and the event. --inSite_05  Imperial Beach, San Diego, California, United States  Performing Arts (including Performance Art)  Sculpture and Installations  Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca)  This video file was extracted from a DVD-R from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 257, DVD 05-49)  Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico)  Tijuana, Playas de, Baja California Norte, Mexico  [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego. 

  artist/creator Téllez, Javier 

  subject Boundaries  Installations (Visual Works)  Psychiatric Hospitals  Daredevils  Adventure And Adventurers  Patients  Political Art  Flight  Public Art  Insite_05  Audiences  Performance Art  Musicians  Spectacular, The  Humor  Cannons (Artillery)  Mexican-American Border Region  Caricatures  Sculpture (Visual Work)  Fences  Masks  Border Art 

  contributor Calisphere