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Estratos, elementos y proceso de la estética arqueológica de Rimer Cardillo

title Estratos, elementos y proceso de la estética arqueológica de Rimer Cardillo

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artist/creator Mesa-Bains, Amalia

subject Sculpture (Visual Work) Symbolism (Artistic Concept) Artists Art

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The archaeological aesthetic of Rimer Cardillo: stratum, element and process

title The archaeological aesthetic of Rimer Cardillo: stratum, element and process

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artist/creator Mesa-Bains, Amalia

subject Exhibitions (Events) Dictatorship Art Memory Sculpture (Visual Work) Uruguayan Artists

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Nuestras artes en Michigan: an overview of Chicano/Latino/Hispanic art in Michigan

title Nuestras artes en Michigan: an overview of Chicano/Latino/Hispanic art in Michigan

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artist/creator Gonzales, Jesse

subject Mexican American Mexican Muralist Paintings Video (Art Discipline) Mural Paintings Sculpture (Visual Work) Hispanic American Mexican Artists

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The Virgin Of Guadalupe

title The Virgin Of Guadalupe

description California artist Jeffrey Vallance proposed to make an intervention at the Tijuana Wax Museum for inSITE2000. Collaborating with Mexico City-based wax-figure maker Victor Hugo Yanez, Vallance produced three new figures for the museum: the Virgin of Guadalupe, Dante, and former US President Richard Nixon. Vallance started with a list of about twenty-eight names of historical and contemporary figures as potential additions to the display at the museum, and arrive at the selection of the three figures based on the existing exhibition structure. The Virgin of Guadalupe could be seen in full figure situated on her own, while Nixon was placed in the presidential room holding in his hands the symbolic element that came to define his public career, a simulated set of reel-to-reel Watergate tapes, and Dante was placed at the entrance to hell with his hand pointing the way. With his project for the Wax Museum, Vallance deepened his own interest and fascination with the three selected figures. In this way, having followed stories for years from different parts of the world detailing apparitions of the Virgin of Guadalupe, Vallance, during a residency period in San Diego, could add yet another apparition to the list - he spotted her up high on a stone column at the Courtyard by Marriott downtown hotel. -- inSITE2000 Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 311, Folder 01, Item 386) Tijuana Wax Museum [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Decker, Alan Vallance, Jeffrey

subject Wax Figures Popular Culture Religions (Concept) Humor Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Figurative Art Mexican-American Border Region Kitsch Piety In Art Visions Prayer Waxworks Gesture Insite2000 Installations (Visual Works) Border Art Christianity And Art

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Airplane Parts And Building, A Large Growth For San Diego: Exterior View

title Airplane Parts And Building, A Large Growth For San Diego: Exterior View

description Commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego a few years prior to 1994, the Museum presented, in conjunction with inSITE94, a new installation by Los Angeles-based artist Nancy Rubins at their downtown location. Titled "Airplane Parts and Building, A Large Growth for San Diego," the installation was built of discarded airplane parts that were arranged to rise from the floor of the interior space of the Museum and pierce through the building's south-facing windows to form a large hovering growth on the exterior. The dynamic arrangement of the elements made the pieces work together as one appearing frozen in time and their careful placement as a whole suggested a rapid movement as though whirled together by some unknown force. --inSITE94 Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 05, Item 318) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Rubins, Nancy

subject Salvage Junk Sculpture Sculpture (Visual Work) Aerospace Industries Mexican-American Border Region Insite94 Recycling Installations (Visual Works)

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Abandoned Ii: Aerial View

title Abandoned Ii: Aerial View

description Garden and Landscape Originally created for inSITE92 by San Diego artist Michael Schnorr and Swedish artist Ulf Rollof, "Abandonado II" was renovated for inSITE94. The project was from the beginning born of the particular circumstances that describe its location. Situated on an empty lot across the street from the Pacific Ocean at Playas de Tijuana, the installation was intended to serve the numerous abandoned children who live along the border in the beach area. The installation consisted of several pieces constructed from brick and concrete, among them two pieces of fire-heated outdoor furniture, the "Fire Sofa" and "Fire Chair." It also included a shell-like echo chamber titled "Habla/Head - Cabeza/Speak" and a circle of brick school desks titled "The Bricklayers' Class." The installation became a gathering place for locals and a playground for children. - InSITE94 Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 04, Item 307) Tijuana, Playas de, Baja California Norte, Mexico [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Schnorr, Michael Rollof, Ulf

subject Furniture Homelessness Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Public Art Installations (Visual Works) Children (People By Age Group) Mexican-American Border Region Outdoor Furniture Playgrounds Beaches Insite92 Insite94 Chimneys (Architectural Elements) Border Art Artistic Collaboration

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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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None For Political Reasons Ii

title None For Political Reasons Ii

description Carlos Aguirre's project for inSITE94, "None for Political Reasons II/Ninguno por razones politicas II," was located at the downtown space of the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego. Incorporating human bone, soil, refuse, man-made materials, and the central object of a funerary boat, Aguirre's project spoke of the temporal, transitional, and cyclical. The installation conjured up images of ritual and ceremony, referencing the journey from life to death. --inSITE94 Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 309, Folder 01, Item 016) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Aguirre, Carlos

subject Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Deaths Rituals (Events) Funeral Rites And Ceremonies Insite94 Installations (Visual Works)

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Search: General View

title Search: General View

description Chicago-based artist Inigo Manglano-Ovalle proposed a transformation of the bullring at Playas de Tijuana for inSITE2000. Working on a scale indicative of the vast site, Manglano-Ovalle transformed the bullring into a large radio telescope searching for "aliens." Titled Search/En Busqueda the piece functioned as a listening device searching the atmosphere for any discernible noise made by aliens. A suspended antenna above a receiving dish located at ground level of the bullring would pick up sounds that in turn would be broadcast, along with the white sound of listening, on speakers surrounding the bullring, as well as on FM radio and the web. The notion of possible contact with aliens both at the border and in space made the piece, according to the artist, "a global event, possibly cosmic." --inSITE2000 Plaza de Toros Monumental de Aguascalientes (Aguascalientes, Mexico) Science, Technology and Industry Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 02, Item 228) Tijuana, Playas de, Baja California Norte, Mexico [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Manglano-Ovalle, Iñigo Golino, Michael

subject Humor Bull Rings Sculpture (Visual Work) Antennas Mexican-American Border Region Architecture (Object Genre) Radio Telescopes Undocumented Immigrants Extraterrestrial Beings Installations (Visual Works) Insite2000

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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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Century 21: Shack In Courtyard Of The Centro Cultural Tijuana

title Century 21: Shack In Courtyard Of The Centro Cultural Tijuana

description Architecture and City Planning Centro Cultural Tijuana Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects and Interior Design Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 04, Item 289) With "Century 21" Tijuana artist Marcos Ramirez ERRE created a piece for inSITE94 that captured significant public attention. Located prominently on the plaza of the Centro Cultural Tijuana, Ramirez replicated a common Tijuana shanty house and thereby placed the issue of socio-economic disparity where it would be difficult to avoid. The artist drew a sharp contrast to that of the modern façade of the CECUT and this apparent tension was further underscored when one ventured inside the building to find the trappings of common Mexican life. The installation included documentary photographs of five similar shanty homes. The artist stated that with this work he wanted to point to one of the sore spots of Mexican society and also posit that while some people may live in poverty they live equally with dignity and pride as members of the same society. --inSITE94 [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Ramírez Erre, Marcos

subject Dwellings Satire Shacks Real Property Temporary Housing Housing (Concept) Political Art Public Art Insite94 Squatters Settlements Replicas Homelessness Humor Mexican-American Border Region Poverty Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) Sculpture (Visual Work) Architecture (Object Genre) Fences Installations (Visual Works) Border Art

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You Are Aquí: Freeway At Night

title You Are Aquí: Freeway At Night

description Cuban-born artist Arturo Cuenca was drawn to work with the visual language of billboards that crowd the US-Mexican border crossing at San Ysidro. With "You Are Aquí" Cuenca pointed to the obvious - locating border crossers exactly at the point of transition between the two countries. Borrowing from the visual language of the surrounding billboards. Cuenca constructed a new billboard with a manipulated satellite image of the border and had it installed on the Puente Mexico, the pedestrian bridge that crosses the lines of vehicular border traffic. Acting as a location marker, the work was seen by more than 45,000 commuters daily. --inSITE2000 Photographs Puente Mexico, San Ysidro, San Diego, California, United States Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 309, Folder 03, Item 077) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Stéfano, Alfredo De Cuenca, Arturo

subject Political Art Satellite Imagery Boundaries Night Public Art Sculpture (Visual Work) Site-Specific Works Mexican-American Border Region Billboards (Site Elements) Commuting Traffic City Planning Express Highways Insite2000 Bridges (Built Works) Installations (Visual Works) Border Art

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Project At Maclovio Rojas: Video Documentary

title Project At Maclovio Rojas: Video Documentary

description Brazilian artist Monica Nador began her project for inSITE2000 with a two-month residency in the community of Maclovio Rojas in Tijuana. Challenging traditional notions of the role of the artist and audience, Nador worked with ten families in the community to implement a collaborative form of decoration for the exterior of their homes. Encouraging each family to identify ancestral signs, symbols, and other imagery associated with their regional and cultural heritage, Nador and a small team of assistant artists began a process of creating stencils to be used in decorating their houses. Working in the community for approximately six months, the artist's motivation that "beauty is good for mental and spiritual health" resulted in brightly painted and decorated houses that residents in the entire community saw as unifying and adding visual wealth that could be shared by all. A video documenting Accion en Maclovio Rojas/Project at Maclovio Rojas was produced as part of the project. --inSITE2000 Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects and Interior Design Film, Audio, Video and Digital Art Maclovio Rojas, Tijuana, Baja California Sur, Mexico Paintings 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 00-30) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Nador, Mônica

subject Dwellings Painting (Coating) Houses Color Video Art Sculpture (Visual Work) Public Art Mexican-American Border Region Insite2000 Installations (Visual Works) Border Art Beauty

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Ruminations: Chair And Box Filled With Objects

title Ruminations: Chair And Box Filled With Objects

description "This installation, 'Ruminations,' is a dreamscape: an exploration of shifting narratives at the crossroads. In the wake of a painful and humiliating verdict in Simi Valley, and the searing image of L.A. in flames, I find myself focusing upon thresholds: a state of being on the line. The fire ain't out." -- Johnny Coleman, August, 1992 David Zapf Gallery, San Diego, California, United States Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 309, Folder 03, Item 066) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator David Zapf Gallery Coleman, Johnny

subject Political Art Rodney King Riots (Los Angeles, California : 1992) Sculpture (Visual Work) History Mexican-American Border Region Insite92 Race Relations 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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One Flew Over The Void (Bala Perdida): Border Fence Decorated With Banners Behind Performance Stage

title One Flew Over The Void (Bala Perdida): Border Fence Decorated With Banners Behind Performance Stage

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 image was extracted from a DVD-R from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 198, DVD 01) Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) Tijuana, Playas de, Baja California Norte, Mexico [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Téllez, Javier

subject Political Art Spectacular, The Flight Humor Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Public Art Insite_05 Audiences Mexican-American Border Region Performance Art Fences Daredevils Adventure And Adventurers Installations (Visual Works) Border Art

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Curtain Call

title Curtain Call

description Centro Cultural Tijuana Mexico City artist Felipe Ehrenberg created a two-part installation for inSITE94, "Curtain Call," sited in the concourse of the Santa Fe Depot in San Diego and in the garden of the Centro Cultural Tijuana. The artist installed two nearly identical structures. In Tijuana, the work consisted of a metal framework of poles between which cables were stretched. Across these cables, faceless cotton cloth dolls were randomly hung like human musical notes. In San Diego, the installation took a similar form, except that the framework was built of wood and the lines were made of hemp. --inSITE94 Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 309, Folder 04, Item 106) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Ehrenberg, Felipe

subject Draperies Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Insite94 Clothing Installations (Visual Works) Border Art Musical Notation

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The Tower

title The Tower

description Drawing on the tradition of the California Light and Space movement, San Diego-based artist Jim Skalman created an installation titled "The Tower/La Torre" for inSITE94 that joined these sensibilities in a minimal expression of calculated form, space, and light. Skalman chose to work at La Torre in Tijuana because of its architectural space, history, and the possibilities it offered. The artist created a sparse installation housing few constructed forms and lit the interior rooms with diffused lighting to further transform them into spaces of contemplation. -- inSITE94 La Torre de Tijuana, Tijuana, 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 06, Item 344) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Rittermann, Philipp Scholz Skalman, Jim

subject Space (Composition Concept) Contemplation Light And Space Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Light (Energy) Insite94 Installations (Visual Works)

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Saline: Plexiglas Containers Filled With Water

title Saline: Plexiglas Containers Filled With Water

description For inSITE94, artist Nina Karavasiles created "Saline/La salina" at the Stephen Birch Aquarium-Museum, part of Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego. The artist built a salt-filled trough that extended from the aquarium-museum courtyard down the hillside towards the water, creating a visual connection to the seaside, the Scripps Pier, and the ocean beyond. Alongside the trough were Plexiglas enclosures containing salt water. Over the course of the exhibition the water evaporated leaving behind salt crystals. --inSITE94 Garden and Landscape Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) Stephen Birch Aquarium-Museum This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 01, Item 178) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Karavasiles, Nina

subject Pacific Ocean Sculpture (Visual Work) Public Art Views Mexican-American Border Region Landscapes (Environments) Insite94 Oceans Process Art Installations (Visual Works) Border Art

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Blue Granite Shift

title Blue Granite Shift

description California Center for the Arts Museum (Escondido, Calif.) For inSITE94, Mathieu Gregoire created a permanent installation for the central courtyard of the California Center for the Arts, Escondido. Entitled "Blue Granite Shift/Transición del granite azul," the piece is made of granite quarried from the hills surrounding the cultural complex. Extending 500 feet throughout the courtyard, the work moves from rough granite boulders to increasingly more cut and polished stones, finally ending with completely square granite elements. Likewise, the landscaping follows a similar evolution from native plants and trees to more formal and decorative varieties. The work suggests development in the area as having been wrought from the natural environment. --inSITE94 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 05, Item 131) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Gregoire, Mathieu

subject Landscape Architecture Abstraction Orchards Sculpture (Visual Work) Escondido (Calif.) Mexican-American Border Region Landscapes (Environments) Insite94 Installations (Visual Works) Gardens

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Poggi Canyon

title Poggi Canyon

description Architecture and City Planning Drawings and Watercolors Poggi Canyon, San Diego, California, United States Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 05, Item 333) Titled "Poggi Canyon/Cañón Poggi," Schnorr's project addressed the proposed development of Poggi Canyon in Chula Vista and the impact it would have on the neighboring residents. The artist erected four billboards with images of the canyon spaced about one hundred yards apart. As one would approach the canyon by car the question "When is a Canyon Not a Canyon," written out over the four billboards, highlighted a development project then being considered by the Chula Vista City Council. Over the course of the exhibition the artist gradually covered each pristine billboard image of the canyon with drawings showing the development of street systems, housing and planned landscaping, suggesting what would happen to the natural landscape should the development be approved. --inSITE94 [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Schnorr, Michael

subject Political Art Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Landscapes (Environments) Insite94 Environmentalism Housing Development Urban Planning Nature Installations (Visual Works) Real Estate Development

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The Glass Wall: Beyond Numbers: Detail Of Glass Panels

title The Glass Wall: Beyond Numbers: Detail Of Glass Panels

description Boehm Gallery, Palomar College Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) The artist had identifying numbers sand-blasted into Plexiglas and arranged them in a grid. On another wall there are identifying labels of anonymous men and women describing them by occupation and race. The installation also included self portraits in oil with the artist depicted in various guises and identities. This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 03, Item 239) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Mur-Ray, Ming

subject Numbers Occupations Classification Race Relations Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Insite92 Identification Installations (Visual Works) Grids (Layout Features)

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Yin/Yang, Us/Them

title Yin/Yang, Us/Them

description Albert Chong's project, "Yin/Yang, Us/Them/Yin/yang, nosotros/ellos," was installed at La Torre de Tijuana. Gathered on the floor of the Torre were apples and oranges arranged in the Taoist symbol of yin and yang. In the words of the artist, the fruits symbolize difference and co-existence. Surrounding this circle were half-shell coconuts containing water, wine, and rum. Evoking a space of ritual, the central circular element was balanced by a cowrie-shell jacket suspended from the ceiling, bottles of liquor, and a wall text. --inSITE94 La Torre de Tijuana, Tijuana, 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 03, Item 063) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Chong, Albert

subject Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Floor Pieces (Art) Installations (Visual Works) Mexican-American Border Region Insite94 Food Taoism Nature Infinite Border Art

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Rain Bow: View With Blinds Open

title Rain Bow: View With Blinds Open

description San Diego Natural History Museum San Diego-based artist Roman de Salvo created four distinct installations for inSITE94 at the San Diego Natural History Museum. Titled "Rain Bow/Arco de lluvia," "Santa Ana," "Exits/Salidas," and "Mouse Hole/Ratonera," respectively, the pieces were located in areas of the museum not normally used for exhibition. Drawing attention to the marginal with a certain measure of wit, de Salvo's minimal yet rich interjections invited visitors to contemplate freely, without detailed exposition from the artist. With "Rain Bow" engaging the drinking fountain pulls a cord which opens the shutter blinds, revealing an image of a rainbow over the park directly outside the museum. Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 309, Folder 03, Item 088) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Salvo, Roman De

subject Rainbows Humor Sculpture (Visual Work) Windows Mexican-American Border Region Drinking Fountains Insite94 Installations (Visual Works) Views (Visual Works)

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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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Untitled: Gold Leaf With Plumeria Bloomin In Bottom Of Abandoned Pool

title Untitled: Gold Leaf With Plumeria Bloomin In Bottom Of Abandoned Pool

description Architecture and City Planning Centro Escolar Agua Caliente (Tijuana, Mexico) Scottish artist Anya Gallacio created two installations for inSITE94, one untitled piece located at Centro Escolar Agua Caliente, the other titled "Preserve: Maya/Preservación: maya" at the downtown location of the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego. Gallacio was drawn to the site of Agua Caliente because of its history: it was built in 1929 as a resort and casino for the rich who came there to escape and play. Having been abandoned for many years, the pool was showing signs of decay with missing tiles, cracks, and broken elements. Gallacio chose to cover these exposed areas with gold foil, referencing and revealing a sense of the pool's gilded past. At MCASD, Gallacio worked with the theme of natural transformation. The artist chose a space viewable from both inside the Museum and from the bookstore, and layered red gerbera daisies between two panes of glass to create a botanical stained glass that was inserted as a window space. Over the course of the exhibition the flowers decomposed, fading to grey and revealing their own life cycle. --inSITE94 Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 309, Folder 04, Item 124) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Gallacio, Anya, 1963-

subject Casinos Restoration Graffiti Resorts Swimming Pools Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Insite94 Gilding Renovation Installations (Visual Works) Border Art Ruins

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Animal Vegetable Mineral

title Animal Vegetable Mineral

description Artists Nanette Yannuzzi Macias and Melissa Smedley collaborated on a two-part installation for inSITE94 at El Sotano (an abandoned mop factory) in Tijuana and the San Diego Natural History Museum. Entitled "Animal Vegetable Mineral: Comidas para los sombreros," the artists explained the installations as explorations of the rituals of communication. At El Sotano, the work consisted of a multitude of materials from a cotton loom, gourds, candles, and buckets, to a deerskin, bird cage, and eucalyptus tree stump, suggesting, according to the artists, a laboratory space that referenced the machine and ritual. The installation at the Natural History Museum acted as a response to this magical machine and incorporated video elements situating the materials in dialogues that suggested not yet considered relationships. --inSITE94 El Sotano, Tijuana 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 362) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Smedley, Melissa Macias, Nanette Yannuzzi

subject Manufacturing Processes Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Rituals (Events) Insite94 Communication (Function) Installations (Visual Works) Border Art

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Signs Of Mount Signal: View Of Exhibition At Steppling Art Gallery, San Diego State University, Calexico

title Signs Of Mount Signal: View Of Exhibition At Steppling Art Gallery, San Diego State University, Calexico

description For inSITE2000 New York-based artist Allan McCollum created a multivenue project involving the participation of residents and institutions from the Imperial Valley and Valle de Mexicali region to the east of San Diego. Interested in participating in the establishment of a cultural identity and iconography for the region, McCollum was initially drawn to the area through learning about sand spikes, a unique natural geological concretion found only at the foot of Mt. Signal/El Centinela. With the mountain straddling the US-Mexico border, it was already established as a physical landmark and identifying symbol for locals on either side of the border. During extended residency periods McCollum collected artworks by local residents depicting the mountain and performed extensive research on the sand spike and Mt. Signal, as well as the local culture surrounding both. With his project Signs of Mount Signal/Signos del Cerro del centinela, McCollum brought together the work of thirty-seven local artists showcasing the mountain and forged a collaboration between four regional institutions. The project included over one thousand cast replicas of the sand spike and Mt. Signal, a 16-foot sand spike sculpture, a large-scale model of Mt. Signal, collected historical information about the area, local artwork depicting the mountain, as well as twelve booklets produced by the artist on the subject of concretions. The project was shown in parts at the Museo de la Universidad Autonoma de Baja California, Mexicali, the Steppling Art Gallery at San Diego State University in Calexico, the Imperial County Historical Society Pioneer's Museum, and combined at the University Art Gallery at San Diego State University. --inSITE2000 Paintings Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) Steppling Art Gallery, San Diego State University. Imperial Valley Campus This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 02, Item 232) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Miyata, Shigeto Mccollum, Allan

subject Landscapes (Representations) Concretions Geology Natural History Boundaries Border Art Landscape Painting, American Models (Representations) Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Mass Production Signal, Mount (Calif.) Installations (Visual Works) Insite2000 Science Museums

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Dante Alighieri

title Dante Alighieri

description California artist Jeffrey Vallance proposed to make an intervention at the Tijuana Wax Museum for inSITE2000. Collaborating with Mexico City-based wax-figure maker Victor Hugo Yanez, Vallance produced three new figures for the museum: the Virgin of Guadalupe, Dante, and former US President Richard Nixon. Vallance started with a list of about twenty-eight names of historical and contemporary figures as potential additions to the display at the museum, and arrive at the selection of the three figures based on the existing exhibition structure. The Virgin of Guadalupe could be seen in full figure situated on her own, while Nixon was placed in the presidential room holding in his hands the symbolic element that came to define his public career, a simulated set of reel-to-reel Watergate tapes, and Dante was placed at the entrance to hell with his hand pointing the way. With his project for the Wax Museum, Vallance deepened his own interest and fascination with the three selected figures. In this way, having followed stories for years from different parts of the world detailing apparitions of the Virgin of Guadalupe, Vallance, during a residency period in San Diego, could add yet another apparition to the list - he spotted her up high on a stone column at the Courtyard by Marriott downtown hotel. -- inSITE2000 Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 311, Folder 01, Item 387) Tijuana Wax Museum [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Decker, Alan Vallance, Jeffrey

subject Authors Wax Figures Popular Culture Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Figurative Art Mexican-American Border Region Kitsch Waxworks Gesture Insite2000 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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Airplane Parts And Building, A Large Growth For San Diego: Interior View

title Airplane Parts And Building, A Large Growth For San Diego: Interior View

description Commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego a few years prior to 1994, the Museum presented, in conjunction with inSITE94, a new installation by Los Angeles-based artist Nancy Rubins at their downtown location. Titled "Airplane Parts and Building, A Large Growth for San Diego," the installation was built of discarded airplane parts that were arranged to rise from the floor of the interior space of the Museum and pierce through the building's south-facing windows to form a large hovering growth on the exterior. The dynamic arrangement of the elements made the pieces work together as one appearing frozen in time and their careful placement as a whole suggested a rapid movement as though whirled together by some unknown force. --inSITE94 Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 05, Item 319) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Rubins, Nancy

subject Salvage Junk Sculpture Sculpture (Visual Work) Aerospace Industries Mexican-American Border Region Insite94 Recycling Installations (Visual Works)

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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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Abandoned Ii

title Abandoned Ii

description Garden and Landscape Originally created for inSITE92 by San Diego artist Michael Schnorr and Swedish artist Ulf Rollof, "Abandonado II" was renovated for inSITE94. The project was from the beginning born of the particular circumstances that describe its location. Situated on an empty lot across the street from the Pacific Ocean at Playas de Tijuana, the installation was intended to serve the numerous abandoned children who live along the border in the beach area. The installation consisted of several pieces constructed from brick and concrete, among them two pieces of fire-heated outdoor furniture, the "Fire Sofa" and "Fire Chair." It also included a shell-like echo chamber titled "Habla/Head - Cabeza/Speak" and a circle of brick school desks titled "The Bricklayers' Class." The installation became a gathering place for locals and a playground for children. - InSITE94 Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 04, Item 308) Tijuana, Playas de, Baja California Norte, Mexico [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Schnorr, Michael Rollof, Ulf

subject Homelessness Humor Leisure Sculpture (Visual Work) Public Art Playgrounds Children (People By Age Group) Mexican-American Border Region Outdoor Furniture Chaises Longues Insite94 Artistic Collaboration Insite92 Installations (Visual Works) Border Art Furniture

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Public Hearing

title Public Hearing

description Centro Cultural de la Raza (San Diego, Calif.) Puerto Rican artist Pepón Osorio's project for inSITE94 was a continuation of his exploration of the issues particular to the experience Latin immigrants have as they settle and integrate into the culture of the United States. Entitled "Vista pública/Public Hearing," the installation dealt specifically with the frustrations and misunderstandings arising from interactions with government agencies. According to the artist the piece evolves each time it is presented at a new site within a new community facing issues that describe the immigrant experience. --inSITE94 Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 03, Item 261) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Osorio, Pepón Rittermann, Philipp Scholz

subject Hearings Place Settings Race Discrimination Sculpture (Visual Work) Clothing Insite94 Puerto Rico Immigrants Installations (Visual Works) Bronx (New York, N.Y.)

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America: Wall Of "Flags" Made Of Colored Sand

title America: Wall Of "Flags" Made Of Colored Sand

description For inSITE94, Japanese artist Yukinori Yanagi contributed two distinct installations titled "Wandering Position/Vagamundos" and "America/America," which were installed at the Santa Fe Depot and the downtown space of the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, respectively. Yanagi's work "America" had been installed previously in variations at different institutions around the world. For this installation the artist chose to include thirty-six flags of each country of the Americas in his elaborate ant farm. Over the course of the exhibition the ants created tunnels through the various flags and the colored sand that was used was gradually mixed, thereby creating new symbols. -- inSITE94 Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 311, Folder 02, Item 416) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Yanagi, Yukinori

subject Sandpaintings Political Art Humor Paintings (Visual Works) Sculpture (Visual Work) Nationalism Performance Art Insite94 Drawings (Visual Works) Process Art Border Art Flags

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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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Signs Of Mount Signal: View Of Large Sand Spike Model On A Concrete Pedestal

title Signs Of Mount Signal: View Of Large Sand Spike Model On A Concrete Pedestal

description For inSITE2000 New York-based artist Allan McCollum created a multivenue project involving the participation of residents and institutions from the Imperial Valley and Valle de Mexicali region to the east of San Diego. Interested in participating in the establishment of a cultural identity and iconography for the region, McCollum was initially drawn to the area through learning about sand spikes, a unique natural geological concretion found only at the foot of Mt. Signal/El Centinela. With the mountain straddling the US-Mexico border, it was already established as a physical landmark and identifying symbol for locals on either side of the border. During extended residency periods McCollum collected artworks by local residents depicting the mountain and performed extensive research on the sand spike and Mt. Signal, as well as the local culture surrounding both. With his project Signs of Mount Signal/Signos del Cerro del centinela, McCollum brought together the work of thirty-seven local artists showcasing the mountain and forged a collaboration between four regional institutions. The project included over one thousand cast replicas of the sand spike and Mt. Signal, a 16-foot sand spike sculpture, a large-scale model of Mt. Signal, collected historical information about the area, local artwork depicting the mountain, as well as twelve booklets produced by the artist on the subject of concretions. The project was shown in parts at the Museo de la Universidad Autonoma de Baja California, Mexicali, the Steppling Art Gallery at San Diego State University in Calexico, the Imperial County Historical Society Pioneer's Museum, and combined at the University Art Gallery at San Diego State University. --inSITE2000 Pioneers' Park Museum, Imperial, California, United States Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 02, Item 229) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Mccollum, Allan Sanchez, Minerva

subject Concretions Geology Natural History Boundaries Border Art Models (Representations) Platforms Sculpture (Visual Work) Installations (Visual Works) Insite2000 Science Museums

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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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Cross The Razor

title Cross The Razor

description Border Field State Park Performing Arts (including Performance Art) Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) Terry Allen's project, "Cross the Razor/Cruzar la navaja," was located on both sides of the US-Mexico border fence. Working to establish some sort of platform for communication across the fence, Allen's proposal for a public exchange of words and music evolved from two stationary free-speech areas to two mobile units. Two vans were outfitted with wooden platforms, microphones, amplifiers, and translators, one for each side of the border. For the duration of the project the two vans met at various points along the border fence near Playas de Tijuana and Border Field State Park; and an open invitation was extended to all to climb onto the vans and communicate by any means to listeners on the other side. - inSITE94 This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 309, Folder 01, Item 017) Tijuana, Playas de, Baja California Norte, Mexico [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Allen, Terry

subject Language Public Speaking Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Performance Art Insite94 Fences Communication (Function) Installations (Visual Works) Border Art

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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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Century 21: Interior With Dining Table

title Century 21: Interior With Dining Table

description Architecture and City Planning Centro Cultural Tijuana Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects and Interior Design Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 04, Item 290) With "Century 21" Tijuana artist Marcos Ramirez ERRE created a piece for inSITE94 that captured significant public attention. Located prominently on the plaza of the Centro Cultural Tijuana, Ramirez replicated a common Tijuana shanty house and thereby placed the issue of socio-economic disparity where it would be difficult to avoid. The artist drew a sharp contrast to that of the modern façade of the CECUT and this apparent tension was further underscored when one ventured inside the building to find the trappings of common Mexican life. The installation included documentary photographs of five similar shanty homes. The artist stated that with this work he wanted to point to one of the sore spots of Mexican society and also posit that while some people may live in poverty they live equally with dignity and pride as members of the same society. --inSITE94 [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Ramírez Erre, Marcos

subject Dwellings Satire Shacks Real Property Temporary Housing Ceilings Housing (Concept) Political Art Public Art Insite94 Squatters Settlements Replicas Homelessness Humor Mexican-American Border Region Poverty Dining Rooms Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) Sculpture (Visual Work) Architecture (Object Genre) Installations (Visual Works) Border Art

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Ruminations: Gate And Video Monitor

title Ruminations: Gate And Video Monitor

description "This installation, 'Ruminations,' is a dreamscape: an exploration of shifting narratives at the crossroads. In the wake of a painful and humiliating verdict in Simi Valley, and the searing image of L.A. in flames, I find myself focusing upon thresholds: a state of being on the line. The fire ain't out." -- Johnny Coleman, August, 1992 David Zapf Gallery, San Diego, California, United States Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 309, Folder 03, Item 067) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator David Zapf Gallery Coleman, Johnny

subject Political Art Rodney King Riots (Los Angeles, California : 1992) Sculpture (Visual Work) History Mexican-American Border Region Insite92 Race Relations Doorways Installations (Visual Works)

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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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Just Passing Through

title Just Passing Through

description Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects and Interior Design For her inSITE94 project Mexico City artist Yolanda Gutierrez created a total of forty-five iron clouds, which she suspended from the ceiling of the Santa Fe Depot waiting room. Each of the clouds was covered in animal bone, delicately suggesting, according to the artist, a contemplation of the journey from life to death. The installation entitled "Just Passing Through/De Paso," composed of various sized clouds, suggests motion through space and life as constant movement. --inSITE94 Santa Fe Depot (San Diego, Calif.) Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 309, Folder 05, Item 139) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Gutiérrez, Yolanda

subject Clouds Death Sculpture (Visual Work) Public Art Mexican-American Border Region Insite94 Installations (Visual Works) Border Art

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Dirty Water Initiative: Solar Collectors And Water Bottles

title Dirty Water Initiative: Solar Collectors And Water Bottles

description Architecture and City Planning San Ysidro (San Diego, Calif.) Science, Technology and Industry Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) The U.S. art collective SIMPARCH began their investigative process by working with one of Tijuana's informal communties in collaboration with the Fundación Esperanza. They became especially interested in the threme of water, in particular the idea of purifying water using solar-based water distillation. The project, entitled "Dirty Water Initiative," has two phases: the first stage is to construct and install a small purification plant as a "public fountain" sited in the pedestrian walkway from San Ysidro to Tijuana at the U.S./Mexico port of entry; the second stage involves the donation of the distillation facility to an informal community in Tijuana. The deployment of these solar distillers, sealed in glass, more than an aesthetic effect at the urban scale, seeks to stimulate reflection about the problem of water, and the importance of researching ecological solutions that could achieve a direct impact at the community level within poor, informal settlements. --inSite_05 This image was extracted from a DVD-R from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 197, DVD 01) Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Unknown

subject Water--Purification Political Art Boundaries Health Education Public Art Sculpture (Visual Work) Insite_05 Mexican-American Border Region Poverty Technology Water Treatment Plants Installations (Visual Works) Border Art Fountains

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Stairway Of The Ancients: Upper Landing With Drunken Figure And Lamppost

title Stairway Of The Ancients: Upper Landing With Drunken Figure And Lamppost

description "Stairway of the Ancients" is a complex stairway, probably built in the 1920s, leading up to the Casa de la Cultura. It is in disrepair with parts that are eroded or broken. To try to keep within this context, the figurines that MacConnel has cast, purchased from street vendors, are irregular, broken and "antiqued." The "Ancients" are funny, sad, prideful, odd remnants of tourist art. La Escalinata, Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 02, Item 211) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Macconnel, Kim

subject Popular Culture Stairs Aesthetics Graffiti Statues Humor Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Architecture (Object Genre) Decoration And Ornament Insite94 Kitsch Toys (Recreational Artifacts) Installations (Visual Works)

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Curtain Call

title Curtain Call

description Centro Cultural Tijuana Mexico City artist Felipe Ehrenberg created a two-part installation for inSITE94, "Curtain Call," sited in the concourse of the Santa Fe Depot in San Diego and in the garden of the Centro Cultural Tijuana. The artist installed two nearly identical structures. In Tijuana, the work consisted of a metal framework of poles between which cables were stretched. Across these cables, faceless cotton cloth dolls were randomly hung like human musical notes. In San Diego, the installation took a similar form, except that the framework was built of wood and the lines were made of hemp. --inSITE94 Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 309, Folder 04, Item 107) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Ehrenberg, Felipe

subject Draperies Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Insite94 Clothing Installations (Visual Works) Border Art Musical Notation

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Blue Granite Shift

title Blue Granite Shift

description California Center for the Arts Museum (Escondido, Calif.) For inSITE94, Mathieu Gregoire created a permanent installation for the central courtyard of the California Center for the Arts, Escondido. Entitled "Blue Granite Shift/Transición del granite azul," the piece is made of granite quarried from the hills surrounding the cultural complex. Extending 500 feet throughout the courtyard, the work moves from rough granite boulders to increasingly more cut and polished stones, finally ending with completely square granite elements. Likewise, the landscaping follows a similar evolution from native plants and trees to more formal and decorative varieties. The work suggests development in the area as having been wrought from the natural environment. --inSITE94 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 05, Item 132) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Gregoire, Mathieu

subject Landscape Architecture Abstraction Orchards Sculpture (Visual Work) Escondido (Calif.) Mexican-American Border Region Landscapes (Environments) Insite94 Installations (Visual Works) Gardens

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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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The Good Rumor Project

title The Good Rumor Project

description "The Good Rumor Project" appropriates and replicates the model of a social experiment. In seeking to invert the more common negative effects of rumor Wrange and his collaborators constructed two "good" rumors: one about people in Tijuana that was spread in San Diego and one about people in San Diego that was spread in Tijuana. In contrast to normal rumors, the "good" rumors were created in dialogue with the actual subjects of the rumors through a series of focus groups. The "good" rumors were disseminated through a multifaceted strategy that combines some of the most advanced marketing techniques - viral/ word of mouth marketing - with structures borrowed from rumor theory as well as recent research on small-world networks and social network analysis. By tracing the organization of the interdependent communication channels in the border zone, as well as the spatial and temporal development of the "good" rumor, Wrange/ OMBUD reveal how Society is predicated on an ever evolving communicative process. --inSite_05 Performing Arts (including Performance Art) Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image was extracted from a DVD-R from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 202, DVD 01) Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Wrange, Måns, 1961-

subject Rumor Political Art Humor Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Public Art Insite_05 Mexican-American Border Region Performance Art Focus Groups Communication (Function) Installations (Visual Works) Border Art Information Signs

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Mouse Hole

title Mouse Hole

description San Diego Natural History Museum San Diego-based artist Roman de Salvo created four distinct installations for inSITE94 at the San Diego Natural History Museum. Titled "Rain Bow/Arco de lluvia," "Santa Ana," "Exits/Salidas," and "Mouse Hole/Ratonera," respectively, the pieces were located in areas of the museum not normally used for exhibition. Drawing attention to the marginal with a certain measure of wit, de Salvo's minimal yet rich interjections invited visitors to contemplate freely, without detailed exposition from the artist. Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 309, Folder 03, Item 089) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Salvo, Roman De

subject Pests--Control Mice Humor Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Museums Labels Insite94 Installations (Visual Works)

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Untitled: Gold Leaf With Fountain And Graffiti

title Untitled: Gold Leaf With Fountain And Graffiti

description Architecture and City Planning Centro Escolar Agua Caliente (Tijuana, Mexico) Scottish artist Anya Gallacio created two installations for inSITE94, one untitled piece located at Centro Escolar Agua Caliente, the other titled "Preserve: Maya/Preservación: maya" at the downtown location of the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego. Gallacio was drawn to the site of Agua Caliente because of its history: it was built in 1929 as a resort and casino for the rich who came there to escape and play. Having been abandoned for many years, the pool was showing signs of decay with missing tiles, cracks, and broken elements. Gallacio chose to cover these exposed areas with gold foil, referencing and revealing a sense of the pool's gilded past. At MCASD, Gallacio worked with the theme of natural transformation. The artist chose a space viewable from both inside the Museum and from the bookstore, and layered red gerbera daisies between two panes of glass to create a botanical stained glass that was inserted as a window space. Over the course of the exhibition the flowers decomposed, fading to grey and revealing their own life cycle. --inSITE94 Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 309, Folder 04, Item 125) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Gallacio, Anya, 1963-

subject Casinos Restoration Graffiti Ruins Resorts Swimming Pools Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Insite94 Gilding Renovation Installations (Visual Works) Border Art Fountains

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Signs Of Mount Signal: View Of Exhibition At San Diego State University Art Gallery

title Signs Of Mount Signal: View Of Exhibition At San Diego State University Art Gallery

description For inSITE2000 New York-based artist Allan McCollum created a multivenue project involving the participation of residents and institutions from the Imperial Valley and Valle de Mexicali region to the east of San Diego. Interested in participating in the establishment of a cultural identity and iconography for the region, McCollum was initially drawn to the area through learning about sand spikes, a unique natural geological concretion found only at the foot of Mt. Signal/El Centinela. With the mountain straddling the US-Mexico border, it was already established as a physical landmark and identifying symbol for locals on either side of the border. During extended residency periods McCollum collected artworks by local residents depicting the mountain and performed extensive research on the sand spike and Mt. Signal, as well as the local culture surrounding both. With his project Signs of Mount Signal/Signos del Cerro del centinela, McCollum brought together the work of thirty-seven local artists showcasing the mountain and forged a collaboration between four regional institutions. The project included over one thousand cast replicas of the sand spike and Mt. Signal, a 16-foot sand spike sculpture, a large-scale model of Mt. Signal, collected historical information about the area, local artwork depicting the mountain, as well as twelve booklets produced by the artist on the subject of concretions. The project was shown in parts at the Museo de la Universidad Autonoma de Baja California, Mexicali, the Steppling Art Gallery at San Diego State University in Calexico, the Imperial County Historical Society Pioneer's Museum, and combined at the University Art Gallery at San Diego State University. --inSITE2000 Paintings Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) Steppling Art Gallery, San Diego State University. Imperial Valley Campus This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 02, Item 233) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Miyata, Shigeto Mccollum, Allan

subject Landscapes (Representations) Concretions Geology Natural History Boundaries Border Art Landscape Painting, American Models (Representations) Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Mass Production Signal, Mount (Calif.) Installations (Visual Works) Insite2000 Science Museums

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Bird'S Eye View: View Of Installation From Across Railroad Tracks

title Bird'S Eye View: View Of Installation From Across Railroad Tracks

description Eugenia Vargas, born in Chile and currently residing in Mexico City, works in the areas of Photography, performance and installation art. Her work deals with the politically charged issues of the border and the effects of pollution on the environment. In her installations, Vargas physically engages the earth and its elements in ritualistic ways - for example, by covering herself or a space with mud, straw, palm fronds or water. Vargas' project for inSITE94 will read as a large filter extending down from the ceiling of the Depot's concourse, using materials derived from the site. - inSITE94 Santa Fe Depot (San Diego, Calif.) Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 311, Folder 01, Item 388) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Vargas, Eugenia Rittermann, Philipp Scholz

subject Political Art Sculpture (Visual Work) Railroad Stations Insite94 Filters And Filtration 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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Installation: Model Wearing The Artist'S Clothes

title Installation: Model Wearing The Artist'S Clothes

description A spoof of the fashion industry, the artist created a "design studio" with finished and unfinished garments on hangars and strewn across the floor of the exhibition space. Unconventional and even dangerous materials were used (bubble wrap, rusty nails, staples, rubber etc.) to construct the clothes and other artists modeled them for a series of photographs. Fashion, Costume and Jewelry Mission Brewery Plaza, San Diego (Calif.) Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 05, Item 320) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Ruff, Daphne

subject Humor Sculpture (Visual Work) Irony Mexican-American Border Region Models (Persons) Performance Art Clothing Insite92 Fashion Parody Installations (Visual Works)

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23 September 1994

title 23 September 1994

description Estación del Ferrocarril, Colonia Libertad, Baja California Norte, Mexico Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 04, Item 309) Titled "23 September 1994" after the opening date of the entire inSITE94 exhibition, Ulf Rollof's installation consisted of a circular railroad situated at the defunct border rail-crossing site in Colonia Libertad in Tijuana. Just yards from the border fence, one could take a ride on this circular track where a single wagon with five fir trees planted in empty oil drums went around in endless circles to a dizzying effect. However, rather than being transported around on the track itself there was just a single seat at the hub of the circle and the view from the seat was directed straight at the fir trees, so that although movement occurred the outlook one had remained the same. -- inSITE94 [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Rittermann, Philipp Scholz Rollof, Ulf

subject Political Art Humor Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Irony Machinery Mexican-American Border Region Railroad Stations Insite94 Installations (Visual Works) Border Art Perspective

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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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America: Detail Of Ants Removing Sand From U.S. "Flag"

title America: Detail Of Ants Removing Sand From U.S. "Flag"

description For inSITE94, Japanese artist Yukinori Yanagi contributed two distinct installations titled "Wandering Position/Vagamundos" and "America/America," which were installed at the Santa Fe Depot and the downtown space of the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, respectively. Yanagi's work "America" had been installed previously in variations at different institutions around the world. For this installation the artist chose to include thirty-six flags of each country of the Americas in his elaborate ant farm. Over the course of the exhibition the ants created tunnels through the various flags and the colored sand that was used was gradually mixed, thereby creating new symbols. -- inSITE94 Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 311, Folder 02, Item 417) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Yanagi, Yukinori

subject Sandpaintings Political Art Humor Paintings (Visual Works) Sculpture (Visual Work) Nationalism Performance Art Insite94 Drawings (Visual Works) Process Art Border Art Flags

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Cross The Razor

title Cross The Razor

description Border Field State Park Performing Arts (including Performance Art) Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) Terry Allen's project, "Cross the Razor/Cruzar la navaja," was located on both sides of the US-Mexico border fence. Working to establish some sort of platform for communication across the fence, Allen's proposal for a public exchange of words and music evolved from two stationary free-speech areas to two mobile units. Two vans were outfitted with wooden platforms, microphones, amplifiers, and translators, one for each side of the border. For the duration of the project the two vans met at various points along the border fence near Playas de Tijuana and Border Field State Park; and an open invitation was extended to all to climb onto the vans and communicate by any means to listeners on the other side. - inSITE94 This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 309, Folder 01, Item 018) Tijuana, Playas de, Baja California Norte, Mexico [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Allen, Terry

subject Language Public Speaking Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Performance Art Insite94 Fences Communication (Function) Installations (Visual Works) Border Art

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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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Century 21

title Century 21

description Architecture and City Planning Centro Cultural Tijuana Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects and Interior Design Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 04, Item 291) With "Century 21" Tijuana artist Marcos Ramirez ERRE created a piece for inSITE94 that captured significant public attention. Located prominently on the plaza of the Centro Cultural Tijuana, Ramirez replicated a common Tijuana shanty house and thereby placed the issue of socio-economic disparity where it would be difficult to avoid. The artist drew a sharp contrast to that of the modern façade of the CECUT and this apparent tension was further underscored when one ventured inside the building to find the trappings of common Mexican life. The installation included documentary photographs of five similar shanty homes. The artist stated that with this work he wanted to point to one of the sore spots of Mexican society and also posit that while some people may live in poverty they live equally with dignity and pride as members of the same society. --inSITE94 [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Ramírez Erre, Marcos Marchick, Sarah

subject Dwellings Satire Shacks Real Property Temporary Housing Housing (Concept) Political Art Public Art Insite94 Squatters Settlements Replicas Homelessness Humor Mexican-American Border Region Poverty Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) Sculpture (Visual Work) Architecture (Object Genre) Fences Installations (Visual Works) Border Art

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Ruminations

title Ruminations

description "This installation, 'Ruminations,' is a dreamscape: an exploration of shifting narratives at the crossroads. In the wake of a painful and humiliating verdict in Simi Valley, and the searing image of L.A. in flames, I find myself focusing upon thresholds: a state of being on the line. The fire ain't out." -- Johnny Coleman, August, 1992 David Zapf Gallery, San Diego, California, United States Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 309, Folder 03, Item 068) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator David Zapf Gallery Coleman, Johnny

subject Political Art Rodney King Riots (Los Angeles, California : 1992) Sculpture (Visual Work) History Mexican-American Border Region Insite92 Race Relations Doorways Installations (Visual Works)

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Just Passing Through

title Just Passing Through

description Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects and Interior Design For her inSITE94 project Mexico City artist Yolanda Gutierrez created a total of forty-five iron clouds, which she suspended from the ceiling of the Santa Fe Depot waiting room. Each of the clouds was covered in animal bone, delicately suggesting, according to the artist, a contemplation of the journey from life to death. The installation entitled "Just Passing Through/De Paso," composed of various sized clouds, suggests motion through space and life as constant movement. --inSITE94 Santa Fe Depot (San Diego, Calif.) Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 309, Folder 05, Item 140) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Gutiérrez, Yolanda Rittermann, Philipp Scholz

subject Clouds Death Sculpture (Visual Work) Public Art Mexican-American Border Region Insite94 Installations (Visual Works) Border Art

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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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The Jewel / In God We Trust: Junk Car Covered In Gold Leaf In Luxury Car Dealer Showroom

title The Jewel / In God We Trust: Junk Car Covered In Gold Leaf In Luxury Car Dealer Showroom

description João Louro's project "The Jewel / In God We Trust" traces the inverted trajectory of the recycling dynamic that characterizes the border zone. His project begins with the selection of a European car recovered from a junkyard in Tijuana and transformed into a "jewel" through the addition of a skin of gold leaf. Once this trash object is transformed into a opulent gold sculpture it will be exhibited and auctioned in San Diego. Proceeds from the sale will be given to an elementary school in Tijuana and used to support visual art workshops for children, where students will be encouraged to add further layers of imagery to the paper money. --inSite_05 La Jolla, San Diego (Calif.) Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image was extracted from a DVD-R from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 189, DVD 01) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Louro, João

subject Automobiles Junkyards Humor Junk Sculpture Sculpture (Visual Work) Consumers Automobile Showrooms Insite_05 Mexican-American Border Region Poverty Wealth Performance Art Recycling Parody Installations (Visual Works) Border Art Ruins

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Stairway Of The Ancients: Mid-Level Left Turn With Toltec, Guadalupe

title Stairway Of The Ancients: Mid-Level Left Turn With Toltec, Guadalupe

description "Stairway of the Ancients" is a complex stairway, probably built in the 1920s, leading up to the Casa de la Cultura. It is in disrepair with parts that are eroded or broken. To try to keep within this context, the figurines that MacConnel has cast, purchased from street vendors, are irregular, broken and "antiqued." The "Ancients" are funny, sad, prideful, odd remnants of tourist art. La Escalinata, Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 02, Item 212) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Macconnel, Kim

subject Popular Culture Stairs Aesthetics Graffiti Statues Humor Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Architecture (Object Genre) Decoration And Ornament Insite94 Kitsch Toys (Recreational Artifacts) Installations (Visual Works)

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By The Night Tide

title By The Night Tide

description Garden and Landscape Installed on the Mexican side of the border, "By the Night Tide/Junto a la marea nocturna" consisted of three sculptures that suggested ships made of wire mesh with catapults that could send coconuts across the border fence toward the US side. Performing Arts (including Performance Art) Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 309, Folder 04, Item 108) Tijuana, Playas de, Baja California Norte, Mexico [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Escobedo, Helen Forsha, Lynda

subject Walls Humor Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Catapults (Ancient Weapons) Mexican-American Border Region Vessels Insite94 Oceans Weapons Border Art

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Blue Granite Shift

title Blue Granite Shift

description California Center for the Arts Museum (Escondido, Calif.) For inSITE94, Mathieu Gregoire created a permanent installation for the central courtyard of the California Center for the Arts, Escondido. Entitled "Blue Granite Shift/Transición del granite azul," the piece is made of granite quarried from the hills surrounding the cultural complex. Extending 500 feet throughout the courtyard, the work moves from rough granite boulders to increasingly more cut and polished stones, finally ending with completely square granite elements. Likewise, the landscaping follows a similar evolution from native plants and trees to more formal and decorative varieties. The work suggests development in the area as having been wrought from the natural environment. --inSITE94 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 05, Item 133) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Gregoire, Mathieu

subject Landscape Architecture Abstraction Orchards Sculpture (Visual Work) Escondido (Calif.) Mexican-American Border Region Landscapes (Environments) Insite94 Installations (Visual Works) Gardens

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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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Untitled: Detail Of Gold Leaf And Graffiti

title Untitled: Detail Of Gold Leaf And Graffiti

description Architecture and City Planning Centro Escolar Agua Caliente (Tijuana, Mexico) Scottish artist Anya Gallacio created two installations for inSITE94, one untitled piece located at Centro Escolar Agua Caliente, the other titled "Preserve: Maya/Preservación: maya" at the downtown location of the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego. Gallacio was drawn to the site of Agua Caliente because of its history: it was built in 1929 as a resort and casino for the rich who came there to escape and play. Having been abandoned for many years, the pool was showing signs of decay with missing tiles, cracks, and broken elements. Gallacio chose to cover these exposed areas with gold foil, referencing and revealing a sense of the pool's gilded past. At MCASD, Gallacio worked with the theme of natural transformation. The artist chose a space viewable from both inside the Museum and from the bookstore, and layered red gerbera daisies between two panes of glass to create a botanical stained glass that was inserted as a window space. Over the course of the exhibition the flowers decomposed, fading to grey and revealing their own life cycle. --inSITE94 Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 309, Folder 04, Item 126) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Gallacio, Anya, 1963- Rittermann, Philipp Scholz

subject Casinos Restoration Graffiti Resorts Swimming Pools Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Insite94 Gilding Renovation Installations (Visual Works) Border Art Ruins

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Techno-Balero: Detail View Of Market

title Techno-Balero: Detail View Of Market

description Pasaje Gómez Market, Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) San Diego-based artist Roman de Salvo created a project for inSITE2000 that followed his line of tongue-in-cheek works while at the same time cleverly pointing at issues of relevance and depth in contemporary culture and society. Using the balero, an iconic, inexpensive Mexican toy most often bought by tourists visiting Tijuana, de Salvo created the simulation of a high-tech video arcade game. With elements high and low coming together, de Salvo installed three "Techno-balero" stations in a typical downtown Tijuana market where one could play the baleros by manipulating a joystick that moved a mock "video" screen or, in actuality, a low-tech blinky image, showing the balero being played. As participants would successfully win each time the game was played, chimes connected to the joystick would ring in the background. --inSITE2000 Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 309, Folder 03, Item 090) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Salvo, Roman De

subject Humor Color Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Tops Mexican-American Border Region Insite2000 Games Installations (Visual Works) Border Art

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Signs Of Mount Signal: Detail Of Sand Spikes In Exhibition At The Pioneers Museum

title Signs Of Mount Signal: Detail Of Sand Spikes In Exhibition At The Pioneers Museum

description For inSITE2000 New York-based artist Allan McCollum created a multivenue project involving the participation of residents and institutions from the Imperial Valley and Valle de Mexicali region to the east of San Diego. Interested in participating in the establishment of a cultural identity and iconography for the region, McCollum was initially drawn to the area through learning about sand spikes, a unique natural geological concretion found only at the foot of Mt. Signal/El Centinela. With the mountain straddling the US-Mexico border, it was already established as a physical landmark and identifying symbol for locals on either side of the border. During extended residency periods McCollum collected artworks by local residents depicting the mountain and performed extensive research on the sand spike and Mt. Signal, as well as the local culture surrounding both. With his project Signs of Mount Signal/Signos del Cerro del centinela, McCollum brought together the work of thirty-seven local artists showcasing the mountain and forged a collaboration between four regional institutions. The project included over one thousand cast replicas of the sand spike and Mt. Signal, a 16-foot sand spike sculpture, a large-scale model of Mt. Signal, collected historical information about the area, local artwork depicting the mountain, as well as twelve booklets produced by the artist on the subject of concretions. The project was shown in parts at the Museo de la Universidad Autonoma de Baja California, Mexicali, the Steppling Art Gallery at San Diego State University in Calexico, the Imperial County Historical Society Pioneer's Museum, and combined at the University Art Gallery at San Diego State University. --inSITE2000 Paintings Pioneers' Park Museum, Imperial, California, United States Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 02, Item 235) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Mccollum, Allan Sanchez, Minerva

subject Landscapes (Representations) Concretions Geology Natural History Boundaries Border Art Landscape Painting, American Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Signal, Mount (Calif.) Installations (Visual Works) Insite2000 Science Museums

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Abode: Sanctuary For The Familia(R): General View Of Installation In Santa Fe Depot

title Abode: Sanctuary For The Familia(R): General View Of Installation In Santa Fe Depot

description San Francisco artist Mildred Howard sited her inSITE94 project in the baggage building of the Santa Fe Depot. Her installation consisted of two components, "Abode: Sanctuary for the Familia(r)/Hogar: el santuario para lo familia(r)" and "From Cotton to Coal ... the Last Train/Del algodón al carbón ... El último tren." As a continuation of her exploration of architectural forms and everyday materials that poetically call forth issues of cultural identity and memory, Howard chose to reinstall "Abode," first created for the San Jose Museum of Art. "Abode" and "From Cotton to Coal" reference Howard's own cultural history as an African-American woman --inSITE94 Santa Fe Depot (San Diego, Calif.) Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 309, Folder 06, Item 151) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Howard, Mildred Rittermann, Philipp Scholz

subject African Americans Houses Political Art Color San Diego (Calif.) Sculpture (Visual Work) History Feminism Mexican-American Border Region Insite94 Blue (Color) Installations (Visual Works) Border Art

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The Good Rumor Project

title The Good Rumor Project

description "The Good Rumor Project" appropriates and replicates the model of a social experiment. In seeking to invert the more common negative effects of rumor Wrange and his collaborators constructed two "good" rumors: one about people in Tijuana that was spread in San Diego and one about people in San Diego that was spread in Tijuana. In contrast to normal rumors, the "good" rumors were created in dialogue with the actual subjects of the rumors through a series of focus groups. The "good" rumors were disseminated through a multifaceted strategy that combines some of the most advanced marketing techniques - viral/ word of mouth marketing - with structures borrowed from rumor theory as well as recent research on small-world networks and social network analysis. By tracing the organization of the interdependent communication channels in the border zone, as well as the spatial and temporal development of the "good" rumor, Wrange/ OMBUD reveal how Society is predicated on an ever evolving communicative process. --inSite_05 Performing Arts (including Performance Art) Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image was extracted from a DVD-R from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 202, DVD 01) Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Wrange, Måns, 1961-

subject Rumor Political Art Humor Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Public Art Insite_05 Mexican-American Border Region Performance Art Focus Groups Communication (Function) Installations (Visual Works) Border Art Information Signs

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Appliances: Broom Closet

title Appliances: Broom Closet

description Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) The room is filled with contraptions made from wires, parachutes and other found objects. In her videos the artist animates these objects and shows her concern with "devices we employ to gain control over nature." This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 06, Item 353) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Smedley, Melissa

subject Tools Sculpture (Visual Work) Machinery Mexican-American Border Region Insite92 Nature Installations (Visual Works) Video 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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23 September 1994: General View

title 23 September 1994: General View

description Estación del Ferrocarril, Colonia Libertad, Baja California Norte, Mexico Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 04, Item 310) Titled "23 September 1994" after the opening date of the entire inSITE94 exhibition, Ulf Rollof's installation consisted of a circular railroad situated at the defunct border rail-crossing site in Colonia Libertad in Tijuana. Just yards from the border fence, one could take a ride on this circular track where a single wagon with five fir trees planted in empty oil drums went around in endless circles to a dizzying effect. However, rather than being transported around on the track itself there was just a single seat at the hub of the circle and the view from the seat was directed straight at the fir trees, so that although movement occurred the outlook one had remained the same. -- inSITE94 [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Marchick, Sarah Rollof, Ulf

subject Political Art Humor Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Irony Machinery Mexican-American Border Region Railroad Stations Insite94 Installations (Visual Works) Border Art Perspective

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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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America: Wall Of "Flags" Made Of Colored Sand

title America: Wall Of "Flags" Made Of Colored Sand

description For inSITE94, Japanese artist Yukinori Yanagi contributed two distinct installations titled "Wandering Position/Vagamundos" and "America/America," which were installed at the Santa Fe Depot and the downtown space of the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, respectively. Yanagi's work "America" had been installed previously in variations at different institutions around the world. For this installation the artist chose to include thirty-six flags of each country of the Americas in his elaborate ant farm. Over the course of the exhibition the ants created tunnels through the various flags and the colored sand that was used was gradually mixed, thereby creating new symbols. -- inSITE94 Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 311, Folder 02, Item 418) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Rittermann, Philipp Scholz Yanagi, Yukinori

subject Sandpaintings Political Art Humor Paintings (Visual Works) Sculpture (Visual Work) Nationalism Performance Art Insite94 Drawings (Visual Works) Process Art Border Art Flags

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Cross The Razor

title Cross The Razor

description Border Field State Park Performing Arts (including Performance Art) Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) Terry Allen's project, "Cross the Razor/Cruzar la navaja," was located on both sides of the US-Mexico border fence. Working to establish some sort of platform for communication across the fence, Allen's proposal for a public exchange of words and music evolved from two stationary free-speech areas to two mobile units. Two vans were outfitted with wooden platforms, microphones, amplifiers, and translators, one for each side of the border. For the duration of the project the two vans met at various points along the border fence near Playas de Tijuana and Border Field State Park; and an open invitation was extended to all to climb onto the vans and communicate by any means to listeners on the other side. - inSITE94 This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 309, Folder 01, Item 019) Tijuana, Playas de, Baja California Norte, Mexico [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Allen, Terry

subject Language Public Speaking Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Performance Art Insite94 Fences Communication (Function) Installations (Visual Works) Border Art

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Cross The Razor: Project Documentation

title Cross The Razor: Project Documentation

description Border Field State Park Performing Arts (including Performance Art) Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) Terry Allen's project, "Cross the Razor/Cruzar la navaja," was located on both sides of the US-Mexico border fence. Working to establish some sort of platform for communication across the fence, Allen's proposal for a public exchange of words and music evolved from two stationary free-speech areas to two mobile units. Two vans were outfitted with wooden platforms, microphones, amplifiers, and translators, one for each side of the border. For the duration of the project the two vans met at various points along the border fence near Playas de Tijuana and Border Field State Park; and an open invitation was extended to all to climb onto the vans and communicate by any means to listeners on the other side. - inSITE94 This video file was extracted from a DVD-R from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 255, DVD 94-25) Tijuana, Playas de, Baja California Norte, Mexico [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Allen, Terry

subject Language Border Patrols Allen, Terry (American Conceptual Artist And Musician, Born 1943) Documentaries Public Speaking Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Performance Art Insite94 Fences Communication (Function) Installations (Visual Works) Border Art Video Art

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Abandoned Ii

title Abandoned Ii

description Garden and Landscape Originally created for inSITE92 by San Diego artist Michael Schnorr and Swedish artist Ulf Rollof, "Abandonado II" was renovated for inSITE94. The project was from the beginning born of the particular circumstances that describe its location. Situated on an empty lot across the street from the Pacific Ocean at Playas de Tijuana, the installation was intended to serve the numerous abandoned children who live along the border in the beach area. The installation consisted of several pieces constructed from brick and concrete, among them two pieces of fire-heated outdoor furniture, the "Fire Sofa" and "Fire Chair." It also included a shell-like echo chamber titled "Habla/Head - Cabeza/Speak" and a circle of brick school desks titled "The Bricklayers' Class." The installation became a gathering place for locals and a playground for children. - InSITE94 Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 04, Item 303) Tijuana, Playas de, Baja California Norte, Mexico [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Schnorr, Michael Rollof, Ulf

subject Gardens Homelessness Sculpture (Visual Work) Public Art Installations (Visual Works) Children (People By Age Group) Mexican-American Border Region Outdoor Furniture Playgrounds Gardening Insite94 Artistic Collaboration Insite92 Chimneys (Architectural Elements) Border Art Furniture

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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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Crossroads/Baggage Building: General View With Telephone Handset

title Crossroads/Baggage Building: General View With Telephone Handset

description Artist Johnny Coleman described his installation "Crossroads/BAGGAGE BUILDING/Encrucijadas/BODEGA DE EQUIPAJE," located in the baggage building in the Santa Fe Depot, as a "found poem consisting of stories collected by following the tracks." The artist spent months traveling the California railroad to collect stories of migration and personal accounts of working on the railroad. These traces provided the material for the various elements in the installation, including audio narratives, music, various props, and construction elements. --inSITE94 Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects and Interior Design 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 03, Item 069) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator David Zapf Gallery Coleman, Johnny

subject Memory Sculpture (Visual Work) Travel Mexican-American Border Region Travelers Poetry Insite94 Luggage Telephone Installations (Visual Works)

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Disposition: View Of Found Objects From Below Glass Shelf

title Disposition: View Of Found Objects From Below Glass Shelf

description "The room was located in the old Mission Brewery building on Washington Street in San Diego. The walls were built of used brick, the floor was concrete. A prominent steel I-beam spanned the entire room, through the middle. Several windows remained open, and pigeons sometimes sat on the ledges. Glass shelves were built into the divided areas in the I-beam. Light boxes were built and installed inconspicuously atop the I-beam. The glass shelves were filled with found objects. 'Disposition' was a direct response to the powerful presence of this particular room. As a result, I felt I could do nothing but acknowledge the incredible ambiance of the room by emphasizing specific features, so rich in character." - Lynne Hendrick Mission Brewery Plaza, San Diego, California, United States Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 309, Folder 05, Item 141) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Hendrick, Lynne

subject Space (Composition Concept) Transparency (Optical Property) Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Architecture (Object Genre) Insite92 Installations (Visual Works)

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Stairway Of The Ancients: Upper Level Right With Toltec Feet, Rooster

title Stairway Of The Ancients: Upper Level Right With Toltec Feet, Rooster

description "Stairway of the Ancients" is a complex stairway, probably built in the 1920s, leading up to the Casa de la Cultura. It is in disrepair with parts that are eroded or broken. To try to keep within this context, the figurines that MacConnel has cast, purchased from street vendors, are irregular, broken and "antiqued." The "Ancients" are funny, sad, prideful, odd remnants of tourist art. La Escalinata, Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 02, Item 213) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Macconnel, Kim

subject Popular Culture Stairs Aesthetics Graffiti Statues Humor Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Architecture (Object Genre) Decoration And Ornament Insite94 Kitsch Toys (Recreational Artifacts) Installations (Visual Works)

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The Jewel / In God We Trust: Junk Car Covered In Gold Leaf In Luxury Car Dealer Showroom

title The Jewel / In God We Trust: Junk Car Covered In Gold Leaf In Luxury Car Dealer Showroom

description João Louro's project "The Jewel / In God We Trust" traces the inverted trajectory of the recycling dynamic that characterizes the border zone. His project begins with the selection of a European car recovered from a junkyard in Tijuana and transformed into a "jewel" through the addition of a skin of gold leaf. Once this trash object is transformed into a opulent gold sculpture it will be exhibited and auctioned in San Diego. Proceeds from the sale will be given to an elementary school in Tijuana and used to support visual art workshops for children, where students will be encouraged to add further layers of imagery to the paper money. --inSite_05 La Jolla, San Diego (Calif.) Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image was extracted from a DVD-R from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 189, DVD 01) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Louro, João

subject Automobiles Junkyards Humor Junk Sculpture Sculpture (Visual Work) Consumers Automobile Showrooms Insite_05 Mexican-American Border Region Poverty Wealth Performance Art Recycling Parody Installations (Visual Works) Border Art Ruins

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Blue Granite Shift

title Blue Granite Shift

description California Center for the Arts Museum (Escondido, Calif.) For inSITE94, Mathieu Gregoire created a permanent installation for the central courtyard of the California Center for the Arts, Escondido. Entitled "Blue Granite Shift/Transición del granite azul," the piece is made of granite quarried from the hills surrounding the cultural complex. Extending 500 feet throughout the courtyard, the work moves from rough granite boulders to increasingly more cut and polished stones, finally ending with completely square granite elements. Likewise, the landscaping follows a similar evolution from native plants and trees to more formal and decorative varieties. The work suggests development in the area as having been wrought from the natural environment. --inSITE94 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 05, Item 134) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Gregoire, Mathieu

subject Landscape Architecture Orchards Sculpture (Visual Work) Escondido (Calif.) Mexican-American Border Region Landscapes (Environments) Insite94 Installations (Visual Works) Gardens

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The Rules Of The Game: Ball Court And Border Fence With Children Playing

title The Rules Of The Game: Ball Court And Border Fence With Children Playing

description "The Rules of the Game/Las reglas del juego" was a project in two parts: the first part consisted of the installation of a frontón ball court in Colonia Libertad, Tijuana, positioned near to the border fence. The second part was a sports event at the Lazaro Cárdenas high school in Tijuana on October 13, 2000. The core element employed in "The Rules of the Game" consists of the recreational and sports infrastructure commonly found in the border zone that separates Mexico and the United States. Colonia Libertad, Baja California Norte, Mexico Preparatoria Federal Lázaro Cárdenas III Plantel Valle Sur, Tijuana 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 030) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Artigas, Gustavo Decker, Alan

subject Barriers Play Borderlands Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Children (People By Age Group) Mexican-American Border Region Insite2000 Sporting Goods Installations (Visual Works) Border Art

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Techno-Balero: Detail View Of Market

title Techno-Balero: Detail View Of Market

description Pasaje Gómez Market, Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) San Diego-based artist Roman de Salvo created a project for inSITE2000 that followed his line of tongue-in-cheek works while at the same time cleverly pointing at issues of relevance and depth in contemporary culture and society. Using the balero, an iconic, inexpensive Mexican toy most often bought by tourists visiting Tijuana, de Salvo created the simulation of a high-tech video arcade game. With elements high and low coming together, de Salvo installed three "Techno-balero" stations in a typical downtown Tijuana market where one could play the baleros by manipulating a joystick that moved a mock "video" screen or, in actuality, a low-tech blinky image, showing the balero being played. As participants would successfully win each time the game was played, chimes connected to the joystick would ring in the background. --inSITE2000 Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 309, Folder 03, Item 091) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Salvo, Roman De

subject Humor Color Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Tops Mexican-American Border Region Insite2000 Games Installations (Visual Works) Border Art

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Andy Goldsworthy: Two Stones

title Andy Goldsworthy: Two Stones

description Balboa Park (San Diego, Calif.) British artist Andy Goldsworthy created a project for inSITE94 that illustrated his commitment to the use of organic material and the exploration of time as a central element within his work. Titled "Andy Goldsworthy: Two Stones/Andy Goldsworthy: dos piedras," the work was located at the San Diego Museum of Art and outside in Gold Gulch Canyon, Balboa Park. Created with two large boulders and wooden sticks covered with clay, the pieces were installed and left to dry and crack over the course of the exhibition. The artist documented the progression at each site daily, showing the effects of time on the clay. -- inSITE94 Garden and Landscape San Diego Museum of Art Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 309, Folder 04, Item 127) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Goldsworthy, Andy Rittermann, Philipp Scholz

subject Landscape Architecture Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Time Insite94 Nature Installations (Visual Works)

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Signs Of Mount Signal: View Of Exhibition At The Pioneers Museum

title Signs Of Mount Signal: View Of Exhibition At The Pioneers Museum

description For inSITE2000 New York-based artist Allan McCollum created a multivenue project involving the participation of residents and institutions from the Imperial Valley and Valle de Mexicali region to the east of San Diego. Interested in participating in the establishment of a cultural identity and iconography for the region, McCollum was initially drawn to the area through learning about sand spikes, a unique natural geological concretion found only at the foot of Mt. Signal/El Centinela. With the mountain straddling the US-Mexico border, it was already established as a physical landmark and identifying symbol for locals on either side of the border. During extended residency periods McCollum collected artworks by local residents depicting the mountain and performed extensive research on the sand spike and Mt. Signal, as well as the local culture surrounding both. With his project "Signs of Mount Signal/Signos del Cerro del centinela," McCollum brought together the work of thirty-seven local artists showcasing the mountain and forged a collaboration between four regional institutions. The project included over one thousand cast replicas of the sand spike and Mt. Signal, a 16-foot sand spike sculpture, a large-scale model of Mt. Signal, collected historical information about the area, local artwork depicting the mountain, as well as twelve booklets produced by the artist on the subject of concretions. The project was shown in parts at the Museo de la Universidad Autonoma de Baja California, Mexicali, the Steppling Art Gallery at San Diego State University in Calexico, the Imperial County Historical Society Pioneer's Museum, and combined at the University Art Gallery at San Diego State University. --inSITE2000 Paintings Pioneers' Park Museum, Imperial, California, United States Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 02, Item 235) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Mccollum, Allan Sanchez, Minerva

subject Landscapes (Representations) Concretions Geology Natural History Border Art Sculpture (Visual Work) Landscape Painting, American Mexican-American Border Region Signal, Mount (Calif.) Installations (Visual Works) Insite2000 Science Museums

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Abode: Sanctuary For The Familia(R): Detail Of Blue Glass Bottles

title Abode: Sanctuary For The Familia(R): Detail Of Blue Glass Bottles

description San Francisco artist Mildred Howard sited her inSITE94 project in the baggage building of the Santa Fe Depot. Her installation consisted of two components, "Abode: Sanctuary for the Familia(r)/Hogar: el santuario para lo familia(r)" and "From Cotton to Coal ... the Last Train/Del algodón al carbón ... El último tren." As a continuation of her exploration of architectural forms and everyday materials that poetically call forth issues of cultural identity and memory, Howard chose to reinstall "Abode," first created for the San Jose Museum of Art. "Abode" and "From Cotton to Coal" reference Howard's own cultural history as an African-American woman --inSITE94 Santa Fe Depot (San Diego, Calif.) Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 309, Folder 06, Item 152) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

artist/creator Howard, Mildred Watts, Lewis, 1946-

subject African Americans Houses Political Art Color San Diego (Calif.) Sculpture (Visual Work) History Feminism Mexican-American Border Region Insite94 Blue (Color) Installations (Visual Works) Border Art

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