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Homage to the Street
title Homage to the Streetdescription Mixed media door / técnica mixta sobre puerta. 83" x 32" x 5 1/2".artist/creator Raya, Marcossubject 18th Street Illinois--Chicago--Pilsen Artist studios Guanajuato--Mexico Chicago artists Mixed media Doors Homes Street Keys Pianos Found objectscontributor National Museum of Mexican Art (NMMA) -
The Smoker
title The Smokerdescription Linocut, 21/30. Linograbado, 21/30. 19 7/8" x 13 1/16" (paper size). From La Loteria - A Children's Game portfolio.artist/creator Rendón, Joelsubject Masks Máscara Loteria Games Juego Traditions Gráfica Galigo Chicago artists Smoking in art Cigarette smokers Spiritualitycontributor National Museum of Mexican Art (NMMA) -
Study for Denver Mustang
title Study for Denver Mustangdescription Color lithograph on paper, 17.25 in. x 16 in. Proud of his Chicano roots, Luis Jiménez (1940 – 2006) was an El Paso, Texas native, best known for his large-scale, brightly colored sculptures immersed in the Chicano iconography of Texas and New Mexico. Jiménez studied art and architecture at The University of Texas in Austin and El Paso. He eventually traveled to Mexico to study the famous Mexican muralists Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco, and was also influenced by regionalists Thomas Hart Benton and Grant Wood. After completing school, he went to work for his father making neon signs and car decals. In 1966 Jiménez moved to New York and joined the Pop Art scene, making painted fiberglass figurative works inspired by the everyday lives of Latinos living in the Southwest. His work shows his concern for working-class people and those who have suffered from discrimination. Jimenez was and remains respected in Latino communities for his perspective and narrative of the culture of Mexico and the Southwest. His artwork emulates popular Cholo car culture, demonstrated in his use of fiberglass, spray paint, and imagery consisting of Aztec emperors, border crossing, and vaqueros riding wild broncos. His works are in the collections of the Albuquerque Museum, the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., the El Paso Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, among others.artist/creator Jiménez, Luissubject Borderlands Frontera Horses Animals in art Color lithographs Lithographs Prints Life and Experiences in the U.S./Mexico Borderlands (exhibition)contributor Mexic-Arte Museum (MAM) -
Carnal
title Carnaldescription Oil on wood panel, 48 in. x 36 in. A painting of a pachuco in a suit with arrows in his chest and ropes around his arms. El Paso artist Francisco Delgado references the Christian saint and martyr St. Sebastian (AD 256 – 288) who was bound to a tree or post and shot with arrows by Roman soldiers after he refused to deny his faith, as ordered by Emperor Diocletian. Rescued and healed by St. Irene, St. Sebastian later was clubbed to death by the Romans. Inspired by Renaissance paintings honoring this saint, Delgado pays homage to Mexican and Chicano hipsters, pachucos, who were attacked by U.S. servicemen and arrested during the Zoot Suit Riots in Los Angeles, June 3 – 8, 1943. The history of the zoot suit is complex. Pachucos wore zoot suits prior to and during World War II, but they did not invent them, nor did they wear them exclusively. Zoot suits were first worn by African American jazz musicians that toured around the country. Jazz aficionados popularized them by wearing them to dances, and they grew widespread from there. In Los Angeles, they were worn by African Americans, Mexican Americans, Japanese Americans, and ethnic whites including Italian Americans and Jewish Americans, among others. Francisco Delgado was born on November 3, 1974, in Ciudad Juárez, and grew up in El Paso’s Segundo Barrio. He received his Master of Fine Arts from the Yale School of Art. His Bordeño artworks are informed by the social and cultural struggles inherent to life on the Mexican and United States border. His artwork addresses issues of identity, race, cultural traditions, and government policies that affect migration and immigrants. In his own words, Delgado says, “I am a visual artist with an artistic focus on social issues.” He visually represents the history of his community and creates a dialogue for social change. Often using dark humor or satire to depict his narratives, his artwork highlights the struggles of underrepresented people along the border. A prolific artist, Delgado works in painting, drawing, printmaking, and has also produced community murals. His works have been published in books and exhibited in national and international art exhibitions and community institutions. Francisco currently resides, teaches, and creates artwork in El Paso.artist/creator Delgado, Franciscosubject Portraits Borderlands Frontera Pachucos Saints Saints in art Martyrs Zoot suits Oil Paintings Life and Experiences in the U.S./Mexico Borderlands (exhibition)contributor Mexic-Arte Museum (MAM) -
Cholo Van with Popo and Izta
title Cholo Van with Popo and Iztadescription Color lithograph on paper, 52.5 in. x 39 in. In his print, Jiménez portrayed the Aztec legend of Popo and Izta in a “moving mural” decorating a van driven by a Chicano cholo. The lovers Popocatépetl and Iztaccíhuatl are symbolized in the twin volcanoes of Mexico. His imagery shows the synthesis of Mexican and Chicano cultural expression, contextualized within American popular culture. This work also represents the artist’s lifelong fascination with automobiles, which are a critical part of the U.S. economy, industry, and society. Proud of his Chicano roots, Luis Jiménez (1940 – 2006) was an El Paso, Texas native, best known for his large-scale, brightly colored sculptures immersed in the Chicano iconography of Texas and New Mexico. Jiménez studied art and architecture at The University of Texas in Austin and El Paso. He eventually traveled to Mexico to study the famous Mexican muralists Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco, and was also influenced by regionalists Thomas Hart Benton and Grant Wood. After completing school, he went to work for his father making neon signs and car decals. In 1966 Jiménez moved to New York and joined the Pop Art scene, making painted fiberglass figurative works inspired by the everyday lives of Latinos living in the Southwest. His work shows his concern for working-class people and those who have suffered from discrimination. Jimenez was and remains respected in Latino communities for his perspective and narrative of the culture of Mexico and the Southwest. His artwork emulates popular Cholo car culture, demonstrated in his use of fiberglass, spray paint, and imagery consisting of Aztec emperors, border crossing, and vaqueros riding wild broncos. His works are in the collections of the Albuquerque Museum, the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., the El Paso Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, among others.artist/creator Jiménez, Luissubject Borderlands Frontera Cholos Vans Aztecs Legends Love in art Marriage Color lithographs Lithographs Prints Life and Experiences in the U.S./Mexico Borderlands (exhibition)contributor Mexic-Arte Museum (MAM) -
Horse (Caballo)
title Horse (Caballo)description Color lithograph on paper, 11 in. x 12.75 in. Proud of his Chicano roots, Luis Jiménez (1940 – 2006) was an El Paso, Texas native, best known for his large-scale, brightly colored sculptures immersed in the Chicano iconography of Texas and New Mexico. Jiménez studied art and architecture at The University of Texas in Austin and El Paso. He eventually traveled to Mexico to study with the famous Mexican muralists Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco, and he was also influenced by regionalists Thomas Hart Benton and Grant Wood. After completing school, he went to work for his father making neon signs and car decals. In 1966 Jiménez moved to New York and joined the Pop Art scene, making painted fiberglass figurative works inspired by the everyday lives of Latinos living in the Southwest. His work shows his concern for working-class people and those who have suffered from discrimination. Jimenez was and remains respected in Latino communities for his perspective and narrative of the culture of Mexico and the Southwest. His artwork emulates popular Cholo car culture, demonstrated in his use of fiberglass, spray paint, and imagery consisting of Aztec emperors, border crossing, and vaqueros riding wild broncos. His works are in the collections of the Albuquerque Museum, the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., the El Paso Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, among others.artist/creator Jiménez, Luissubject Borderlands Frontera Horses Color lithographs Lithographs Prints Life and Experiences in the U.S./Mexico Borderlands (exhibition)contributor Mexic-Arte Museum (MAM) -
Open Season
title Open Seasondescription Serigraph on paper, 15 in. x 22.25 in. Crossed out caution sign with a man, woman, and child running. The Statue of Liberty is facing away from the sign.artist/creator Moya, Oscarsubject Borderlands Frontera Immigration Immigrants Statues Statue of Liberty (New York, N.Y.) in art Irony Screen prints Prints Life and Experiences in the U.S./Mexico Borderlands (exhibition)contributor Mexic-Arte Museum (MAM) -
La Mix
title La Mixdescriptionartist/creator Bojórquez, Charles "Chaz"subjectcontributor Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) -
You Are Not a Minority! (30 Years Commemorative Edition)
title You Are Not a Minority! (30 Years Commemorative Edition)description Mario Torero, You Are Not a Minority! (30 Years Commemorative Edition), 1997, offset lithograph on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Gilberto Cárdenas and Dolores García, 2019.51.13artist/creator Torero, Mariocontributor Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) -
Che
title Chedescriptionartist/creator Alcaraz, Lalosubjectcontributor Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) -
Anton's Flowers
title Anton's Flowersdescription Eddie Dominguez, Anton's Flowers, 1997, thrown, handbuilt, carved, low-fired, underglazed and glazed earthenware, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the James Renwick Alliance, 1999.10, © 1997, Eddie Dominguezartist/creator Dominguez, Eddiesubject Flowercontributor Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) -
Envelope to Penny Caldemeyer (Woman in
title Envelope to Penny Caldemeyer (Woman indescription Pete Casanova, Envelope to Penny Caldemeyer (Woman in, before 1997, drawing on paper (envelope), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of A. Rudy Padilla, The Hourglass Prison Art Museum, 1998.126.16artist/creator Casanova, Petecontributor Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) -
Unicorn
title Unicorndescription Don Juanie F. Nieto, Unicorn, 1997, drawing on cotton (paño), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of A. Rudy Padilla, The Hourglass Prison Art Museum, 1998.126.8artist/creator Nieto, Don Juanie F.contributor Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) -
Codex for the 21st Century
title Codex for the 21st Centurydescription Ruben Trejo, Codex for the 21st Century, 1997, bent and welded nails, 100 pairs, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Julia D. Strong Endowment and the Acquisitions Gift Fund, 1998.118A-VVVV, © 1997, Ruben Trejoartist/creator Trejo, Rubensubject Abstractcontributor Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) -
Our Lady of Light
title Our Lady of Lightdescription Gloria Lopez Cordova, Our Lady of Light, 1997, carved aspen and juniper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Julia D. Strong Endowment, 1998.32artist/creator Cordova, Gloria Lopezsubject Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saintcontributor Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) -
Reflections on 'The New World Border'
title Reflections on 'The New World Border'description Interested in reading more? Visit our partner's homepage by clicking on the 'View Item' button or visiting the url in the website sectionartist/creator Nuño, Domingo -
Preface
title Prefacedescription Interested in reading more? Visit our partner's homepage by clicking on the 'View Item' button or visiting the url in the website sectionartist/creator Unknown -
Mexicano / Chicano altars : the poetics and politics of space of community self-fashioning
title Mexicano / Chicano altars : the poetics and politics of space of community self-fashioningdescription Interested in reading more? Visit our partner's homepage by clicking on the 'View Item' button or visiting the url in the website sectionartist/creator Malagamba Ansótegui, Amelia -
A note on chicano-mexicano cultural capital : african american icons an symbols in chicano art
title A note on chicano-mexicano cultural capital : african american icons an symbols in chicano artdescription Interested in reading more? Visit our partner's homepage by clicking on the 'View Item' button or visiting the url in the website sectionartist/creator Malagamba Ansótegui, Amelia -
Gronk : an interview
title Gronk : an interviewdescription Interested in reading more? Visit our partner's homepage by clicking on the 'View Item' button or visiting the url in the website sectionartist/creator Unknownsubject Mexican American -
Postcard of Voices and Visions, 1997
title Postcard of Voices and Visions, 1997description Postcard discussing the Mexic-Arte Museum's exhibit, "Voices and Visions," featuring the work of Regina Vater and David Medalla. The front of the postcard is a photograph of three people, two men and a woman with handwritten text in red over the image.subject Artists Museum Exhibits Vater, Regina Artworks Social Life And Customs - Fairs And Exhibitions Art Exhibits Mexic-Arte Museum (Austin, Tex.) Social Life And Customs - Correspondence Medalla, David People - Individuals Arts And Craftscontributor Portal to Texas History (TPTH) -
David Medalla: Voices, Regina Vater: Visions
title David Medalla: Voices, Regina Vater: Visionsdescription Catalog for the "Voices and Visions" exhibit including biographies of participating artists, descriptions of the art pieces in the exhibit, and other information about the series.subject Artists Museum Exhibits Vater, Regina Artworks Social Life And Customs - Fairs And Exhibitions Art Exhibits Mexic-Arte Museum (Austin, Tex.) Exhibition Catalogs Medalla, David People - Individuals Arts And Craftscontributor Portal to Texas History (TPTH) -
Young Latino Artist
title Young Latino Artistdescription Book discussing the Mexic-Arte Museum's exhibition "Young Latino Artists," including the program for the gallery opening event, a list of featured artists, artist statements, and a curator's statement.artist/creator Mexic-Arte Museum (Austin, Tex.)subject Museum Exhibits Artworks Artist Statements Social Life And Customs - Fairs And Exhibitions Art Exhibits Mexic-Arte Museum (Austin, Tex.) Arts And Craftscontributor Portal to Texas History (TPTH) -
Pamphlet: Young Latino Artists
title Pamphlet: Young Latino Artistsdescription Pamphlet from the Mexic-Arte Museum advertising for their second-annual Museum Mural Tour taking place July 9-14, 1997, an exhibit featuring young Latino artists, and another exhibit entitled "Rosemary Meza." This pamphlet contains directions to the museum, and photos of artwork featured during the exhibit.artist/creator Mexic-Arte Museum (Austin, Tex.)subject Artists Exhibitions Artworks Museum Exhibits -- Texas -- Austin. Art Exhibits Mexic-Arte Museum (Austin, Tex.) Mexic-Arte Museum Tours Arts And Craftscontributor Portal to Texas History (TPTH) -
Young Latino Artists
title Young Latino Artistsdescription Photograph of art pieces being put together in the Young Latino Artists exhibit in the Mexic-Arte Museum. There are four sheets surrounding a cloth in the middle of the floor; other paintings are already hung on the walls.artist/creator Caselli, Christophersubject Museum Exhibits -- Texas -- Austin -- Photographs. Exhibitions Artworks Installations Paintings Social Life And Customs - Fairs And Exhibitions Art Exhibits Mexic-Arte Museum (Austin, Tex.) Sheets Arts And Craftscontributor Portal to Texas History (TPTH) -
Young Latino Artists
title Young Latino Artistsdescription Photograph of an untitled piece of artwork created by Vartolome (Bill) Maceyra, made from an old banner, only showing the letter "e."subject Museum Exhibits -- Texas -- Austin -- Photographs. Exhibitions Artworks Social Life And Customs - Fairs And Exhibitions Art Exhibits Mexic-Arte Museum (Austin, Tex.) Maceyra, Vartolome (Bill) Banners Arts And Craftscontributor Portal to Texas History (TPTH) -
Young Latino Artists
title Young Latino Artistsdescription Photograph of a section of the Young Latino Artists exhibit in the Mexic-Arte Museum in the process of being put together. Currently there are paintings hanging on the walls, and a circle of sheets hanging in the middle of the room surrounding bowls full of paint.artist/creator Caselli, Christophersubject Museum Exhibits -- Texas -- Austin -- Photographs. Exhibitions Artworks Installations Paintings Social Life And Customs - Fairs And Exhibitions Art Exhibits Arts And Craftscontributor Portal to Texas History (TPTH) -
Young Latino Artists
title Young Latino Artistsdescription Photograph of an abstract painting hanging on a wall; the painting appears to represent a human face with tape over the mouth.artist/creator Caselli, Christophersubject Museum Exhibits -- Texas -- Austin -- Photographs. Exhibitions Artworks Abstracts Paintings Social Life And Customs - Fairs And Exhibitions Art Exhibits Arts And Craftscontributor Portal to Texas History (TPTH) -
ArtLies, Number 17, Texas Art Journal, Winter 1997-1998
title ArtLies, Number 17, Texas Art Journal, Winter 1997-1998description Journal containing essays, commentaries, and exhibition information regarding Texas artwork and other contemporary art issues.subject Journals Art, Modern -- 20Th Century -- Periodicals. Art Analysis Art, Modern -- 21St Century -- Periodicals. Art -- Texas -- Periodicals. Art Appreciation Arts And Craftscontributor Portal to Texas History (TPTH) -
ArtLies, Number 16, Fall 1997, Texas Art Journal
title ArtLies, Number 16, Fall 1997, Texas Art Journaldescription Journal containing essays, commentaries, and exhibition information regarding Texas artwork and other contemporary art issues.subject Journals Art, Modern -- 20Th Century -- Periodicals. Art Analysis Art, Modern -- 21St Century -- Periodicals. Art -- Texas -- Periodicals. Art Appreciation Arts And Craftscontributor Portal to Texas History (TPTH) -
ArtLies, Number 15, Texas Art Journal, Summer 1997
title ArtLies, Number 15, Texas Art Journal, Summer 1997description Journal containing essays, commentaries, and exhibition information regarding Texas artwork and other contemporary art issues.subject Journals Art, Modern -- 20Th Century -- Periodicals. Art Analysis Art, Modern -- 21St Century -- Periodicals. Art -- Texas -- Periodicals. Art Appreciation Arts And Craftscontributor Portal to Texas History (TPTH) -
Art Lies, Volume 14, Spring 1997
title Art Lies, Volume 14, Spring 1997description Journal containing essays, commentaries, and exhibition information regarding Texas artwork and other contemporary art issues.artist/creator Gazer Design Group Bryant, John Huerta, Benito Lunde, Paige Meyer, Janet Calladare, Donald E.subject Journals Art, Modern -- 20Th Century -- Periodicals. Art Analysis Art, Modern -- 21St Century -- Periodicals. Art -- Texas -- Periodicals. Art Appreciation Arts And Craftscontributor Portal to Texas History (TPTH) -
A Couple Of Immigrantes, Highland Park, Los Angeles, 1997
title A Couple Of Immigrantes, Highland Park, Los Angeles, 1997description A couple of immigrantes, Highland Park, Los Angeles, 1997, North Figueroa Street (northside alley) between 51st Street and 52nd Street, Highland Park. Aerosol, approximately 12' x 30 ', by ManOne (Alex Poli). Self-sponsored. -- Dunitz, Street gallery, rev. 2nd ed., p. 123, #23.contributor Calisphere -
City Of Passion, Los Angeles, 1997
title City Of Passion, Los Angeles, 1997description City of passion, Los Angeles, 1997, Carmelo's Cuban Restaurant, 1800 West Sunset Boulevard (at Lemoyne Street), Echo Park. Latino folklore, romance, and drama as found in the classic novela. Acrylic, 18' x 50', by Ernesto de la Loza, assisted by Naomi Goffman and local youth. Sponsored by Echo Park Pride Committee. -- Dunitz, Street gallery, Rev. 2nd ed., p.114, #42.contributor Calisphere -
Tikkum Olam--To Repair The World, Boyle Heights, 1997
title Tikkum Olam--To Repair The World, Boyle Heights, 1997description Tikkum olam -- To repair the world, Boyle Heights, 1997. White Memorial Medical Plaza parking structure, exterior, East Cesar Chavez Avenue between State Street and Boyle Avenue, Boyle Heights. Biblical imagery illustrates the artist's vision. The bronze serpent made by Moses to heal the Israelites both descends and ascends from the figure of Christ. Just as the serpent manifested itself to heal a physical and spiritual plague during the time of Moses, today modern medicine and theology are challenged to cure the ills of our time. The City of Angeles is the new Jerusalem. The Angel of Resurrection intercedes before the resurrected Christ on behalf of the healing of the city of Los Angeles. Acrylic, 36' x 36', by George Yepes. -- Dunitz, Street gallery, rev. 2nd ed., p. 320, #104.contributor Calisphere -
Alien Toy Uco (Unidentified Crusing Object): Detail Of "Alien Toy" Logo
title Alien Toy Uco (Unidentified Crusing Object): Detail Of "Alien Toy" Logodescription Barrio Logan (San Diego, Calif.) Film, Audio, Video and Digital Art For inSITE97 Rubén Ortiz Torres collaborated with Salvador "Chava" Munoz to construct "Alien Toy UCO (Unidentified Cruising Object)/La ranfla cosmica ORNI (Objeto rodante no identificado)," a lowrider car that was converted into a dancing hydraulics wonder in the form of a Border Patrol vehicle. Chava, a world champion in radical bed dancing, reworked each section of the car to move and spin on its own set of hydraulics and arms. Ortiz Torres produced a film with alien imagery and clips of the car in action to accompany the installation. Ortiz Torres stated that the car was a product of cultural migration and exchange, a visual manifestation of the cultural hybridization in Southern California. --inSITE97 Http://www.track16.com/exhibitions/ruben/ruben.html Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 03, Item 260) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Popular Culture Unidentified Flying Objects Automobiles Political Art Humor Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Logos (Symbols) Performance Art Insite97 Hydraulics Installations (Visual Works) Border Art Video Artcontributor Calisphere -
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 Haydescription 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.subject Landfills Community Arts Projects Play Workshops (Seminars) Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Insite97 Renovation Installations (Visual Works) Artistic Collaborationcontributor Calisphere -
No Title: Detail
title No Title: Detaildescription 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.subject Space (Composition Concept) Sculpture (Visual Work) Labyrinths Mexican-American Border Region Insite97 Installations (Visual Works) Grids (Layout Features)contributor Calisphere -
Between The Eyes, The Desert
title Between The Eyes, The Desertdescription 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, Miguelsubject 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 Facecontributor Calisphere -
Blue Students
title Blue Studentsdescription Casa de la Cultura de Tijuana Liz Magor's inSITE97 project was an experiment in Photography that involved portraits of students from both the School of Creative and Performing Arts in San Diego and the Preparatoria Federal Lazaro Cardenas in Tijuana. For "Blue Students/Alumnos en Azul," Magor took portraits of numerous senior students and created various format negatives. She pressed the negatives with paper covered in iron salts that converted each into a positive blue image under exposure to Daylight. Magor placed the negatives throughout San Diego and Tijuana, and allowed the various states of light to produce the final pictures. By the end of the exhibition, only a few images had not been completely obscured by effects of the Daylight. Magor stated that the final images in their various stages of legibility represented the power of circumstance and chance that governs the path of people's lives. --inSITE97 Photographs San Diego (Calif.) Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 02, Item 221) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Portraits Boundaries Mexican-American Border Region Photography Insite97 Blue (Color) Installations (Visual Works)contributor Calisphere -
Toaster Work Wagon: Exhibition
title Toaster Work Wagon: Exhibitiondescription 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.subject Walls Bicycles Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Trailers Fences Insite97 Public Sculpture Street Vendors Installations (Visual Works) Border Artcontributor Calisphere -
Photographs
title Photographsdescription Centro Cultural Tijuana For inSITE97, Ken Lum created two oversized large-scale photographs that were shown at the Centro Cultural Tijuana. The first photograph showed a young girl in San Diego talking on the phone about plans to eat either Mexican or Chinese food. The second photograph, with text from a popular Mexican children's rhyme, shows a young boy selling American soda and candy. The work suggests the blurring of cultural borders despite the adamantly divisive physical barrier. As a Canadian living near the northern US border, Lum stated that his experience in San Diego and Tijuana during inSITE97 caused him to rethink his notion of borders, and consider how the United States, with its pervasive capitalism and culture, borders nations throughout the world. --inSITE97 Photographs Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 02, Item 210) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Cell Phones Boundaries Texts (Document Genres) Mexican-American Border Region Conversation Ethnicity Insite97 Photography Food Installations (Visual Works) Border Artcontributor Calisphere -
Serpent Column, Auto-Sacrifice: Snakes Along Surface Of Column
title Serpent Column, Auto-Sacrifice: Snakes Along Surface Of Columndescription 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, Springsubject Sculpture (Visual Work) Public Art Mexican-American Border Region Insite97 Snakes Sacrifice Columns (Architectural Elements) Installations (Visual Works) Border Artcontributor Calisphere -
Death Perra
title Death Perradescription Casa de la Cultura de Tijuana Film, Audio, Video and Digital Art For inSITE97, Miguel Calderon created a short film spoofing satanic practices near the San Diego-Tijuana border, incorporating stereotypical UFO paraphernalia and imagery to emphasize the "cheesy" nature of both subjects. The film, "Death Perra," was shown on a small television at the Casa de la Cultural de Tijuana. Produced in the style of a music video, Calderon used satanic UFO records as the sound track, mixing scenes of his friends playing records on turntables with scenes of artificial UFOs in different locations. --inSITE97 Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 309, Folder 02, Item 056) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Calderón, Miguelsubject Satanism Motion Pictures Unidentified Flying Objects Music Videos Mexican-American Border Region Insite97 Parody Installations (Visual Works) Border Artcontributor Calisphere -
Minicity: General View
title Minicity: General Viewdescription 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.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)contributor Calisphere -
The Great Balboa Park Landfill Exposition Of 1997: Painted Concrete Barrier
title The Great Balboa Park Landfill Exposition Of 1997: Painted Concrete Barrierdescription 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, Cindysubject Landfills Community Arts Projects Play Workshops (Seminars) Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Insite97 Renovation Installations (Visual Works) Artistic Collaborationcontributor Calisphere -
Popotla - The Wall Popotla - El Muro: Documentary Video
title Popotla - The Wall Popotla - El Muro: Documentary Videodescription For their InSITE97 Community Engagement project, artist collective RevolcionArte (RevArte) worked with local children and residents of the fishing village Popotla to create murals constructed of found materials to soften and embellish the concrete walls surrounding their community. Popotla had recently been subjected to the development of numerous modern buildings and projects, including the kilometer-long concrete wall constructed for 20th Century Fox's production set for the film Titanic. It was on this wall that the murals were created, giving the residents a sense of ownership over their village and its landscape. Popotla - The Wall/Popotla - El muro, was created over the course of four months, but even after the exhibition was over the community continued to add to the murals. --inSITE97 Popotla, Rosarito, Baja California, Mexico Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This video file was extracted from a DVD-R from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 256, DVD 97-11) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Revolucionartesubject Walls Documentaries Humor Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Public Art Children (People By Age Group) Assemblage (Sculpture Technique) Mexican-American Border Region Murals (Any Medium) Insite97 Border Art Video Artcontributor Calisphere -
International Waters: Detail Of Pipe Penetrating The Border Fence
title International Waters: Detail Of Pipe Penetrating The Border Fencedescription 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, Louissubject Drinking Water Political Art Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Public Art Mexican-American Border Region Insite97 Natural Resources Installations (Visual Works) Border Art Fountainscontributor Calisphere -
Between The Eyes, The Desert
title Between The Eyes, The Desertdescription 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, Miguelsubject 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 Facecontributor Calisphere -
Podría Haber Muchos Más Que Éstos: General View
title Podría Haber Muchos Más Que Éstos: General Viewdescription 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.subject Repetition (Aesthetics) Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Rings Insite97 Gesture Installations (Visual Works)contributor Calisphere -
Toaster Work Wagon: Proposal Sketch
title Toaster Work Wagon: Proposal Sketchdescription Kim Adam's for inSITE97, Toaster Work Wagon, was a grafting on existing nomadic street life (i.e. concession vehicles). The trailered unit, constructed from the hoods and ends of two Volkswagen vans, set out on daily wanderings around San Diego and Tijuana like a winged toaster. Popping open into a work-waiting station, the Wagon attracted crowds of children and bystanders with its unusual contents. Children's bicycles were grafted into two-headed tricycles that were left at the site for adoption. Children experimented with the bicycles, cooperating with one another to move in one direction or the other. Adam's project experimented with notions of form and function as well as movement and direction. During the public phase of inSITE97, the Wagon was displayed at the Centro Cultural Tijuana. --inSITE97 Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 309, Folder 01, Item 010) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Adams, Kimsubject Walls Boundaries Mexican-American Border Region Presentation Drawings (Proposals) Fences Insite97 Street Vendors Preparatory Drawings Drawings (Visual Works)contributor Calisphere -
Family Trees
title Family Treesdescription 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, Ernestsubject 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)contributor Calisphere -
The Line
title The Linedescription 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.subject Walls Cocaine Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Drug Traffic Mexican-American Border Region Human Body Fences Insite97 Installations (Visual Works) Border Artcontributor Calisphere -
Drill: General View
title Drill: General Viewdescription Dolores Magdalena Memorial Recreation Center, Logan Heights, San Diego, California, United States Doug Ischar's inSITE97 project, "Drill/Taladro/Adiestramiento," was a series of video and audio installations that meandered through the gymnasium of the Dolores Magdelena Memorial Recreation Center in Logan Heights. Running for several hours on two weekends, the installations, named individually "Vent," "Seam," and "Patient," were connected by orange electrical cable, providing the viewer with a path to follow. Ischar pieced together the imagery and music that played while participants navigated the installation. --inSITE97 Film, Audio, Video and Digital Art Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 309, Folder 06, Item 161) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Sound Art Video Art Mexican-American Border Region Insite97 Installations (Visual Works) Backboards (Sports Equipment) Gymnasiumscontributor Calisphere -
News Release: Insite97 Conference Explores Private Time In Public Space
title News Release: Insite97 Conference Explores Private Time In Public Spacedescription Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a surrogate of a document from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 82, folder 01) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Insite97subject Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) Acconci, Vito (American Performance And Video Artist, Born 1940) Documents Boundaries Press Releases Public Art San Diego (Calif.) Mexican-American Border Region Press Kits Meetings Performance Art Insite97 Public Spaces Exhibitions (Events) Installations (Visual Works) Border Artcontributor Calisphere -
A Tourist'S Guide To San Diego And Tijuana: General View
title A Tourist'S Guide To San Diego And Tijuana: General Viewdescription For her inSITE97 project, Melanie Smith created "The Tourists' Guide to San Diego and Tijuana/La Guia turistica de San Diego y Tijuana," an installation at 958 Fifth Avenue in downtown San Diego. A spoof on a tourist information agency, the installation included, among other elements, large photographs of the region, postcards with commonly found imagery from the local landscape and city, and a tourist guidebook listing on the back the various hot spots in the city. The installation was a commentary on the massive tourism industry in San Diego and Tijuana and the loss of borders when dealing with consumers and their material desires. --inSITE97 San Diego (Calif.) Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 06, Item 363) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Tourist Information Centers Humor Tourism Public Art Information Centers (Facilities) Mexican-American Border Region Satire (Artistic Device) Photography Insite97 Postcards Travel Guidebooks Parody Installations (Visual Works) Border Artcontributor Calisphere -
Arrivals And Departures
title Arrivals And Departuresdescription 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, Christinasubject Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Public Art Views Mexican-American Border Region Landscapes (Environments) Insite97 Optical Instruments Installations (Visual Works) Border Artcontributor Calisphere -
El Niño: Proposal Drawing
title El Niño: Proposal Drawingdescription 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.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 Artcontributor Calisphere -
Alien Toy Uco (Unidentified Cruising Object): Project Documentation
title Alien Toy Uco (Unidentified Cruising Object): Project Documentationdescription Barrio Logan (San Diego, Calif.) Film, Audio, Video and Digital Art For inSITE97 Rubén Ortiz Torres collaborated with Salvador "Chava" Munoz to construct Alien Toy UCO (Unidentified Cruising Object)/La ranfla cosmica ORNI (Objeto rodante no identificado), a lowrider car that was converted into a dancing hydraulics wonder in the form of a Border Patrol vehicle. Chava, a world champion in radical bed dancing, reworked each section of the car to move and spin on its own set of hydraulics and arms. Ortiz Torres produced a film with alien imagery and clips of the car in action to accompany the installation. Ortiz Torres stated that the car was a product of cultural migration and exchange, a visual manifestation of the cultural hybridization in Southern California. --inSITE97 Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This video file was extracted from a DVD-R from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 256, DVD 97-10) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Ortiz Torres, Rubénsubject Popular Culture Unidentified Flying Objects Automobiles Documentaries Humor Political Art Sculpture (Visual Work) Marionettes Mexican-American Border Region Logos (Symbols) Performance Art Toys (Recreational Artifacts) Insite97 Installations (Visual Works) Border Art Video Artcontributor Calisphere -
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 Haydescription 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.subject Landfills Community Arts Projects Play Workshops (Seminars) Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Insite97 Renovation Installations (Visual Works) Artistic Collaborationcontributor Calisphere -
Between The Eyes, The Desert
title Between The Eyes, The Desertdescription 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, Miguelsubject 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 Facecontributor Calisphere -
Toaster Work Wagon: Wagon Situated By U.S. - Mexico Border Fence
title Toaster Work Wagon: Wagon Situated By U.S. - Mexico Border Fencedescription 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.subject Walls Pacific Ocean Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Trailers Fences Insite97 Public Sculpture Street Vendors Installations (Visual Works) Border Artcontributor Calisphere -
Call Waiting
title Call Waitingdescription Film, Audio, Video and Digital Art Lorna Simpson's contribution to inSITE97 is a film entitled Call Waiting, shown at the Santa Fe Depot in downtown San Diego. The film features two women in conversation over the phone, who are interrupted by other callers speaking in different languages. The result is an indecipherable web of open-ended stories and conversations that are carried out between the various speakers. --inSITE97 Performing Arts (including Performance Art) Santa Fe Depot (San Diego, Calif.) Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This video file was extracted from a DVD-R from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 255, DVD 97-03) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Simpson, Lornacontributor Calisphere -
La Tierra Prometida: Detail
title La Tierra Prometida: Detaildescription 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.subject Emigration And Immigration Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Stations Of The Cross Neon Sculpture Insite97 Installations (Visual Works) Border Artcontributor Calisphere -
The Line
title The Linedescription 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.subject Walls Cocaine Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Drug Traffic Mexican-American Border Region Human Body Fences Insite97 Installations (Visual Works) Border Artcontributor Calisphere -
News Release: Insite97 Lecture Series Presents Leading Cultural Figures Of The Americas
title News Release: Insite97 Lecture Series Presents Leading Cultural Figures Of The Americasdescription Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a surrogate of a document from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 82, folder 01) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Insite97subject Boundaries San Diego (Calif.) Press Kits Cities Insite97 Public Spaces Gómez-Peña, Guillermo Fusco, Coco Fuentes, Carlos, 1928-2012 Monsiváis, Carlos, 1938-2010 Public Art Performance Art Estrada Rodríguez, Gerardo 1946- Documents Mexican-American Border Region González De León, Teodoro, 1926- Exhibitions (Events) Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) Press Releases Installations (Visual Works) Border Artcontributor Calisphere -
Border Capsule Ritual Black Star
title Border Capsule Ritual Black Stardescription 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.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)contributor Calisphere -
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 Haydescription 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.subject Landfills Community Arts Projects Renovation Play Workshops (Seminars) Sculpture (Visual Work) Ziggurats Mexican-American Border Region Insite97 Pyramids Installations (Visual Works) Artistic Collaborationcontributor Calisphere -
Toy-An-Horse: Construction Drawing
title Toy-An-Horse: Construction Drawingdescription For inSITE97, Marcos Ramirez ERRE collaborated with several artists to construct "Toy an Horse," a monumental wood and metal replica of the iconic Trojan Horse. Installed directly on top of the monument marking the border about 50 meters from the border cross-checkpoint at San Ysidro, the horse was visible to the 50,000 people crossing the border by car every day. Ramirez stated that the purpose of the project was to use the narrative symbolism of the Trojan horse to stimulate discussion about the border, invasion, cultural exchange, and dependency. --inSITE97 San Ysidro (San Diego, Calif.) Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 04, Item 292) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Border Crossing Boundaries Satire (Artistic Device) Insite97 Horses Trojan War Political Art Public Art Economics Emigration And Immigration Humor Mexican-American Border Region Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) Blueprints Sculpture (Visual Work) Architecture (Object Genre) Drawings (Visual Works) Trojan Horse (Greek Mythology) Installations (Visual Works) Border Art Janus-Facedcontributor Calisphere -
News Release: Ucsd Extension Offers Two-Day Course That Explores Public Space
title News Release: Ucsd Extension Offers Two-Day Course That Explores Public Spacedescription Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a surrogate of a document from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 82, folder 01) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Insite97subject Promenades (Pedestrian Areas) Documents Boundaries Press Releases Public Art San Diego (Calif.) Mexican-American Border Region Press Kits Cities City Planning Herzog, Lawrence A. (Lawrence Arthur) Insite97 Public Spaces Urban Planning Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) Installations (Visual Works) Border Art University Of California, San Diego. University Extensioncontributor Calisphere -
The Great Balboa Park Landfill Exposition Of 1997: Aztec Dance Performance
title The Great Balboa Park Landfill Exposition Of 1997: Aztec Dance Performancedescription Balboa Park (San Diego, Calif.) Cindy Zimmerman's Community Engagement project for inSITE97 was the development of a new park environment at the landfill adjacent to Florida Canyon in Balboa Park. Constructing the piece over several months, Zimmerman involved children and families in the creation and placement of straw bales and clay in the landfill to make labyrinths, temporary earthworks, and adobe structures. "The Great Balboa Park Landfill Exposition of 1997/La gran exposicion del relleno del Balboa Park 1997" transformed an unused and unattractive plot of land into a new community park and art installation. Zimmerman led workshops and meetings throughout the project to involve the community and collaborate with the participants to create art from organic materials. -- inSITE97 Garden and Landscape Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 311, Folder 02, Item 430) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Zimmerman, Cindysubject Landfills Renovation Play Border Art Sculpture (Visual Work) Public Art Mexican-American Border Region Rituals (Events) Insite97 Dance Installations (Visual Works) Headdressescontributor Calisphere -
El Round Nuestro De Cada Día: General View Of "Boxers" In Ring
title El Round Nuestro De Cada Día: General View Of "Boxers" In Ringdescription Manolo Escutia's inSITE97 work, "El round nuestro de cada día/Our Daily Rounds," consisted of four monumentally scaled boxing figures in the style of traditional small wooden Mexican "thumb toys." Made to be fully operable by the viewer, the boxers were installed at the Palenque (cock-fighting pit) in Playas de Tijuana. In a statement about the work, Escutia referred to the endless fighting humans engage in, against the struggles of daily life, others, and the self. His work presented the stage for confrontation, but left it to the viewer to either realize victory or admit defeat. --inSITE97 Palenque, Cortijo San Jose, Tijuana, Playas de, Baja California Norte, Mexico Performing Arts (including Performance Art) Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 309, Folder 04, Item 113) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Boxers (Sports) Arenas Battles Political Art Cockfighting Humor Sculpture (Visual Work) Public Art Mexican-American Border Region Violence Performance Art Toys (Recreational Artifacts) Insite97 Installations (Visual Works) Border Artcontributor Calisphere -
Toy An Horse: Installed At The U.S.-Mexico Border Crossing
title Toy An Horse: Installed At The U.S.-Mexico Border Crossingdescription For inSITE97, Marcos Ramirez ERRE collaborated with several artists to construct "Toy an Horse," a monumental wood and metal replica of the iconic Trojan Horse. Installed directly on top of the monument marking the border about 50 meters from the border cross-checkpoint at San Ysidro, the horse was visible to the 50,000 people crossing the border by car every day. Ramirez stated that the purpose of the project was to use the narrative symbolism of the Trojan horse to stimulate discussion about the border, invasion, cultural exchange, and dependency. --inSITE97 San Ysidro (San Diego, Calif.) Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 04, Item 293) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Border Crossing Boundaries Satire (Artistic Device) Insite97 Horses Trojan War Political Art Public Art Economics Emigration And Immigration Humor Mexican-American Border Region Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) Sculpture (Visual Work) Architecture (Object Genre) Trojan Horse (Greek Mythology) Installations (Visual Works) Border Art Janus-Facedcontributor Calisphere -
Untitled Depot: View Of Space Between Walls With Bed Spring "Ring"
title Untitled Depot: View Of Space Between Walls With Bed Spring "Ring"description Garden and Landscape Nari Ward's "Untitled Depot/Estacion sin titulo," installed at Playas de Tijuana, was an interactive piece that brought people together. Dedicated to the healer and child in everyone, the installation was constructed from doors, bed springs, and other found materials that visitors could walk through and experiment with. Ward felt that the physical interaction that brought visitors together inside the installation was vital for the totality of the piece. The bed springs that encouraged visitors to jump up and down on were based on Ward's interest in suspension, and the balance it implies between rest and motion -- inSITE97 Plaza de Toros Monumental de Aguascalientes (Aguascalientes, Mexico) Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 311, Folder 01, Item 401) Tijuana, Playas de, Baja California Norte, Mexico [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Walls Play Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Public Art Mexican-American Border Region Insite97 Installations (Visual Works) Border Artcontributor Calisphere -
Boletín De Prensa: Tiempo Privado En El Espacio Publico
title Boletín De Prensa: Tiempo Privado En El Espacio Publicodescription Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a surrogate of a document from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 82, folder 01) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Insite97subject Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) Acconci, Vito (American Performance And Video Artist, Born 1940) Documents Boundaries Press Releases Public Art San Diego (Calif.) Mexican-American Border Region Press Kits Performance Art Insite97 Public Spaces Exhibitions (Events) Installations (Visual Works) Border Artcontributor Calisphere -
The Great Balboa Park Landfill Exposition Of 1997: Family Examining An Adobe Sculpture
title The Great Balboa Park Landfill Exposition Of 1997: Family Examining An Adobe Sculpturedescription Balboa Park (San Diego, Calif.) Cindy Zimmerman's Community Engagement project for inSITE97 was the development of a new park environment at the landfill adjacent to Florida Canyon in Balboa Park. Constructing the piece over several months, Zimmerman involved children and families in the creation and placement of straw bales and clay in the landfill to make labyrinths, temporary earthworks, and adobe structures. "The Great Balboa Park Landfill Exposition of 1997/La gran exposicion del relleno del Balboa Park 1997" transformed an unused and unattractive plot of land into a new community park and art installation. Zimmerman led workshops and meetings throughout the project to involve the community and collaborate with the participants to create art from organic materials. -- inSITE97 Garden and Landscape Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 311, Folder 02, Item 431) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Zimmerman, Cindysubject Landfills Community Arts Projects Play Workshops (Seminars) Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Insite97 Renovation Installations (Visual Works) Artistic Collaborationcontributor Calisphere -
Rowing In Eden
title Rowing In Edendescription Film, Audio, Video and Digital Art For inSITE97, Deborah Small created an installation and digital presentation at the Santa Fe Depot in downtown San Diego, entitled "Rowing in Eden/Remando en el Eden/Pelando en el Eden/Formando Hileras." A collaboration with three other artists, the installation explored the historical relationship between women and plants, focusing on the women who became labeled as witches for their unique knowledge as herbalists or healers. The installation included dried and live plants, a digital projection with images, text and voice, and an audio installation with voice and music. It emphasized not only the women's persecution but also celebrated their extraordinary powers and insight into consciousness and divinity. --inSITE97 Santa Fe Depot (San Diego, Calif.) Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 06, Item 348) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Computer-Generated Women Collaboration Installations (Visual Works) Mexican-American Border Region Shamans Insite97 Herbalists Traditional Medicine Healers Video Art Curanderismocontributor Calisphere -
Awasinake (On The Other Side): General View Of Theatre Facade And Marquee
title Awasinake (On The Other Side): General View Of Theatre Facade And Marqueedescription Casino Theatre, San Diego (Calif.) For inSITE97, Rebecca Belmore created a large-scale photographic work installed on the abandoned marquee of the historic Casino Theatre in downtown San Diego. "Awasinake (on the Other Side)/Awasinake (en el otro lado)" was based on the ritual of waiting to cross the border from Mexico to the US. Belmore wanted the photographs of indigenous women waiting at the border fence in Tijuana to reflect the mood of the dilapidated Casino Theatre itself, waiting to be reclaimed and refurbished by the city. The size and elongated format of the portraits evoked the feel of an epic narrative unfolding before the viewer. --inSITE97 Photographs Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 309, Folder 02, Item 042) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Refurbishment Façades Political Art Portraits Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Public Art Feminism Mexican-American Border Region Insite97 Marquees Renovation Installations (Visual Works) Border Artcontributor Calisphere -
Drops: Gigantic Concrete Dice Installed At The Santa Fe Depot In San Diego
title Drops: Gigantic Concrete Dice Installed At The Santa Fe Depot In San Diegodescription For Iran do Espírito Santo's inSITE97 project, "Drops," twenty concrete dice were scattered among sites in San Diego and Tijuana, ten in each city. The "Drops," situated in public places, could be seen or even sat upon by a number of passersby, but only chance could allow visitors to see more than one die and understand that they were viewing an artwork. Espírito Santo explained that the installation dealt with paradoxes on different levels. The entire installation could not be perceived at any one moment, and the oversized dice did not function as the objects they represented. By the end of the exhibition, many of the dice had been removed or damaged, their fate left to chance. A few dice remain in their original locations. --inSITE97 Santa Fe Depot (San Diego, Calif.) Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 309, Folder 04, Item 114) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Play Gambling Sculpture (Visual Work) Public Art Floor Pieces (Art) Mexican-American Border Region Dice Games Insite97 Installations (Visual Works) Border Artcontributor Calisphere -
Toy An Horse: Installed At The U.S.-Mexico Border Crossing
title Toy An Horse: Installed At The U.S.-Mexico Border Crossingdescription For inSITE97, Marcos Ramirez ERRE collaborated with several artists to construct "Toy an Horse," a monumental wood and metal replica of the iconic Trojan Horse. Installed directly on top of the monument marking the border about 50 meters from the border cross-checkpoint at San Ysidro, the horse was visible to the 50,000 people crossing the border by car every day. Ramirez stated that the purpose of the project was to use the narrative symbolism of the Trojan horse to stimulate discussion about the border, invasion, cultural exchange, and dependency. --inSITE97 San Ysidro (San Diego, Calif.) Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 04, Item 294) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Border Crossing Boundaries Satire (Artistic Device) Insite97 Horses Trojan War Political Art Public Art Economics Emigration And Immigration Humor Mexican-American Border Region Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) Sculpture (Visual Work) Architecture (Object Genre) Trojan Horse (Greek Mythology) Installations (Visual Works) Border Art Janus-Facedcontributor Calisphere -
Untitled Depot
title Untitled Depotdescription Garden and Landscape Nari Ward's "Untitled Depot/Estacion sin titulo," installed at Playas de Tijuana, was an interactive piece that brought people together. Dedicated to the healer and child in everyone, the installation was constructed from doors, bed springs, and other found materials that visitors could walk through and experiment with. Ward felt that the physical interaction that brought visitors together inside the installation was vital for the totality of the piece. The bed springs that encouraged visitors to jump up and down on were based on Ward's interest in suspension, and the balance it implies between rest and motion -- inSITE97 Plaza de Toros Monumental de Aguascalientes (Aguascalientes, Mexico) Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 311, Folder 01, Item 402) Tijuana, Playas de, Baja California Norte, Mexico [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Walls Play Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Public Art Mexican-American Border Region Insite97 Installations (Visual Works) Border Artcontributor Calisphere -
Death Perra: Television Monitor Showing The Film At The Casa De La Cultura, Tijuana
title Death Perra: Television Monitor Showing The Film At The Casa De La Cultura, Tijuanadescription Casa de la Cultura de Tijuana Film, Audio, Video and Digital Art For inSITE97, Miguel Calderon created a short film spoofing satanic practices near the San Diego-Tijuana border, incorporating stereotypical UFO paraphernalia and imagery to emphasize the "cheesy" nature of both subjects. The film, "Death Perra," was shown on a small television at the Casa de la Cultural de Tijuana. Produced in the style of a music video, Calderon used satanic UFO records as the sound track, mixing scenes of his friends playing records on turntables with scenes of artificial UFOs in different locations. --inSITE97 Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 309, Folder 02, Item 057) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Satanism Motion Pictures Unidentified Flying Objects Music Videos Mexican-American Border Region Insite97 Parody Installations (Visual Works) Border Art Furniturecontributor Calisphere -
Boletín De Prensa: Conferencia Magistral De Carlos Fuentes: "Rio Grande, Rio Bravo: La Frontera Inquieta"
title Boletín De Prensa: Conferencia Magistral De Carlos Fuentes: "Rio Grande, Rio Bravo: La Frontera Inquieta"description Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a surrogate of a document from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 82, folder 01) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Insite97subject Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) Fuentes, Carlos, 1928-2012 Documents Boundaries Press Releases Public Art San Diego (Calif.) Mexican-American Border Region Press Kits Meetings Performance Art Insite97 Public Spaces Exhibitions (Events) Installations (Visual Works) Border Artcontributor Calisphere -
My House Is Your House
title My House Is Your Housedescription Film, Audio, Video and Digital Art Sculpture and Installations Sheldon Brown's project for inSITE97, "Mi casa es tu casa/My House is Your House," was a networked virtual reality environment installed at the Children's Museum in San Diego and the Centro Nacional de las Artes, Mexico, DF. Providing an interactive space for children to play and explore, the project used innovative computer technology to connect the environments in both cities to allow children to participate in the construction of a virtual house. Both rooms were equipped with costumes and tools to build the house, and as children moved through the room, they could watch their virtual body double mirroring their actions. Brown's project imparted notions of home, nation, heritage, and cultural construction through child's play. --inSITE97 Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) The New Children's Museum (American museum) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 309, Folder 02, Item 050) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Brown, Sheldonsubject Houses Play Boundaries Children (People By Age Group) Mexican-American Border Region Virtual Reality (Vr) Children'S Playhouses Insite97 Technology Border Art Video Artcontributor Calisphere -
International Waters: Pipe From Mexican Side Of The Border Fence
title International Waters: Pipe From Mexican Side Of The Border Fencedescription Architecture and City Planning Border Field State Park, San Diego, California, United States For inSITE97 San Diego artist Louis Hock constructed "International Waters/Aguas internacionales" at the Border Field State Park/Playas de Tijuana section of the border fence. Using water pumped from a well several miles northeast of the site, Hock built a double-sided drinking fountain with one head on each side of the border. People bending to drink from the heads could see each other through a hole cut in the metal fence. During the exhibition, US government authorities suddenly decided to replace the opaque metal fence with a chain link fence. "International Waters/Aguas internacionales" used the valuable resource, potable water, as an example of the flow and exchange that occurs along the border, despite the barriers and questions of ownership that try to hinder it. --inSITE97 Garden and Landscape Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 309, Folder 06, Item 147) Tijuana, Playas de, Baja California Norte, Mexico [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Hock, Louissubject Drinking Water Political Art Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Public Art Mexican-American Border Region Insite97 Natural Resources Installations (Visual Works) Border Art Fountainscontributor Calisphere -
Rowing In Eden
title Rowing In Edendescription Film, Audio, Video and Digital Art For inSITE97, Deborah Small created an installation and digital presentation at the Santa Fe Depot in downtown San Diego, entitled "Rowing in Eden/Remando en el Eden/Pelando en el Eden/Formando Hileras." A collaboration with three other artists, the installation explored the historical relationship between women and plants, focusing on the women who became labeled as witches for their unique knowledge as herbalists or healers. The installation included dried and live plants, a digital projection with images, text and voice, and an audio installation with voice and music. It emphasized not only the women's persecution but also celebrated their extraordinary powers and insight into consciousness and divinity. --inSITE97 Santa Fe Depot (San Diego, Calif.) Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 06, Item 349) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Computer-Generated Women Collaboration Installations (Visual Works) Mexican-American Border Region Shamans Insite97 Herbalists Traditional Medicine Healers Video Art Curanderismocontributor Calisphere -
Green Card
title Green Carddescription Architecture and City Planning Community Engagement Program, Tijuana. Garden and Landscape Mexican-American Border Region Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 311, Folder 02, Item 432) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Emigration And Immigration Walls Humor Boundaries Materials--Deterioration Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Conversation Fences Insite97 Gesture Installations (Visual Works) Border Artcontributor Calisphere -
La Casita En La Colonia Altamira Calle Rio De Janeiro No. 6757, Tijuana: View From Street
title La Casita En La Colonia Altamira Calle Rio De Janeiro No. 6757, Tijuana: View From Streetdescription Architecture and City Planning Colonia Altamira, Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects and Interior Design Patricia Patterson's inSITE97 project was a collaborative effort to transform a small home in Tijuana into a visually captivating space for the surrounding community to meet, talk, eat, and engage in activities with one another. Working over a period of nine months, Patterson and her team of students and craftsmen renovated, painted, and landscaped the home of the Resendiz family to create a vibrant center in the residential colonia. Once complete, "La Casita en la Colonia Altamira, Calle Rio de Janeiro No. 6757, Tijuana" hosted numerous parties, brunches, and other gatherings of both local residents and visitors from San Diego, making the house a space for cross-cultural exchange and diversity. --inSITE97 Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 03, Item 269) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Chávez, Patriciosubject Landscape Architecture Painting (Coating) Houses Color Neighborhoods Public Art Mexican-American Border Region Architecture (Object Genre) Gardening Insite97 Renovation Installations (Visual Works) Border Artcontributor Calisphere -
Podría Haber Muchos Más Que Éstos: Detail Of Pile Of Clay Rings
title Podría Haber Muchos Más Que Éstos: Detail Of Pile Of Clay Ringsdescription Installed in the Children's Museum in downtown San Diego, Anna Maria Maiolino's work was a mass collection of clay coils placed in random piles around the room. Using similar forms and processes from her previous work, "There Could Be Many More Than These/Podria haber muchos mas que estos" focused on the gesture and repetition used to create the clay coils. Molded over the course of several weeks, the number of coils was finite, but the infinite nature of the gesture creating them made the installation an act of chance. --inSITE97 Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) The New Children's Museum (American museum) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 02, Item 223) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Repetition (Aesthetics) Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Rings Insite97 Gesture Installations (Visual Works)contributor Calisphere -
Popotla - The Wall: Mosaic Of Found Objects Representing Waves
title Popotla - The Wall: Mosaic Of Found Objects Representing Wavesdescription For their InSITE97 Community Engagement project, artist collective RevolucionArte (RevArte) worked with local children and residents of the fishing village Popotla to create murals constructed of found materials to soften and embellish the concrete walls surrounding their community. Popotla had recently been subjected to the development of numerous modern buildings and projects, including the kilometer-long concrete wall constructed for 20th Century Fox's production set for the film Titanic. It was on this wall that the murals were created, giving the residents a sense of ownership over their village and its landscape. "Popotla - The Wall/Popotla - El muro," was created over the course of four months, but even after the exhibition was over the community continued to add to the murals. --inSITE97 Popotla, Rosarito, Baja California Norte, Mexico Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 04, Item 295) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Walls Humor Color Boundaries Mosaics (Visual Works) Public Art Sculpture (Visual Work) Children (People By Age Group) Assemblage (Sculpture Technique) Mexican-American Border Region Wave Pattern Murals (Any Medium) Insite97contributor Calisphere -
Untitled Depot: Visitors Inside And Outside Bed Spring "Ring"
title Untitled Depot: Visitors Inside And Outside Bed Spring "Ring"description Garden and Landscape Nari Ward's "Untitled Depot/Estacion sin titulo," installed at Playas de Tijuana, was an interactive piece that brought people together. Dedicated to the healer and child in everyone, the installation was constructed from doors, bed springs, and other found materials that visitors could walk through and experiment with. Ward felt that the physical interaction that brought visitors together inside the installation was vital for the totality of the piece. The bed springs that encouraged visitors to jump up and down were based on Ward's interest in suspension, and the balance it implies between rest and motion -- inSITE97 Plaza de Toros Monumental de Aguascalientes (Aguascalientes, Mexico) Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 311, Folder 01, Item 403) Tijuana, Playas de, Baja California Norte, Mexico [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Ward, Narisubject Walls Play Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Public Art Mexican-American Border Region Insite97 Installations (Visual Works) Border Artcontributor Calisphere -
Family Trees: Painting Depicting Cross Border Relationship Between Installations
title Family Trees: Painting Depicting Cross Border Relationship Between Installationsdescription Centro Cultural Tijuana Drawings and Watercolors Ernest Silva's inSITE97 Community Engagement project, "Family Trees/Arboles de familias," was a collaboration with artist Alberto Caro-Limón that linked the Children's Museum in San Diego to the Centro Cultural in Tijuana. Each site allowed children to write their own family stories and draw family portraits. Both installations were brightly colored and filled with images of houses, trees, birds, and birdhouses to symbolize the exchange of memories and stories from one museum to the other. The space at the Children's Museum was a Rain House that functioned as a studio, reading room, and exhibition space for the children's family projects. At the Centro, the space contained children-sized houses, benches and work spaces, and painted wood-picket fences and trees. The projects created at each installation then traveled to the other to be exhibited to complete the exchange of stories and perspectives. --inSITE97 Paintings Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) The New Children's Museum (American museum) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 05, Item 335) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Silva, Ernestsubject 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)contributor Calisphere -
Drill
title Drilldescription Dolores Magdalena Memorial Recreation Center, Logan Heights, San Diego, California, United States Doug Ischar's inSITE97 project, "Drill/Taladro/Adiestramiento," was a series of video and audio installations that meandered through the gymnasium of the Dolores Magdelena Memorial Recreation Center in Logan Heights. Running for several hours on two weekends, the installations, named individually "Vent," "Seam," and "Patient," were connected by orange electrical cable, providing the viewer with a path to follow. Ischar pieced together the imagery and music that played while participants navigated the installation. --inSITE97 Film, Audio, Video and Digital Art Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 309, Folder 06, Item 162) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Sound Art Video Art Mexican-American Border Region Insite97 Installations (Visual Works) Gymnasiumscontributor Calisphere -
A Tourist'S Guide To San Diego And Tijuana: View Of Facade Of "Tourist Office"
title A Tourist'S Guide To San Diego And Tijuana: View Of Facade Of "Tourist Office"description For her inSITE97 project, Melanie Smith created "The Tourists' Guide to San Diego and Tijuana/La Guia turistica de San Diego y Tijuana," an installation at 958 Fifth Avenue in downtown San Diego. A spoof on a tourist information agency, the installation included, among other elements, large photographs of the region, postcards with commonly found imagery from the local landscape and city, and a tourist guidebook listing on the back the various hot spots in the city. The installation was a commentary on the massive tourism industry in San Diego and Tijuana and the loss of borders when dealing with consumers and their material desires. --inSITE97 San Diego (Calif.) Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 06, Item 364) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Tourist Information Centers Humor Tourism Public Art Information Centers (Facilities) Mexican-American Border Region Satire (Artistic Device) Photography Insite97 Postcards Travel Guidebooks Parody Installations (Visual Works) Border Artcontributor Calisphere -
Death Perra
title Death Perradescription Casa de la Cultura de Tijuana Film, Audio, Video and Digital Art For inSITE97, Miguel Calderon created a short film spoofing satanic practices near the San Diego-Tijuana border, incorporating stereotypical UFO paraphernalia and imagery to emphasize the "cheesy" nature of both subjects. The film, "Death Perra," was shown on a small television at the Casa de la Cultural de Tijuana. Produced in the style of a music video, Calderon used satanic UFO records as the sound track, mixing scenes of his friends playing records on turntables with scenes of artificial UFOs in different locations. --inSITE97 Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 309, Folder 02, Item 058) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Calderón, Miguelsubject Satanism Motion Pictures Unidentified Flying Objects Music Videos Mexican-American Border Region Insite97 Parody Installations (Visual Works) Border Artcontributor Calisphere -
Boletín De Prensa: Simposium Del 20 Al 22 De Noviembre: "Arte En Contexto" Tiempo Privado En Espacio Publico - Romance Y Violencia En La Ciudad
title Boletín De Prensa: Simposium Del 20 Al 22 De Noviembre: "Arte En Contexto" Tiempo Privado En Espacio Publico - Romance Y Violencia En La Ciudaddescription Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a surrogate of a document from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 82, folder 01) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Insite97subject Symposia Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) Documents Boundaries Press Releases Public Art San Diego (Calif.) Mexican-American Border Region Press Kits Performance Art Insite97 Public Spaces Exhibitions (Events) Installations (Visual Works) Border Artcontributor Calisphere -
Arrivals And Departures: Telescope With Children
title Arrivals And Departures: Telescope With Childrendescription Christina Fernandez's inSITE97 project, "Arrivals and Departres/Llegadas y salidas," consisted of two installations, one on each side of the border. Installed at the San Ysidro Bus Station in San Diego and Colonia Libertad, Tijuana, the works functioned as information and visitor centers for people passing through the space. Displaying information on historical migration patterns that have taken place over the border, the installation challenged the notion of legality as applied to immigration. --inSITE97 Colonia Libertad, Baja California Norte, Mexico Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 309, Folder 04, Item 119) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Fernandez, Christinasubject Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Public Art Views Children (People By Age Group) Mexican-American Border Region Landscapes (Environments) Insite97 Optical Instruments Installations (Visual Works) Border Artcontributor Calisphere -
My House Is Your House: Exterior View Of Virtual Reality Playhouse
title My House Is Your House: Exterior View Of Virtual Reality Playhousedescription Film, Audio, Video and Digital Art Sculpture and Installations Sheldon Brown's project for inSITE97, "Mi casa es tu casa/My House is Your House," was a networked virtual reality environment installed at the Children's Museum in San Diego and the Centro Nacional de las Artes, Mexico, DF. Providing an interactive space for children to play and explore, the project used innovative computer technology to connect the environments in both cities to allow children to participate in the construction of a virtual house. Both rooms were equipped with costumes and tools to build the house, and as children moved through the room, they could watch their virtual body double mirroring their actions. Brown's project imparted notions of home, nation, heritage, and cultural construction through child's play. --inSITE97 Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) The New Children's Museum (American museum) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 309, Folder 02, Item 051) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Houses Play Boundaries Children (People By Age Group) Mexican-American Border Region Virtual Reality (Vr) Children'S Playhouses Insite97 Technology Border Art Video Artcontributor Calisphere -
International Waters: Mexican Side Of The Border Fence
title International Waters: Mexican Side Of The Border Fencedescription Architecture and City Planning Border Field State Park, San Diego, California, United States For inSITE97 San Diego artist Louis Hock constructed "International Waters/Aguas internacionales" at the Border Field State Park/Playas de Tijuana section of the border fence. Using water pumped from a well several miles northeast of the site, Hock built a double-sided drinking fountain with one head on each side of the border. People bending to drink from the heads could see each other through a hole cut in the metal fence. During the exhibition, US government authorities suddenly decided to replace the opaque metal fence with a chain link fence. "International Waters/Aguas internacionales" used the valuable resource, potable water, as an example of the flow and exchange that occurs along the border, despite the barriers and questions of ownership that try to hinder it. --inSITE97 Garden and Landscape Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 309, Folder 06, Item 148) Tijuana, Playas de, Baja California Norte, Mexico [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Hock, Louissubject Drinking Water Political Art Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Public Art Mexican-American Border Region Insite97 Natural Resources Installations (Visual Works) Border Art Fountainscontributor Calisphere -
Rowing In Eden
title Rowing In Edendescription Film, Audio, Video and Digital Art For inSITE97, Deborah Small created an installation and digital presentation at the Santa Fe Depot in downtown San Diego, entitled "Rowing in Eden/Remando en el Eden/Pelando en el Eden/Formando Hileras." A collaboration with three other artists, the installation explored the historical relationship between women and plants, focusing on the women who became labeled as witches for their unique knowledge as herbalists or healers. The installation included dried and live plants, a digital projection with images, text and voice, and an audio installation with voice and music. It emphasized not only the women's persecution but also celebrated their extraordinary powers and insight into consciousness and divinity. --inSITE97 Santa Fe Depot (San Diego, Calif.) Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 06, Item 350) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Computer-Generated Women Collaboration Installations (Visual Works) Mexican-American Border Region Shamans Insite97 Herbalists Traditional Medicine Healers Video Art Curanderismocontributor Calisphere