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The Good Rumor Project
title The Good Rumor Projectdescription "The Good Rumor Project" appropriates and replicates the model of a social experiment. In seeking to invert the more common negative effects of rumor Wrange and his collaborators constructed two "good" rumors: one about people in Tijuana that was spread in San Diego and one about people in San Diego that was spread in Tijuana. In contrast to normal rumors, the "good" rumors were created in dialogue with the actual subjects of the rumors through a series of focus groups. The "good" rumors were disseminated through a multifaceted strategy that combines some of the most advanced marketing techniques - viral/ word of mouth marketing - with structures borrowed from rumor theory as well as recent research on small-world networks and social network analysis. By tracing the organization of the interdependent communication channels in the border zone, as well as the spatial and temporal development of the "good" rumor, Wrange/ OMBUD reveal how Society is predicated on an ever evolving communicative process. --inSite_05 Performing Arts (including Performance Art) Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image was extracted from a DVD-R from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 202, DVD 01) Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Wrange, Måns, 1961-subject Rumor Political Art Humor Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Public Art Insite_05 Mexican-American Border Region Performance Art Focus Groups Communication (Function) Installations (Visual Works) Border Art Information Signscontributor Calisphere -
23 September 1994: General View
title 23 September 1994: General Viewdescription Estación del Ferrocarril, Colonia Libertad, Baja California Norte, Mexico Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 04, Item 310) Titled "23 September 1994" after the opening date of the entire inSITE94 exhibition, Ulf Rollof's installation consisted of a circular railroad situated at the defunct border rail-crossing site in Colonia Libertad in Tijuana. Just yards from the border fence, one could take a ride on this circular track where a single wagon with five fir trees planted in empty oil drums went around in endless circles to a dizzying effect. However, rather than being transported around on the track itself there was just a single seat at the hub of the circle and the view from the seat was directed straight at the fir trees, so that although movement occurred the outlook one had remained the same. -- inSITE94 [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Political Art Humor Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Irony Machinery Mexican-American Border Region Railroad Stations Insite94 Installations (Visual Works) Border Art Perspectivecontributor Calisphere -
America: Wall Of "Flags" Made Of Colored Sand
title America: Wall Of "Flags" Made Of Colored Sanddescription For inSITE94, Japanese artist Yukinori Yanagi contributed two distinct installations titled "Wandering Position/Vagamundos" and "America/America," which were installed at the Santa Fe Depot and the downtown space of the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, respectively. Yanagi's work "America" had been installed previously in variations at different institutions around the world. For this installation the artist chose to include thirty-six flags of each country of the Americas in his elaborate ant farm. Over the course of the exhibition the ants created tunnels through the various flags and the colored sand that was used was gradually mixed, thereby creating new symbols. -- inSITE94 Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 311, Folder 02, Item 418) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Sandpaintings Political Art Humor Paintings (Visual Works) Sculpture (Visual Work) Nationalism Performance Art Insite94 Drawings (Visual Works) Process Art Border Art Flagscontributor 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 -
Hospitality: Painting In Progress: Day Two
title Hospitality: Painting In Progress: Day Twodescription Barbosa and Ricalde proposed covering the Puente Mexico (the pedestrian bridge that crosses the Tijuana River and leads from Avenida Revolucion toward the international border crossing at San Ysidro) with a carpet of painted names: a "welcome mat." The project, entitled "Hospitality," was inspired by the way in which color, typography, and first names are employed as marks of identity, much like the woven bracelets sold in handcraft market stalls along the border. Performing Arts (including Performance Art) Puente Mexico, Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) San Ysidro, San Diego, California, United States Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image was extracted from a DVD-R from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 181, DVD 01) Tijuana, Río, México, Mexico [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Border Crossing Name Tags Political Art Carpets Collaboration Color Boundaries Names Paintings (Visual Works) Public Art Insite_05 Mexican-American Border Region Paths Information Signs Bridges (Built Works) Installations (Visual Works) Border Art Grids (Layout Features)contributor Calisphere -
Aerial Bridge: Yellow Border Line And Border Patrol
title Aerial Bridge: Yellow Border Line And Border Patroldescription "Aerial Bridge," by Maurycy Gomulicki, brings together diverse members of model airplane clubs in San Diego and Tijuana through a creative process of personalizing model airplanes and co-creating a flying event at the border. In this piece the experience of personal fantasy that is expressed in the designing and building of model planes combines with the unique experience of forging relationships. Scheduled for September 24, 2005, the event was geld at the cemeted riverbed of the Tijuana River, at the point where the yellow border demarcation line painted down the center of the river channel is approximately level with the intersection of the Via Rápida and the border bridge. --inSite_05 Performing Arts (including Performance Art) Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image was extracted from a DVD-R from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 187, DVD 01) Tijuana River Tijuana River, California, United States [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Gomulicki, Maurycysubject Boundaries Hobbies San Diego (Calif.) Political Art Flight Insite_05 Performance Art Uniforms Contests Lines (Artistic Concept) Border Patrols Aeronautics Humor Mexican-American Border Region Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) Play Model Airplane Racing Toys (Recreational Artifacts) Border Artcontributor Calisphere -
Hospitality: General View Of Work In Progress
title Hospitality: General View Of Work In Progressdescription Barbosa and Ricalde proposed covering the Puente Mexico (the pedestrian bridge that crosses the Tijuana River and leads from Avenida Revolucion toward the international border crossing at San Ysidro) with a carpet of painted names: a "welcome mat." The project, entitled "Hospitality," was inspired by the way in which color, typography, and first names are employed as marks of identity, much like the woven bracelets sold in handcraft market stalls along the border. Performing Arts (including Performance Art) Puente Mexico, Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) San Ysidro, San Diego, California, United States Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image was extracted from a DVD-R from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 181, DVD 01) Tijuana, Río, México, Mexico [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Border Crossing Name Tags Political Art Carpets Collaboration Color Boundaries Names Paintings (Visual Works) Public Art Insite_05 Mexican-American Border Region Paths Information Signs Bridges (Built Works) Installations (Visual Works) Border Art Grids (Layout Features)contributor Calisphere -
Poison Shelf: Detail Of Text
title Poison Shelf: Detail Of Textdescription Athenaeum Music & Arts Library (La Jolla (San Diego, Calif.)) Occupying a large section of the La Jolla Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, Ming Mur-Ray's installation for inSITE94 was entitled "CYM55296." Arranged on long shelves, the artist neatly installed rows of square wooden tablets displaying an invented language of calligraphy. Another element of the installation was rows of books sealed tight and with the phrase "See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil," on their covers, alluding to Censorship within the arts. Also, part of the work was a bookcase randomly stacked with books fond to be controversial or drawing public complaints. Together these elements created a dialogue around language and how public and private opinion often categorizes based on content. --inSITE94 Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 03, Item 242) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Mur-Ray, Mingsubject Language Political Art Prohibited Books Censorship Calligraphy Mexican-American Border Region Insite94 Installations (Visual Works) Writingcontributor Calisphere -
Abode: Sanctuary For The Familia(R): Detail Of Blue Glass Bottles
title Abode: Sanctuary For The Familia(R): Detail Of Blue Glass Bottlesdescription San Francisco artist Mildred Howard sited her inSITE94 project in the baggage building of the Santa Fe Depot. Her installation consisted of two components, "Abode: Sanctuary for the Familia(r)/Hogar: el santuario para lo familia(r)" and "From Cotton to Coal ... the Last Train/Del algodón al carbón ... El último tren." As a continuation of her exploration of architectural forms and everyday materials that poetically call forth issues of cultural identity and memory, Howard chose to reinstall "Abode," first created for the San Jose Museum of Art. "Abode" and "From Cotton to Coal" reference Howard's own cultural history as an African-American woman --inSITE94 Santa Fe Depot (San Diego, Calif.) Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 309, Folder 06, Item 152) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject African Americans Houses Political Art Color San Diego (Calif.) Sculpture (Visual Work) History Feminism Mexican-American Border Region Insite94 Blue (Color) Installations (Visual Works) Border Artcontributor Calisphere -
Dirty Water Initiative: Setting Up The Solar Collectors
title Dirty Water Initiative: Setting Up The Solar Collectorsdescription Architecture and City Planning San Ysidro (San Diego, Calif.) Science, Technology and Industry Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) The U.S. art collective SIMPARCH began their investigative process by working with one of Tijuana's informal communties in collaboration with the Fundación Esperanza. They became especially interested in the threme of water, in particular the idea of purifying water using solar-based water distillation. The project, entitled "Dirty Water Initiative," has two phases: the first stage is to construct and install a small purification plant as a "public fountain" sited in the pedestrian walkway from San Ysidro to Tijuana at the U.S./Mexico port of entry; the second stage involves the donation of the distillation facility to an informal community in Tijuana. The deployment of these solar distillers, sealed in glass, more than an aesthetic effect at the urban scale, seeks to stimulate reflection about the problem of water, and the importance of researching ecological solutions that could achieve a direct impact at the community level within poor, informal settlements. --inSite_05 This image was extracted from a DVD-R from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 197, DVD 01) Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Unknownsubject Water--Purification Political Art Boundaries Health Education Public Art Sculpture (Visual Work) Insite_05 Mexican-American Border Region Poverty Technology Water Treatment Plants Installations (Visual Works) Border Art Fountainscontributor Calisphere -
America: Detail Of Plexiglas Case Where Ants Bring Colored Sand From "Flags"
title America: Detail Of Plexiglas Case Where Ants Bring Colored Sand From "Flags"description For inSITE94, Japanese artist Yukinori Yanagi contributed two distinct installations titled "Wandering Position/Vagamundos" and "America/America," which were installed at the Santa Fe Depot and the downtown space of the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, respectively. Yanagi's work "America" had been installed previously in variations at different institutions around the world. For this installation the artist chose to include thirty-six flags of each country of the Americas in his elaborate ant farm. Over the course of the exhibition the ants created tunnels through the various flags and the colored sand that was used was gradually mixed, thereby creating new symbols. -- inSITE94 Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 311, Folder 02, Item 419) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Sandpaintings Political Art Humor Paintings (Visual Works) Sculpture (Visual Work) Nationalism Performance Art Insite94 Drawings (Visual Works) Process Art Border Art Flagscontributor 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 -
One Flew Over The Void (Bala Perdida): Video Documentation: Human Cannonball David Smith Ascends From Cannon And Across Border Fence
title One Flew Over The Void (Bala Perdida): Video Documentation: Human Cannonball David Smith Ascends From Cannon And Across Border Fencedescription Building on a collaborative process that is evident throughout his artistic practice, Javier Téllez's project "One Flew Over the Void (Bala perdida)" involved a sustained engagement with psychiatric patients from the Baja California Mental Health Center in Mexicali to co-create a public event and to document its evolution and final performance. Inspired by the traditional "human cannonball" circus performer, Téllez explored the notion of spatial and mental borders in the context of Tijuana and San Diego, and developed an event that involves sending a "human cannonball" across the border between Mexico and the United States. Through successive creative workshops and exchanges the world's most famous human cannonball, Dave Smith, the psychiatric patients and Téllez collectively devised the backdrop, music, costumes, and radio and television announcements for the event. The performance occurred on August 27 at the site where the Mexico/US border fence disappears into the sea between Playas de Tijuana and Border Field State Park. Finally, Téllez created a video documenting the process and the event. --inSite_05 Imperial Beach, San Diego, California, United States Performing Arts (including Performance Art) Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This video file was extracted from a DVD-R from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 257, DVD 05-49) Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) Tijuana, Playas de, Baja California Norte, Mexico [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Téllez, Javiersubject Boundaries Installations (Visual Works) Psychiatric Hospitals Daredevils Adventure And Adventurers Patients Political Art Flight Public Art Insite_05 Audiences Performance Art Musicians Spectacular, The Humor Cannons (Artillery) Mexican-American Border Region Caricatures Sculpture (Visual Work) Fences Masks Border Artcontributor Calisphere -
Some Kindly Monster: Left Side Of Truck With Custom Painted Exterior
title Some Kindly Monster: Left Side Of Truck With Custom Painted Exteriordescription Chris Ferreria's project, "Some Kindly Monster," was inspired by the expressive car culture that defines much of Southern California, and in particular the communities of Southeast San Diego and National City. By bringing together two distinct car customizers, who wouldn't normally collaborate together, Ferreria sought to create a monster vehicle that would embody his co-participants divergent aesthetics. In addition, Ferreria enlisted the contribution of three locally based DJs who created new recordings based on sampled field recordings taken from specific neighborhoods in San Diego. -- inSite_05 Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects and Interior Design East San Diego, San Diego (Calif.) Graphic Design and Illustration Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image was extracted from a DVD-R from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 185, DVD 01) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Ferreria, Christophersubject Popular Culture Automobiles Political Art Color Neighborhoods Music Public Art Sculpture (Visual Work) Insite_05 Mexican-American Border Region Performance Art Trucks--Customizing Caricatures And Cartoons Portable Border Art Flamecontributor Calisphere -
A Lesson In Civics
title A Lesson In Civicsdescription Casa de la Cultura de Tijuana Paintings Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 01, Item 203) With her project for inSITE94, San Diego artist Jean Lowe created an installation that mirrored much of her previous work as a cunning commentary on an issue relevant to the current times. At the Casa de la Cultura Municipal in Tijuana, Lowe chose to rework the interior of one classroom. Entitled "A Lesson in Civics/Una lección de civismo," the classroom was richly outfitted with elements such as school desks, books, educational charts, and posters created by the artist in painted papier-mâché that distinctly referenced the topic of civics and how we learn to relate to other species. As the artist herself said about the work, she wanted to create an environment that encouraged a rethinking of the already known. --inSITE94 [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Libraries Political Art Humor Books Education Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Animal Culture Classrooms Insite94 Kitsch Parody Installations (Visual Works)contributor Calisphere -
Hospitality: Painting In Progress: Day Four
title Hospitality: Painting In Progress: Day Fourdescription Barbosa and Ricalde proposed covering the Puente Mexico (the pedestrian bridge that crosses the Tijuana River and leads from Avenida Revolucion toward the international border crossing at San Ysidro) with a carpet of painted names: a "welcome mat." The project, entitled "Hospitality," was inspired by the way in which color, typography, and first names are employed as marks of identity, much like the woven bracelets sold in handcraft market stalls along the border. Performing Arts (including Performance Art) Puente Mexico, Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) San Ysidro, San Diego, California, United States Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image was extracted from a DVD-R from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 181, DVD 01) Tijuana, Río, México, Mexico [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Border Crossing Name Tags Political Art Carpets Collaboration Color Boundaries Names Paintings (Visual Works) Public Art Insite_05 Mexican-American Border Region Paths Information Signs Bridges (Built Works) Installations (Visual Works) Border Art Grids (Layout Features)contributor Calisphere -
The Middle Of The Road
title The Middle Of The Roaddescription After her initial residency in the region, Mexico City artist Silvia Gruner was drawn to working directly on the border fence. She chose a stretch of the fence running along the residential neighborhood of Colonia Libertad in Tijuana. Entitled "The Middle of the Road/La mitad del camino," the installation consisted of more than 100 replicas of the Aztec goddess Tlazolteotl in a birthing position on metal stools, mounted directly onto the border fence. The goddess suggests fertility, a point of passage - an entering through the ritual of birth where life is being recycled or regenerated. 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 05, Item 135) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Gruner, Sylviasubject Childbirth Walls Goddesses Political Art Boundaries Stools Public Art Sculpture (Visual Work) Feminism Mexican-American Border Region Fertility Tlazolteotl (Aztec Deity) Insite94 Fences Installations (Visual Works) Border Artcontributor Calisphere -
Aerial Bridge: Toy Helicopter Flying Over Yellow U.S. - Mexico Border Demarcation Line
title Aerial Bridge: Toy Helicopter Flying Over Yellow U.S. - Mexico Border Demarcation Linedescription "Aerial Bridge," by Maurycy Gomulicki, brings together diverse members of model airplane clubs in San Diego and Tijuana through a creative process of personalizing model airplanes and co-creating a flying event at the border. In this piece the experience of personal fantasy that is expressed in the designing and building of model planes combines with the unique experience of forging relationships. Scheduled for September 24, 2005, the event was geld at the cemeted riverbed of the Tijuana River, at the point where the yellow border demarcation line painted down the center of the river channel is approximately level with the intersection of the Via Rápida and the border bridge. --inSite_05 Performing Arts (including Performance Art) Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image was extracted from a DVD-R from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 187, DVD 01) Tijuana River Tijuana River, California, United States [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Gomulicki, Maurycysubject Boundaries Hobbies San Diego (Calif.) Rockets (Aeronautics) Political Art Flight Insite_05 Performance Art Contests Rivers Lines (Artistic Concept) Aeronautics Humor Mexican-American Border Region Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) Play Model Airplane Racing Toys (Recreational Artifacts) Border Artcontributor Calisphere -
Maleteros
title Maleterosdescription Architecture and City Planning Mark Bradford's project involves an intervention into the pre-existing labor dynamic of porters (maleteros) who work along the narrow border strip linking Tijuana and San Diego. "Maleteros" aims to facilitate, and make visible, porter services that for over two decades have been offered informally, or at least without formal recognition, between various access points at the San Ysidro border crossing. San Ysidro, San Diego, California, United States Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image was extracted from a DVD-R from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 182, DVD 01) Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Bradford, Marksubject Political Art Collaboration Porters Workers Public Art Insite_05 Economics Labor Mexican-American Border Region Border Art Information Signscontributor Calisphere -
Abode: Sanctuary For The Familia(R): General View Of Installation In Santa Fe Depot
title Abode: Sanctuary For The Familia(R): General View Of Installation In Santa Fe Depotdescription San Francisco artist Mildred Howard sited her inSITE94 project in the baggage building of the Santa Fe Depot. Her installation consisted of two components, "Abode: Sanctuary for the Familia(r)/Hogar: el santuario para lo familia(r)" and "From Cotton to Coal ... the Last Train/Del algodón al carbón ... El último tren." As a continuation of her exploration of architectural forms and everyday materials that poetically call forth issues of cultural identity and memory, Howard chose to reinstall "Abode," first created for the San Jose Museum of Art. "Abode" and "From Cotton to Coal" reference Howard's own cultural history as an African-American woman --inSITE94 Santa Fe Depot (San Diego, Calif.) Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 309, Folder 06, Item 153) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject African Americans Houses Political Art Color San Diego (Calif.) Sculpture (Visual Work) History Feminism Mexican-American Border Region Insite94 Blue (Color) Installations (Visual Works) Border Artcontributor Calisphere -
Dirty Water Initiative: Setting Up The Solar Collectors
title Dirty Water Initiative: Setting Up The Solar Collectorsdescription Architecture and City Planning San Ysidro (San Diego, Calif.) Science, Technology and Industry Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) The U.S. art collective SIMPARCH began their investigative process by working with one of Tijuana's informal communties in collaboration with the Fundación Esperanza. They became especially interested in the threme of water, in particular the idea of purifying water using solar-based water distillation. The project, entitled "Dirty Water Initiative," has two phases: the first stage is to construct and install a small purification plant as a "public fountain" sited in the pedestrian walkway from San Ysidro to Tijuana at the U.S./Mexico port of entry; the second stage involves the donation of the distillation facility to an informal community in Tijuana. The deployment of these solar distillers, sealed in glass, more than an aesthetic effect at the urban scale, seeks to stimulate reflection about the problem of water, and the importance of researching ecological solutions that could achieve a direct impact at the community level within poor, informal settlements. --inSite_05 This image was extracted from a DVD-R from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 197, DVD 01) Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Unknownsubject Water--Purification Political Art Boundaries Health Education Public Art Sculpture (Visual Work) Insite_05 Mexican-American Border Region Poverty Technology Water Treatment Plants Installations (Visual Works) Border Art Fountainscontributor 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 -
America: Detail Of Canadian And United States "Flags"
title America: Detail Of Canadian And United States "Flags"description For inSITE94, Japanese artist Yukinori Yanagi contributed two distinct installations titled "Wandering Position/Vagamundos" and "America/America," which were installed at the Santa Fe Depot and the downtown space of the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, respectively. Yanagi's work "America" had been installed previously in variations at different institutions around the world. For this installation the artist chose to include thirty-six flags of each country of the Americas in his elaborate ant farm. Over the course of the exhibition the ants created tunnels through the various flags and the colored sand that was used was gradually mixed, thereby creating new symbols. -- inSITE94 Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 311, Folder 02, Item 420) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Yanagi, Yukinorisubject Sandpaintings Political Art Humor Paintings (Visual Works) Sculpture (Visual Work) Nationalism Performance Art Insite94 Drawings (Visual Works) Process Art Border Art Flagscontributor Calisphere -
You Are Aquí: Heavy Traffic Under The Puente Mexico
title You Are Aquí: Heavy Traffic Under The Puente Mexicodescription Cuban-born artist Arturo Cuenca was drawn to work with the visual language of billboards that crowd the US-Mexican border crossing at San Ysidro. With "You Are Aquí" Cuenca pointed to the obvious - locating border crossers exactly at the point of transition between the two countries. Borrowing from the visual language of the surrounding billboards. Cuenca constructed a new billboard with a manipulated satellite image of the border and had it installed on the Puente Mexico, the pedestrian bridge that crosses the lines of vehicular border traffic. Acting as a location marker, the work was seen by more than 45,000 commuters daily. --inSITE2000 Photographs Puente Mexico, San Ysidro, San Diego, California, United States Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 309, Folder 03, Item 078) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Political Art Satellite Imagery Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Public Art Site-Specific Works Mexican-American Border Region Billboards (Site Elements) Commuting Traffic City Planning Express Highways Insite2000 Bridges (Built Works) Installations (Visual Works) Border Artcontributor Calisphere -
Mark Dion - Press Coverage
title Mark Dion - Press Coveragedescription Dan Irwin interviews inSITE2000 artist Mark Dion. With the creation of a functioning bird blind located in the Tijuana River Estuary Reserve, Mark Dion's project Blind/Hide for inSITE2000 invited investigation and closer examination not only of the biodiversity of the site but also of the less apparent signs of cultural confluence specific to the location. Camouflaged to blend into the surrounding terrain the project was sited within a view of the border. The 8 x 16 foot bird blind structure housed photographs, charts, and books on the 370 bird species found at the reserve, along with binoculars and related research tools. As Dion himself said, he wanted to make a project that illustrated the complicated elements of this particular locale. The viewer was invited to become an observer of the more subtle environmental and political issues impacting the reserve, while bearing witness to how birds and wildlife have learned to conform and adapt. --inSITE2000 Film, Audio, Video and Digital Art Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This sound recording was extracted from a CD-R from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 254, CD 00-63) Tijuana River Estuary (Calif.) Tijuana Slough National Wildlife Refuge (Calif.) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Dion, Marksubject Blinds (Shelters) Boundaries Education San Diego (Calif.) Bird Watching Birds Political Art Environmental Protection Ecological Art Border Art Nature Natural History Sound Recordings Mexican-American Border Region Landscapes (Environments) Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) Nature Centers Sculpture (Visual Work) Dion, Mark (American Sculptor And Installation Artist, Born 1961) Architecture (Object Genre) Installations (Visual Works) Insite2000contributor Calisphere -
Union Market Island Front: View Of The Corner Of Tbe Building
title Union Market Island Front: View Of The Corner Of Tbe Buildingdescription Architecture and City Planning Paintings San Diego-based artist Patricia Patterson's project for inSITE94 showcased her career-long engagement with color on a monumental city-block-scale. Working directly with the exterior of the entire Children's Museum of San Diego, Patterson selected a color pallet that would transform every surface of the Museum. Titled "union market island front," according to the four city streets surrounding the footprint of the museum, the block came alive through the colors chosen by the artist. The exterior transformation of the Museum was part of larger effort to establish a lasting identity for the institution and as an extension thereof. Patterson collaborated simultaneously with graphic designer Leah Roschke in designing the logo that would likewise come to represent the Museum. --inSITE94 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 03, Item 268) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Political Art Color Sculpture (Visual Work) Public Art Mexican-American Border Region Architecture (Object Genre) Insite94 Renovation 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 -
Some Kindly Monster: Left Side Of Truck With Custom Painted Exterior: Flames
title Some Kindly Monster: Left Side Of Truck With Custom Painted Exterior: Flamesdescription Chris Ferreria's project, "Some Kindly Monster," was inspired by the expressive car culture that defines much of Southern California, and in particular the communities of Southeast San Diego and National City. By bringing together two distinct car customizers, who wouldn't normally collaborate together, Ferreria sought to create a monster vehicle that would embody his co-participants divergent aesthetics. In addition, Ferreria enlisted the contribution of three locally based DJs who created new recordings based on sampled field recordings taken from specific neighborhoods in San Diego. -- inSite_05 Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects and Interior Design East San Diego, San Diego (Calif.) Graphic Design and Illustration Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image was extracted from a DVD-R from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 185, DVD 01) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Ferreria, Christophersubject Popular Culture Automobiles Political Art Color Neighborhoods Music Public Art Sculpture (Visual Work) Insite_05 Mexican-American Border Region Performance Art Trucks--Customizing Caricatures And Cartoons Portable Border Art Flamecontributor Calisphere -
A Lesson In Civics
title A Lesson In Civicsdescription Casa de la Cultura de Tijuana Paintings Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 01, Item 204) With her project for inSITE94, San Diego artist Jean Lowe created an installation that mirrored much of her previous work as a cunning commentary on an issue relevant to the current times. At the Casa de la Cultura Municipal in Tijuana, Lowe chose to rework the interior of one classroom. Entitled "A Lesson in Civics/Una lección de civismo," the classroom was richly outfitted with elements such as school desks, books, educational charts, and posters created by the artist in painted papier-mâché that distinctly referenced the topic of civics and how we learn to relate to other species. As the artist herself said about the work, she wanted to create an environment that encouraged a rethinking of the already known. --inSITE94 [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Libraries Political Art Humor Books Education Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Animal Culture Classrooms Insite94 Kitsch Parody Installations (Visual Works)contributor Calisphere -
Dirty Water Initiative: Solar Collectors And Water Bottles
title Dirty Water Initiative: Solar Collectors And Water Bottlesdescription Architecture and City Planning San Ysidro (San Diego, Calif.) Science, Technology and Industry Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) The U.S. art collective SIMPARCH began their investigative process by working with one of Tijuana's informal communties in collaboration with the Fundación Esperanza. They became especially interested in the threme of water, in particular the idea of purifying water using solar-based water distillation. The project, entitled "Dirty Water Initiative," has two phases: the first stage is to construct and install a small purification plant as a "public fountain" sited in the pedestrian walkway from San Ysidro to Tijuana at the U.S./Mexico port of entry; the second stage involves the donation of the distillation facility to an informal community in Tijuana. The deployment of these solar distillers, sealed in glass, more than an aesthetic effect at the urban scale, seeks to stimulate reflection about the problem of water, and the importance of researching ecological solutions that could achieve a direct impact at the community level within poor, informal settlements. --inSite_05 This image was extracted from a DVD-R from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 197, DVD 01) Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Unknownsubject Water--Purification Political Art Boundaries Health Education Public Art Sculpture (Visual Work) Insite_05 Mexican-American Border Region Poverty Technology Water Treatment Plants Installations (Visual Works) Border Art Fountainscontributor Calisphere -
Aerial Bridge: Model Planes And Pilots With Spectators
title Aerial Bridge: Model Planes And Pilots With Spectatorsdescription "Aerial Bridge," by Maurycy Gomulicki, brings together diverse members of model airplane clubs in San Diego and Tijuana through a creative process of personalizing model airplanes and co-creating a flying event at the border. In this piece the experience of personal fantasy that is expressed in the designing and building of model planes combines with the unique experience of forging relationships. Scheduled for September 24, 2005, the event was geld at the cemeted riverbed of the Tijuana River, at the point where the yellow border demarcation line painted down the center of the river channel is approximately level with the intersection of the Via Rápida and the border bridge. --inSite_05 Performing Arts (including Performance Art) Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image was extracted from a DVD-R from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 187, DVD 01) Tijuana River Tijuana River, California, United States [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Gomulicki, Maurycysubject Hobbies San Diego (Calif.) Rockets (Aeronautics) Political Art Flight Insite_05 Performance Art Uniforms Contests Rivers Aeronautics Humor Mexican-American Border Region Spectators Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) Play Model Airplane Racing Toys (Recreational Artifacts) Border Artcontributor Calisphere -
Mama: Film Still With Border Patrol Dog
title Mama: Film Still With Border Patrol Dogdescription Brazilian and Swiss artist team Mauricio Dias and Walter Riedweg's inSITE2000 project, "MAMA," was based on work the artists undertook during several extended residencies in the region. Interested in investigating the issues of border security and immigration, the artists met with numerous groups, organizations, and individuals on either side of the border to collect materials. Through this process the artists narrowed their work to deal specifically with K-9 US customs officers on the one hand, and on the other, Mexican citizens trying to cross the border illegally. What interested Dias and Riedweg were the maternal relationships of the K-9 officers and how that informed the relationships they developed with their dogs and in turn the work they were performing daily. The work became an investigation of the border between private and public selves, and of the transgression and transference of private psychology on public situations. The project was shown as a video installation housed in two separate structures located in the San Ysidro pedestrian passage, Pasillo Turistico. Built to simulate the shape and size of ordinary cargo containers, one structure contained video of interviews with the customs officers and showed them interacting with their dogs. Each officer was asked to give his definition of "territory" and "authority." The other structure showed a looped video clip of illegal immigrants meeting up at night around a fire waiting for the "right" moment to jump the fence. --inSITE2000 Film, Audio, Video and Digital Art Performing Arts (including Performance Art) San Ysidro, San Diego, California, United States Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This film still is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 309, Folder 03, Item 093) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Political Art Dogs Boundaries Border Art Mothers Sons Mexican-American Border Region Insite2000 Installations (Visual Works) Graphic Arts Border Patrol Agents Video Artcontributor Calisphere -
Abode: Sanctuary For The Familia(R)
title Abode: Sanctuary For The Familia(R)description San Francisco artist Mildred Howard sited her inSITE94 project in the baggage building of the Santa Fe Depot. Her installation consisted of two components, "Abode: Sanctuary for the Familia(r)/Hogar: el santuario para lo familia(r)" and "From Cotton to Coal ... the Last Train/Del algodón al carbón ... El último tren." As a continuation of her exploration of architectural forms and everyday materials that poetically call forth issues of cultural identity and memory, Howard chose to reinstall "Abode," first created for the San Jose Museum of Art. "Abode" and "From Cotton to Coal" reference Howard's own cultural history as an African-American woman --inSITE94 Santa Fe Depot (San Diego, Calif.) Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 309, Folder 06, Item 154) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject African Americans Houses Political Art Color San Diego (Calif.) Sculpture (Visual Work) History Feminism Mexican-American Border Region Insite94 Blue (Color) Installations (Visual Works) Border Artcontributor Calisphere -
One Flew Over The Void (Bala Perdida): Human Cannonball David Smith Ascends From Cannon And Across Border Fence
title One Flew Over The Void (Bala Perdida): Human Cannonball David Smith Ascends From Cannon And Across Border Fencedescription Building on a collaborative process that is evident throughout his artistic practice, Javier Téllez's project "One Flew Over the Void (Bala perdida)" involved a sustained engagement with psychiatric patients from the Baja California Mental Health Center in Mexicali to co-create a public event and to document its evolution and final performance. Inspired by the traditional "human cannonball" circus performer, Téllez explored the notion of spatial and mental borders in the context of Tijuana and San Diego, and developed an event that involves sending a "human cannonball" across the border between Mexico and the United States. Through successive creative workshops and exchanges the world's most famous human cannonball, Dave Smith, the psychiatric patients and Téllez collectively devised the backdrop, music, costumes, and radio and television announcements for the event. The performance occurred on August 27 at the site where the Mexico/US border fence disappears into the sea between Playas de Tijuana and Border Field State Park. Finally, Téllez created a video documenting the process and the event. --inSite_05 Imperial Beach, San Diego, California, United States Performing Arts (including Performance Art) Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image was extracted from a DVD-R from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 198, DVD 01) Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) Tijuana, Playas de, Baja California Norte, Mexico [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Téllez, Javiersubject Political Art Spectacular, The Flight Humor Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Public Art Cannons (Artillery) Insite_05 Audiences Mexican-American Border Region Performance Art Fences Daredevils Adventure And Adventurers Caricatures Installations (Visual Works) Border 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 -
You Are Aquí: Light Box Installed On The Puente Mexico
title You Are Aquí: Light Box Installed On The Puente Mexicodescription Cuban-born artist Arturo Cuenca was drawn to work with the visual language of billboards that crowd the US-Mexican border crossing at San Ysidro. With "You Are Aquí" Cuenca pointed to the obvious - locating border crossers exactly at the point of transition between the two countries. Borrowing from the visual language of the surrounding billboards. Cuenca constructed a new billboard with a manipulated satellite image of the border and had it installed on the Puente Mexico, the pedestrian bridge that crosses the lines of vehicular border traffic. Acting as a location marker, the work was seen by more than 45,000 commuters daily. --inSITE2000 Photographs Puente Mexico, San Ysidro, San Diego, California, United States Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 309, Folder 03, Item 079) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Political Art Satellite Imagery Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Public Art Site-Specific Works Mexican-American Border Region Billboards (Site Elements) Commuting City Planning Express Highways Insite2000 Bridges (Built Works) Installations (Visual Works) Border Artcontributor Calisphere -
Some Kindly Monster: Right Side Of Truck With Custom Painted Exterior
title Some Kindly Monster: Right Side Of Truck With Custom Painted Exteriordescription Chris Ferreria's project, "Some Kindly Monster," was inspired by the expressive car culture that defines much of Southern California, and in particular the communities of Southeast San Diego and National City. By bringing together two distinct car customizers, who wouldn't normally collaborate together, Ferreria sought to create a monster vehicle that would embody his co-participants divergent aesthetics. In addition, Ferreria enlisted the contribution of three locally based DJs who created new recordings based on sampled field recordings taken from specific neighborhoods in San Diego. -- inSite_05 Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects and Interior Design East San Diego, San Diego (Calif.) Graphic Design and Illustration Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image was extracted from a DVD-R from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 185, DVD 01) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Ferreria, Christophersubject Popular Culture Automobiles Political Art Color Neighborhoods Music Public Art Sculpture (Visual Work) Insite_05 Mexican-American Border Region Performance Art Trucks--Customizing Portable Border Art Caricatures And Cartoonscontributor Calisphere -
America: Detail Of Colored Sand
title America: Detail Of Colored Sanddescription For inSITE94, Japanese artist Yukinori Yanagi contributed two distinct installations titled "Wandering Position/Vagamundos" and "America/America," which were installed at the Santa Fe Depot and the downtown space of the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, respectively. Yanagi's work "America" had been installed previously in variations at different institutions around the world. For this installation the artist chose to include thirty-six flags of each country of the Americas in his elaborate ant farm. Over the course of the exhibition the ants created tunnels through the various flags and the colored sand that was used was gradually mixed, thereby creating new symbols. -- inSITE94 Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 311, Folder 02, Item 414) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Sandpaintings Political Art Humor Paintings (Visual Works) Sculpture (Visual Work) Nationalism Performance Art Insite94 Drawings (Visual Works) Process Art Border Art Flagscontributor Calisphere -
A Lesson In Civics: Detail Of Stack Of "Books"
title A Lesson In Civics: Detail Of Stack Of "Books"description Casa de la Cultura de Tijuana Paintings Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 01, Item 205) With her project for inSITE94, San Diego artist Jean Lowe created an installation that mirrored much of her previous work as a cunning commentary on an issue relevant to the current times. At the Casa de la Cultura Municipal in Tijuana, Lowe chose to rework the interior of one classroom. Entitled "A Lesson in Civics/Una lección de civismo," the classroom was richly outfitted with elements such as school desks, books, educational charts, and posters created by the artist in painted papier-mâché that distinctly referenced the topic of civics and how we learn to relate to other species. As the artist herself said about the work, she wanted to create an environment that encouraged a rethinking of the already known. --inSITE94 [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Lowe, Jeansubject Libraries Political Art Humor Books Education Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Kitsch Insite94 Parody Installations (Visual Works)contributor Calisphere -
Ruminations: Handwritten Text On Wall
title Ruminations: Handwritten Text On Walldescription "This installation, 'Ruminations,' is a dreamscape: an exploration of shifting narratives at the crossroads. In the wake of a painful and humiliating verdict in Simi Valley, and the searing image of L.A. in flames, I find myself focusing upon thresholds: a state of being on the line. The fire ain't out." -- Johnny Coleman, August, 1992 David Zapf Gallery, San Diego, California, United States Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 309, Folder 03, Item 065) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Political Art Rodney King Riots (Los Angeles, California : 1992) Texts (Document Genres) Sculpture (Visual Work) History Mexican-American Border Region Insite92 Race Relations Installations (Visual Works)contributor Calisphere -
Hospitality: General View Of Work In Progress
title Hospitality: General View Of Work In Progressdescription Barbosa and Ricalde proposed covering the Puente Mexico (the pedestrian bridge that crosses the Tijuana River and leads from Avenida Revolucion toward the international border crossing at San Ysidro) with a carpet of painted names: a "welcome mat." The project, entitled "Hospitality," was inspired by the way in which color, typography, and first names are employed as marks of identity, much like the woven bracelets sold in handcraft market stalls along the border. Performing Arts (including Performance Art) Puente Mexico, Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) San Ysidro, San Diego, California, United States Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image was extracted from a DVD-R from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 181, DVD 01) Tijuana, Río, México, Mexico [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Border Crossing Name Tags Political Art Carpets Collaboration Color Boundaries Names Paintings (Visual Works) Public Art Insite_05 Mexican-American Border Region Paths Information Signs Bridges (Built Works) Installations (Visual Works) Border Art Grids (Layout Features)contributor Calisphere -
Osmosis And Excess: Film Still Depicting Tijuana Hillside Covered In Junk Cars
title Osmosis And Excess: Film Still Depicting Tijuana Hillside Covered In Junk Carsdescription Aernout Mik has created a video entitled "Osmosis and Excess" that interweaves images of junkyards in Tijuana's urban periphery with fictional scenes depicting a local pharmacy inundated with mud. Used cars flow from the United States to Mexico where they are eventually broken down and discarded on Tijuana's barren hillsides. Moving in the other direction, cheap drugs flow from Tijuana into the United States. The abandoned cars and the medications represent different manifestations of excess. Both modify a landscape: one inner, the other outer. The film was shot on high-definition video in a panoramic format to best illustrate the depicted landscapes. The video was projected as an intervention in a public parking lot in downtown San Diego. Architecture and City Planning 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 film still was extracted from a DVD-R from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 193, DVD 01) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Mik, Aernoutsubject Landscapes (Representations) Panoramas Junkyards Automobiles Political Art Insite_05 Film Stills Mexican-American Border Region Refuse Disposal Recycling Border Art Mountains Video Artcontributor Calisphere -
Aerial Bridge: Model Plane In Flight
title Aerial Bridge: Model Plane In Flightdescription "Aerial Bridge," by Maurycy Gomulicki, brings together diverse members of model airplane clubs in San Diego and Tijuana through a creative process of personalizing model airplanes and co-creating a flying event at the border. In this piece the experience of personal fantasy that is expressed in the designing and building of model planes combines with the unique experience of forging relationships. Scheduled for September 24, 2005, the event was geld at the cemeted riverbed of the Tijuana River, at the point where the yellow border demarcation line painted down the center of the river channel is approximately level with the intersection of the Via Rápida and the border bridge. --inSite_05 Performing Arts (including Performance Art) Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image was extracted from a DVD-R from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 187, DVD 01) Tijuana River Tijuana River, California, United States [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Gomulicki, Maurycysubject Aeronautics Play Flight Humor Hobbies Political Art San Diego (Calif.) Insite_05 Mexican-American Border Region Model Airplane Racing Performance Art Contests Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) Toys (Recreational Artifacts) Border Artcontributor Calisphere -
Bird'S Eye View: View Of Installation From Across Railroad Tracks
title Bird'S Eye View: View Of Installation From Across Railroad Tracksdescription Eugenia Vargas, born in Chile and currently residing in Mexico City, works in the areas of Photography, performance and installation art. Her work deals with the politically charged issues of the border and the effects of pollution on the environment. In her installations, Vargas physically engages the earth and its elements in ritualistic ways - for example, by covering herself or a space with mud, straw, palm fronds or water. Vargas' project for inSITE94 will read as a large filter extending down from the ceiling of the Depot's concourse, using materials derived from the site. - inSITE94 Santa Fe Depot (San Diego, Calif.) Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 311, Folder 01, Item 389) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Vargas, Eugeniasubject Political Art Sculpture (Visual Work) Railroad Stations Insite94 Filters And Filtration Installations (Visual Works) Border Artcontributor Calisphere -
From Cotton To Coal… The Last Train
title From Cotton To Coal… The Last Traindescription Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects and Interior Design San Francisco artist Mildred Howard sited her inSITE94 project in the baggage building of the Santa Fe Depot. Her installation consisted of two components, "Abode: Sanctuary for the Familia(r)/Hogar: el santuario para lo familia(r)" and "From Cotton to Coal ... the Last Train/Del algodón al carbón ... El último tren." As a continuation of her exploration of architectural forms and everyday materials that poetically call forth issues of cultural identity and memory, Howard chose to reinstall "Abode," first created for the San Jose Museum of Art. "Abode" and "From Cotton to Coal" reference Howard's own cultural history as an African-American woman --inSITE94 Santa Fe Depot (San Diego, Calif.) Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 309, Folder 06, Item 155) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Howard, Mildredsubject African Americans Political Art San Diego (Calif.) Sculpture (Visual Work) History Feminism Mexican-American Border Region Insite94 Installations (Visual Works) Border Art Laborcontributor 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 -
Some Kindly Monster: Truck Interior With Driver
title Some Kindly Monster: Truck Interior With Driverdescription Chris Ferreria's project, "Some Kindly Monster," was inspired by the expressive car culture that defines much of Southern California, and in particular the communities of Southeast San Diego and National City. By bringing together two distinct car customizers, who wouldn't normally collaborate together, Ferreria sought to create a monster vehicle that would embody his co-participants divergent aesthetics. In addition, Ferreria enlisted the contribution of three locally based DJs who created new recordings based on sampled field recordings taken from specific neighborhoods in San Diego. -- inSite_05 Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects and Interior Design East San Diego, San Diego (Calif.) Graphic Design and Illustration Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image was extracted from a DVD-R from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 185, DVD 01) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Ferreria, Christophersubject Popular Culture Automobiles Political Art Color Neighborhoods Music Public Art Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Insite_05 Performance Art Trucks--Customizing Portable Border Artcontributor Calisphere -
A Lesson In Civics: Detail Of "Books" On Bookshelf
title A Lesson In Civics: Detail Of "Books" On Bookshelfdescription Casa de la Cultura de Tijuana Paintings Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 01, Item 206) With her project for inSITE94, San Diego artist Jean Lowe created an installation that mirrored much of her previous work as a cunning commentary on an issue relevant to the current times. At the Casa de la Cultura Municipal in Tijuana, Lowe chose to rework the interior of one classroom. Entitled "A Lesson in Civics/Una lección de civismo," the classroom was richly outfitted with elements such as school desks, books, educational charts, and posters created by the artist in painted papier-mâché that distinctly referenced the topic of civics and how we learn to relate to other species. As the artist herself said about the work, she wanted to create an environment that encouraged a rethinking of the already known. --inSITE94 [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Lowe, Jeansubject Libraries Political Art Humor Books Education Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Kitsch Insite94 Parody Installations (Visual Works)contributor Calisphere -
Osmosis And Excess
title Osmosis And Excessdescription Aernout Mik has created a video entitled "Osmosis and Excess" that interweaves images of junkyards in Tijuana's urban periphery with fictional scenes depicting a local pharmacy inundated with mud. Used cars flow from the United States to Mexico where they are eventually broken down and discarded on Tijuana's barren hillsides. Moving in the other direction, cheap drugs flow from Tijuana into the United States. The abandoned cars and the medications represent different manifestations of excess. Both modify a landscape: one inner, the other outer. The film was shot on high-definition video in a panoramic format to best illustrate the depicted landscapes. The video was projected as an intervention in a public parking lot in downtown San Diego. Architecture and City Planning 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 was extracted from a DVD-R from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 193, DVD 01) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Mik, Aernoutsubject Landscapes (Representations) Panoramas Drugs Mud Political Art Tourism Children (People By Age Group) Film Stills Insite_05 Mexican-American Border Region Shopping Drugstores Ruins Border Art Information Signs Video Artcontributor Calisphere -
La Esquina/ Jardines De Playas De Tijuana: View Of Concrete Platform Next To The Border Fence And Pacific Ocean
title La Esquina/ Jardines De Playas De Tijuana: View Of Concrete Platform Next To The Border Fence And Pacific Oceandescription "La esquina/ Jardines de Playas de Tijuana" is an urban renewal initiative involving the stretch of land bordered by the Pacific Ocean, the Mexico/US international border fence, the Tijuana bullring, and the Playas Tijuana tourist corridor. This piece focuses on recovering a specific site's significance as a recreational space and as an area of ecological importance. This is the only permanent project commissioned by inSite. --inSite_05 Architecture and City Planning Garden and Landscape Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image was extracted from a DVD-R from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 186, DVD 01) Tijuana, Playas de, Baja California Norte, Mexico [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Landscape Architecture Political Art Pacific Ocean Boundaries Public Art Insite_05 Architecture (Object Genre) Mexican-American Border Region Fences Parks Urban Renewal Public Spaces Urban Planning Border Art Gardenscontributor Calisphere -
Aerial Bridge: Artist Gomulicki Interviewed By Television News Crew
title Aerial Bridge: Artist Gomulicki Interviewed By Television News Crewdescription "Aerial Bridge," by Maurycy Gomulicki, brings together diverse members of model airplane clubs in San Diego and Tijuana through a creative process of personalizing model airplanes and co-creating a flying event at the border. In this piece the experience of personal fantasy that is expressed in the designing and building of model planes combines with the unique experience of forging relationships. Scheduled for September 24, 2005, the event was geld at the cemeted riverbed of the Tijuana River, at the point where the yellow border demarcation line painted down the center of the river channel is approximately level with the intersection of the Via Rápida and the border bridge. --inSite_05 Performing Arts (including Performance Art) Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image was extracted from a DVD-R from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 187, DVD 01) Tijuana River Tijuana River, California, United States [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Gomulicki, Maurycysubject Hobbies San Diego (Calif.) Rockets (Aeronautics) Political Art Flight Insite_05 Performance Art Contests Rivers Television Journalists Aeronautics Humor Reporters And Reporting Mexican-American Border Region Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) Gomulicki, Maurycy Play Model Airplane Racing Toys (Recreational Artifacts) Border Artcontributor Calisphere -
Picturing Paradise: Border Fence With Mirrored Surfaces: View From The United States Side Of Border
title Picturing Paradise: Border Fence With Mirrored Surfaces: View From The United States Side Of Borderdescription Border Field State Park, San Diego For inSITE2000 Brazilian artist Valeska Soares was drawn to work directly with the border fence that divides the US and Mexico. Soares wanted specifically to find a way for people on either side of the border to be able to come together around a common theme or event and in some way create an exchange, or the illusion of an exchange, across the fence. Her initial proposal was for a garden project that would require a reconfiguration of the fence, yet it proved to be impossible to obtain permission to realize this idea. Soares changed her proposal but remained faithful to her concept of creating an opening in the fence. With Picturing Paradise the artist installed two highly polished large sheets of steel directly onto a section of chain-link fence at Playas de Tijuana, back to back, and as it were, creating the illusion of an opening in the fence, except what was seen was a reflection. Each mirrored surface was inscribed with an excerpt from Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino, a text that speaks of two mirror cities and what describes their shared reality. --inSITE2000 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 310, Folder 06, Item 365) Tijuana River National Estuarine Research Reserve (Calif.) Tijuana, Playas de, Baja California Norte, Mexico [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Political Art Boundaries Border Art Public Art Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Fences Reflections (Perceived Properties) Installations (Visual Works) Insite2000contributor Calisphere -
Bird'S Eye View
title Bird'S Eye Viewdescription Eugenia Vargas, born in Chile and currently residing in Mexico City, works in the areas of Photography, performance and installation art. Her work deals with the politically charged issues of the border and the effects of pollution on the environment. In her installations, Vargas physically engages the earth and its elements in ritualistic ways - for example, by covering herself or a space with mud, straw, palm fronds or water. Vargas' project for inSITE94 will read as a large filter extending down from the ceiling of the Depot's concourse, using materials derived from the site. -- inSITE94 Santa Fe Depot (San Diego, Calif.) Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 311, Folder 01, Item 390) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Political Art Sculpture (Visual Work) Insite94 Filters And Filtration Installations (Visual Works) Border Artcontributor Calisphere -
From Cotton To Coal… The Last Train
title From Cotton To Coal… The Last Traindescription Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects and Interior Design San Francisco artist Mildred Howard sited her inSITE94 project in the baggage building of the Santa Fe Depot. Her installation consisted of two components, "Abode: Sanctuary for the Familia(r)/Hogar: el santuario para lo familia(r)" and "From Cotton to Coal ... the Last Train/Del algodón al carbón ... El último tren." As a continuation of her exploration of architectural forms and everyday materials that poetically call forth issues of cultural identity and memory, Howard chose to reinstall "Abode," first created for the San Jose Museum of Art. "Abode" and "From Cotton to Coal" reference Howard's own cultural history as an African-American woman --inSITE94 Santa Fe Depot (San Diego, Calif.) Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 309, Folder 06, Item 156) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Howard, Mildredsubject African Americans Political Art San Diego (Calif.) Sculpture (Visual Work) History Feminism Mexican-American Border Region Insite94 Installations (Visual Works) Border Art Laborcontributor Calisphere -
23 September 1994: General View
title 23 September 1994: General Viewdescription Estación del Ferrocarril, Colonia Libertad, Baja California Norte, Mexico Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 04, Item 311) Titled "23 September 1994" after the opening date of the entire inSITE94 exhibition, Ulf Rollof's installation consisted of a circular railroad situated at the defunct border rail-crossing site in Colonia Libertad in Tijuana. Just yards from the border fence, one could take a ride on this circular track where a single wagon with five fir trees planted in empty oil drums went around in endless circles to a dizzying effect. However, rather than being transported around on the track itself there was just a single seat at the hub of the circle and the view from the seat was directed straight at the fir trees, so that although movement occurred the outlook one had remained the same. -- inSITE94 [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Political Art Humor Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Irony Machinery Mexican-American Border Region Railroad Stations Insite94 Installations (Visual Works) Border Art Perspectivecontributor Calisphere -
The Other Side
title The Other Sidedescription ReinCarnation Project San Diego (Calif.) Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 01, Item 196) Using a room with a large wall of windows at the ReinCarnation Project in downtown San Diego, David Lamelas constructed "The Other Side/El otro lado." Dividing the room in half with a fifth wall, Lamelas plunged one side of the room into total darkness, while leaving the second half full of natural light from the window. Lamelas then cut a small hole in the fifth wall at eye level, allowing a single shaft of light to beam through into the darkness. Viewers could approach the room from either side of the fifth wall and peer into the dark or light side of the space. Positing the division of resources and rights between powers, Lamelas created his own border zone of privileged and unprivileged spaces. --inSITE97 [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Political Art Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Light (Energy) Insite97 Installations (Visual Works) Border Artcontributor Calisphere -
International Waters: Detail Of Pipe From Mexican Side Of The Border Fence
title International Waters: Detail Of 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. --KB Garden and Landscape Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 309, Folder 06, Item 149) Tijuana, Playas de, Baja California Norte, Mexico [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Hock, 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 -
Alien Toy Uco (Unidentified Crusing Object)
title Alien Toy Uco (Unidentified Crusing Object)description Barrio Logan (San Diego, Calif.) Film, Audio, Video and Digital Art For inSITE97 Rubén Ortiz Torres collaborated with Salvador "Chava" Munoz to construct "Alien Toy UCO (Unidentified Cruising Object)/La ranfla cosmica ORNI (Objeto rodante no identificado)," a lowrider car that was converted into a dancing hydraulics wonder in the form of a Border Patrol vehicle. Chava, a world champion in radical bed dancing, reworked each section of the car to move and spin on its own set of hydraulics and arms. Ortiz Torres produced a film with alien imagery and clips of the car in action to accompany the installation. Ortiz Torres stated that the car was a product of cultural migration and exchange, a visual manifestation of the cultural hybridization in Southern California. --inSITE97 Http://www.track16.com/exhibitions/ruben/ruben.html Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 03, Item 257) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Ortiz Torres, Rubénsubject Popular Culture Unidentified Flying Objects Automobiles Political Art Humor Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Performance Art Insite97 Installations (Visual Works) Border Art Video Artcontributor Calisphere -
Esl: Tonguetied
title Esl: Tonguetieddescription Boehm Gallery, Palomar College Drawings and Watercolors Graphic Design and Illustration Paintings Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) The Border Art Workshop/Taller de Arte Fronterizo's project, "ESL: tonguetied/lenguatrabada," dealt with the subject of cultural identity and the difficulties encountered in learning a language other than one's mother tongue. The project specifically referenced the impact of the recently adapted Proposition 187, a 1994 California ballot initiative designed to limit social services, health care, and public education for undocumented workers. At the same time, the project provided a space for responding to the implications of differentiating between "legal" and "illegal" immigrants. The installation consisted of a mock classroom with written questions on all surfaces and blackboard walls where viewers were invited to express their thoughts on the issues. -- inSITE94 This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 309, Folder 02, Item 038) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Unknownsubject Language Identity (Philosophical Concept) Political Art Education Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Classrooms Insite94 Undocumented Immigrants Immigrants Installations (Visual Works) Border Art Prejudicescontributor Calisphere -
Dirty Water Initiative: Water Purifiers Installed In Tijuana Community
title Dirty Water Initiative: Water Purifiers Installed In Tijuana Communitydescription Architecture and City Planning Science, Technology and Industry Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) The U.S. art collective SIMPARCH began their investigative process by working with one of Tijuana's informal communties in collaboration with the Fundación Esperanza. They became especially interested in the threme of water, in particular the idea of purifying water using solar-based water distillation. The project, entitled "Dirty Water Initiative," has two phases: the first stage is to construct and install a small purification plant as a "public fountain" sited in the pedestrian walkway from San Ysidro to Tijuana at the U.S./Mexico port of entry; the second stage involves the donation of the distillation facility to an informal community in Tijuana. The deployment of these solar distillers, sealed in glass, more than an aesthetic effect at the urban scale, seeks to stimulate reflection about the problem of water, and the importance of researching ecological solutions that could achieve a direct impact at the community level within poor, informal settlements. --inSite_05 This image was extracted from a DVD-R from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 197, DVD 01) Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Unknownsubject Water--Purification Political Art Boundaries Health Education Public Art Sculpture (Visual Work) Insite_05 Mexican-American Border Region Poverty Technology Water Treatment Plants Installations (Visual Works) Border Art Fountainscontributor Calisphere -
La Esquina/ Jardines De Playas De Tijuana: View Of Plaza And Lighthouse
title La Esquina/ Jardines De Playas De Tijuana: View Of Plaza And Lighthousedescription "La esquina/ Jardines de Playas de Tijuana" is an urban renewal initiative involving the stretch of land bordered by the Pacific Ocean, the Mexico/US international border fence, the Tijuana bullring, and the Playas Tijuana tourist corridor. This piece focuses on recovering a specific site's significance as a recreational space and as an area of ecological importance. This is the only permanent project commissioned by inSite. --inSite_05 Architecture and City Planning Garden and Landscape Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image was extracted from a DVD-R from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 186, DVD 01) Tijuana, Playas de, Baja California Norte, Mexico [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Landscape Architecture Political Art Pacific Ocean Boundaries Public Art Insite_05 Architecture (Object Genre) Mexican-American Border Region Fences Parks Lighthouses Public Spaces Urban Renewal Urban Planning Border Art Gardenscontributor Calisphere -
Osmosis And Excess: Film Still Depicting The Interior Of A Drug Store With Pharmacists
title Osmosis And Excess: Film Still Depicting The Interior Of A Drug Store With Pharmacistsdescription Aernout Mik has created a video entitled "Osmosis and Excess" that interweaves images of junkyards in Tijuana's urban periphery with fictional scenes depicting a local pharmacy inundated with mud. Used cars flow from the United States to Mexico where they are eventually broken down and discarded on Tijuana's barren hillsides. Moving in the other direction, cheap drugs flow from Tijuana into the United States. The abandoned cars and the medications represent different manifestations of excess. Both modify a landscape: one inner, the other outer. The film was shot on high-definition video in a panoramic format to best illustrate the depicted landscapes. The video was projected as an intervention in a public parking lot in downtown San Diego. Architecture and City Planning 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 film still was extracted from a DVD-R from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 193, DVD 01) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Mik, Aernoutsubject Drugs Political Art Pharmacists Insite_05 Film Stills Mexican-American Border Region Drugstores Border Art Information Signs Video Artcontributor Calisphere -
Heroes Of War: Veterans Museum Interior With Flags
title Heroes Of War: Veterans Museum Interior With Flagsdescription "Heroes of War," by Gonzalo Lebrija, is a video installation projected in the auditorium of the San Diego Veterans Museum in Balboa Park. Over a year before, Lebrija began working with veterans at the Veterans Home of California in Chula Vista. Gonzalo's goal was to intervene in the museum space, creating a curatorial discourse that approximates a creative group experience. Gonzalo participated in a number of reunions of former prisoners of war, or POWs. These experiences led him to explore the notion of military paraphernalia and veterans' narratives. Gonzalo filmed a number of individuals while they discussed the public recognition accorded to them and their actions as servicemen in times of war. --inSite_05 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 was extracted from a DVD-R from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 188, DVD 01) Veterans Museum, Balboa Park (San Diego, Calif.) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Lebrija, Gonzalo, 1972-subject Political Art Veterans Public Art Insite_05 Mexican-American Border Region Prisoners Of War Soldiers Memorials Military Museums Installations (Visual Works) Flags Video Artcontributor Calisphere -
Picturing Paradise: Close-Up Of Text On Reflective Surface At Border Fence
title Picturing Paradise: Close-Up Of Text On Reflective Surface At Border Fencedescription Border Field State Park, San Diego For inSITE2000 Brazilian artist Valeska Soares was drawn to work directly with the border fence that divides the US and Mexico. Soares wanted specifically to find a way for people on either side of the border to be able to come together around a common theme or event and in some way create an exchange, or the illusion of an exchange, across the fence. Her initial proposal was for a garden project that would require a reconfiguration of the fence, yet it proved to be impossible to obtain permission to realize this idea. Soares changed her proposal but remained faithful to her concept of creating an opening in the fence. With Picturing Paradise the artist installed two highly polished large sheets of steel directly onto a section of chain-link fence at Playas de Tijuana, back to back, and as it were, creating the illusion of an opening in the fence, except what was seen was a reflection. Each mirrored surface was inscribed with an excerpt from Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino, a text that speaks of two mirror cities and what describes their shared reality. --inSITE2000 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 310, Folder 06, Item 366) Tijuana River National Estuarine Research Reserve (Calif.) Tijuana, Playas de, Baja California Norte, Mexico [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Political Art Boundaries Border Art Public Art Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Fences Reflections (Perceived Properties) Installations (Visual Works) Insite2000contributor Calisphere -
Bird'S Eye View
title Bird'S Eye Viewdescription Eugenia Vargas, born in Chile and currently residing in Mexico City, works in the areas of Photography, performance and installation art. Her work deals with the politically charged issues of the border and the effects of pollution on the environment. In her installations, Vargas physically engages the earth and its elements in ritualistic ways - for example, by covering herself or a space with mud, straw, palm fronds or water. Vargas' project for inSITE94 will read as a large filter extending down from the ceiling of the Santa Fe Depot's concourse, using materials derived from the site. -- inSITE94 Santa Fe Depot (San Diego, Calif.) Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 311, Folder 01, Item 391) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Vargas, Eugeniasubject Political Art Sculpture (Visual Work) Insite94 Filters And Filtration Installations (Visual Works) Border Artcontributor Calisphere -
Abode: Sanctuary For The Familia(R)
title Abode: Sanctuary For The Familia(R)description San Francisco artist Mildred Howard sited her inSITE94 project in the baggage building of the Santa Fe Depot. Her installation consisted of two components, "Abode: Sanctuary for the Familia(r)/Hogar: el santuario para lo familia(r)" and "From Cotton to Coal ... the Last Train/Del algodón al carbón ... El último tren." As a continuation of her exploration of architectural forms and everyday materials that poetically call forth issues of cultural identity and memory, Howard chose to reinstall "Abode," first created for the San Jose Museum of Art. "Abode" and "From Cotton to Coal" reference Howard's own cultural history as an African-American woman --inSITE94 San Jose Museum of Art Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 309, Folder 06, Item 150) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Houses Political Art Color Sculpture (Visual Work) History Feminism Insite94 Blue (Color) Installations (Visual Works) African Americanscontributor Calisphere -
Alien Toy Uco (Unidentified Crusing Object)
title Alien Toy Uco (Unidentified Crusing Object)description Barrio Logan (San Diego, Calif.) Film, Audio, Video and Digital Art For inSITE97 Rubén Ortiz Torres collaborated with Salvador "Chava" Munoz to construct "Alien Toy UCO (Unidentified Cruising Object)/La ranfla cosmica ORNI (Objeto rodante no identificado)," a lowrider car that was converted into a dancing hydraulics wonder in the form of a Border Patrol vehicle. Chava, a world champion in radical bed dancing, reworked each section of the car to move and spin on its own set of hydraulics and arms. Ortiz Torres produced a film with alien imagery and clips of the car in action to accompany the installation. Ortiz Torres stated that the car was a product of cultural migration and exchange, a visual manifestation of the cultural hybridization in Southern California. --inSITE97 Http://www.track16.com/exhibitions/ruben/ruben.html Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 03, Item 258) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Popular Culture Unidentified Flying Objects Automobiles Political Art Humor Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Performance Art Insite97 Installations (Visual Works) Border Art Video Artcontributor Calisphere -
Century 21: House With Tire Fence And Clothes Line
title Century 21: House With Tire Fence And Clothes Linedescription Architecture and City Planning Centro Cultural Tijuana Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects and Interior Design Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 04, Item 283) With "Century 21" Tijuana artist Marcos Ramirez ERRE created a piece for inSITE94 that captured significant public attention. Located prominently on the plaza of the Centro Cultural Tijuana, Ramirez replicated a common Tijuana shanty house and thereby placed the issue of socio-economic disparity where it would be difficult to avoid. The artist drew a sharp contrast to that of the modern façade of the CECUT and this apparent tension was further underscored when one ventured inside the building to find the trappings of common Mexican life. The installation included documentary photographs of five similar shanty homes. The artist stated that with this work he wanted to point to one of the sore spots of Mexican society and also posit that while some people may live in poverty they live equally with dignity and pride as members of the same society. --inSITE94 [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Dwellings Satire Shacks Real Property Temporary Housing Housing (Concept) Political Art Public Art Insite94 Squatters Settlements Homelessness Humor Mexican-American Border Region Poverty Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) Sculpture (Visual Work) Architecture (Object Genre) Installations (Visual Works) Border Artcontributor Calisphere -
Dirty Water Initiative: Water Purifier Installed In Tijuana Community
title Dirty Water Initiative: Water Purifier Installed In Tijuana Communitydescription Architecture and City Planning Science, Technology and Industry Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) The U.S. art collective SIMPARCH began their investigative process by working with one of Tijuana's informal communties in collaboration with the Fundación Esperanza. They became especially interested in the threme of water, in particular the idea of purifying water using solar-based water distillation. The project, entitled "Dirty Water Initiative," has two phases: the first stage is to construct and install a small purification plant as a "public fountain" sited in the pedestrian walkway from San Ysidro to Tijuana at the U.S./Mexico port of entry; the second stage involves the donation of the distillation facility to an informal community in Tijuana. The deployment of these solar distillers, sealed in glass, more than an aesthetic effect at the urban scale, seeks to stimulate reflection about the problem of water, and the importance of researching ecological solutions that could achieve a direct impact at the community level within poor, informal settlements. --inSite_05 This image was extracted from a DVD-R from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 197, DVD 01) Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Unknownsubject Water--Purification Political Art Boundaries Health Education Public Art Sculpture (Visual Work) Insite_05 Mexican-American Border Region Poverty Technology Water Treatment Plants Installations (Visual Works) Border Art Fountainscontributor Calisphere -
The Middle Of The Road
title The Middle Of The Roaddescription After her initial residency in the region, Mexico City artist Silvia Gruner was drawn to working directly on the border fence. She chose a stretch of the fence running along the residential neighborhood of Colonia Libertad in Tijuana. Entitled "The Middle of the Road/La mitad del camino," the installation consisted of more than 100 replicas of the Aztec goddess Tlazolteotl in a birthing position on metal stools, mounted directly onto the border fence. The goddess suggests fertility, a point of passage - an entering through the ritual of birth where life is being recycled or regenerated. Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 309, Folder 05, Item 136) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Gruner, Sylviasubject Childbirth Walls Goddesses Political Art Boundaries Stools Public Art Sculpture (Visual Work) Feminism Mexican-American Border Region Fertility Tlazolteotl (Aztec Deity) Insite94 Fences Installations (Visual Works) Border Artcontributor Calisphere -
Blind/Hide: View From Inside Of Blind/Hide Looking Out To The Tijuana River Estuary Preserve
title Blind/Hide: View From Inside Of Blind/Hide Looking Out To The Tijuana River Estuary Preservedescription Architecture and City Planning 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 100) Tijuana River Estuary (Calif.) Tijuana Slough National Wildlife Refuge (Calif.) With the creation of a functioning bird blind located in the Tijuana River Estuary Reserve, Mark Dion's project "Blind/Hide" for inSITE2000 invited investigation and closer examination not only of the biodiversity of the site but also of the less apparent signs of cultural confluence specific to the location. Camouflaged to blend into the surrounding terrain the project was sited within a view of the border. The 8 x 16 foot bird blind structure housed photographs, charts, and books on the 370 bird species found at the reserve, along with binoculars and related research tools. As Dion himself said, he wanted to make a project that illustrated the complicated elements of this particular locale. The viewer was invited to become an observer of the more subtle environmental and political issues impacting the reserve, while bearing witness to how birds and wildlife have learned to conform and adapt. --inSITE2000 [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Blinds (Shelters) Political Art Natural History Environmental Protection Ecological Art Education Nature Centers Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Architecture (Object Genre) Landscapes (Environments) Bird Watching Insite2000 Birds Nature Installations (Visual Works) Border Artcontributor Calisphere -
Maleteros: The Artist With A Porter
title Maleteros: The Artist With A Porterdescription Architecture and City Planning Mark Bradford's project involves an intervention into the pre-existing labor dynamic of porters (maleteros) who work along the narrow border strip linking Tijuana and San Diego. "Maleteros" aims to facilitate, and make visible, porter services that for over two decades have been offered informally, or at least without formal recognition, between various access points at the San Ysidro border crossing. San Ysidro, San Diego, California, United States Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image was extracted from a DVD-R from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 182, DVD 01) Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Bradford, Marksubject Political Art Collaboration Porters Portraits Border Art Workers Public Art Insite_05 Economics Labor Mexican-American Border Region Bradford, Mark (American Installation And Conceptual Artist, Contemporary) Information Signscontributor Calisphere -
Maleteros: View Of Shopping Carts In The Workshop
title Maleteros: View Of Shopping Carts In The Workshopdescription Architecture and City Planning Mark Bradford's project involves an intervention into the pre-existing labor dynamic of porters (maleteros) who work along the narrow border strip linking Tijuana and San Diego. "Maleteros" aims to facilitate, and make visible, porter services that for over two decades have been offered informally, or at least without formal recognition, between various access points at the San Ysidro border crossing. San Ysidro, San Diego, California, United States Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image was extracted from a DVD-R from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 182, DVD 01) Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Bradford, Marksubject Political Art Collaboration Porters Workers Public Art Insite_05 Economics Labor Mexican-American Border Region Maps Border Art Information Signscontributor Calisphere -
Heroes Of War: Lightboxes Representing Ribbons, Awards And Decorations
title Heroes Of War: Lightboxes Representing Ribbons, Awards And Decorationsdescription "Heroes of War," by Gonzalo Lebrija, is a video installation projected in the auditorium of the San Diego Veterans Museum in Balboa Park. Over a year before, Lebrija began working with veterans at the Veterans Home of California in Chula Vista. Gonzalo's goal was to intervene in the museum space, creating a curatorial discourse that approximates a creative group experience. Gonzalo participated in a number of reunions of former prisoners of war, or POWs. These experiences led him to explore the notion of military paraphernalia and veterans' narratives. Gonzalo filmed a number of individuals while they discussed the public recognition accorded to them and their actions as servicemen in times of war. --inSite_05 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 was extracted from a DVD-R from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 188, DVD 01) Veterans Museum, Balboa Park (San Diego, Calif.) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Lebrija, Gonzalo, 1972-subject Military Decorations Political Art Color Veterans Public Art Mexican-American Border Region Insite_05 Prisoners Of War Soldiers Memorials Military Museums Installations (Visual Works) Video Artcontributor Calisphere -
Osmosis And Excess: Film Still Depicting Tijuana Hillside Covered In Junk Cars
title Osmosis And Excess: Film Still Depicting Tijuana Hillside Covered In Junk Carsdescription Aernout Mik has created a video entitled "Osmosis and Excess" that interweaves images of junkyards in Tijuana's urban periphery with fictional scenes depicting a local pharmacy inundated with mud. Used cars flow from the United States to Mexico where they are eventually broken down and discarded on Tijuana's barren hillsides. Moving in the other direction, cheap drugs flow from Tijuana into the United States. The abandoned cars and the medications represent different manifestations of excess. Both modify a landscape: one inner, the other outer. The film was shot on high-definition video in a panoramic format to best illustrate the depicted landscapes. The video was projected as an intervention in a public parking lot in downtown San Diego. Architecture and City Planning 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 film still was extracted from a DVD-R from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 193, DVD 01) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Mik, Aernoutsubject Landscapes (Representations) Panoramas Junkyards Automobiles Political Art Insite_05 Film Stills Mexican-American Border Region Refuse Disposal Recycling Border Art Mountains Video Artcontributor Calisphere -
One Flew Over The Void (Bala Perdida): Human Cannonball David Smith Mid-Flight As He Is Shot From A Cannon And Across Border Fence
title One Flew Over The Void (Bala Perdida): Human Cannonball David Smith Mid-Flight As He Is Shot From A Cannon And Across Border Fencedescription Building on a collaborative process that is evident throughout his artistic practice, Javier Téllez's project "One Flew Over the Void (Bala perdida)" involved a sustained engagement with psychiatric patients from the Baja California Mental Health Center in Mexicali to co-create a public event and to document its evolution and final performance. Inspired by the traditional "human cannonball" circus performer, Téllez explored the notion of spatial and mental borders in the context of Tijuana and San Diego, and developed an event that involves sending a "human cannonball" across the border between Mexico and the United States. Through successive creative workshops and exchanges the world's most famous human cannonball, Dave Smith, the psychiatric patients and Téllez collectively devised the backdrop, music, costumes, and radio and television announcements for the event. The performance occurred on August 27 at the site where the Mexico/US border fence disappears into the sea between Playas de Tijuana and Border Field State Park. Finally, Téllez created a video documenting the process and the event. --inSite_05 Imperial Beach, San Diego, California, United States Performing Arts (including Performance Art) Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image was extracted from a DVD-R from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 198, DVD 01) Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) Tijuana, Playas de, Baja California Norte, Mexico [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Téllez, Javiersubject Political Art Spectacular, The Flight Humor Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Public Art Cannons (Artillery) Insite_05 Audiences Mexican-American Border Region Performance Art Fences Daredevils Adventure And Adventurers Caricatures Installations (Visual Works) Border Artcontributor Calisphere -
The Good Rumor Project: Video Documentation
title The Good Rumor Project: Video Documentationdescription "The Good Rumor Project" appropriates and replicates the model of a social experiment. In seeking to invert the more common negative effects of rumor Wrange and his collaborators constructed two "good" rumors: one about people in Tijuana that was spread in San Diego and one about people in San Diego that was spread in Tijuana. In contrast to normal rumors, the "good" rumors were created in dialogue with the actual subjects of the rumors through a series of focus groups. The "good" rumors were disseminated through a multifaceted strategy that combines some of the most advanced marketing techniques - viral/ word of mouth marketing - with structures borrowed from rumor theory as well as recent research on small-world networks and social network analysis. By tracing the organization of the interdependent communication channels in the border zone, as well as the spatial and temporal development of the "good" rumor, Wrange/ OMBUD reveal how Society is predicated on an ever evolving communicative process. --inSite_05 Performing Arts (including Performance Art) Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This video file was extracted from a DVD-R from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 257, DVD 05-60) Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Wrange, Måns, 1961-subject Rumor Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) Political Art Humor Boundaries San Diego (Calif.) Public Art Sculpture (Visual Work) Insite_05 Mexican-American Border Region Performance Art Focus Groups Communication (Function) Installations (Visual Works) Border Art Information Signs Video Artcontributor Calisphere -
Picturing Paradise: Border Fence With Mirrored Surface
title Picturing Paradise: Border Fence With Mirrored Surfacedescription Border Field State Park, San Diego For inSITE2000 Brazilian artist Valeska Soares was drawn to work directly with the border fence that divides the US and Mexico. Soares wanted specifically to find a way for people on either side of the border to be able to come together around a common theme or event and in some way create an exchange, or the illusion of an exchange, across the fence. Her initial proposal was for a garden project that would require a reconfiguration of the fence, yet it proved to be impossible to obtain permission to realize this idea. Soares changed her proposal but remained faithful to her concept of creating an opening in the fence. With Picturing Paradise the artist installed two highly polished large sheets of steel directly onto a section of chain-link fence at Playas de Tijuana, back to back, and as it were, creating the illusion of an opening in the fence, except what was seen was a reflection. Each mirrored surface was inscribed with an excerpt from Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino, a text that speaks of two mirror cities and what describes their shared reality. --inSITE2000 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 310, Folder 06, Item 367) Tijuana River National Estuarine Research Reserve (Calif.) Tijuana, Playas de, Baja California Norte, Mexico [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Political Art Boundaries Border Art Public Art Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Fences Reflections (Perceived Properties) Installations (Visual Works) Insite2000contributor Calisphere -
23 September 1994: General View
title 23 September 1994: General Viewdescription Estación del Ferrocarril, Colonia Libertad, Baja California Norte, Mexico Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 04, Item 313) Titled "23 September 1994" after the opening date of the entire inSITE94 exhibition, Ulf Rollof's installation consisted of a circular railroad situated at the defunct border rail-crossing site in Colonia Libertad in Tijuana. Just yards from the border fence, one could take a ride on this circular track where a single wagon with five fir trees planted in empty oil drums went around in endless circles to a dizzying effect. However, rather than being transported around on the track itself there was just a single seat at the hub of the circle and the view from the seat was directed straight at the fir trees, so that although movement occurred the outlook one had remained the same. -- inSITE94 [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Rollof, Ulfsubject Political Art Humor Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Irony Machinery Mexican-American Border Region Railroad Stations Insite94 Installations (Visual Works) Border Art Perspectivecontributor Calisphere -
Awasinake (On The Other Side): Detail Of Photographs On Marquee
title Awasinake (On The Other Side): Detail Of Photographs On 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 043) [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 -
Century 21
title Century 21description Architecture and City Planning Centro Cultural Tijuana Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects and Interior Design Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 04, Item 284) With "Century 21" Tijuana artist Marcos Ramirez ERRE created a piece for inSITE94 that captured significant public attention. Located prominently on the plaza of the Centro Cultural Tijuana, Ramirez replicated a common Tijuana shanty house and thereby placed the issue of socio-economic disparity where it would be difficult to avoid. The artist drew a sharp contrast to that of the modern façade of the CECUT and this apparent tension was further underscored when one ventured inside the building to find the trappings of common Mexican life. The installation included documentary photographs of five similar shanty homes. The artist stated that with this work he wanted to point to one of the sore spots of Mexican society and also posit that while some people may live in poverty they live equally with dignity and pride as members of the same society. --inSITE94 [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Ramírez Erre, Marcossubject Dwellings Satire Shacks Real Property Temporary Housing Housing (Concept) Political Art Public Art Insite94 Squatters Settlements Replicas Information Signs Homelessness Humor Mexican-American Border Region Poverty Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) Sculpture (Visual Work) Architecture (Object Genre) Installations (Visual Works) Border Artcontributor Calisphere -
Dirty Water Initiative: Water Purifier Installed In Tijuana Community
title Dirty Water Initiative: Water Purifier Installed In Tijuana Communitydescription Architecture and City Planning Science, Technology and Industry Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) The U.S. art collective SIMPARCH began their investigative process by working with one of Tijuana's informal communties in collaboration with the Fundación Esperanza. They became especially interested in the threme of water, in particular the idea of purifying water using solar-based water distillation. The project, entitled "Dirty Water Initiative," has two phases: the first stage is to construct and install a small purification plant as a "public fountain" sited in the pedestrian walkway from San Ysidro to Tijuana at the U.S./Mexico port of entry; the second stage involves the donation of the distillation facility to an informal community in Tijuana. The deployment of these solar distillers, sealed in glass, more than an aesthetic effect at the urban scale, seeks to stimulate reflection about the problem of water, and the importance of researching ecological solutions that could achieve a direct impact at the community level within poor, informal settlements. --inSite_05 This image was extracted from a DVD-R from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 197, DVD 01) Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Unknownsubject Water--Purification Political Art Boundaries Health Education Public Art Sculpture (Visual Work) Insite_05 Mexican-American Border Region Poverty Technology Water Treatment Plants Installations (Visual Works) Border Art Fountainscontributor Calisphere -
Blind/Hide: General View Of Blind/Hide In The Tijuana River Estuary Preserve
title Blind/Hide: General View Of Blind/Hide In The Tijuana River Estuary Preservedescription Architecture and City Planning 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 101) Tijuana River Estuary (Calif.) Tijuana Slough National Wildlife Refuge (Calif.) With the creation of a functioning bird blind located in the Tijuana River Estuary Reserve, Mark Dion's project "Blind/Hide" for inSITE2000 invited investigation and closer examination not only of the biodiversity of the site but also of the less apparent signs of cultural confluence specific to the location. Camouflaged to blend into the surrounding terrain the project was sited within a view of the border. The 8 x 16 foot bird blind structure housed photographs, charts, and books on the 370 bird species found at the reserve, along with binoculars and related research tools. As Dion himself said, he wanted to make a project that illustrated the complicated elements of this particular locale. The viewer was invited to become an observer of the more subtle environmental and political issues impacting the reserve, while bearing witness to how birds and wildlife have learned to conform and adapt. --inSITE2000 [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Blinds (Shelters) Political Art Natural History Environmental Protection Boundaries Ecological Art Education Nature Centers Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Architecture (Object Genre) Landscapes (Environments) Bird Watching Insite2000 Birds Nature Installations (Visual Works) Border Artcontributor Calisphere -
Maleteros: Porters With Shopping Carts In Front Of Taxi Stand And Bus Station
title Maleteros: Porters With Shopping Carts In Front Of Taxi Stand And Bus Stationdescription Architecture and City Planning Mark Bradford's project involves an intervention into the pre-existing labor dynamic of porters (maleteros) who work along the narrow border strip linking Tijuana and San Diego. "Maleteros" aims to facilitate, and make visible, porter services that for over two decades have been offered informally, or at least without formal recognition, between various access points at the San Ysidro border crossing. San Ysidro, San Diego, California, United States Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image was extracted from a DVD-R from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 182, DVD 01) Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Bradford, Marksubject Political Art Collaboration Porters Workers Public Art Insite_05 Economics Labor Border Art Information Signscontributor Calisphere -
The Middle Of The Road: Detail Of The Aztec Goddess Tlazolteotl Against Border Fence
title The Middle Of The Road: Detail Of The Aztec Goddess Tlazolteotl Against Border Fencedescription After her initial residency in the region, Mexico City artist Silvia Gruner was drawn to working directly on the border fence. She chose a stretch of the fence running along the residential neighborhood of Colonia Libertad in Tijuana. Entitled "The Middle of the Road/La mitad del camino," the installation consisted of more than 100 replicas of the Aztec goddess Tlazolteotl in a birthing position on metal stools, mounted directly onto the border fence. The goddess suggests fertility, a point of passage - an entering through the ritual of birth where life is being recycled or regenerated. 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 05, Item 137) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Gruner, Sylviasubject Childbirth Walls Goddesses Political Art Boundaries Stools Public Art Sculpture (Visual Work) Feminism Mexican-American Border Region Fertility Tlazolteotl (Aztec Deity) Insite94 Fences Installations (Visual Works) Border Artcontributor Calisphere -
Heroes Of War: Film Still From Interview With Conrad Hoffner
title Heroes Of War: Film Still From Interview With Conrad Hoffnerdescription "Heroes of War," by Gonzalo Lebrija, is a video installation projected in the auditorium of the San Diego Veterans Museum in Balboa Park. Over a year before, Lebrija began working with veterans at the Veterans Home of California in Chula Vista. Gonzalo's goal was to intervene in the museum space, creating a curatorial discourse that approximates a creative group experience. Gonzalo participated in a number of reunions of former prisoners of war, or POWs. These experiences led him to explore the notion of military paraphernalia and veterans' narratives. Gonzalo filmed a number of individuals while they discussed the public recognition accorded to them and their actions as servicemen in times of war. --inSite_05 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 film still was extracted from a DVD-R from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 188, DVD 01) Veterans Museum, Balboa Park (San Diego, Calif.) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Lebrija, Gonzalo, 1972-subject Political Art Veterans Video Art Portraits Interviews Insite_05 Mexican-American Border Region Prisoners Of War Soldiers Memorials Military Museums Installations (Visual Works) Facecontributor Calisphere -
One Flew Over The Void (Bala Perdida): Human Cannonball David Smith Ascends From Cannon And Across Border Fence
title One Flew Over The Void (Bala Perdida): Human Cannonball David Smith Ascends From Cannon And Across Border Fencedescription Building on a collaborative process that is evident throughout his artistic practice, Javier Téllez's project "One Flew Over the Void (Bala perdida)" involved a sustained engagement with psychiatric patients from the Baja California Mental Health Center in Mexicali to co-create a public event and to document its evolution and final performance. Inspired by the traditional "human cannonball" circus performer, Téllez explored the notion of spatial and mental borders in the context of Tijuana and San Diego, and developed an event that involves sending a "human cannonball" across the border between Mexico and the United States. Through successive creative workshops and exchanges the world's most famous human cannonball, Dave Smith, the psychiatric patients and Téllez collectively devised the backdrop, music, costumes, and radio and television announcements for the event. The performance occurred on August 27 at the site where the Mexico/US border fence disappears into the sea between Playas de Tijuana and Border Field State Park. Finally, Téllez created a video documenting the process and the event. --inSite_05 Imperial Beach, San Diego, California, United States Performing Arts (including Performance Art) Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image was extracted from a DVD-R from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 198, DVD 01) Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) Tijuana, Playas de, Baja California Norte, Mexico [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Téllez, Javiersubject Political Art Spectacular, The Flight Humor Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Public Art Cannons (Artillery) Insite_05 Audiences Mexican-American Border Region Performance Art Fences Daredevils Adventure And Adventurers Caricatures Installations (Visual Works) Border Artcontributor Calisphere -
Heroes Of War: Lightboxes Representing Ribbons, Awards And Decorations
title Heroes Of War: Lightboxes Representing Ribbons, Awards And Decorationsdescription "Heroes of War," by Gonzalo Lebrija, is a video installation projected in the auditorium of the San Diego Veterans Museum in Balboa Park. Over a year before, Lebrija began working with veterans at the Veterans Home of California in Chula Vista. Gonzalo's goal was to intervene in the museum space, creating a curatorial discourse that approximates a creative group experience. Gonzalo participated in a number of reunions of former prisoners of war, or POWs. These experiences led him to explore the notion of military paraphernalia and veterans' narratives. Gonzalo filmed a number of individuals while they discussed the public recognition accorded to them and their actions as servicemen in times of war. --inSite_05 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 was extracted from a DVD-R from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 188, DVD 01) Veterans Museum, Balboa Park (San Diego, Calif.) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Lebrija, Gonzalo, 1972-subject Military Decorations Political Art Color Veterans Public Art Mexican-American Border Region Insite_05 Prisoners Of War Soldiers Memorials Military Museums Installations (Visual Works) Video Artcontributor Calisphere -
Dirty Water Initiative: Water Purifiers Installed In Tijuana Community
title Dirty Water Initiative: Water Purifiers Installed In Tijuana Communitydescription Architecture and City Planning Science, Technology and Industry Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) The U.S. art collective SIMPARCH began their investigative process by working with one of Tijuana's informal communties in collaboration with the Fundación Esperanza. They became especially interested in the threme of water, in particular the idea of purifying water using solar-based water distillation. The project, entitled "Dirty Water Initiative," has two phases: the first stage is to construct and install a small purification plant as a "public fountain" sited in the pedestrian walkway from San Ysidro to Tijuana at the U.S./Mexico port of entry; the second stage involves the donation of the distillation facility to an informal community in Tijuana. The deployment of these solar distillers, sealed in glass, more than an aesthetic effect at the urban scale, seeks to stimulate reflection about the problem of water, and the importance of researching ecological solutions that could achieve a direct impact at the community level within poor, informal settlements. --inSite_05 This image was extracted from a DVD-R from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 197, DVD 01) Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Unknownsubject Water--Purification Political Art Boundaries Health Education Public Art Sculpture (Visual Work) Insite_05 Mexican-American Border Region Poverty Technology Water Treatment Plants Installations (Visual Works) Border Art Fountainscontributor Calisphere -
Picturing Paradise: Border Fence From U.S. Side With Mirrored Surfaces And Bullfight Stadium In The Background
title Picturing Paradise: Border Fence From U.S. Side With Mirrored Surfaces And Bullfight Stadium In The Backgrounddescription Border Field State Park, San Diego For inSITE2000 Brazilian artist Valeska Soares was drawn to work directly with the border fence that divides the US and Mexico. Soares wanted specifically to find a way for people on either side of the border to be able to come together around a common theme or event and in some way create an exchange, or the illusion of an exchange, across the fence. Her initial proposal was for a garden project that would require a reconfiguration of the fence, yet it proved to be impossible to obtain permission to realize this idea. Soares changed her proposal but remained faithful to her concept of creating an opening in the fence. With Picturing Paradise the artist installed two highly polished large sheets of steel directly onto a section of chain-link fence at Playas de Tijuana, back to back, and as it were, creating the illusion of an opening in the fence, except what was seen was a reflection. Each mirrored surface was inscribed with an excerpt from Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino, a text that speaks of two mirror cities and what describes their shared reality. --inSITE2000 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 310, Folder 06, Item 368) Tijuana River National Estuarine Research Reserve (Calif.) Tijuana, Playas de, Baja California Norte, Mexico [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Political Art Boundaries Border Art Public Art Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Fences Reflections (Perceived Properties) Installations (Visual Works) Insite2000 Stadiumscontributor Calisphere -
Awasinake (On The Other Side): Theatre Facade With Marquee Photographs At Dusk
title Awasinake (On The Other Side): Theatre Facade With Marquee Photographs At Duskdescription 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 044) [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 Evening Insite97 Marquees Renovation Installations (Visual Works) Border Artcontributor Calisphere -
Aerial Bridge - Video Documentation: Toy Helicopter Flying Over Yellow U.S. - Mexico Border Demarcation Line
title Aerial Bridge - Video Documentation: Toy Helicopter Flying Over Yellow U.S. - Mexico Border Demarcation Linedescription "Aerial Bridge," by Maurycy Gomulicki, brings together diverse members of model airplane clubs in San Diego and Tijuana through a creative process of personalizing model airplanes and co-creating a flying event at the border. In this piece the experience of personal fantasy that is expressed in the designing and building of model planes combines with the unique experience of forging relationships. Scheduled for September 24, 2005, the event was geld at the cemeted riverbed of the Tijuana River, at the point where the yellow border demarcation line painted down the center of the river channel is approximately level with the intersection of the Via Rápida and the border bridge. --inSite_05 Performing Arts (including Performance Art) Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This video file was extracted from a DVD-R from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 257, DVD 05-31) Tijuana River Tijuana River, California, United States [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Gomulicki, Maurycysubject Boundaries Hobbies San Diego (Calif.) Rockets (Aeronautics) Political Art Flight Insite_05 Performance Art Contests Rivers Lines (Artistic Concept) Aeronautics Humor Mexican-American Border Region Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) Play Model Airplane Racing Toys (Recreational Artifacts) Border Art Video Artcontributor Calisphere -
Century 21: Fence And Entrance To House
title Century 21: Fence And Entrance To Housedescription Architecture and City Planning Centro Cultural Tijuana Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects and Interior Design Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 04, Item 285) With "Century 21" Tijuana artist Marcos Ramirez ERRE created a piece for inSITE94 that captured significant public attention. Located prominently on the plaza of the Centro Cultural Tijuana, Ramirez replicated a common Tijuana shanty house and thereby placed the issue of socio-economic disparity where it would be difficult to avoid. The artist drew a sharp contrast to that of the modern façade of the CECUT and this apparent tension was further underscored when one ventured inside the building to find the trappings of common Mexican life. The installation included documentary photographs of five similar shanty homes. The artist stated that with this work he wanted to point to one of the sore spots of Mexican society and also posit that while some people may live in poverty they live equally with dignity and pride as members of the same society. --inSITE94 [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Ramírez Erre, Marcossubject Dwellings Satire Shacks Real Property Temporary Housing Housing (Concept) Political Art Public Art Insite94 Squatters Settlements Replicas Homelessness Humor Mexican-American Border Region Poverty Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) Sculpture (Visual Work) Architecture (Object Genre) Installations (Visual Works) Border Artcontributor Calisphere -
Infosite San Diego: Interior With Raised Pathway And Video Monitors
title Infosite San Diego: Interior With Raised Pathway And Video Monitorsdescription Architecture and City Planning Balboa Park (San Diego, Calif.) Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects and Interior Design Garden and Landscape San Diego (Calif.) Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) The "infoSites" are information centers, envisioned and designed as artist projects and conceived as ephemeral architecture for two specific locations in Tijuana and San Diego. These centers serve as places for visitors to engage in educational programs such as lectures and dialogues, as well as to peruse a variety of visual displays, archival documents, books, and multimedia (videos, music, computer based) that strive to allow audiences access to inSite_05 art projects and processes. The "infoSites" also serve as starting points for inSite_05 visitors: providing maps, pamphlets, and other materials which inform the public of dates and locations of specific inSite_05 events. --inSite_05 This image was extracted from a DVD-R from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 184, DVD 01) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Cruz, Teddysubject Political Art Education Public Art Information Centers (Facilities) Insite_05 Architecture (Object Genre) Mexican-American Border Region Information Temporary Structures (Building) Public Spaces Recycling Installations (Visual Works) Border Artcontributor Calisphere -
Blind/Hide: Interior View Of Blind/Hide
title Blind/Hide: Interior View Of Blind/Hidedescription Architecture and City Planning 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 102) Tijuana River Estuary (Calif.) Tijuana Slough National Wildlife Refuge (Calif.) With the creation of a functioning bird blind located in the Tijuana River Estuary Reserve, Mark Dion's project "Blind/Hide" for inSITE2000 invited investigation and closer examination not only of the biodiversity of the site but also of the less apparent signs of cultural confluence specific to the location. Camouflaged to blend into the surrounding terrain the project was sited within a view of the border. The 8 x 16 foot bird blind structure housed photographs, charts, and books on the 370 bird species found at the reserve, along with binoculars and related research tools. As Dion himself said, he wanted to make a project that illustrated the complicated elements of this particular locale. The viewer was invited to become an observer of the more subtle environmental and political issues impacting the reserve, while bearing witness to how birds and wildlife have learned to conform and adapt. --inSITE2000 [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Dion, Marksubject Blinds (Shelters) Boundaries Education Bird Watching Birds Political Art Environmental Protection Ecological Art Border Art Silhouettes Nature Natural History Mexican-American Border Region Landscapes (Environments) Blackboards Nature Centers Sculpture (Visual Work) Architecture (Object Genre) Installations (Visual Works) Insite2000contributor Calisphere -
Infosite San Diego: Exterior With Traffic Cones
title Infosite San Diego: Exterior With Traffic Conesdescription Architecture and City Planning Balboa Park (San Diego, Calif.) Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects and Interior Design Garden and Landscape San Diego (Calif.) Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) The "infoSites" are information centers, envisioned and designed as artist projects and conceived as ephemeral architecture for two specific locations in Tijuana and San Diego. These centers serve as places for visitors to engage in educational programs such as lectures and dialogues, as well as to peruse a variety of visual displays, archival documents, books, and multimedia (videos, music, computer based) that strive to allow audiences access to inSite_05 art projects and processes. The "infoSites" also serve as starting points for inSite_05 visitors: providing maps, pamphlets, and other materials which inform the public of dates and locations of specific inSite_05 events. --inSite_05 This image was extracted from a DVD-R from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 184, DVD 01) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Cruz, Teddysubject Parking Lots Political Art Color Education Public Art Information Centers (Facilities) Insite_05 Architecture (Object Genre) Mexican-American Border Region Information Temporary Structures (Building) Public Spaces Recycling Portable Installations (Visual Works) Border Artcontributor Calisphere -
Heroes Of War: Lightboxes Representing Ribbons, Awards And Decorations
title Heroes Of War: Lightboxes Representing Ribbons, Awards And Decorationsdescription "Heroes of War," by Gonzalo Lebrija, is a video installation projected in the auditorium of the San Diego Veterans Museum in Balboa Park. Over a year before, Lebrija began working with veterans at the Veterans Home of California in Chula Vista. Gonzalo's goal was to intervene in the museum space, creating a curatorial discourse that approximates a creative group experience. Gonzalo participated in a number of reunions of former prisoners of war, or POWs. These experiences led him to explore the notion of military paraphernalia and veterans' narratives. Gonzalo filmed a number of individuals while they discussed the public recognition accorded to them and their actions as servicemen in times of war. --inSite_05 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 was extracted from a DVD-R from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 188, DVD 01) Veterans Museum, Balboa Park (San Diego, Calif.) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Lebrija, Gonzalo, 1972-subject Military Decorations Political Art Color Veterans Public Art Mexican-American Border Region Insite_05 Prisoners Of War Soldiers Memorials Military Museums Installations (Visual Works) Video Artcontributor Calisphere -
Picturing Paradise: Border Fence With Mirrored Surfaces At Sunset
title Picturing Paradise: Border Fence With Mirrored Surfaces At Sunsetdescription Border Field State Park, San Diego and Playas de Tijuana, Tijuana, BC. For inSITE2000 Brazilian artist Valeska Soares was drawn to work directly with the border fence that divides the US and Mexico. Soares wanted specifically to find a way for people on either side of the border to be able to come together around a common theme or event and in some way create an exchange, or the illusion of an exchange, across the fence. Her initial proposal was for a garden project that would require a reconfiguration of the fence, yet it proved to be impossible to obtain permission to realize this idea. Soares changed her proposal but remained faithful to her concept of creating an opening in the fence. With Picturing Paradise the artist installed two highly polished large sheets of steel directly onto a section of chain-link fence at Playas de Tijuana, back to back, and as it were, creating the illusion of an opening in the fence, except what was seen was a reflection. Each mirrored surface was inscribed with an excerpt from Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino, a text that speaks of two mirror cities and what describes their shared reality. --inSITE2000 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 310, Folder 06, Item 369) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Political Art Boundaries Border Art Public Art Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Fences Suns (Stars) Reflections (Perceived Properties) Installations (Visual Works) Insite2000contributor Calisphere -
Century 21: Chest Of Drawers With Television
title Century 21: Chest Of Drawers With Televisiondescription Architecture and City Planning Centro Cultural Tijuana Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects and Interior Design Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 04, Item 286) With "Century 21" Tijuana artist Marcos Ramirez ERRE created a piece for inSITE94 that captured significant public attention. Located prominently on the plaza of the Centro Cultural Tijuana, Ramirez replicated a common Tijuana shanty house and thereby placed the issue of socio-economic disparity where it would be difficult to avoid. The artist drew a sharp contrast to that of the modern façade of the CECUT and this apparent tension was further underscored when one ventured inside the building to find the trappings of common Mexican life. The installation included documentary photographs of five similar shanty homes. The artist stated that with this work he wanted to point to one of the sore spots of Mexican society and also posit that while some people may live in poverty they live equally with dignity and pride as members of the same society. --inSITE94 [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Dwellings Satire Television Receivers Shacks Real Property Temporary Housing Housing (Concept) Political Art Public Art Insite94 Squatters Settlements Replicas Living Rooms Homelessness Humor Mexican-American Border Region Poverty Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) Sculpture (Visual Work) Architecture (Object Genre) Installations (Visual Works) Border Art Children--California--Los Angelescontributor Calisphere