inSite_05
Art Practices in the Public Domain
San Diego Tijuana
August 27 to November 13, 2005
www.insite05.org
Executive Directors:
Michael Krichman Carmen Cuenca. Artistic Director: Osvaldo Sánchez.
inSite is a network of contemporary art programs and commissioned projects that map the channels of permeability and blockage that characterize the liminal border zone of San Diego-Tijuana. inSite_05 is structured in four components Interventions, Scenarios, Conversations and Museum Exhibition that involve an unfolding process within a two-year timeframe. InSite_05 will have a concentrated phase of public presentation between August 27 and November 13, 2005.
Scenarios/ As one of the four components of inSite_05, Scenarios examines practices involved with the public domain that transcend urban spatial locations. Focusing on time-based considerations and the removal of the physical object as a support, these three projects deal with less established practices that are contemporary keys to the construction of the public sphere as a space of live discourse. Scenarios refers to processes that parody common models for labeling, consuming, distributing, exhibiting and storing cultural information. For the past few years, languages and formats ordinarily used to package and transmit information like the Internet, the spectacle and the index have allowed art to create new, more radical inscriptions of the public. Scenarios projects will take place during the public phase of inSite_05, August 27 – November 13, 2005.
Please consult our website for details. www.insite05.org
Mobile Archive Project/ Insight_Transborder Archive/ Curator: Ute Meta Bauer/ Adjunct curator: Elke Zobl/
What is an archive and how are the histories of archives determined? How are archives related to memory and the production of history and knowledge and their hegemonic power? What is archived by whom and for whom? Rather than a notion of the archive as an enclosed entity, the archive is understood here as an open and continuing process that includes the production of new material. The Insight_Transborder Archive will be operated as a mobile unit that will move between organizations, institutions, academic and non-academic archives, and university and public libraries. Furthermore, it will be connected to individual researchers and activists, as well as cultural and community centers and grassroots initiatives that focus on specific border issues in San Diego-Tijuana and the California-Baja California region. U.M. & E.Z
This project has been organized and produced in collaboration with the Goethe Institut Mexiko .
Live Visual and Sound Image Event/ Ellipsis/ Curator: Hans Fjellestad
There are as many worlds as there are images, and each visual and sound image is a passage between. It is this movement that defines the image over time and destabilizes notions of physical and institutional space. Improvisative processes are at the heart of this movement, where real-time analysis, intuition, instinct and action combine to construct an emergent public space.
In this context we approach technology not as a tool but as a constructed environment where the participants interact. Technology is considered additive in nature rather than subtractive or competitive. The medium is not simply the conduit for discourse, but has a discrete identity of its own; a personality that offers up some resistance and echoes organic systems that behave unpredictably, that kick and scream, and will not go gently under the artists control. In short: an environment that is alive. To create a more interesting and meaningful public space, it is useful to break away from these behaviors as much as is possible by aiming for a less passive stance on the part of all participants performer, audience, environment. A certain amount of unpredictability, or risk, must be programmed into the system so that improvisation is utilized, even necessary, for negotiating and maneuvering within it. H.F.
Artists: Iván Díaz Robledo (Tijuana, Mexico) Liisa Lounila (Finland) Damon Holzborn (San Diego, USA) Magaly Ponce (Chili-USA)
This event is generously sponsored by Fundación Televisa. Additional support is provided by Caliente.
Online Project/ Tijuana Calling/ Curator: Mark Tribe
Tijuana Calling* is an online curatorial project featuring five newly commissioned online art projects that address issues specific to the borderlands of Tijuana-San Diego, including migration and exchange, flows of capital and labor, surveillance and privacy, translation and cultural hybridity. These art projects will take the form of actions, events, performances and tactical interventions in public online spaces. As an extension of the inSite_05 web site, Tijuana Calling will document and link to these projects, but the projects themselves will happen elsewhere: in multiplayer online games, commerce sites, social network sites, wireless networks, and other online locations that form the virtual public domain of Tijuana-San Diego.
Although artists continue to work online in ever greater numbers, net art as a movement is now over. But to say that the net is just another medium along with video, painting, installation, etc. would be misleading. The net is both a medium and a platform, a set of tools for art-making and a distribution channel for reaching people. The net can still enable artists to reach a global audience without the assistance of art world institutions. Equally important, it can enable artists to reach audiences that never set foot in a gallery, museum or performance space. M.T. (* title from Tijuana for Dummies by Hiperboreal)
Artists: Luis Hernández-Anne-Marie Schleiner (Mexico-USA) Fran Ilich (Tijuana, Mexico) Angel Nevarez (Mexico) Ricardo Domínguez-Coco Fusco (USA) Ricardo Miranda Zuñiga (USA)
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Collaborating Institutions: Athenaeum Music & Arts Library Centro Cultural de la Raza Centro Cultural Tijuana Colegio de la Frontera Norte Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes Consulado General de México en San Diego Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes Goethe Institut Mexiko Instituto de Cultura de Baja California Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes San Diego Museum of Art San Diego State University, University Art Gallery Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Universidad Iberoamericana Tijuana Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México University of California, San Diego, The Stuart Collection University of California, San Diego, Department of Visual Arts United States Embassy, Mexico City The Veterans Museum and Memorial Center
Sponsors: Amazing Company Pharmacies The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts ArtNexus Fundación BBVA Bancomer Border Billboard The Burnham Foundation The Chula Vista Office of Cultural Arts City of San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture Fundación Cuervo Editorial Mapas Escaparate Estudios Fox Baja Farmacias Nacional Jacques And Natasha Gelman Trust The Gem Foundation Eloisa and Chris Haudenschild Hotel Habita The Bruce T. Halle Family Foundation International Community Foundation The James Irvine Foundation Fundación Jumex Mondriaan Foundation, Amsterdam The Lucille and Ronald Neeley Foundation National Endowment for the Arts The Peter Norton Family Foundation Panta Rhea Foundation Seltzer Caplan McMahon Vitek Fundación Televisa Tides Canada Foundation Union Bank of California
inSITE2000-01 Catalogue/ ISBN: 0-9642554-4-8/ Available at The D. A. P. CATALOG at www.artbook.com
For more information contact
Public Relations: Papus von Saenger
Tel. 619.230.0005
Email: papus@insite05.org
