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Description
Sculpture and Installations Film, Audio, Video and Digital Art Legendary pioneer of Happenings, Allan Kaprow, created a piece for inSITE94 that referenced his historic contribution to art in his use of the found, commonplace, and literal experience. Kaprow chose to use the minaret tower at Centro Escolar Agua Caliente as the site for his piece and elaborated on the associations it evoked, from Muslim prayer towers to rockets and war missiles. With the title "MUEZZIN," Kaprow made a reference to the Islamic crier, or muezzin, who calls worshippers to prayer throughout the day. Rather than a human voice however, the artist used a recording of barking dogs calling out from the tower every hour, while a dense fog simultaneously was emitted from the base of the tower, simulating the firing of a missile. --inSITE94 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 177) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego. Centro Escolar Agua Caliente (Tijuana, Mexico)
Type
image
Format
Found objects; smoke; loudspeakers; audio
Form/Genre
public art
Identifier
ark:/20775/bb02077650
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Rockets Smoke Missiles (weapons) Sound installations (Art) Aleatoric music Islam Border art Noise Dogs Muezzins Minarets Sound recordings Fog Architecture (object genre) City noise Dogs--Barking Music Public address systems Adhan Public art Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) San Diego (Calif.) Mexican-American border region InSITE94
Place
Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) San Diego (Calif.) Mexican-American border region
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