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Title
The Cloud: white balloons suspended in the sky
Creator
Jaar, Alfredo (Chilean sculptor and installation artist, born 1956, active in the United States)
Contributor
InSITE2000
Date Created and/or Issued
October 14, 2000
Contributing Institution
UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives
Collection
inSite Archive: Selections
Rights Information
Unknown
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Description
Performing Arts (including Performance Art)
New York-based Chilean artist Alfredo Jaar's project for inSITE2000 was designed as an ephemeral monument in memory of the migrants who had died during the previous ten years while trying to cross the border between Mexico and the US. Entitled La nube/The Cloud the piece centered around the ceremonial release of over one thousand white balloons. With the balloons tethered together as a large cloud positioned immediately above the border fence at Valle del Matador/Goat Canyon, not far from Playas de Tijuana, the work took the form of a ceremony that included the performance of classical pieces by Albinoni, Bach and Veracini, the reading of a poem by Tijuana poet Victor Hugo Limon, and a minute of silence. The balloons were then released from the cluster and drifted off one by one across the sky as symbols of the souls of the dead migrants. --inSITE2000
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 168)
[Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.
Valle del Matador/Goat Canyon
Tijuana, Playas de, Baja California Norte, Mexico
Type
image
Format
Balloons (toys)
Form/Genre
walls
sculpture (visual work)
installations (visual works)
Identifier
ark:/20775/bb14023146
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Commemorations (events)
Border art
Boundaries
Clouds
Rites and ceremonies
White (color)
Emigration and immigration
Sky
Deaths
Memory
Walls
Sculpture (visual work)
Installations (visual works)
Mexican-American border region
InSITE2000
Place
Mexican-American border region

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