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Title
MUEZZIN: general view with basketball court and rising smoke from fog machines
Creator
Kaprow, Allan (American Performance artist, 1927-2006)
Contributor
InSITE94
Date Created and/or Issued
1994
Contributing Institution
UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives
Collection
inSite Archive: Selections
Rights Information
Unknown
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Description
Film, Audio, Video and Digital Art
Sculpture and Installations
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 175)
[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/bb1538833v
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Dogs
Rockets
Sound installations (Art)
Public address systems
Aleatoric music
Border art
Music
Noise
Muezzins
Islam
Smoke
Architecture (object genre)
Missiles (weapons)
Fog
City noise
Minarets
Dogs--Barking
Adhan
Sound recordings
Public art
San Diego (Calif.)
Mexican-American border region
Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico)
InSITE94
Place
San Diego (Calif.)
Mexican-American border region
Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico)

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