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Title
Toaster Work Wagon: modified bicycle to be given away to children from the wagon
Creator
Fluker, Jimmy (American photographer)
Adams, Kim (Canadian sculptor, born 1951)
Contributor
InSITE97
Date Created and/or Issued
1997
Contributing Institution
UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives
Collection
inSite Archive: Selections
Rights Information
Unknown
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Description
Sculpture and Installations
Kim Adam's for inSITE97, Toaster Work Wagon, was a grafting on existing nomadic street life (i.e. concession vehicles). The trailered unit, constructed from the hoods and ends of two Volkswagen vans, set out on daily wanderings around San Diego and Tijuana like a winged toaster. Popping open into a work-waiting station, the Wagon attracted crowds of children and bystanders with its unusual contents. Children's bicycles were grafted into two-headed tricycles that were left at the site for adoption. Children experimented with the bicycles, cooperating with one another to move in one direction or the other. Adam's project experimented with notions of form and function as well as movement and direction. During the public phase of inSITE97, the Wagon was displayed at the Centro Cultural Tijuana. --inSITE97
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 01, Item 008)
[Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.
Type
image
Format
Mixed media
Form/Genre
walls
installations (visual works)
sculpture (visual work)
fences
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Public sculpture
Trailers
Street vendors
Border art
Bicycles
Boundaries
Walls
Installations (visual works)
Sculpture (visual work)
Fences
Mexican-American border region
InSITE97
Place
Mexican-American border region

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