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Title
Awasinake (On the Other Side): detail of photographs on marquee
Creator
Rittermann, Philipp Scholz (American photographer, 1955 CE-)
Belmore, Rebecca (Native American Performance artist and sculptor, born 1960)
Contributor
InSITE97
Date Created and/or Issued
1997
Contributing Institution
UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives
Collection
inSite Archive: Selections
Rights Information
Unknown
Constraint(s) on Use: This work may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). Use of this work beyond that allowed by "fair use" requires the written permission of the copyright holders(s). Responsibility for obtaining permissions and any use and distribution of this work rests exclusively with the user and not the UC San Diego Libraries. Inquiries can be made to the UC San Diego Libraries department having custody of the work.
Use: This work is available from the UC San Diego Library. This digital copy of the work is intended to support research, teaching, and private study.
Description
Photographs
Sculpture and Installations
For inSITE97, Rebecca Belmore created a large-scale photographic work installed on the abandoned marquee of the historic Casino Theatre in downtown San Diego. "Awasinake (on the Other Side)/Awasinake (en el otro lado)" was based on the ritual of waiting to cross the border from Mexico to the US. Belmore wanted the photographs of indigenous women waiting at the border fence in Tijuana to reflect the mood of the dilapidated Casino Theatre itself, waiting to be reclaimed and refurbished by the city. The size and elongated format of the portraits evoked the feel of an epic narrative unfolding before the viewer. --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 02, Item 043)
[Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.
Casino Theatre, San Diego (Calif.)
Type
image
Format
Photographs
Form/Genre
sculpture (visual work)
installations (visual works)
public art
Identifier
ark:/20775/bb3211197m
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Marquees
Façades
Border art
Political art
Renovation
Boundaries
Feminism
Portraits
Refurbishment
Sculpture (visual work)
Installations (visual works)
Public art
Mexican-American border region
InSITE97
Place
Mexican-American border region

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