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Title
Osmosis and Excess: film still depicting Tijuana hillside covered in junk cars
Creator
Mik, Aernout (Dutch video and installation artist, born 1962)
Contributor
Conwell, Donna
InSite_05
Date Created and/or Issued
2005
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
Architecture and City Planning
Aernout Mik has created a video entitled "Osmosis and Excess" that interweaves images of junkyards in Tijuana's urban periphery with fictional scenes depicting a local pharmacy inundated with mud. Used cars flow from the United States to Mexico where they are eventually broken down and discarded on Tijuana's barren hillsides. Moving in the other direction, cheap drugs flow from Tijuana into the United States. The abandoned cars and the medications represent different manifestations of excess. Both modify a landscape: one inner, the other outer. The film was shot on high-definition video in a panoramic format to best illustrate the depicted landscapes. The video was projected as an intervention in a public parking lot in downtown San Diego.
Born digital
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca)
This film still was extracted from a DVD-R from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 193, DVD 01)
[Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.
Type
image
Format
Film still
Form/Genre
panoramas
Identifier
ark:/20775/bb3518359j
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Automobiles
Junkyards
Border art
Recycling
Video art
Refuse disposal
Mountains
Landscapes (representations)
Political art
Film stills
Panoramas
Mexican-American border region
InSite_05
Place
Mexican-American border region

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