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Title
America: detail of colored sand
Creator
Rittermann, Philipp Scholz (American photographer, 1955 CE-)
Yanagi, Yukinori (American and Japanese artist, born 1959)
Contributor
Kanjo, Kathryn
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
Sculpture and Installations
For inSITE94, Japanese artist Yukinori Yanagi contributed two distinct installations titled "Wandering Position/Vagamundos" and "America/America," which were installed at the Santa Fe Depot and the downtown space of the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, respectively. Yanagi's work "America" had been installed previously in variations at different institutions around the world. For this installation the artist chose to include thirty-six flags of each country of the Americas in his elaborate ant farm. Over the course of the exhibition the ants created tunnels through the various flags and the colored sand that was used was gradually mixed, thereby creating new symbols. -- 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 311, Folder 02, Item 414)
[Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
Type
image
Format
Sand; Plexiglas; Formicidae
Form/Genre
Drawings (visual works)
sculpture (visual work)
Identifier
ark:/20775/bb5668578r
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Political art
Humor
Process art
Paintings (visual works)
Performance art
Border art
Flags
Nationalism
Sandpaintings
Drawings (visual works)
Sculpture (visual work)
InSITE94

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