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Title
Appliances: broom closet
Creator
Smedley, Melissa (American installation artist, born 1961)
Contributor
InSITE92
Date Created and/or Issued
1992
Contributing Institution
UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives
Collection
inSite Archive: Selections
Rights Information
Unknown
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Description
Sculpture and Installations
The room is filled with contraptions made from wires, parachutes and other found objects. In her videos the artist animates these objects and shows her concern with "devices we employ to gain control over nature."
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 06, Item 353)
[Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.
Type
image
Format
Wire; cloth; found objects
Form/Genre
sculpture (visual work)
installations (visual works)
Identifier
ark:/20775/bb7955285c
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Video art
Tools
Machinery
Nature
Sculpture (visual work)
Installations (visual works)
Mexican-American border region
InSITE92
Place
Mexican-American border region

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