The Invisible Man (My Way): Wrestlers wrestling in ring

Conceived by Mexico City artist Carlos Amorales as a further elaboration of the identity of his wrestling character, Amorales, his project for inSITE2000, "The Invisible Man (My Way)/El hombre invisible (A mi manera)," took the form of two public and distinct wrestling performances.

On Friday, January 19, 2001, two wrestlers from Holland, Amorales and Amorales, were featured in a fight against Mexican wrestling stars Satanico and Ultimo Guerrero. The match was part of the regular Friday night program at the Auditorio Municipal, Tijuana. The crowd of 3,500 was quiet with uncertainty as these two unknown Dutch lucha libre personalities walked into the ring. The uncertainty was transformed to excitement as the audience realized that the two Amoraleses were not impostors, but professional lucha libre wrestlers. By the end of the fight, the audience was divided between those screaming, "Amorales, Amorales!" and those who were faithful to the national wrestlers, evil as they might be.

At 8:00 pm, on Saturday, January 20, 2001, the sequel of the Amorales wrestling match took place as the centerpiece of a black-tie dinner at the prestigious Wyndham Emerald Plaza Hotel in downtown San Diego. The fight was followed by dancing with music mixed live by Silverio. -- inSITE2000

• January 20, 2001 (wrestling performance)

• Miyata, Shigeto (Japanese photographer)

• Amorales, Carlos (Mexican installation and Performance artist, born 1970)

• InSITE2000

This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 309, Folder 01, Item 025)

Wyndam Emerald Plaza Hotel, San Diego, California, United States

• InSITE2000

• Mexican-American border region

• Audiences
• Auditoriums
• Border art
• Boundaries
• Identity (Philosophical concept)
• Performance art
• Sports
• Wrestlers
• Wrestling

• image

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• inSite Archive

Performing Arts (including Performance Art)

[Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

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2020-10-26