The Loop: box of correspondance

From June 1 to July 5, 1997, Francis Alys traveled from Tijuana to San Diego without crossing the US-Mexico border by circumnavigating the globe. His project, The Loop, took him from his starting point at the border fence in Tijuana, to the same point on the border fence in San Diego. Stopping in places such as Australia, China, and Canada, Alys documented the trip through email, journal entries, photographs, and mementos found along the way. Alys stated that his project was an investigation of the verbal, visual, and bicultural, and was to remain independent from any critical implications and conclusions beyond the physical displacement of the artist. This documentation, as well as a series of postcards created by the artist during his travels, was displayed at the CECUT during the public phase of inSITE97. --inSITE97

• 1997

• Rittermann, Philipp Scholz (American photographer, 1955 CE-)

• Alÿs, Francis (Belgian painter and conceptual artist, born 1959)

• InSITE97

This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 309, Folder 01, Item 023)

Centro Cultural Tijuana

letters (correspondence); receipts (financial records); postcards; photographs; globes (cartographic spheres)

• InSITE97

• Mexican-American border region

• Conceptual

• Boundaries
• Travel

• image

Shared Shelf: 16715304

Online finding aid

• inSite Archive

Performing Arts (including Performance Art)

Sculpture and Installations

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

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2020-10-28