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Animal Vegetable Mineral

Comidas para los sombreros

Animal Vegetable Mineral
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Artists Nanette Yannuzzi Macias and Melissa Smedley collaborated on a two-part installation for inSITE94 at El Sotano (an abandoned mop factory) in Tijuana and the San Diego Natural History Museum. Entitled "Animal Vegetable Mineral: Comidas para los sombreros," the artists explained the installations as explorations of the rituals of communication. At El Sotano, the work consisted of a multitude of materials from a cotton loom, gourds, candles, and buckets, to a deerskin, bird cage, and eucalyptus tree stump, suggesting, according to the artists, a laboratory space that referenced the machine and ritual. The installation at the Natural History Museum acted as a response to this magical machine and incorporated video elements situating the materials in dialogues that suggested not yet considered relationships. --inSITE94

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  • 1994
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This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 06, Item 357)

Venue

El Sotano, Tijuana

Physical Description

gourd; candles; buckets (vessels); birdcages (containers); looms (textile tools)

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Shared Shelf: 16715638

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Sculpture and Installations

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

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Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca)

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2020-10-26