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Adams
Avenue, A Work in Progress |
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A
series of banners commissioned by the Adams Avenue Businees Disrict, San
Diego,
California and funded by the San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture.
The banners will remain on display on the Avenue for 5 years. 1998
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Friendly
Fire |
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A
multi-disciplnary public
art project sponsored by the Los Angeles
Museum of Contemporary Art. Set in
San Diego, at the time of the Republican National
Convention the project included a store
selling mock bullet-proof vests, a home
page on the World Wide Web, and a publication.
An accompanying installation was
housed at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary
Art. 1996 (with D. Small, S. Kessler
and L. Hock) |
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Art Rebate |
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A conceptual
performance artwork
that returned tax dollars to undocumented taxpayers.
A $5000 commission, partially funded by the
National Endowment for the Arts, was changed into
$10 bills that were distributed to undocumented Mexican
and Central American workers to underscore
their positive economic contribution to the United
States. 1993 (with L. Hock and D. Avalos) |
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NHI |
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A multi-disciplnary
public art project
addressing the low priority given to the investigation
of the serial murder of 45 women in San Diego.
The project included two billboards, a temporary
store front gallery, book, performance and panel discussion,
1992
(with D. Small, C. Kirkwood, S. Kessler
and L. Hock) |
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America's
Finest? |
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A poster
placed on the advertising
panel of 25 bus benches throughout downtown
San Diego. The poster spurred public dialog and
debate over police misconduct in the city, 1990. (with
D. Small, S. Kessler and L. Hock) |
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Red Emma
Returns |
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A street
performance and full-page
newspaper advertisement celebrating San Diego's
historic free speech movement and linking that
movement to contemporary struggles; the project
examined the consequences of municipal control of
the community's cultural productions. 1989.(with D.
Small, D. Avalos, L. Hock, C. Kirkwood, B. Sher and W.
Weeks) |
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Welcome
to America's Finest - a.) city, b.) tourist plantation,
c.) Convention Center |
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A billboard
in downtown San
Diego that addressed the controversy in San Diego
surrounding the selection of a fitting tribute for Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. 1989 (with D. Small, L. Hock
and D. Avalos) |
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Welcome
to America's Finest Tourist Plantation |
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A silk-screened
photo montage
addressing the San Diego tourist industry's use of
undocumented labor placed on the back advertising
panel of 100 San Diego Transit buses during the
month of San Diego's first Super Bowl, 1988 (with
L. Hock and D. Avalos) |
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Deus
Ex Machine |
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A site-specific
light projection
placed at downtown San Diego's largest shopping
mall, Horton Plaza. The project highlighted the dual
nature of the shopping cart as a symbol of consumption
and survival. 1988 (with L. Hock) |
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