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"When we make the decision and the commitment to proposing and launching an idea into the world of creating or understanding this human faculty that is art what ultimately moves us is the drive or ability to contribute to processes that we could call negentropic. This term might come from physics but is also used in biology, and means that, in general, all forms of matter, and the energy that inhabits them, tend toward dispersion and disorganization. We could say that is a subtle impulse which has brought about life and the materialization of complex structures both in the cosmos and in the world." —Fernando García Dory

“What activist art does is actually a promiscuous theft of historical or archival possibilities. It digs down into that surplus archive, repurposing aspects of it, sometimes in the process repairing some of these gaps and broken pieces, and it functions in a way that is very much like a kind of mistake or error code in the idea of history itself. So if I was going to say, what is "after history?:", it’s perhaps already present in history proper, and that is the sort of noise function that has been sort of canceled out or is attempted to be canceled”—Greg Sholette.

—Sally Stein

Teddy Cruz’s commission for San Diego infoSite was a work of ephemeral architecture that was inserted within existing strategies of cross-border recycling. The design components characterize not only the “spaces of flow” in the border region, but also refer to materials that are utilized in the construction of emergency habitats.

Commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, a new installation by Los Angeles-based artist Nancy Rubins was presented in conjunction with inSITE94 at the Museum’s downtown location. Titled Airplane Parts and Building, A Large Growth for San Diego, the installation was created from discarded airplane parts that were arranged to rise from the floor of the interior space of the Museum and pierce through the building’s south-facing windows.