Yukinori Yanagi

(Japón, 1959)

Proceso

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Propuesta

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Japanese artist Yukinori Yanagi contributed two distinct installations titled Wandering Position/Vagamundos and America, which were installed at the Santa Fe Depot and the downtown space of the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, respectively. Yanagi’s work America had been installed previously in variations at different institutions around the world. For this installation the artist chose to include thirty-six flags of each country of the Americas in his elaborate ant farm. Over the course of the exhibition the ants created tunnels through the various flags and the colored sand that was used was gradually mixed, thereby creating new symbols.

For Wandering Position Yanagi placed four steel angle beams in a square on the floor of the Baggage Building at the Santa Fe Depot. The artist then set loose one ant that he proceeded to follow for a set duration while marking its trail with a pink piece of chalk. The performance resulted in a random pattern on the floor that made visible the physical activity of one ant.

Organizer: Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
Curators: Lynda Forsha and Kathryn Kanjo
Venue: Santa Fe Depot, San Diego, and Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego (downtown location)

Agradecimientos

Additional project sponsors
California Arts Council; City of San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture; Contributors to Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego 1994 Annual Fund; National Endowment for the Arts; Reliance Metalcenter; The Good Guys

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Proceso

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Propuesta

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Para inSITE94, el artista japonés Yukinori Yanagi colaboró con dos diferentes instalaciones que tituló Wandering Position (Vagamundos) y America (América), y que instaló en la estación Santa Fe Depot y en el Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, respectivamente. La obra America (América) ya se había expuesto anteriormente, con algunas variaciones, en diferentes instituciones alrededor del mundo. Para esta instalación, el artista eligió incluir en su elaborada granja de hormigas las banderas de los 36 países del continente americano. En el transcurso de la exhibición, las hormigas no sólo crearon túneles a través de las diversas banderas, sino que la arena de colores que se utilizó se fue mezclando gradualmente, formando nuevos símbolos.

Para Wandering Position (Vagamundos),Yanagi formó un cuadrado con cuatro perfiles angulares de acero colocados sobre el piso del edificio de equipajes de la estación Santa Fe Depot. Luego, el artista soltó una hormiga a la que siguió por un tiempo determinado mientras marcaba su trayectoria con una tiza color rosa. Esta acción dio por resultado un patrón aleatorio en el piso que visibilizó la actividad física de una hormiga.

Curadora: Lynda Forsha
Sedes: Santa Fe Depot, San Diego y Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
Organizador: Museum of Contemporary Art