Aernout Mik

(Netherlands, 1962)

Process

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Proposal

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Related Material

Aernout Mik has created a video installation entitled Osmosis and Excess that interweaves images of junkyards in Tijuana’s urban periphery with fictional scenes depicting a local pharmacy inundated with mud. Used cars flow from the United States to Mexico where they are eventually broken down and discarded on Tijuana’s barren hillsides. Moving in the other direction, cheap drugs flow from Tijuana into the United States through Tijuana drugstores that have a particular design intended to attract US customers. The abandoned cars and the medications represent different manifestations of excess. Both modify a landscape: one inner, the other outer. The film was shot on high-definition video in a panoramic format to best illustrate the depicted landscapes.

Osmosis and Excess was installed in the Parkade parking facility in downtown San Diego. Located near San Diego’s baseball stadium, Petco Park, the San Diego Convention Center, and San Diego’s commercial and tourist hub, the Gaslamp Quarter, the site stands at the intersection of diverse and varied public flows. A wide range of individuals made use of the parking facility, including tourists, employees working in downtown, and shoppers. Mik employed three suspended computerized projectors to create a high-definition panoramic image that floated above the stationed cars like a phantasmagoria.

Curators: Osvaldo Sánchez and Donna Conwell
Venue: Parkade parking facility, San Diego

Acknowledgments

Film director
Aernout Mik

Video production
Benito Strangio
Elsje de Bruijn
Marjoleine Boonstra
Anca Munteanu Rimnic
Daniel Martinez
Márgara de León
Guillermo Parra
Sergio Berry
Edgar Luzanilla
Heriberto Luzanilla
Constancio Castillo Toledo
Pablo Maanon
Enrique Guzman Medina
Paco García
Javier Vera
Esmeralda Ceballos
Andre Vazquez
Oscar Inzunsa
Montserrat León
Héctor Vázquez “Tito”
Sergio Brown
Octavio Castellanos
Jesús Efraín García

Individuals acknowledgments
Enrique Fajardo
Griselda Arellano
Hugo Abel Castro Bojórquez
Alcide Roberto Beltrones
Ernesto Santillana Santillana
Charly Arneson
Florisse Vázquez
Luz Olivia Navarro
Dinora Alarcón Angulo
Lupita Lona
Hilda López Nuñez
Liliana Gómez
Eréndira Real
Cap. Sarquis
Luis Cabrera
Pedro Ochoa
José Márquez Padilla
Jan Galicot
Edgar Aarón Rodríguez
Berenice Aguilar
Salvador Verga Alejandre
Jaqueline Mandujano
Carlos Semental Ortíz
Francisco Retana
Vladimir Fafarrate
Alejandro Espinoza Martínez
Alonso Genaro López
Sharon MacComish Ripa
Mia Fernanda D’Unanue Bezada
Nadia Montes Odilón
Sergio Paul Martínez
Edwin Daniel López González
Alexander Dey Bueno
Armando René Quintal Sánchez
Andrés Carlos Madrueño Ortiz
José Esteban Ortiz Galvá
Ixzayana Yarely
Márquez López Uriel Ornaz
Erika Gabriela Mandivil
Fabián Corrales
Diana Carolina Segovia Panales
Alán Fernando Rodríguez Mercado
Diego Meráz López
Ana Cristina Ayala Quintero
Daniela Maung
Víctor Manuel Coronel Ramírez
Jorge Abel Meza López
Andrés Puentes de la Cruz
Kevin Luciano Sanmiguel
Carmen Alina Kyriakides
Manuel A. Corona Avila
Mónica Samantha Corona Pérez
Iván José Partida Prieto
Naiem A. Aguirre Cota
Mijail Hibram Quintero Castañeda
Silvia Fernanda Peña García
Thania Berenice Hernández
Osmar Leopoldo Sanmiguel
Ana Bertha Hernández Alarcón
Norma De la Puente
Juan Barrera
David Bello
Sandra Bello
Alfonso Caraveo
Antonio Nava
Mary Sains
Julia M. Crespo
Garry Papers
Beverly Schroeder
Sergio Ortiz
Rosana Ricalde
Felipe Barbosa
Marco Antonio López Alcaráz
Florian Brann
Christina Chapman

Organizations
Delegado de la Mesa
Delegado de San Antonio de los Buenos
Chapman and Leonard
Secretario de Seguridad Pública
Colegio Patria
Unidad Aérea
Cónsul General de México en San Diego
Tijuana Customs
The Medicine Company
CECUT
Seguridad Pública, Delegación La Mesa
Panteón Colinas del Descanso
Grúas Vladi
Ayuntamiento de Tijuana
Comisión de Filmaciones de B.C.
Secretaría de Turismo
Delegación San Antonio de los Buenos
CCDC
Optica Sola de México Parkade

Sponsors
Fundacion Televisa
XEWT Cannel 12 Television
Farmacia Nacional
Fox Studios Baja