Object Details
- Artist
- ADÁL, born Utuado, Puerto Rico 1948-died San Juan, Puerto Rico 2020
- Exhibition Label
- ADÁL merged snippets of West Side Story, the classic 1961 film that widely introduced stereotypes of Puerto Ricans into American popular culture, with documentary footage of Puerto Ricans in New York, readings of Nuyorican poetry by Pedro Pietri, and the music of Tito Puente and Brenda Feliciano. By slowing down, rewinding, and blurring the film footage and contaminating its narrative and soundtrack, ADÁL disrupted the storyline and exposed its social-political omissions. Embedded in a humble suitcase, the video also sheds light on the social conditions that propelled Puerto Rican migration to the mainland and partially inspired the film.
- Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art, 2013
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment
- Copyright
- © 2002, ADÁL
- 2002
- Object number
- 2013.20
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Media Arts
- Medium
- suitcase, flat-screen LCD monitor, single-channel digital video, color, sound; 12:51 minutes
- Dimensions
- 14 x 20 x 7 in. (35.6 x 50.8 x 17.8 cm)
- See more items in
- Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
- Department
- Time-Based Media Art
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Topic
- Object\other\luggage
- Record ID
- saam_2013.20
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk7213e663b-8e6f-4d81-a34f-3b93ff4a83e2
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