Kearny Street

Collection
Capp Street Project Archive

  • representation of four city blocks in Chinatown with mailboxes , street signs, crosswalk signs and turtle inhabitants
    1 color slide ; 2 x 2 in.

  • representation of four city blocks in Chinatown with mailboxes , street signs, crosswalk signs and turtle inhabitants
    1 color slide ; 2 x 2 in.

  • representation of four city blocks, three people
    1 color slide ; 2 x 2 in.

  • representation of four city blocks in Chinatown with mailboxes , street signs, crosswalk signs and turtle inhabitants
    1 color slide ; 2 x 2 in.

  • representation of four city blocks, mailboxes with cast concrete turtles as foundations
    1 color slide ; 2 x 2 in.

  • representation of four city blocks, mailboxes with cast concrete turtles as foundations, two people
    1 color slide ; 2 x 2 in.

  • detail: mailboxes, street signs, crosswalk signs
    1 color slide ; 2 x 2 in.

  • detail: mailboxes, street signs, crosswalk sign, turtles
    1 color slide ; 2 x 2 in.

  • detail: mailboxes with cast concrete turtles as foundations, live turtles
    1 color slide ; 2 x 2 in.

  • detail: mailboxes with cast concrete turtles as foundations, live turtles
    1 color slide ; 2 x 2 in.

  • detail: wood post-and-beam structure and mailboxes with cast concrete turtles as foundations, live turtles
    1 color slide ; 2 x 2 in.

  • detail: wood post-and-beam structure and mailboxes with cast concrete turtles as foundations, live turtles
    1 color slide ; 2 x 2 in.

  • detail: wood post-and-beam structure and mailboxes with cast concrete turtles as foundations, live turtles
    1 color slide ; 2 x 2 in.

  • detail: wood post-and-beam structure and mailboxes with cast concrete turtles as foundations, live turtles
    1 color slide ; 2 x 2 in.

  • detail: mailbox with cast concrete turtles as foundations, live turtles
    1 color slide ; 2 x 2 in.

  • detail: wood post-and-beam structure with cast concrete turtles as foundations, live turtles
    1 color slide ; 2 x 2 in.

  • detail: live turtles
    1 color slide ; 2 x 2 in.

  • detail: live turtles
    1 color slide ; 2 x 2 in.

  • representation of four city blocks in Chinatown with mailboxes , street signs, crosswalk signs and turtle inhabitants
    1 color slide ; 2 x 2 in.

  • representation of four city blocks in Chinatown with mailboxes , street signs, crosswalk signs and turtle inhabitants
    1 color slide ; 2 x 2 in.

  • representation of four city blocks in Chinatown with mailboxes , street signs, crosswalk signs and turtle inhabitants
    1 color slide ; 2 x 2 in.

  • representation of four city blocks in Chinatown with mailboxes , street signs, crosswalk signs and turtle inhabitants
    1 color slide ; 2 x 2 in.

Creator(s)
Ping, Huang Yong (installation artist)
Date(s)
Date created: 1995
Exhibit date(s): 1/1/95 - 3/1/95
Work type & Measurements
Exhibition — installation
21 color slides (2 x 2 in.)
Description
Recreated the section of Kearny Street through San Francisco's Chinatown using turtles as inhabitants. Commentary on hatred toward early Chinese immigrants into SF. Some correspondence materials in French.
Notes
Venue: 525 2nd Street
Additional physical form: Announcements, Press Clippings, Slides, Correspondence, Press Release
Location
Oakland Campus — Meyer Library — CSP Archive — Artist-in-Residence (525 2nd Street Era (1994-1998)) January 1995 to March 1995. Box 13
Rights
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