The piece, “One Flew Over the Void (Bala perdida)” organized by Venezuelan born artist Javier Téllez’s is a collaborative project with a Mexican psychiatric hospital and human cannon ball performer, David Smith Snr. Téllez has done a series of public art projects in the border cities of Tijuana and San Diego focusing on the themes of metal illness and illegal immigration.
The site-specific project “One Flew Over the Void (Bala perdida)” consists of psychiatric hospital patients dressed in costumes and animal masks gather around the US/Mexico border as David Smith launches him self across in a human cannon ball. Téllez considers this a "living sculpture". "David Smith is a metaphor for flying over human borders, flying over the law, flying over everything that is established," he said.
The photo of this wild piece shows the absurdity and amazement that this stunt has caused. It has gotten a great deal of attention from the art world and Téllez hopes to turn it into a film. I think it is successful as an image that makes people really question the US/ Mexico border and the wall that is being build across it. I like the circus style that Téllez has used to celebrate his piece and am impressed that he was even able to get permission from the US border patrol agents to perform it.
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