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Public Program

FISURA: Festival Internacional de Cine y Video Experimental Arte Abierto

09 Aug FISURA 🗓 🗺

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FISURA

AUG.22.2025-SEP.19.2025

FISURA Programa ARTE ABIERTO Steven McInerney Hiroshi Watanabe Maxime Corbeil-Perron Opening acts

FISURA. International Experimental Film and Video Festival

5th Edition

A festival dedicated to independent audiovisual production and distribution, conceived as a space for freedom, creativity, and innovation.

From August 22nd to September 19th, Mexico City will host FISURA’s fifth edition, one of the most prominent experimental film festivals in Latin America. It will also feature special screenings in Durango, Oaxaca, and Acapulco.

With a daring and visionary program, the festival will showcase a curated selection of national and international works that challenge traditional narratives and expand the sensorial horizons of image and sound. This year, Fisura reinforces its interdisciplinary essence with performances, concerts, workshops, and talks, consolidating itself as a space that transgresses the boundaries of audiovisual art.

Among the most relevant retrospectives is Sound of a Million Insects, Light of a Thousand Stars, a posthumous tribute to Japanese filmmaker and artist Tomonari Nishikawa, a key figure in underground cinema in recent years. Also screening will be El eco del silencio, by South Korean artist Jangwook Lee, featuring short films made in 16mm film between 1998 and 2024. Both sections were curated by Estefanía Díaz and Carlos Cruz.

In co-production with Arte Abierto, FISURA will present audiovisual concerts by:

• Hiroshi Watanabe A.K.A Kaito (Japan)• Maxime Corbeil-Perron A.K.A Datum Cut (Canada)
• Maxime Corbeil-Perron A.K.A Datum Cut (Canada)
• José Orozco + Valeria Vicente (Mexico)

Also, in collaboration with Museo del Estanquillo, the experimental sound ensembles Sonidito Amateur and Auroestridente (Mexico).

The performance section will feature:

• Steven McInerney A.K.A Merkaba Macabre (Australia)
• Jangwook Lee (South Korea)
• Julio Rojas A.K.A Deadbug (Mexico)

These activities will take place at Centro de Cultura Digital and are free of charge.

ACADEMIC PROGRAM
The following workshops will be held at Casa Rafael Galván, UAM and Arte Abierto (both workshops are free with prior registration):

• Philosophical Approaches to Experimental Film, led by Byron Davies (United States-Mexico) – Venue: Casa Rafael Galván, UAM
• Composing with Light, a practical workshop led by Steven McInerney (Australia) – Venue: Arte Abierto

FISURA Official Venues in Mexico City:
AGO.22+SEP.19.2025

• Arte Abierto
• Centro de Cultura Digital
• Casa del Lago (UNAM)
• Museo del Estanquillo
• Casa de la Primera Imprenta (UAM)
• Casa Rafael Galván (UAM)

National tour:
SEP.17-29.2025

• Cineteca Municipal Silvestre Revueltas – Durango
• Demina Laboratorio de Artes – Acapulco, Guerrero
• Sala Elia – Oaxaca

Crónicas de la Colección: POV visitas un museo que no es un museo. Programa Público Foto Colección Arte Abierto

05 Aug THE COLLECTION CHRONICLES: POV VISITS OF A MUSEUM THAT ISN’T A MUSEUM 🗓 🗺

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THE COLLECTION CHRONICLES

POV VISITS OF A MUSEUM THAT ISN’T A MUSEUM

Visit + Workshop

When we think of a place where works of art are exhibited, the first thing that probably comes to mind is a museum. But have you ever thought that you can also find works of art inside a shopping mall?
We invite you to participate in this activity where, after a tour through Arte Abierto Collection works, you can share your POV (point of view) by creating a TikTok video.

To enjoy this activity, we recommend bringing your cell phone with the TikTok app pre-installed.

The Collection Chronicles: POV Visits of a Museum That Isn’t a Museum
Visit + Workshop

THU.AUG.21.2025
4:00PM – 5:30PM
Open to the general public
Limited seating | Free admission
Amphitheater Arte Abierto

PUBLIC PROGRAM

The Collection Chronicles is a program that offers different ways to explore Arte Abierto’s permanent collection. Through various activities that invite the public to experiment and play with the works—regardless of their prior knowledge—participants will be able to inhabit spaces for dialogue where contemporary art is experienced in a close and collective way, open to multiple interpretations.
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Arte Abierto has a solid collection of works by highly relevant artists in the field of contemporary art on loan. Some of these installations and works were selected or commissioned from the very beginning of ARTZ, which was conceived as a small city where users can enjoy spaces for recreation, leisure, exercise, work, residential life, and art, all in one place. This fosters social cohesion and facilitates encounters between people through its spaces, creating bridges between everyday life, art, and contemporary culture.

The Collection Chronicles are held at Arte Abierto Pedregal and are free-of-charge.

TANIA CANDIANI (MÉXICO, 1974) KIOSKO SONORO, 2018 Estructura de acero, trompetas, tubos, bases de concreto. Colección Arte Abierto

05 Aug THE COLLECTION CHRONICLES: MAGNETIC PROJECTION 🗓 🗺

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MAGNETIC PROJECTION

Visit + Workshop

Contemporary art doesn’t follow rules or fixed interests. It isn’t governed by pre-established values; in fact, it unfolds in multiple directions, influenced by the context, experience, and thinking of each artist.

With this idea as a starting point, we invite families to explore some pieces from Arte Abierto Collection. During the visit, we will explore some concepts and processes that shape contemporary practices. At the end, each family will collaboratively create a conceptual portrait, freely combining techniques such as painting, drawing, pastels, collage, writing, or object appropriation.

The Collection Chronicles: Magnetic Projection
Visit + Workshop

THU.AUG.14.2025
4:00PM – 5:30PM
Open to the general public
Limited seating | Free admission
Amphitheater Arte Abierto

PUBLIC PROGRAM

The Collection Chronicles are held at Arte Abierto Pedregal and are free-of-charge.

Arte Abierto presenta la exposición 'Things We Do for Love' de Erick Meyenberg. Foto Marianne Wasowska (detalle)

04 Aug THE COLLECTION CHRONICLES: ARCANA FOOTPRINT 🗓 🗺

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ARCANA FOOTPRINT

Visit + Workshop

In this visit, we will explore how tarot can be used as a narrative and interpretive tool for art, and how art constructs a personal narrative. We will conclude the tour with an instant print workshop, in which, using simple materials such as disposable plates, vegetables, and fruits, we will print an engraving that tells our life story based on a brief introduction to the 22 Major Arcana of the Tarot. This activity is an opportunity to explore creativity, life narratives, and the connection between art and tarot.

The Collection Chronicles: Arcana Footprint
Visit + Workshop

THU.AUG.07.2025
4:00PM – 5:30PM
Open to the general public
Limited seating | Free admission
Amphitheater Arte Abierto

PUBLIC PROGRAM

The Collection Chronicles are held at Arte Abierto Pedregal and are free-of-charge.

04 Aug THE COLLECTION CHRONICLES 🗓 🗺

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The Collection Chronicles are held at Arte Abierto Pedregal and are free-of-charge.

El loco Pallares: un futurista en México Conversación con Elisa Drago Quaglia Foto ©Archivo Alfonso Pallares del Portillo, Buffalo N.Y. Derivas de arte y arquitectura. Arte Abierto

02 Aug ELISA DRAGO QUAGLIA – ART AND ARCHITECTURE DERIVES 🗓 🗺

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ART & ARCHITECTURE DERIVES

The Madman Pallares: A Futurist in Mexico

Elisa Drago Quaglia

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The Madman Pallares: A Futurist in Mexico
Conversation with Elisa Drago Quaglia

Saturday, August 23, 2025
13:00h
At Arte Abierto | 2nd floor ARTZ
Free admission

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No registration required.

The drama of modernity at the beginning of the 20th century was a breeding ground for ideas and new visions for a world in constant transformation. The machine age and the emergence of modern cities continue to fascinate us even today, a hundred years later, due to the rich creative process in which the planet was immersed. For humanity to face a promising future, a new aesthetic, emotional, cultural, artistic, and architectural consciousness had to be invented. In this context of a new total art, the figure of Alfonso Pallares emerged, a figure who was, perhaps, too modern even for moderns. With a kinesthetic understanding of the world, dislocated from his time and parallel to the violence of Italian Futurism, Pallares sought to give form to his concerns and attempted to express them in our country, in a culturally and architecturally rooted society rooted in conservative nineteenth-century values. Unable to understand him, they called him mad.

Elisa Drago Quaglia
She holds a Master’s and Doctorate in Architecture from UNAM. She is a researcher at TC CIAUP/FA-UNAM and coordinator of the AAM/FA-UNAM Mexican Architecture Collection since 2023.
She teaches in the Architecture degree program and in the Light Roofing Specialization program at FA-UNAM. Her line of research focuses on the historiographical review of architecture and urban planning in 20th-century Mexico, based on primary documentary sources.
She is the author of more than forty book chapters and articles, and the book Alfonso Pallares, Sower of Ideas (2016). She is also the coordinator of the books: Leer a Alberto T. Arai, reflexiones ensayos y textos (2019), Carlos González Lobo: arquitectura apropiada y social (with Alejandra Contreras, 2024), and Arquitectura y suburbios: en busca de la periferia (with Alejandro Leal, 2024).
She is member ofDOCOMOMO Mexico and member of the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS). Level 1 of the SNI-SECIHTI.

www.acervodearquitecturamexicana.com

Arte Abierto continues with its new public program Derivas de Arte y Arquitectura (Art & Architecture Derives), which seeks to renew our gaze on the architectural legacy of Mexico City. From a series of talks focused on rescuing the parallel stories of emblematic architectural projects and public spaces that have witnessed the variable intersection between art and architecture. In this first stage, the program deals mainly with modern architecture, based on a series of talks given by invited curators, architects, artists and urban planners.

With this program, ways of returning to architecture part of its public, experiential, collective character and close to those of us who inhabit the city are tested, recognizing in it its condition as a living archive. From these talks, circumstances, contexts and anecdotes are revealed that have been part of his sensitive memory and that complement his material memory, a relationship that often escapes documentary narratives and academic accounts.

The objective of the Derives is to generate experiences of spatial rediscovery, which allow us to renew our gaze on the legacy of certain emblematic architectural and artistic works, as well as those that have been forgotten.

The derives will be carried out free of charge on the last Saturday of each month, at 1:00 p.m. with a limited capacity.

Arte Abierto Derives :

February 26: Tania Ragasol / Entorno urbano, cotidianidad y arte: La Torre de los Vientos by Gonzalo Fonseca

March 26 : David Miranda / Del Animal Herido y otros eventos escultóricos dentro de la arquitectura moderna

April 23: Gustavo Lipkau y Xavier Hierro / Integración plástica de los edificios del campus central de CU: sus murales

May 28: Marisol Argüelles / La casa-estudio Diego Rivera y Frida Kahlo. Del espacio doméstico a la dimensión de lo público

June 25: Luis Javier de la Torre/ La Ruta de la Amistad MÉXICO68… más allá de 1968

July 30: Aldo Solano/ Architecture for playing in 20th Century Mexico City.

August 27: Christian del Castillo/ Tracing the modern in the architecture of the Historic Center of Mexico City.

September 24: Juan José Kochen/ The Ideal of the Multifamily Apartment cComplex.

October 29: Tania Candiani/ Quantum Prelude. Sound activation by Tania Candiani.

March 25: Ana Garduño/ Cultural Geographies: The invention of museum circuits in 20th century Mexico City.

May 27: Rebeca Barquera/ The Plastic Integration Movement México: More than murals on buildings.

June 17: Julián Arroyo Cetto/ Max Cetto in the beginning of El Pedregal.

July 29: Peter Kriegel/ The eco-aesthetics of El Pedregal and constructive botany in the megacity of Mexico.

August 26: Arturo Rivera García y Roberto Bustamante Castrejón/ Jardines del Pedregal Legacy: Memory and Identity.

September 30: Tonatiuh Martínez/ The garden as an extension of nature.

October 21: Lorena Botello/ Clara Porset’s Design: Between Tradition and Modernity.

March 23: Alejandro Ochoa Vega y Francisco Haroldo Alfaro Salazar/ Cinemas in Mexico in the 20th Century: Distant Spaces in Memory.

April 20: Rodrigo Torres Ramos / Pictorial Functionalism: The proposal for plastic integration of Mario Pani and Carlos Mérida.

June 22: María Bustamante Harfush / Public work and collective housing by Abraham Zabludovsky.

July 27: Veka Duncan / El Art Déco en México. La nacionalización de la modernidad.

August 31: Balam Bartolomé / Visiones del Altépetl caído: Un relato de Tlatelolco desde el arte.

October 19: José Ignacio Lanzagorta / The sixties and the christening of the Zona Rosa.

November 23: Eder Castillo & Arturo Ortiz Struck / GuggenSITO beyond the unfolding cube. Public art and interactivity.

March 29: Ximena Apisdorf / Architecture and museum: The transformation of the Centro Cultural Arte Contemporáneo

April 26: Lorena Botello / A Museum Designed for a Modern Art Collection

May 31: Carlos Rodríguez / Nonoalco in the Cinema, Shadow of Modernity

June 21: Erik Carranza / The cells that no longer explode: in search of an absent bust (that of JFK) and its relationship with GoSk8Day (June 21) in the Jardín Balbuena neighborhood

July 26: Rocío Martínez Barrera / Vladimir Kaspé: Architecture as a whole

August 23: Elisa Drago Quaglia / The Madman Pallares: A Futurist in Mexico

La ciudad es un juego. Taller impartido por Amarillo Público. Servicio urbano de arte público. Arte Abierto. Programa Público.

22 Jul THE CITY IS A GAME 🗓 🗺

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THE CITY IS A GAME

Workshop by Amarillo Público. Urban Public Art Service

This workshop aims to expand the possibilities for using public space, understanding the city as a place full of “invisible” layers that must be understood in order to intervene. We will explore concepts such as everyday life, the infraordinary, the politics of the senses, and contextual art. As part of the activity, we will create signage to assign new meaning to urban space.

THE CITY IS A GAME
Workshop by Amarillo Público. Urban Public Art Service

SAT.09.AUG.2025
All public
Free admission
Arte Abierto Pedregal | ARTZ

PUBLIC PROGRAM

AMARILLO PÚBLICO. Urban Public Art Service. A project of temporary interventions on the streets of Mexico City and surrounding municipalities. Since 2015, it has been part of art festivals, academic research projects, educational programs, and national and international exhibitions, including in Spain, Brazil, Peru, Canada, Colombia, and South Korea.

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Intervención por Amarillo Público. Servicio urbano de arte público. Punto de encuentros. Arte Abierto. Programa Público.

22 Jul MEETINGS POINT 🗓 🗺

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MEETINGS POINT

Intervention by Amarillo Público. Urban Public Art Service

For five weeks, Amarillo Público will create an intervention at Arte Abierto to propose a game of spatial exploration using textile arrows that will invite the discovery of multiple meeting points. Faced with the urban saturation of one-way arrows—which impose order and a single meaning—this project will question: Can an arrow point toward surprise, the unknown, and discovery? Where do these arrows lead? This piece invites people to walk and discover not only an intervention but also an encounter with others.

All the arrows in the installation will be “oriented” toward Arte Abierto, guiding the way to the encounter and discovery of the main work, which will take place on the terrace.

MEETINGS POINT
Intervention by Amarillo Público. Urban Public Art Service

WED.23.JUL – TUE.26.AUG.2025
All public
Free admission
Arte Abierto Pedregal | ARTZ

PUBLIC PROGRAM

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Maqueta Escuela Albert Einstein por Vladimir Kaspé. Foto ©Acervo Vladimir Kaspé Derivas de arte y arquitectura. Arte Abierto

22 Jul ROCÍO MARTÍNEZ BARRERA – ART AND ARCHITECTURE DERIVES 🗓 🗺

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Vladimir Kaspé: Architecture as a whole

Rocío Martínez Barrera

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Vladimir Kaspé: Architecture as a whole
Conversation with Rocío Martínez Barrera

Saturday, July 26, 2025
13:00h
At Arte Abierto | 2nd floor ARTZ
Free admission

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No registration required.

In this Derive, we will explore the most intimate aspects of the life and work of architect Vladimir Kaspé, allowing us to understand not only his architectural output but also the restless and profound spirit of the man who shaped some of the most emblematic works of the Modern Movement in Mexico.

A lover of beauty in all its forms—architecture, music, literature, photography, drawing— Kaspé was a constant traveler and enthusiastic participant in the country’s cultural life. His rich and fruitful expressive capacity was nourished by a life marked by sensitivity, intellectual curiosity, and a constant search for meaning.

From this vision arose his theoretical proposal, “Architecture as a Whole,” an idea that distinguishes him and remains relevant for reflecting on the role of architecture in culture and everyday life.

Rocío Martínez Barrera (Mexico City)
She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture from La Salle University and a Master’s degree in Restoration of Historic Monuments from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Her master’s thesis was awarded Honorable Mention with the Francisco de la Maza Prize, awarded by the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH). She is currently conducting research on “Socio-cognitive Mediation Strategies for the Conception of Architectural Projects.” This line of research has supported the creation and inclusion of courses in the curriculum of the Bachelor’s degree in Architecture at La Salle University, such as Design Methodology and Strategies for the Development of Social Transformation Projects.
She has distinguished herself for her work in defending and promoting the architectural heritage of the Modern Movement in Mexico, with a special emphasis on the work of architect Vladimir Kaspé. She is also one of the specialists in the Vladimir Kaspé Collection, which is part of the documentary collection of La Salle University. With a nineteen-year career at the university, she currently serves as Coordinator of Architectural Thought and Social Responsibility at the Mexican Faculty of Architecture, Design and Communication (FaMADyC).