July 2024

SOUNDS TO SYNCHRONICITY

Audio Performance

SITES

In Sounds to Synchronicity, SITES will create a special live sound atmosphere forCositas, based on sound data, musical references and electromagnetic waves that inhabit the exhibition halls. During this performance, the audio from the exhibition will remain silent while SITES tunes and remixes the different sound elements of the rooms, coming from different periods and contexts, allowing them to be contained together in a one-hour performance.

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Cositas by Mario García Torres is an exhibition that brings together different moments in history, as well as different images, characters, musical references and ways of perceiving and reading the signals of the world around us. In its rooms, the music that resonates throughout the facilities is key and travels throughout the space to crisscross between the hallways.

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SOUNDS TO SYNCHRONICITY
Audio performance
SITES

  • AUG.SAT.3.2024
  • 17:00 hrs.
  • Free admission
  • Arte Abierto | Piso 2

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SITES (Monterrey, 1994)
SITES seeks to generate ‘electroclimates’ through sound, installation, and performance. Immersed in technological spiritual syncretism, her projects operate as atmospheres inhabiting the hertzian space: an invisible and timeless architecture where electromagnetic waves, human experience, and auras coexist. Through her nomadic and animistic practice, she initiates temporary environments for contemplation. Sites has produced works across Monterrey, N.L., Mexico City, Chiapas, and Los Angeles over the past 10 years. She has showcased her work at venues such as Museo Anahuacalli, Kurimanzutto, Museo MARCO, Mercedes Benz Fashion Week, PEANA Project Room, Torre de los Vientos, Salón Acme No.11, and Museo de la Ciudad in Querétaro, entre otros. She has also participated in poetry readings in Mexico City and Los Angeles. Currently, she is working on two new releases that will be available on streaming platforms, alongside her existing catalog.

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ART & ARCHITECTURE DERIVES

Art Deco in Mexico. The Nationalization of Modernity

Veka Duncan

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Art Deco in Mexico. The Nationalization of Modernity
Conversation with Veka Duncan

  • Saturday July 27, 2024
  • 13:00h
  • Arte Abierto | 2nd floor Artz Pedregal
  • Free admission

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No registration required.

In this Derive, Veka Duncan will share with us some of the basic principles of Art Decó and its emergence into the Mexican panorama, exploring the historical and political context that surrounded the country during the decades of splendor of this architectural movement (1920 – 1940), as well as its role in the construction of a modern state after the Revolution and its assimilation to the nationalist discourse of the arts at the time.

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Veka Duncan
Art History Graduate from the Universidad Iberoamericana. Currently she works on research and cultural dissemination. Since 2018 she has hosted the television program “El Foco” on ADN 40 together with Héctor de Mauleón, focused on the history of Mexico City. She is a columnist for the cultural supplement of the newspaper La Razón and Este País magazine. Has collaborated in El Financiero, MVS Radio and “El Mañanero en Aire Libre”, hosted by Brozo. She has a YouTube channel where she addresses topics of art, history and culture. She is the author of the book Cara o Cruz. Lázaro Cárdenas from the Taurus seal. She has participated in more than a dozen publications as a researcher, editor, author and translator, including Los Contemporáneos en El Universal (CFE, 2015), El Universal. Cien años en la vida de México (El Universal, 2016), El Universal Ilustrado. Antología (CFE, 2017) y Un viaje. El Metro de la Ciudad de México. Additionally, she has collaborated as a researcher, curator and manager in various exhibitions in Mexico and abroad.

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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 drifts 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.