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ART & ARCHITECTURE DERIVES

GuggenSITO beyond the unfolding cube. Public art and interactivity

Eder Castillo & Arturo Ortiz Struck

For the last Derive of the year and on the occasion of the presentation of the GuggenSITO at Múltiple, Eder Castillo will talk to us about his production and connection processes along with Arturo Ortiz Struck, as well as the strategies applied in this and in each of his works and projects that he has been carrying out to date.

Eder Castillo is an artist who hybridizes the cultural institution and the artistic object to create exceptional spaces, spaces different from those produced by the current city, and also different from those that make up museums and art centers. Through different experiences, he emphasizes performativity and interactivity. His work has focused on the generation of spaces and aesthetic moments that allow the encounter and interaction between non-traditional audiences and art.

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Eder Castillo (Tlalnepantla, Mexico 1977)
Self-taught visual artist and curator focused on sociocultural research and art in public spaces, at the intersection of architecture, visual arts and anthropology. His projects aim at an interaction between non-traditional audiences and art. In parallel, he has developed professionally in the field of curating, teaching and cultural management. He has been a member of the National System of Art Creators of FONCA since 2020 in the discipline of alternative media.

He has participated in multiple residency programs such as Tabacalera Estancias para Comisarios de Iberoamérica-Ministerio de Cultura de España (ES), Fundación Arteria- Fundación Gilberto Alzate Avendaño (CO), Fundación YAXS (GT) and Casa Vecina Fundación del Centro Histórico (MX); Beneficiary of the PAC/COVID-19 Support Fund (2020), FONCA-CONACYT International Artistic Residencies Program (2012-2013), FONCA Young Creators Program (2010), FONCA Special Support Program (2010), Support Program for Production and Research in Art and Media Centro Multimedia-CNA (2006) and FONCA National System of Art Creators (2020-2023). His work has been shown in Spain, Switzerland, Sweden, Italy, Slovenia, Poland, Indonesia, Japan, Egypt, South Africa, USA, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Puerto Rico, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador, Mexico, among other countries.

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Arturo Ortiz Struck

He was a member of the National System of Art Creators in the disciplines of architecture (2007-2010) and visual arts (2011-2014). He has participated in different exhibitions among which stand out: Extravío, museum of medicine, UNAM 2023-24, Territorios arrasados, MUCA, UNAM, 2019, Triennale of Contemporary Art, Guangzhou, China, 2005; Financial Architectures in London, UK, 2017; Vivir adentro, Venice Architecture Biennale 2008, among many others. In 2012 he won the national journalism award “Faces of discrimination” for the article: “from architecture, discrimination”. In 2023 he published the novel called: “The map of my neurosis”

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.