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‘PULSE’ OPENS AGAIN

RAFAEL LOZANO-HEMMER. LATIDOS
ENJOY YOUR VISIT SAFELYY

Mexico City, August 26, 2020.- Fundación Arte Abierto reopens Espacio Arte Abierto, a space dedicated to hosting exhibitions by national and international contemporary artists, with the exhibition Rafael Lozano Hemmer. Latidos.

Latidos is the third monographic exhibition on the biometric work of the Mexican artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer and is composed of four installations that use heart rate sensors to drive kinetic and audiovisual responses: Pulse Room, Pulse Tank, Pulse Index and Remote Pulse, the latter can be activated once the Amparo Museum in Puebla opens its facilities to the public.

Rafael Lozano Hemmer. Latidos opened on February 7th, closing prematurely due to the health contingency that our country is currently experiencing. Faced with this situation, the artist agreed to extend the exhibition time so that the public can visit it until December 13 of this year.

The art pieces in Latidos are designed for the public to physically interact with them. For this reason, hand cleaning at all times is essential to ensure the immersive experience of your visit.

We have implemented new health protocols that guarantee a safe sensory experience. These measures will take effect from August 29th for the tranquility of our visitors and our customer service team.

PLAN YOUR VISIT:

• Remember to bring your mask, its use is mandatory for everyone, at all times.

• The capacity of Espacio Arte Abierto has been reduced to a 15%. To guarantee your access, purchase the ticket online: registroarteabierto.org for free all September. Starting October, it will have a recovery cost of $ 35.00 MXN per person.

• Take into account that we have new hours: From 12:00 pm to 5:00 pm, the last entry being at 4:30 pm.

• We appreciate you taking into account that for security reasons entry with packages larger than 35 x 35 cm, nor with umbrellas is not allowed (except folding).

DURING YOUR VISIT:

• We will take your temperature before entering the Espacio Arte Abierto. Access to Latidos will not be allowed if the temperature is above 37ºC.

• It will be essential to respect social distancing of at least 2 meters with other people, whether they are visitors or Arte Abierto’s staff.

• Antibacterial gel will be available at each access. We ask to use it when entering, as well as before and after activating the sensors of each of the pieces.

• You must follow the directions and arrows suggested along your visit.

• A QR code at the entrance will be available for visitors with a downloadable PDF of Latidos.

The visit lasts 30 minutes, so we ask you to respect the time of your visit so that others can enjoy it in the same way.

Everyone can safely enjoy their visit with responsibility.

The monographic exhibition that addresses the biometric work of this Mexican artist, seeks to alter identification and determination technologies to create connective experiences on an architectural scale. In Heartbeat, the audience’s vital signs are taken and recorded as repetitive sequences that are displayed as flashing lights, panoramic soundscapes, ripples in tanks, haptic feedback, and animated fingerprints.

was born in Mexico City in 1967. He was the first official artist to represent our country at the 52nd Venice Biennale with the work Some things happen more times than all the time. For years, he has been developing interactive installations that are at the intersection between architecture and performance.

The Rafael Lozano-Hemmer. Latidos exhibition will be open to the public from August 29th to December 13th, 2020 at the Espacio Arte Abierto, located at ARTZ Pedregal 2nd floor, at Periférico Sur 3720, Jardines del Pedregal, Álvaro Obregón, in Mexico City.

ATELIER ABIERTO

ATELIER ABIERTO: THE DIDACTIC AND COLLABORATIVE NATURE OF ART

< Arte Abierto > is a non-profit association founded in 2019 dedicated to the creation and promotion of cultural projects and specific art work through the implementation of an ambitious / comprehensive / innovative model that takes as a starting point the physical conditions of Artz Pedregal Architectural Complex –a project developed and designed by Sordo Madaleno.

< Arte Abierto >‘s work model is based on collaborating with artists and experts, aligned to our institutional values ​​and objectives through their work and artistic expressions, with specific contemporary art projects. Each platform at < Arte Abierto > offers different formats and experiences at different levels and to different audiences.

Since 2019 we have been working with Sebastián Romo, founder and creator of Atelier Romo, the result of this significant collaboration is named Atelier Abierto. This project is designed as a place outside the main exhibition room Espacio Arte Abierto (exhibition space where Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Latidos) is now located.

Based on its pedagogical and participatory lines of work, Atelier Abierto is one of the most important conceptual components of our institution. Thanks to the collaboration with Atelier Romo we will be able to develop strategies and unique educational and public activities for direct contact with visitors, through creative processes of different types and with different durations (which include weekend activities, intensive workshops and few hours aimed at the diversity of publics who attend Artz Pedregal– space where < Arte Abierto > has its facilities: exhibitions and work).

Atelier Romo. For ten years, it has developed an arts-based, comprehensive and multidisciplinary educational methodology. Currently, the guiding axis is focused on deep education understood as all knowledge that accompanies us and improves our daily life.

Atelier Romo has had various collaborations with institutions such as Museo Tamayo, Fundación Alumnos 47, Colección Jumex, various universities and art centers in the interior of the country, and abroad with the Fashion Institute of Technology in Nueva York. Also, he was invited to develop a special project for the XII Bienal FEMSA.

In addition to the five printed monographs that he has compiled throughout his history, he has presented multiple exhibition and film projects in spaces such as Casa Vecina, Museo Tamayo, Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros, La Tallera, Centro de Artes Visuales de Mérida and Instituto Cervantes Nueva York, among others.

Since the beginning, Atelier Romo has had a group of very high-level collaborators: award-winning filmmakers and Oscar winners, museum directors and specialized curators, and renowned artists, both national and international.

The methodology consists of integrating the body, thought, culture and art from constant and disciplined practice, in a relaxed work environment that has all the requirements to learn and create without limitations.

Its lines of work are Visual Thought and Furniture Design; the basic principles for smooth construction, including sewing, electricity, and model building; and the development of a final project with the closing of an exhibition and an editorial publication.

Art and culture are intertwined but they are not the same thing. Although entertainment and entertainment are part of the culture, art is its most sophisticated practice. Culture allows us to expand our possibilities of perception, art to deepen them and education to enhance them, practice them and enjoy them.

Given its context, Atelier Abierto has all the potential to become a true avant-garde project. It can be a benchmark for new pedagogical, exhibition, dissemination models and how to efficiently bring culture to all kinds of audiences.

Artz Pedregal is in a privileged position, it has the perfect balance between a public space and a private / controlled one. This greatly facilitates the implementation of activities produced from the Atelier Abierto to all attendees.

WHAT IS FREEDOM?

WHAT IS FREEDOM?

< Arte Abierto > invites everyone interested to participate with us in a collective reflection on the concept of ‘Freedom’ and what it means for each of you and us in this uncertain time, where we undoubtedly need to rethink the absence of coexistence and social interaction and find new ways to create and believe in the community.

We join the vast sea of ​​artistic initiatives that provide and stimulate moments of thought, awareness and reflection.

We firmly believe that this is are special times, ideal for recognizing the transforming essence that art brings to complex situations, to accept that art is an engine of creativity, of new thoughts, of invention of new horizons that help to turn the way of thinking to other realities that enrich and help to assimilate the moment we are living.

We invite everyone to have a moment of personal creativity that will eventually become part of a collective.

We want to be very respectful of the time, space and resources that each one of you have, so we are open to receiving any idea, thought, image, gesture, drawing, design or game that you want to share with us.

You can send us whatever inspires you: photographs, videos, music, writing.

BASES

We want, through your collaboration, to think about the concept that the term ‘Freedom’ has for you now.

The final result will be a collective exercise that will be presented on our networks; and once we have the possibility to leave home, see all your contributions together on an exhibition wall.

FORMATS

• Video 1 minute max: .mov o .mp4

• Images: .jpg o .png

• Text: .doc or directly on your email

SUBMISSIONS AND FILES

All material should be sent to info@arteabierto.org titled: ‘What is Freedom?’

Please include a letter of authorship and license to share, copy, distribute, display, and perform the work and make derivative works and remixes based on it only for non-commercial purposes on Arte Abierto A.C.’s social media, website and public display.

Also include the artwork datasheet Name of artist and title or artwork.

What is Freedom? starts on April 22nd and will be active until May 30th, 2020.

Your submissions will be shared on our social media on Thursdays.

THANK YOU FOR JOINING THIS PROJECT WITH WHICH WE HOPE WILL HELP A LITTLE BIT TO EASE ATMOSPHERES.

CROSS-BORDER COMMUNICATION

An Installation Traverses Texas and Mexico to Promote Cross-Border Communication

We found an article by writer and photographer Sarah M. Vasquez for HYPERALLERGIC Magazine about Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s Border Tuner project.

Sarah tells us Rafael is saying he is not in El Paso and Ciudad Juárez to make bridges, but to highlight the bridges that already exist… We loved this idea!

Here is the link to read the full article.

We hope you like it too!

RAFAEL LOZANO-HEMMER’S BORDER TUNER

In the Studio: Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s Border Tuner

In the Studio es un podcast semanal de la BBC que te lleva a las mentes de las personas más creativas del mundo, con un acceso sin precedentes.

Aquí les compartimos In The Studio: Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s Border Tuner presentado por Monica Ortiz Uribe y producido por Emma Betteridge para la BBC World Service.

En este podcast pueden escuchar a Rafael hablar de Sintonizador Fronterizo, una instalación de arte participativo a gran escala diseñada para interconectar las ciudades de El Paso, Texas, y Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, con potentes reflectores que crean «puentes de luz» abriendo canales de sonido en vivo para la comunicación a través de la frontera entre Estados Unidos y México.

¡Disfruten!

PRESS RELEASE – ARTE ABIERTO

PRESS RELEASE Arte Abierto – CDMX March 16th, 2020.

To our community.

Due to the current situation generated by COVID-19, and being responsible to our publics; has decided to close our exhibition spaces Latidos by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer and Mnemosyne by Paolo Montiel Coppa.

For us the health of our visitors and collaborators is of utmost importance, for this reason we suspend activities from Tuesday, March 17th until further notice.

We all have the social responsibility to put the health of our community above any other goal.

We appreciate your understanding.

MNEMOSYNE

MNEMOSYNE | Paolo Montiel Coppa aka TANSEN

< Arte Abierto > presents Mnemosyne, a light installation by Mexican artist Paolo Montiel Coppa, which will be on display and open to the public from November 29th, 2019 to March 29th, 2020 on the ground floor of the architectural complex Artz Pedregal.

Paolo Montiel Coppa, is a Mexican artist, who works with different lighting alterations through spatial experiments.

Montiel Coppa, studied physics, art, music and audio engineering dedicated to lighting programming and design. His artistic production is concentrated in installations of kinetic light art in situ. His work investigates the possibilities of light from an artistic platform that has allowed him to express new formats through various public facilities.

In Greek mythology, Mnemosyne (in Greek Mνημοσυνη) is the personification of memory and mother (with Zeus) of the nine muses. He has the knowledge of the origins and roots, power that goes beyond the limits of the beyond. The installation title is a reference to memory.

In the words of the artist, he wants to make the audience return to the origins of the memory of the arts, through a physical experience recreated by games of lights, visuals and sound pieces that make up the piece.

Mnemosyne is an exercise around his light research, this project will be developed and directed to the viewer as an experience inside a giant kaleidoscope.

With this piece Montiel wants to provoke in the visitor a special moment, a memory of life that activates the memory of the spectator, so that he connects with his creativity allowing him to re-awake different experiences through projections of digitally altered organic images and lights; which when combined with sound pieces, will lead the visitor to enter a meditative state.

THE INSTALLATION WILL BE ACTIVE FROM TUESDAY TO SUNDAY FROM 11:00 TO 19:00 HRS. MONDAY WILL REMAIN CLOSED.

WE RECOMMEND ONLINE PRE-REGISTRATION: registro.arteabierto.org

CAI GUO-QIANG

Encounter with the Unknown: Cosmos Project for Mexico | Cai Guo-Qiang

On November 8, against the Great Pyramid of Cholula and Our Lady of Remedies Church in San Pedro Cholula, Mexico, contemporary artist Cai Guo-Qiang realized the explosion project alongside five maestro pyrotechnician families, using traditional Mexican firework techniques.

The project includes five castillos, constructed by the local pyrotechnic families according to Cai’s creative design, as well as the explosion event Steps of a Lost Pyramid, which consists of a 50-meter-tall set of steps. At sunset, over the course of about 30 minutes, these works were lit in succession against the backdrop of the Great Pyramid of Cholula, overlooking the Popocatépetl volcano.

Encounter with the Unknown: Cosmos Project for Mexico recounts the story of conflict and integration between the indigenous people and the Spaniards in Mexico. It pays tribute to the native people of this land and to the ancient civilization of Mexico.

At the instant of ignition, we return the land to the people of Mexico, and to the modest cosmology that they worshipped. The project is an expression of our respect and humility as modern people to the ancients, and a demonstration of our yearning and anxiety toward encounters with unknown worlds.

For more information on Encounter with the Unknown: Cosmos Project for Mexico visit: caiguoqiang.com

BORDER TUNER

BorderTuner | Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

An interactive public art installation across the US-Mexico border by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Border Tuner will launch on November 13, and be open every night from November 14 to 24, between 6:30pm to 11:00pm.

Three interactive stations on each side of the border will control powerful searchlight beams using a small dial wheel. When lights from any two stations are directed at each other, microphones and speakers automatically switch-on to allow participants to talk with one another, creating cross-border conversations.

At the beginning of each evening, prior to opening the microphones to the general public, special guests will be invited to take control of the system for 30 minutes of curated programming. These including poets, musicians, beat boxers, seniors, first nations speakers, maker/hackers, historians, and so on. During these “opening remarks” the piece will be set to a special mode where all the lights intersect and all six stations can hear each other.

Border Tuner is not only designed to create new connections between the communities on both sides of the border, but to make visible the relationships that are already in place: magnifying existing relationships, conversations and culture. The piece is intended as a visible “switchboard” of communication where people can self-represent. The project seeks to provide a platform for a wide-range of local voices and an opportunity to draw international attention to the co-existence and interdependence between the sister cities that create the largest bi-national metropolitan area in the western hemisphere.

< Arte Abierto > joins the group of collaborators who support the realization of Border Tuner that believe that art can bring people closer together, particularly in open public settings.

Border Tuner welcomes everyone to speak and listen from the stations located in El Parque del Chamizal, Ciudad Juarez and Bowie High School, El Paso.

For more information on Border Tuner visit: www.bordertuner.net

OTIS KRIEGEL FROM ILLEGAL ART IN MEXICO

Talk with Otis Kriegel | Illegal Art

< Arte Abierto > invites you an Otis Kriegel talk, co-founder of the Illegal Art collective.

See you this Saturday, October 12th, 2019 at 12:00 pm in the Galería Arte Abierto located on the 2nd floor of Artz Pedregal.

His book Suggestion (August 2005), was published by Chronicle Books.

Otis Kriegel’s public art, photography and video/film projects have been featured in such media outlets as National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered,” New York Magazine, Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, Public Art Review and The New York Times. His work has been exhibited, commissioned and published in catalogs throughout the Americas and Europe

In 2013 he was a resident artist at the SXSW Festival.

Otis uses his knowledge of participatory-based public art and communication to create campaigns, public events to encourage participation, and slogans for a number of different companies and organizations.

Illegal Art is founded by Otis Kriegel and Michael McDevitt.

The objective of this group is to create participatory public art to inspire self-reflection, thought and human connection. Each piece is presented or distributed in a method in which participation is simple and encouraged. Their projects have been installed throughout the United States, South America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East.

During the months of September, October and November for the first time Otis Kriegel and Michael McDevitt, founders of Illegal Art, present their projects in Mexico City:

• The Last Word

• Suggestion Box

• What Color Are You?

• Measure Up (An installation commissioned by < Arte Abierto >)

The four public art pieces will be inside the premises of Artz Pedregal. Each one seeks the public’s participation as an experience with a creative-collective effect.