GUGGENSITO
GuggenSITO is a portable, floating museum, an inflatable structure similar to children’s games that parodies the great modern art museums. Its form mimics the architecture of Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao. The design is deliberately clumsy, but beyond the obvious parody, it is a piece that speaks of inclusions and exclusions carried out by culture.
Its name includes a double trope: -sito as a diminutive and -sitio, in allusion to work in situ. This mobile museum does not operate from its formal presence, but from its architectural condition. It is not made to be seen, unlike the original, but to be used. It is a space intended for play and pure sociability that contrasts with the museum use of post-industrial society.
For Múltiple, Eder Castillo presents the 3rd edition of the GuggenSITO in co-production with Arte Abierto accompanied by a series of activities and activations to explore the many ways of inhabiting this floating museum.
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Eder Castillo
GuggenSITO, 2011, 2016, 2024
Inflatable sculpture made of plastic canvas and synthetic fabric.
Since 2011 it can be found in different parts of Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean.
3rd Edition. Produced in collaboration with the Arte Abierto Foundation and Iranixe.
Learn more at: https://guggensito.blogspot.com/
IG: @edercastilloj
For more information about GuggenSITO, write directly to Eder Castillo here.
Follow GuggenSITO on Instagram! 👉 @guggensito
ON DISPLAY
GuggenSITO Documentary Archive
From 02.OCT – 24.NOV
12:00 – 7:00 pm
GuggenSITO
From 05 – 24.NOV
Free admission
ONLINE DYNAMIC
Just like an artist
From 05 – 24.NOV
Just like an artist 📲 👾 📸 ⚡️ Is an online exhibition that we will generate collectively using the hashtag #JustLikeAnArtist.
We want to invite you to visit and intervene in the GuggenSITO to generate content (photos, videos, selfies, reels, etc.) based on the use you ✨personally✨ give to the work by using the hashtag #JustLikeAnArtist in your own accounts, apps or favorite interaction spaces.
WORKSHOP
Public Art Workshop: The Unfolding Cube (or how space becomes social). Strategies for action, activation and participation in public space through art
With Eder Castillo
SAT.NOV.09
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
For all audiences
Pre-registration | Free of charge
How do we activate and act in public space? How can we appropriate it through art?
Through diverse artistic strategies such as performance, intervention, installation, drawing and sculpture, as well as collective dynamics and participatory actions, it is possible to work on these questions. In this workshop, more than a theoretical class, we seek to broaden our way of seeing and understanding space and our relationship with it.
Using the GuggenSITO as a canvas and space for experimentation, we aim to generate a collective artistic experience by materializing an exercise of intervention or action in it; which will be recorded on video for consultation and later display on social networks and digital media.
ACTIVATION
The wall, labial punk forever
SAT.NOV
12:00 pm – 3:00 pm
For all ages | Continuous dynamic in the garden
Expanded graphic dynamic in which the public around the GuggenSITO is invited to participate in a collective action of drawing intervention, making use of “personal resources for aesthetic purposes” such as lipstick, markers and other materials.
The activity is aimed at generating a dialogue where positions and reflections can be visualized in an open way in relation to the theme of freedom and identity.
TALK
Derives of Art and Architecture:
The GuggenSITO beyond the unfolding cube. Public art and interactivity
With Eder Castillo* and Arturo Ortiz Struck**
SAT.NOV.23
1:00 pm
Free admission
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 places his emphasis on 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.
On the occasion of the presentation of the GuggenSITO at Múltiple, the artist will talk to us about his production and connection processes in this Deriva together 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 (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 curatorship, 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.
** 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 the following 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 “Rostros de la discriminación” (Faces of Discrimination) for the article: “Desde la arquitectura, la discriminación” (From Architecture, Discrimination). In 2023 he published the novel called: “El mapa de mi neurosis” (The map of my neurosis).
