A hands-on workshop to explore how to activate public space through art. Through collective actions and diverse artistic strategies, GuggenSITO will become a space for experimentation and shared creation, documented on video.
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.
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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.
Self-taught visual artist and curator focused on sociocultural research and art in public space, 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 for Ibero-American Curators - Ministry of Culture of Spain (ES), Artery Foundation - Gilberto Alzate Avenaño Foundation (CO), YAXS Foundation (GT) and Casa Vecina Foundation of the Historical Center (MX); Beneficiary of the PAC/COVID-19 Support Fund (2020), FONCA-CONACYT International Artistic Residency Program (2012- 2013), FONCA Special Support Program (2010), Program to Support Production and Research in Art and Media Center Multimedia-CNA (2006) and National System of Art Creators FONCA (2020-2023). His work has been shown in Spain, Switzerland, Sweden, Italy, Slovenia, Poland, Indonesia, Japan, Egypt, South Africa, the United States, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Puerto Rico, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador, Mexico, and other countries.
Instagram: @edercastilloj
Arte Abierto inicia su programa de mediación y comunicación educativa 2022 con una conversación entre la investigadora y escritora Irmgard Emmelhainz y Sebastien Noel de Troika, tomando la exposición No Sound of Water como punto de partida. Abordarán los temas presentes en este proyecto, como el Antropoceno, y harán diferentes lecturas y cuestionamientos (Materialist Realism / Philosophy of Matter / Art as Image).
Irmgard Emmelhainz transmitirá en vivo desde No Sound of Water en Arte Abierto.
