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Cositas Tag

GHOST DANCE

INVISIBLE INK FLIPBOOK WORKSHOP (TWO)

In search of the invisible: Cycle of Cositas workshops with Estudio Nómade.

For “Ghost Dance” (workshop two) we have scheduled 1 workshop.

Saturday, May 15, 2024
1:00 p.m.
Arte Abierto | 2nd floor | Artz Pedregal
Free admission | Limited space (Pre-register here)
For children between 5 and 12 years old, accompanied by their family.

For our second In Search of the Invisible workshop: GHOST DANCE, kids will make a flipbook with a sequence of drawings made with invisible ink about a character whose main characteristics are: likes to dance, is invisible in sunlight and to see it black light is needed. At the end, they will have a small book with pictures that move as they turn the pages.

In Search of the Invisible is a cycle of workshops for kids designed by Estudio Nómade to explore Cositas exhibition by Mario García Torres from imagination, play and speculation.

Estudio Nómade

This studio is formed by Elvia González and Carlos Villajuárez who combine their multiple disciplines to generate a space for creation, play, imagination, exchange of ideas, art and speculation. Within the studio they put into practice exercises that combine different disciplines such as visual arts, cinema, theater, literature, illustration and editorial design, in order to achieve a novel and playful space in which participants can discover other ways of creating and take it to life. everyday practice. As part of the development of the workshops, dynamics of integration, participation and collaboration are established to highlight the creative capacity and sensitivity as something natural in each of us.

Estudio Nómade has given workshops at the UNAM Palace of Autonomy, Open Art, Espacio Báltico, Universidad Iberoamericana, Children’s Libraries Working Group of the Official College of Librarians-Documentalists of Catalonia, among others. Likewise, its editorial line has been part of book fairs such as “A book is…” by Arte Abierto, “Fronteras. Independent Publishers Fair” organized by Casa Espiral at the Carrillo Gil Art Museum, “Cultural Book Fair” at the Iberoamerican University, among others.

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02 May CROSS-SECTIONAL LANDSCAPES – CINTHYA GARCÍA LEYVA 🗓 🗺

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DISASSEMBLE THE TEXTS

Cross-sectional Journeys of Cositas with Cinthya García Leyva

Is there such a thing as a still, static exhibition?

During this tour with the researcher and cultural manager Cinthya García Leyva, the room texts, the ambient sounds and the music behind the pieces of the Cositas exhibition will be thought of as artifacts and waste that can be rearranged to find internal connections within the rooms.

Seeking to do practical exercises that link the text with the sound, and the visual with the verbal, they will put themselves at the center of looking and listening: the cards, the subtitles, the voices, the lights, the noises and the residues that emerge. of the objects and installations that make up the exhibition, to take a verbivocovisual tour and explore the exhibition together.

The Cross-sectional Journeys are visits to the Arte Abierto exhibitions with guests from various areas beyond art, to expand the themes and points of reference from other perspectives, perspectives, languages and disciplines.

CROSS-SECTIONAL JOURNEYS
DISASSEMBLE THE TEXTS
Cross-sectional Journeys visits of Cositas with Cinthya García Leyva

MAY.THU.9.2024
19:00 hrs.
Free admission
Arte Abierto | Piso 2

CINTHYA GARCÍA LEYVA
She is a researcher and cultural manager. Her work focuses on interdisciplinary and intermedial practices. She is a teacher in Comparative Literature from UNAM. She has performed as a lecturer, workshop leader and curator in different countries. In 2018 she was part of the curatorial team of the exhibition Modos de Oír (LAA–Ex Teresa Arte Actual). She was general co-coordinator of the PoéticaSonora MX project in 2016 and 2017. She collaborated until 2019 as a co-founding member and responsible for planning and content for the Art, Science and Technologies Program (ACT – UNAM/Secretaría de Cultura) and the same year she coordinated the Cátedra Max Aub-Transdisciplina in Art and Technology. Since 2017 she has hosted the program Islas Resonantes for Radio UNAM and since 2020 she has directed the Casa del Lago UNAM in Mexico City.

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29 Apr WE DON’T MAKE MISTAKES, WE JUST HAVE HAPPY ACCIDENTS 🗓 🗺

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WE DON’T MAKE MISTAKES, WE JUST HAVE HAPPY ACCIDENTS

Cositas visit & tote bags workshop

We Don’t Make Mistakes, We Just Have Happy Accidents includes 1 visit to Cositas exhibition + 1 tote bags workshop (4 dates available):

- Saturday, May 4, 2024.
- Saturday, June 1, 2024.
- Saturday, July 6, 2024.
- Saturday, August 3, 2024.
- 13:00 a 14:30 h
- No registration needed | Limited quota | Free
- For young people and adults
- Arte Abierto | piso 2 Artz Pedregal

What triggers between us a fall, a stumble or a mistake? What meaning do we give to accidents and to all things that do not turn out as we expected?

We Don’t Make Mistakes, We Just Have Happy Accidents is a visit/workshop to Cositas exhibition. This dynamic invites us to explore accidents in art, in life, and the thin line that unites or separates them. It is a small pause in our Saturday to reimagine our notion of the unpredictable, the imperfect and the uncontrollable.

Through the intervention of tote bags using a dripping technique, participants will explore the “controlled accident” as a form of artistic production and, thus, have an experience that brings them closer to assuming that nothing can be completely controlled and that, as the good Bob Ross said, “we don’t make mistakes, we only have happy accidents.”

EN BÚSQUEDA DE LO INVISIBLE: CICLO DE TALLERES DE COSITAS CON ESTUDIO NÓMADE. YO LO HABÍA PONIDO AQUÍ. Taller de tinta invisible (UNO). Programa público. Arte Abierto

10 Apr YO LO HABÍA PONIDO AQUÍ 🗓 🗺

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IN SEARCH OF THE INVISIBLE:
CYCLE OF COSITAS WORKSHOPS WITH ESTUDIO NÓMADE

I HAD PUT IT HERE

INVISIBLE INK WORKSHOP (ONE)

In search of the invisible: Cycle of Cositas workshops with Estudio Nómade.

For “I had put it here” (workshop one) we have scheduled 2 days of workshop with 2 different times per day.

Saturday, April 27, 2024
Sunday, April 28, 2024
1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Arte Abierto | 2nd floor | Artz Pedregal
Free | Limited space (Registration 15 minutes before each workshop at Arte Abierto’s box office)
For children between 6 and 11 years old, accompanied by their family

Children will create a cinematic narrative on a crankie box using invisible ink. Based on the I had put it here meme that appears in the Cositas exhibition, we will invite you to speculate stories with the help of some questions such as: What was it that the cat had put there? Who moved it? Where is he? In such a way that it allows them to respond to the meme, clarify the case and get their imagination going.

In Search of the Invisible is a cycle of workshops for kids designed by Estudio Nómade to explore Cositas by Mario García Torres from imagination, play and speculation.

Estudio Nómade

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'Cositas', un proyecto de Mario García Torres en Arte Abierto: 'La razón de ser de esta pieza aparecerá lentamente en la medida en que lo permitas' (Fuk1ng Amaz1ng), s/f Impresión sobre mosaicos de cerámica

13 Jan COSITAS 🗓 🗺

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MARIO GARCÍA TORRES

COSITAS ENE.2024 – JUL.2024

Cositas Bio

COSITAS

Cositas is a conceptual and audiovisual experience experience that takes references from popular culture to question our interpretations of reality.

“I wouldn’t want to say too much. I trust that the materialization of the ideas put forth in these exhibition rooms has the potential to be connected to the most fundamental questions about our lives and their everyday natures. At the center of them lies the one that is related to our interpretation of reality. Which interpretation is the one that is true? The one we’ve been told or the one we build with our thoughts? Small Things is the passage of a certain number of experiences that at one point in the past were only small things; ideas in my mind which held the promise of, in a near future, coming into existence.”

Mario García Torres

Cositas takes its name from a phrase that became popular on open television during the 90s to generate expectations around a future event, and which has currently gained great popularity on social networks without losing its original spirit: “se vienen cositas” (things are coming). Based on this idea, García Torres presents 5 artworks that take as reference a world-renowned comic character – which this year becomes a public domain image -, the song of a popular rock band from the 80s, the aesthetics of the photocopier as a pictorial practice, and memes and videos that today form part of our collective imagination due to their viral circulation on social networks.

With this project, the artist plays with the idea of audiovisual experiences intended for mass audiences, taking into account the particular context in which Arte Abierto finds itself. In this way, Cositas invites us to question the dynamics of consumption today, our role as spectators and co-creators of meaning, and the coincidences that exist between images and everyday life: How is it that a child’s fall can be as relevant as a historical fact? How does a famous comic character allow us to remember so many stories? How can a meme be recreated so many times, becoming increasingly viral for different generations and social spheres? How do these images impact and change language? Or, more importantly, who creates the images? Who defines the concept or who gives them meaning?

Thus, through a game marked by intuition, suspicion, mystery and humor, Cositas addresses the relationships that exist between reality and the perception of our daily lives, the collective imagination and individual memory, as well as the absence and presence of our thoughts.

Works in the exhibition

Yo lo había ponido aquí (I Had Put It Here), s/f
Synthetic material and electrical mechanism

Cayendo juntos en el tiempo (Falling Together in Time), s/f
Video, 15 min

La razón de ser de esta pieza aparecerá lentamente en la medida en que lo permitas (Fuk1ng Amaz1ng), s/f
Printing on ceramic mosaics

El puente de Edgar (You Should Check Out an Old YouTube Video Titled “Edgar Se Cae”), s/f
Fiberglass, resins, and wax

No hay razón para tener miedo (There Is No Reason to Be Afraid), s/f
Video, audio, 4 min

He decidido honrar cada una de las veces en que me leíste y decidiste no reaccionar convirtiéndolas en una linda obra de arte (I Have Decided to Honor Each Time You Read Me and Decided Not to React by Turning Them Into a Beautiful Work of Art), s/f
Offset printing on paper on linen

Visit Cositas by Mario García Torres from Tuesday to Sunday from 12 to 7 pm at Arte Abierto located on the 2nd Artz Pedregal (Periférico Sur 3720, Col. Jardines del Pedregal, CP. 01900 Mexico City).