Constelaciones de la Audio-Máquina en México

Museographies for Art Archives

¿How to exhibit documents in Art Museums?

Loitering Performative Museography

Mobile devices to active phenomena

Furniture: Mobile, movable, traveling, moving. Contrary to a property or real state, a building is immovable, it does not move – it is a property. The city is built of real buildings but also of tables, chairs, bookcases, movable flower pots, which furnish the interiors of houses and buildings, as well as the exteriors of streets, squares and sidewalks of our Latin American cities, turning the streets into temporary kitchens, shops, dance halls or open-air markets. They micro-construct the city every day in the morning and de-construct it every night using elements that can move, furniture.

Artisanal Museography

Common trades and anthropology of knowledge

Topographic Museographies

They are museographies outside the wall that take place on tables and islands as habitable platforms and information topographies.

Museographies as habitable architectural furniture

Museographies, as habitable architectural furnishings, serve as architectural exhibition platforms that, in the form of islands, occupy the center of the room. They feature the construction of a central museographic entity that can have its own dynamics and engage in various ways with the surrounding walls of the space, also helping us to break free from our dependence on the walls. This allows for the creation of a central imagery without relying on the walls.

Modular assembly museographies

Museographies to reuse or just use and throw away?

Museografies in Collective and Pedagagical processes

Museographies in collective and pedagogical processes

Museography for Contemporary Art

Museographies to exhibit Design

Museographies in Natural Environments

Museography which is the content and the work exhibit

Museographies for Art Archives

¿How to exhibit documents in Art Museums?

From Museography to Museology

From making an exhibition to making a Museum, from temporary exhibitions to permantent exhibitions,.

Constelaciones de la Audio-Máquina en México

2018 /

Museographies for Art Archives /

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Museo Morelense de Arte Contemporáneo (MMAC)

Curaduría: Carlos Prieto Acevedo

Constelaciones de la Audio-máquina en México explora la historia del sonido en estrecho diálogo con las artes visuales, la literatura, la pintura, el cine, la danza, la fotografía y la antropología desde comienzos del siglo XX hasta la actualidad. A través de cuatro núcleos: El indiofuturismo, Cosmopolis de México, Lo monstruoso y Emanaciones, la exposición aborda la práctica de diferentes artistas interesados en construir el proyecto del nacionalismo moderno, delineado por las fantasías utópicas de la metrópoli mexicana y del sueño cosmopolita en Latinoamérica. La muestra está conformada por pinturas, fotografías, archivos, grabados, documentos y proyectos de más de treinta artistas visuales y sonoros que han sido fundamentales para la historia del sonido en el país.

Para esta exposición exploramos con diferentes modos, niveles y dispositivos para contener y presentar el material sonoro, visual y documental de la exhibición. Se diseñaron espacios y dispositivos que ayudaran a una mejor interacción entre el público y las obras, desde salas cilíndricas a modo de bocinas que contuvieran totalmente el sonido dentro, espacios tipo sombras sonoras donde uno pueda oír solo al acercarse o recostarse contra el muro, y hasta pequeños nichos sonoros donde uno al sentarse dentro pueda oír y a la vez seguir viendo las obras de los muros.

Como siempre en este tipo de exposiciones donde existe sonido, obras visuales, esculturas y documentos organizamos los elementos de tal forma que compongan una constelación de artefactos en el espacio, y dado que esta sala se observa desde arriba a través de un ventanal antes de bajar, la distribución y composición general del espacio se pensó de una forma mas escultural donde la composición de sus volumetrías funcionaran desde arriba como un paisaje de dispositivos sonoros en movimiento.

Germen Estudio is an architecture and design office specialized in creating museographic experiences for a wide variety of exhibitions, ranging from modern and contemporary art exhibitions to displays of anthropology, material culture, archival documents, as well as exhibitions that explore economics processes and community narratives. Our design philosophy is based on the conception of active and versatile museographies that allow adaptation, reuse, transformation and change. Overcoming the limits of the traditional “white cube” by eliminating the bureaucracy in the use of drywall and advocating for a museography that explores other materials, constructions and exhibition systems that provide visitors with a comprehensive experience in which the exhibited work converges, the presence of the viewer, the museographic furniture and the architecture of the museum. Our goal with exhibition design is to transform the museum visit into a dynamic and memorable experience that transcends traditional conventions.

Giacomo Castagnola received his Master of Science in Art, Culture and Technology (SMACT) from the School of Architecture and Planning of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2013, and holds a degree in architecture and urbanism from Ricardo Palma University (URP) in Lima Peru. Originally from Lima, Peru, for seven years (2003-2010) he lived and worked in the Tijuana / San Diego border region where he established Germen, an architectural and design studio, to investigate the self-organized "informal" city that composes up to 40% of the urban and growing infrastructure of many Latin American cities. Currently, Castagnola works in Mexico City in architecture for exhibitions and museographies that explore new ways of displaying archives of art and material culture.

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Founder

Giacomo Castagnola

Arquitectos

Erik López
Cristóbal García

Past Collaborators

Fernando J Limón — San Diego, CA
Fernando Becerra — San Diego, CA
Carlos A. Augusto Paz — Tijuana, MX