Museographies for Art Archives

Museographies for Art Archives

¿How to exhibit documents in Art Museums?

Loitering Performative Museography

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

Artisanal Museography

Common trades and anthropology of knowledge

Topographic Museographies

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 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

Modular assembly museographies

Museographies to reuse or just use and throw away?

Museografies in Collective and Pedagagical processes

Museografies in Collective and Pedagagical processes

Museographies in collective and pedagogical processes

Museography for Contemporary Art

Museography for Contemporary Art

Museographies to exhibit Design

Museographies to exhibit Design

Museographies in Natural Environments

Museographies in Natural Environments

Museography which is the content and the work exhibit

Museography which is the content and the work exhibit

Museographies for Art Archives

Museographies for Art Archives

¿How to exhibit documents in Art Museums?

From Museography to Museology

From Museography to Museology

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

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Transform Dance Festival - Why Citizenship?

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Stage Design for Transform Festival / Why Citizenship?

Stage for Social choreography

For this stage design commissioned project, which invites 7 choreographers to respond to the question of “Why Citizenship?” I based my design approach and thinking process on the concept of Social Choreography, which help me merge dance with the subject of citizenship. In the book Move. Choreographing you: Art and Dance Since the 1960s, Stephanie Rosenthal described Social Choreography as “choreography focused on degenerated, artificial, or manipulated patterns of behavior. The choreography became the image of our own world, with its external powers controlling the physical, psychological and spatial aspects of our actions. It thus became a mirror of socio-political structures and mechanisms of manipulation.” [1]

I am interested here, not solely in the design of the stage dance area, but also in choreographing an immersive audience participation. How to express those power structures that control our spatial patterns of behave and actions as citizens? How to create awareness of the politics that exists in our own bodies as audience? seating as individuals; as groups of bodies or as a community as large? I propose diverse seating formations to expose particular political connotation that impacts the body, congregation of different types of chairs and seating formations that create particular spatial configuration and group’s shapes that generate different dance spaces. In addition to that, we develop for the choreographers and dancer a family of mobile devices that give them different stage and spatial possibilities such as ladders on wheels to achieve high, a circular mobile stage platform, as well as mobile tables and structures that due to the number of choreographers and to the diverse dance approaches of each group, the objects proposed can be deployed, arranged and activated by the choreographer and the dancer wish.

Stephanie Rosenthal, Move. Choreographing You, Art and Dance Since the 1960, The MIT Press, London, 2011, p. 17.


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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