https://aestheticpromiscuity.com Alberto Ortega Trejo Fri, 23 Aug 2024 00:00:45 +0000 https://aestheticpromiscuity.com en https://aestheticpromiscuity.com/One-of-the-qualities-of-nocturnal-beings-is-that-they-speak-words-of Fri, 23 Aug 2024 00:00:45 +0000 Alberto Ortega Trejo https://aestheticpromiscuity.com/One-of-the-qualities-of-nocturnal-beings-is-that-they-speak-words-of One of the qualities of nocturnal beings is that they speak words of truth Solo exhibition at Prairie, Chicago From the perspective of complementary opposites that set the cosmos in its dynamic motion, there is, for the Otomí, a primary division in the separation between day and night. “This day/night asymmetry is marked by the opposition between two paradigmatic figures”: one of them is the night, which belongs to the Devil, and to him, the half of the world where the Otomí people, his children, live. In the Otomí worldview, the Devil acts as the demiurge of their destinies, creating and undoing in the night. (…) the conjunction and disjunction of the various entities that inhabit the body during the day are carried out at night, when they come out to frolic along the path of dreams, where they meet and part according to the circumstances; as it ritually happens during the celebration of Carnival: a hallucinatory ritual where a sort of “clinical history” (“pulse measurement” or “calibration of forces”) can be read. A way to identify and name the instances involved in the process of reorienting the world. This solo exhibition at Prairie revolves around a metal sculpture that contains and displays a burning propane flame. The tube’s geometric configuration is an abstract rendition of the overall shape of oil and gas pipelines that have exploded between Mexico and the United States in the past decade. The presence of the fire evokes and makes present the catastrophic outcome of oil and gas pipelines along the Valle del Mezquital region (labeled by national authorities as Mexico’s "Environmental Hell"), the home territory of the Otomi, where a series of explosions and leaks have contributed to the already dire ecological collapse of ecosystems and communities in the region. The controlled yet menacing presence of the propane tank and gas valves addresses the history of controlled fires along the pipelines, performed by the Mexican state as a spectacle of industrial and economic progress. This structure, which embodies the state’s desire for containment and control, rests on the floor of the gallery and is surrounded by charcoal drawings over cement panels portraying nocturnal creatures: an opossum, a ringtail, and a skunk. The animals display archetypal passions that are present in the nocturnal world of Otomí cosmology and geography. Such animals, and their abstraction in the realm of dreams, also act as advisors for nocturnal meditations. The night, in its psychic and erotic excess, produces a field of possibilities for the transfiguration of the human—a place to shift species, to become a tree, a ringtail, a mountain, but also to shift gender, to shift scale, and be in a continued search to reorient our position in the world and to increase the possibilities of human becoming. In the back of the room, a hollow plastic rock supported by a metal arachnid exoskeleton acts as a beer cooler, directly addressing the history of alcoholism and alcohol use in Otomi communities, not only as a carrier of disease but also as a means of sustenance and ritualistic excess. At the bottom of the hollow rock, below ice and alcoholic beverages, a group of maguey skins rest, drowning but also rehydrating themselves, slowly decaying and festering new forms of life. <img width="4638" height="3092" width_o="4638" height_o="3092" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/df903743ed75e0525471a475437fb2e496b487b6a27a25ba46190f03c7592ab4/IMG_3479.jpg" data-mid="216824245" border="0" alt="The world was created by fire, by dance (Mapa del sol muerto) - Steel tubes, propane tank, matches, gas tubing, sealant, fire. Dimensions variable. 2024" data-caption="The world was created by fire, by dance (Mapa del sol muerto) - Steel tubes, propane tank, matches, gas tubing, sealant, fire. Dimensions variable. 2024" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/df903743ed75e0525471a475437fb2e496b487b6a27a25ba46190f03c7592ab4/IMG_3479.jpg" /> <img width="5004" height="3336" width_o="5004" height_o="3336" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a16fe3ad0f0cb02c5f97a65923c270f6a802c5aae460970837ad6530727761c0/IMG_3491.jpg" data-mid="216826730" border="0" alt="The world was created by fire, by dance (Mapa del sol muerto) - Steel tubes, propane tank, matches, gas tubing, sealant, fire. Dimensions variable. 2024" data-caption="The world was created by fire, by dance (Mapa del sol muerto) - Steel tubes, propane tank, matches, gas tubing, sealant, fire. Dimensions variable. 2024" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a16fe3ad0f0cb02c5f97a65923c270f6a802c5aae460970837ad6530727761c0/IMG_3491.jpg" /> <img width="5184" height="3456" width_o="5184" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e0a83a7f77d84cdc81932fbd1e1bb3e788eae608a1ab47dda70d9802a84599e8/IMG_3528.jpg" data-mid="218610833" border="0" alt="Visit from a relative (Ara&ntilde;a) 2024 - objet trouv&eacute;, ice, alcoholic beverages, maguey skin, custom steel skeleton" data-caption="Visit from a relative (Araña) 2024 - objet trouvé, ice, alcoholic beverages, maguey skin, custom steel skeleton" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e0a83a7f77d84cdc81932fbd1e1bb3e788eae608a1ab47dda70d9802a84599e8/IMG_3528.jpg" /> <img width="5184" height="3456" width_o="5184" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/759e7ed1168ce35f0bb9db1075038fada4f78914809bf0d70e253d56ac71c3e4/IMG_3494.jpg" data-mid="216826898" border="0" alt="The Maw (Una Etnolog&iacute;a de la Transici&oacute;n) - Lithographic crayon, oil &amp; charcoal over fiber cement panel, hinges, steel framing. 3&rsquo; 5 &frac12;&rdquo;x 2&rsquo; 1 7/16&rdquo; 2024" data-caption="The Maw (Una Etnología de la Transición) - Lithographic crayon, oil &amp; charcoal over fiber cement panel, hinges, steel framing. 3’ 5 ½”x 2’ 1 7/16” 2024" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/759e7ed1168ce35f0bb9db1075038fada4f78914809bf0d70e253d56ac71c3e4/IMG_3494.jpg" /> <img width="4878" height="3252" width_o="4878" height_o="3252" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b407db293fd999e4b553d7366a89eee69ecfcefe61d36c6017ce53b676dc4592/IMG_3500.jpg" data-mid="216826731" border="0" alt="The mirror that smokes (Caca de Cacomixtle) - Charcoal over fiber cement panel, hinges, steel framing. 3&rsquo; 5 &frac12;&rdquo;x 2&rsquo; 1 7/16&rdquo; 2024 " data-caption="The mirror that smokes (Caca de Cacomixtle) - Charcoal over fiber cement panel, hinges, steel framing. 3’ 5 ½”x 2’ 1 7/16” 2024 " src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b407db293fd999e4b553d7366a89eee69ecfcefe61d36c6017ce53b676dc4592/IMG_3500.jpg" /> <img width="4548" height="3032" width_o="4548" height_o="3032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5d919b334043f95d46e84de00fde99e5556f498e702026c7abf148971c45caf5/IMG_3501.jpg" data-mid="216826733" border="0" alt="The Dream and the Intoxication (Pedo de Zorrillo) - Charcoal over fiber cement panel, hinges, steel framing. 3&rsquo; 5 &frac12;&rdquo;x 2&rsquo; 1 7/16&rdquo; 2024" data-caption="The Dream and the Intoxication (Pedo de Zorrillo) - Charcoal over fiber cement panel, hinges, steel framing. 3’ 5 ½”x 2’ 1 7/16” 2024" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5d919b334043f95d46e84de00fde99e5556f498e702026c7abf148971c45caf5/IMG_3501.jpg" /> <img width="4949" height="3299" width_o="4949" height_o="3299" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/702485e7a620c119690aa3218f1b033adb96cba807baadd6d2b5329844464e3e/IMG_3506.jpg" data-mid="216826735" border="0" alt="An erratic form (Estertor de Tlacuache) - Charcoal over fiber cement panel, hinges, steel framing. 3&rsquo; 5 &frac12;&rdquo;x 2&rsquo; 1 7/16&rdquo; 2024" data-caption="An erratic form (Estertor de Tlacuache) - Charcoal over fiber cement panel, hinges, steel framing. 3’ 5 ½”x 2’ 1 7/16” 2024" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/702485e7a620c119690aa3218f1b033adb96cba807baadd6d2b5329844464e3e/IMG_3506.jpg" /> <img width="4913" height="3275" width_o="4913" height_o="3275" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/eb8e7add8532bfdeb752933e04ba33cb643b3f7dede1863af61f5a671d28a052/IMG_3474.jpg" data-mid="216824247" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/eb8e7add8532bfdeb752933e04ba33cb643b3f7dede1863af61f5a671d28a052/IMG_3474.jpg" /> <img width="4858" height="3238" width_o="4858" height_o="3238" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/eb4593531e5eec12a568388162a9ed2b300ea81590b4790350b0279ef3591c1f/IMG_3480.jpg" data-mid="216824243" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/eb4593531e5eec12a568388162a9ed2b300ea81590b4790350b0279ef3591c1f/IMG_3480.jpg" /> <img width="5120" height="3414" width_o="5120" height_o="3414" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d70eb3ca668cf366b8c4fe6fe60928a71b5f27a435a7f1d9da34ebc441f5a9b3/IMG_3470.jpg" data-mid="216826702" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d70eb3ca668cf366b8c4fe6fe60928a71b5f27a435a7f1d9da34ebc441f5a9b3/IMG_3470.jpg" /> <img width="4920" height="3280" width_o="4920" height_o="3280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3e3183b9632c4f3610ab2ede146bc299eeb4b9c76aac22da607a5019991232d8/IMG_3473.jpg" data-mid="216824248" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3e3183b9632c4f3610ab2ede146bc299eeb4b9c76aac22da607a5019991232d8/IMG_3473.jpg" /> https://aestheticpromiscuity.com/Last-of-Animal-Builders Thu, 21 Sep 2023 00:53:12 +0000 Alberto Ortega Trejo https://aestheticpromiscuity.com/Last-of-Animal-Builders The Last of Animal BuildersAt Mies van der Rohe’s Edith Farnsworth House&nbsp;Curatorial Project Artists: ASMA, Faysal Altunbozar, Selva Aparicio, Daniel Baird, Renée Green, Claudia Hart, Ragnar Kjartansson, Thiago Rocha Pitta, Joshi Radin &amp; Michael Rakowitz. Special thanks to Eden Manresa and Corcoran Industrial, for production assistance and to Gabriel Moreno of POCO Projects for exhibition fabrication and installation. <img width="1500" height="1000" width_o="1500" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0bb9c81d422047bd49ac1d58bd3be1f05bc2c061e72b3ee0354eae14d874d922/2304_Radin_7386.jpg" data-mid="191432503" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0bb9c81d422047bd49ac1d58bd3be1f05bc2c061e72b3ee0354eae14d874d922/2304_Radin_7386.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="1000" width_o="1500" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3c19572ef6c8730e7741352675fec9b2af883934f3c17f5bf5666a09104b18f1/2304_Radin_7233.jpg" data-mid="191432508" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3c19572ef6c8730e7741352675fec9b2af883934f3c17f5bf5666a09104b18f1/2304_Radin_7233.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="1000" width_o="1500" height_o="1000" 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data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e4381ccff9fa39362d07d9c20cfcc15edad18204c8d02b02945c5f005cd0b89a/2304_Radin_7385.jpg" data-mid="191432666" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e4381ccff9fa39362d07d9c20cfcc15edad18204c8d02b02945c5f005cd0b89a/2304_Radin_7385.jpg" /> In 1970, a year before her passing, the eminent architecture critic Sibyl Moholy-Nagy penned a thought-provoking passage in "Chapter Three: Defenseless Breeders" from her unpublished manuscript, "Pragma." She boldly asserted that what truly distinguishes animal structures from their human counterparts is the seamless fusion of structure and space within the former. In the world of animals, structure isn't merely a means to bridge a functional void; it is the functional void itself, exemplified by the efficient structural designs of beehives, nests, and spiderwebs. Moholy-Nagy further underscored this notion by dubbing the renowned architects Mies van der Rohe and SOM as "The Last of Animal Builders," marking a stark departure from traditional architectural perspectives. With this declaration, she impelled us to delve into the intricate web of relations that intertwine the human experience with animals, nature, society, and the economy—architecture serving as the pivotal mediator and determinant. As we reinterpret the legacy of Mies van der Rohe through the prism of animality, Moholy-Nagy compels us to confront a multispecies ethics and politics, fundamental components in shaping our spaces and societies. Yet, her pronouncement of the end of animal logic within architectural modernity raises profound questions, hinting at the expectation that modern humans should transcend their animal condition. She posits architecture as the artificial matrix by which human societies refine their biological development. However, this argument inadvertently hints at a justification of modernity as an inevitable stage in evolution, thereby isolating it from its political dimensions. At the heart of Moholy-Nagy's discourse lies a critical query: can we envision humanity as a chimeric entity, an organism capable of achieving limitless forms and configurations through the mediums of architecture, art, and technology? According to this line of thought, our humanity hinges on our capacity to fashion devices of chimerization—tools that enable not only survival but also transformation. These devices expand the horizons of our thinking, equip us to endure hostile environments, and even allow us to perceive and think through darkness. By aiming to think like other living organisms, we pave the way for a world where all potential intelligences can flourish. Described as "defenseless breeders" by Moholy-Nagy, humans find their connection with fellow living organisms through a spectrum that ranges from mimicry and interdependence to, at its bleakest, exploitation and extraction. Drawing inspiration from the realms of animals, plants, minerals, and insects, we've molded our societies based on what we perceive as efficient interactions and behaviors. Regrettably, throughout the era of modernity and into our contemporary political landscape, the belief in the dichotomy between the human and the "natural" has done little more than exacerbate relations of exploitation rather than nurturing collaboration, coexistence, and mutually beneficial transformations. This exhibition, inspired by Moholy-Nagy's radical explorations, turns the Edith Farnsworth House into a breathing organism. It showcases a curated selection of artworks from the Thoma Foundation's Art Collection, seamlessly blended with contributions from contemporary artists. These artworks collectively contemplate the profound impact of architectural modernity, minimalism, and capitalism on our perceptions of nature, humanity, non-human entities, and the economy. Spanning various mediums, including video installations, sculpture, and drawing, these works engage with the site's existing architecture, offering poignant reflections and poetics of destruction and regeneration. Speaking through plant, animal, and mineral metaphors, the artists delve into pressing social issues, the intricacies of human desire and transformation, our relationship with bodily fragility, and the complexities of thinking beyond the confines of anthropocentric power dynamics. Ultimately, this exhibition serves as an invitation to reimagine the intersecting realms of architecture, art, and human existence within an ever-evolving world. https://aestheticpromiscuity.com/Agua-Muy-Vieja-Del-Lugar-Espantoso Wed, 27 Jul 2022 15:37:14 +0000 Alberto Ortega Trejo https://aestheticpromiscuity.com/Agua-Muy-Vieja-Del-Lugar-Espantoso Agua Muy Vieja Del Lugar EspantosoAt Rhona Hoffman GalleryAs part of a group show curated by Julia Birka-White&nbsp; “Alberto Ortega Trejo’s contributions to Gentle Content were prompted by recent news events that illuminate class struggles — specifically in his home country of Mexico — in addition to his research regarding Indigenous Mexican cosmologies. When creating these new objects, Ortega Trejo considered the deadly 2019 explosion in Tlahuelilpan, Mexico of a pipeline owned by Pemex, the state oil company. The illegal extraction, possession, and sales of thefted fuel has been a long standing issue in the country, the result of larger class and economic disparities affecting sites of mineral extraction and oil processing as is the case of Tlahuelilpan, an Otomí territory. Ortega Trejo’s metal figurative cut-outs adhere to the wall, and similar to Bredar’s painted suspended heads are disjointed and cut off from their whole. Discernable is an amputated leg referencing the overcirculation of violent image in contemporary Mexico while engaging with Otomí God-making practices. Next to it, a nebulous form that is actually an alcohol sack, hovers among other silhouettes. The alcohol sacks the artist is referencing are used for pulque (a traditional Mexican alcoholic drink of fermented agave nectar) storage and typify the effect of alcoholism on colonized Indigenous communities globally. Additionally, six charcoal on sandpaper drawings mounted on metal plates and organized in a grid unite to form an atlas bone. Interested in bones and the practice of their display in sacred and communal spaces in Central Mexico as well as in their political and forensic register, Ortega Trejo’s precise drawing could be read as a warning or a sign of perpetuation and regeneration.” Julia Birka- White, Director of Rhona Hoffman Gallery <img width="4000" height="3174" width_o="4000" height_o="3174" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5809940fc958c420d4328e6a15c6d13005a027035e7683772305188420203e2b/OrtegaTrejo-Alberto_CuandoNoNos_2022-Enhanced-SR.jpg" data-mid="211771311" border="0" alt="Cuando no nos dan fiebres, nos dan dolores en los huesos (When they don&rsquo;t give us fevers, they give us pains in the bones), 2022 - Charcoal on abrasive paper, metal plates, and magnets 24 x 29 inches" data-caption="Cuando no nos dan fiebres, nos dan dolores en los huesos (When they don’t give us fevers, they give us pains in the bones), 2022 - Charcoal on abrasive paper, metal plates, and magnets 24 x 29 inches" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5809940fc958c420d4328e6a15c6d13005a027035e7683772305188420203e2b/OrtegaTrejo-Alberto_CuandoNoNos_2022-Enhanced-SR.jpg" /> <img width="1898" height="1516" width_o="1898" height_o="1516" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d6074f788738f77348bfa2683dbc46dabd78e0ab8f8a9943f441aea0f468cf6c/Screen-Shot-2022-06-27-at-2.52.29-PM.png" data-mid="148924873" border="0" alt="Agua muy vieja del lugar espantoso (Very old water from the terrible place), 2022 - Plasma cut metal plates and magnets 45 x 54 inches" data-caption="Agua muy vieja del lugar espantoso (Very old water from the terrible place), 2022 - Plasma cut metal plates and magnets 45 x 54 inches" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d6074f788738f77348bfa2683dbc46dabd78e0ab8f8a9943f441aea0f468cf6c/Screen-Shot-2022-06-27-at-2.52.29-PM.png" /> <img width="1204" height="1514" width_o="1204" height_o="1514" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5374815b31568121392731dbda3cb6f6351997d869cbc1024d42fe826087c13c/Screen-Shot-2022-06-27-at-2.52.12-PM.png" data-mid="148924907" border="0" alt="Piedra de esqueleto, pesadilla de flor (Skeleton stone, plant nightmare), 2022 - Plasma cut metal, high heat coating, and magnets. 44 x 24 inches" data-caption="Piedra de esqueleto, pesadilla de flor (Skeleton stone, plant nightmare), 2022 - Plasma cut metal, high heat coating, and magnets. 44 x 24 inches" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5374815b31568121392731dbda3cb6f6351997d869cbc1024d42fe826087c13c/Screen-Shot-2022-06-27-at-2.52.12-PM.png" /> <img width="1305" height="1101" width_o="1305" height_o="1101" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/22d00d566c4688ba024839392f366910123c3de9630fd9dd95f0f8fe74ce9394/5c3e754739378cb9029ebdbbe11a9dfb.jpeg" data-mid="185244438" border="0" data-scale="100" alt="Installation view, Alberto Ortega Trejo at Rhona Hoffman Gallery, 2022" data-caption="Installation view, Alberto Ortega Trejo at Rhona Hoffman Gallery, 2022" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/22d00d566c4688ba024839392f366910123c3de9630fd9dd95f0f8fe74ce9394/5c3e754739378cb9029ebdbbe11a9dfb.jpeg" /> <img width="2000" height="1587" width_o="2000" height_o="1587" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0a2a398831b1140c08fff53de6af10648e54a21c3d3416365ea4067c69cc32dd/OrtegaTrejo-Alberto_CuandoNoNos_2022.jpeg" data-mid="148924847" border="0" alt="Cuando no nos dan fiebres, nos dan dolores en los huesos (When they don&rsquo;t give us fevers, they give us pains in the bones), 2022 - Charcoal on abrasive paper, metal plates, and magnets 24 x 29 inches" data-caption="Cuando no nos dan fiebres, nos dan dolores en los huesos (When they don’t give us fevers, they give us pains in the bones), 2022 - Charcoal on abrasive paper, metal plates, and magnets 24 x 29 inches" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0a2a398831b1140c08fff53de6af10648e54a21c3d3416365ea4067c69cc32dd/OrtegaTrejo-Alberto_CuandoNoNos_2022.jpeg" /> https://aestheticpromiscuity.com/El-Espejo-Otomi Mon, 05 Apr 2021 04:33:40 +0000 Alberto Ortega Trejo https://aestheticpromiscuity.com/El-Espejo-Otomi Las Aguas Bajan TurbiasFor BienalSurOn Otomí labor and territories, pollution and Mexico City’s Sewage system With Andrea Hunt This exhibition is comprised of El Mundo Debajo and El Espejo Otomí. El Mundo Debajo is an experimental documentary that traces the Mexican Modern state’s representation of indigeneity through the making of Mexico City’s sewage system. The video is projected over four prefabricated concrete panels.&nbsp; El Espejo Otomí is a sculpture consisting of eight concrete casts of a maguey leaf acting as a cladding system for a metal structure. This fragment takes a traditional building method of the Otomi region in Hidalgo to the material language of modernity. The Otomí region receives Mexico City’s black waters and has been historically exploited for minerals for the production of cement, a key element for the infrastructural transformations of Mexico City. 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width_o="2880" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/eddaf7d19065df82195c261589b75ebce1bedc30827adebbfd26686fdcce5a9a/Screen-Shot-2022-04-04-at-1.13.28-PM.png" data-mid="138621258" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/eddaf7d19065df82195c261589b75ebce1bedc30827adebbfd26686fdcce5a9a/Screen-Shot-2022-04-04-at-1.13.28-PM.png" /> https://aestheticpromiscuity.com/Media-Stations-Pilsen Tue, 25 Jan 2022 22:51:38 +0000 Alberto Ortega Trejo https://aestheticpromiscuity.com/Media-Stations-Pilsen Media Stations for PilsenW/ IngaExhibition Strategy and Public Space Intervention Media Stations for Pilsen is a series of three urban scale sculptural platforms that will allow the Pilsen community to create and engage in outdoor artistic and leisure events during the Summer of 2021. Each Media Station will center on a specific sensorial quality to be the main focus for the content and events it will host: Sonic, Visual and Tactile. The Sonic Station is a mobile sound system that will host listening sessions curated by artist Eduardo F. Rosario, block parties, karaoke sessions and sonideros programmed by neighbors and community members. The Visual Station consists of a mobile screening platform that will be used for outdoor lectures, artist talks and movie screenings curated by Pilsen based cineclub filmfront. The Tactile Station is an outdoor working table and meeting place to host reading groups, random encounters and artist led workshops&nbsp; coordinated by Pilsen based publishing platform Inga. Each station can stand alone and be combined to allow multimedia experiences.&nbsp; <img width="4320" height="2982" width_o="4320" height_o="2982" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2b93e53a8e99b09cb386675d1381850b3363a17a38cc0708586a80bf16f72f1a/MediaStationsFull.jpg" data-mid="131432472" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2b93e53a8e99b09cb386675d1381850b3363a17a38cc0708586a80bf16f72f1a/MediaStationsFull.jpg" /> <img width="4320" height="2982" width_o="4320" height_o="2982" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3296cbeb605e557f4f5f7543ce19a728f4bea7c06e944cd63ed41f95e8269f15/ISOSoundStation02.jpg" data-mid="131432450" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3296cbeb605e557f4f5f7543ce19a728f4bea7c06e944cd63ed41f95e8269f15/ISOSoundStation02.jpg" /> https://aestheticpromiscuity.com/The-Caravan Thu, 25 Apr 2019 15:34:53 +0000 Alberto Ortega Trejo https://aestheticpromiscuity.com/The-Caravan Freedom, baby, is never having to say you’re sorry (The Caravan)On Protest and CapitalismVideo Installation, Sullivan Galleries On Tax Day 2019—April 15th in the United States—I staged a deliberately ambiguous protest in Chicago using three white limousines. Recruiting the choreography of presidential motorcades, victory parades, and other spectacles of state power, The Caravan turns its logic inside out: What do protest, occupation of public space, and political efficacy even mean when every gesture is already absorbed, fed, and reproduced under hypercapitalism? The caravan’s route—Grant Park, Haymarket Square, Ida B. Wells Boulevard, Martin Luther King Drive—refuses tidy symbolism. Instead, it scrapes against the layered histories of labor struggle, racialized space, the vexed question of Whiteness, and the ancient, ungovernable fact of migration. The flags were flashing the following slogans: Automatic Protest Vehicle, After Protest, Privileged Discomfort . The event was documented by a press car and a drone. Video Installation: One curved 60” and two 48” monitors, &nbsp;This project was possible thanks to the support of: Andrea Hunt, Joshi Radin and Ilona Gaynor. <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/485e864fa9e31a83d93bca4c21cb4e189ee49394d9ca2f3318dfe19208e31a29/PrivilegedDiscomfort.jpg" data-mid="211768210" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/485e864fa9e31a83d93bca4c21cb4e189ee49394d9ca2f3318dfe19208e31a29/PrivilegedDiscomfort.jpg" /> <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/24eaa225b2cc0fdc1d0d0f170be7d60c80e9529b64cc91718012503ff38f4ccd/DJI_0921.00_02_02_19.Still003.jpg" data-mid="40830118" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/24eaa225b2cc0fdc1d0d0f170be7d60c80e9529b64cc91718012503ff38f4ccd/DJI_0921.00_02_02_19.Still003.jpg" /> <img width="900" height="560" width_o="900" height_o="560" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d5ba37996b65faf7ab8f4c522dc37289f068d35d02179342801f9674ca676ee5/PrivilegedDiscomfortFlag.png" data-mid="211768287" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/900/i/d5ba37996b65faf7ab8f4c522dc37289f068d35d02179342801f9674ca676ee5/PrivilegedDiscomfortFlag.png" /> <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/45516a2fd2f4544745e92cd0bfa62d7754f91fe9d730af25266de7ff0cdda039/DJI_0921.00_04_00_29.Still001.jpg" data-mid="40830120" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/45516a2fd2f4544745e92cd0bfa62d7754f91fe9d730af25266de7ff0cdda039/DJI_0921.00_04_00_29.Still001.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/01b7826a250509d032d852d5ee05bc5013148c6eee1fba0ec32352bed3c38ee5/Ground-Footage.00_04_52_10.Still003.jpg" data-mid="40830122" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/01b7826a250509d032d852d5ee05bc5013148c6eee1fba0ec32352bed3c38ee5/Ground-Footage.00_04_52_10.Still003.jpg" /> <img width="3021" height="3411" width_o="3021" height_o="3411" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5e1508c6f4e6400277ecaa2942a7e608bfab35f89a2951e686b1b2dcb0d2d9fb/IMG_0492.JPG" data-mid="42685344" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5e1508c6f4e6400277ecaa2942a7e608bfab35f89a2951e686b1b2dcb0d2d9fb/IMG_0492.JPG" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2e656a9bdf587ac0cb9c1e17f96730377ac06fd070cd7b48ff44cbdbb0554958/IMG_1621.JPG" data-mid="42684676" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2e656a9bdf587ac0cb9c1e17f96730377ac06fd070cd7b48ff44cbdbb0554958/IMG_1621.JPG" /> <img width="5100" height="3300" width_o="5100" height_o="3300" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/47c5c913a1f608adcbed016e18942f67d543ff6942156f7b15804d0ff1700b4c/TheCrowd.jpg" data-mid="41888245" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/47c5c913a1f608adcbed016e18942f67d543ff6942156f7b15804d0ff1700b4c/TheCrowd.jpg" /> https://aestheticpromiscuity.com/From-Outer-Space-to-Public-Space Mon, 20 May 2019 17:49:29 +0000 Alberto Ortega Trejo https://aestheticpromiscuity.com/From-Outer-Space-to-Public-Space From Outer Space to Public SpaceOn alienation and public spacePublic Performance and Videoinstallation From Outer Space to Public Space is an experimental panel for a discussion on racism, alienation, the future of the city and the legacies of Afrofuturism to re-think public space-time occupation. It took place inside Chicago’s CTA Red Line, an axis that makes evident racial segregation and infrastructural disparities. Thanks to Ann Lui, Shiben Banerji, Ytasha Womack, Delinda Collier and Rohan Ayinde. Filming crew: Julia Lopes and Kexin Li &nbsp;<img width="3000" height="3882" width_o="3000" height_o="3882" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b8d76b16106323afe544a9c11c567a63fbcbb5291ceb426136cab30f99e101c4/PosterCTAFuture.jpg" data-mid="42685765" border="0" data-scale="82" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b8d76b16106323afe544a9c11c567a63fbcbb5291ceb426136cab30f99e101c4/PosterCTAFuture.jpg" /> <img width="10667" height="6000" width_o="10667" height_o="6000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/36bc3b789ac20b22a2e7236b2551b3a5679c1defd95d858e90e3a6ec640ab70e/OSPS_TypeFilm.jpg" data-mid="84712019" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/36bc3b789ac20b22a2e7236b2551b3a5679c1defd95d858e90e3a6ec640ab70e/OSPS_TypeFilm.jpg" /> <img width="1280" height="720" width_o="1280" height_o="720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3d92654fd96e2b3be94fcfceb7dd5cb6f5115bc4d31dee39adf12519651ef25c/TESTWEBDocumentationOuterSpace.jpg" data-mid="83620645" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3d92654fd96e2b3be94fcfceb7dd5cb6f5115bc4d31dee39adf12519651ef25c/TESTWEBDocumentationOuterSpace.jpg" /> <img width="10667" height="6000" width_o="10667" height_o="6000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f048b1303b8222cabf495486e56d2f778b183cffa5ac66bb8a6aa1e7316fe2ad/OSPS_TypeFilm3.jpg" data-mid="84712021" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f048b1303b8222cabf495486e56d2f778b183cffa5ac66bb8a6aa1e7316fe2ad/OSPS_TypeFilm3.jpg" /> <img width="10667" height="6000" width_o="10667" height_o="6000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6a7e164d17216c613f4c1988b84a09dab2484a511fc542534c61ba547bec78ea/OSPS_TypeFilm5.jpg" data-mid="84712023" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6a7e164d17216c613f4c1988b84a09dab2484a511fc542534c61ba547bec78ea/OSPS_TypeFilm5.jpg" /> https://aestheticpromiscuity.com/The-Smallest-Things-and-D-Zero Fri, 07 Feb 2020 16:21:26 +0000 Alberto Ortega Trejo https://aestheticpromiscuity.com/The-Smallest-Things-and-D-Zero The Smallest Things In Collaboration with Efrat HakimiFor the Harun Farocki’s Institut’s Labour in a Single Shot.On quantum physics and human societies The Smallest Things and D-Zero are two-minute portraits of the abstract and physical labor performed by physicists at the FermiLab Particle Accelerator in Batavia, Illinois. These portraits were premiered at the screening of “Labour in a Single Shot” for the exhibition Re-Working Labor at Sullivan Galleries. Labour in a Single Shot is a travelling platform started by Antje Ehmann and Harun Farocki in 2011. https://aestheticpromiscuity.com/The-Issue-You-Mentioned-Earlier Mon, 20 May 2019 18:26:47 +0000 Alberto Ortega Trejo https://aestheticpromiscuity.com/The-Issue-You-Mentioned-Earlier The Issue You Mentioned EarlierOn ecology and capitalismExhibition <img width="864" height="1267" width_o="864" height_o="1267" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/aba145284da5379d7efc78aa029a5a278b0d2e0ce4252e34b8241a71ac67c092/Screen-Shot-2019-05-20-at-1.56.57-PM.png" data-mid="42691176" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/864/i/aba145284da5379d7efc78aa029a5a278b0d2e0ce4252e34b8241a71ac67c092/Screen-Shot-2019-05-20-at-1.56.57-PM.png" /> <img width="4240" height="2832" width_o="4240" height_o="2832" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f271c77357d94fa892af5173966695e7b882e7b90d1dfba93d91287973ddb1c5/DSC00039.JPG" data-mid="42691640" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f271c77357d94fa892af5173966695e7b882e7b90d1dfba93d91287973ddb1c5/DSC00039.JPG" /> <img width="990" height="650" width_o="990" height_o="650" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/58fe15965d22fb3000603214dd4041214fea6e68444d20f10d3e4b69542e4a60/Screen-Shot-2019-05-20-at-1.58.49-PM.png" data-mid="42691406" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/990/i/58fe15965d22fb3000603214dd4041214fea6e68444d20f10d3e4b69542e4a60/Screen-Shot-2019-05-20-at-1.58.49-PM.png" /> <img width="990" height="650" width_o="990" height_o="650" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8b651ffb5e0123e11a053cd0be52793277d2832cf3bea4e95e71231fd922722f/Screen-Shot-2019-05-20-at-1.58.57-PM.png" data-mid="42691407" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/990/i/8b651ffb5e0123e11a053cd0be52793277d2832cf3bea4e95e71231fd922722f/Screen-Shot-2019-05-20-at-1.58.57-PM.png" /> <img width="990" height="650" width_o="990" height_o="650" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bcb11db93df0cc25e62700e8f1b5d07c5a9f8cf6b0d54cccaac65da100f5f330/Screen-Shot-2019-05-20-at-1.59.08-PM.png" data-mid="42691408" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/990/i/bcb11db93df0cc25e62700e8f1b5d07c5a9f8cf6b0d54cccaac65da100f5f330/Screen-Shot-2019-05-20-at-1.59.08-PM.png" /> <img width="990" height="650" width_o="990" height_o="650" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e7353143ecf09e0d59404bcff544f864f376f84fd6dc60327c5bb5cd7749b6fa/Screen-Shot-2019-05-20-at-1.59.17-PM.png" data-mid="42691409" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/990/i/e7353143ecf09e0d59404bcff544f864f376f84fd6dc60327c5bb5cd7749b6fa/Screen-Shot-2019-05-20-at-1.59.17-PM.png" /> <img width="4240" height="2832" width_o="4240" height_o="2832" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/becc974b53a36f731783b0b5dbcdb7b859a0df955af966359b08f5fa19974365/DSC00030.JPG" data-mid="42688480" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/becc974b53a36f731783b0b5dbcdb7b859a0df955af966359b08f5fa19974365/DSC00030.JPG" /> <img width="2000" height="2988" width_o="2000" height_o="2988" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a0d61802c189f99ec2af4024e7dfc11f7e83a06f5ab10927259ff4c2f9046b8f/DSC_0020.jpeg" data-mid="42688348" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a0d61802c189f99ec2af4024e7dfc11f7e83a06f5ab10927259ff4c2f9046b8f/DSC_0020.jpeg" /> <img width="2000" height="1339" width_o="2000" height_o="1339" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/56013ba3a930078b58750a5db0e59174476588f0888c920c3db688ba91c52d5c/DSC_0108.jpeg" data-mid="42688290" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/56013ba3a930078b58750a5db0e59174476588f0888c920c3db688ba91c52d5c/DSC_0108.jpeg" /> <img width="4240" height="2832" width_o="4240" height_o="2832" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d0a6b3da920e3b040ad0e1562a670c27b9f040b2f4cf58589741b329095781da/DSC00036.JPG" data-mid="42688489" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d0a6b3da920e3b040ad0e1562a670c27b9f040b2f4cf58589741b329095781da/DSC00036.JPG" /> <img width="2000" height="2988" width_o="2000" height_o="2988" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f0c3a41db241e659b7d708d0ddd9aaf11f48899a7207a5409797befbc9d9da2a/DSC_0067.jpeg" data-mid="42688340" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f0c3a41db241e659b7d708d0ddd9aaf11f48899a7207a5409797befbc9d9da2a/DSC_0067.jpeg" /> On March 19, 2015, Florida’s emergency management chief testified before the State Senate Budget Subcommittee against a federal proposal: pulling disaster funding from states that aim to directly address climate change. A climate change denier in a position to manage crisis, he performed a series of verbal gymnastics—avoiding any scientific acknowledgment of our catastrophic trajectory. The centerpiece of the resulting work, Wish You Weren’t Here, is a scaled steel cofferdam (a structure engineered to keep foundations dry below sea level). Inside it, projected over a melted block of ice, run actual phrases from official emails by U.S. Senate officials who have made public their refusal to acknowledge climate catastrophes. That ice—residue of the Polar Vortex that struck Chicago one week before the show’s opening—gradually floods the very dam built to hold such threats at bay. Thuribles house the Destroying Angel, a poisonous mushroom whose name belies its quiet lethality—embodying climate change as abstract, unspectacular, and ever-present. A nilometer wired into the gallery’s circuit box measures the dimensions of an Ideal Flood.&nbsp; In collaboration with Rosemary Hall.This project was possible thanks to the support of Jonathan Solomon and David L. Hays. https://aestheticpromiscuity.com/Post-National-Pavilion Sat, 10 Oct 2020 20:13:04 +0000 Alberto Ortega Trejo https://aestheticpromiscuity.com/Post-National-Pavilion Post National PavilionsW/ Maite Borjabad and Agustin SchangExhibition Strategy This proposal was formally submitted to and rejected by the selection committees of Mexico, Spain and Argentina for the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale: How will we live together? This proposal articulates the possibility of three countries hosting the same exhibition and case studies at the same time during the Venice Biennale. It proposed to revise and commision new work to multidisciplinary teams addressing the colonial legacy of Spain in Latinamerica and vice-versa through a series of specific cases of monuments, maps and public spaces in both continents that speak of the constant tension between both perspectives of the colonial encounter. The pavilions would share a common imaginary ground in the form of the Magallanes-El Cano route map drawn and divided on the floor of the three countries. While props and scenery would create the objectual components of a mobile theater of spatial operations. Special thanks to Miguel Herreras <img width="5000" height="2813" width_o="5000" height_o="2813" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dff4608a3c94055ee916c06c977e3974904ae02320b977a4682574e558d9be33/spainrenderpersonas.jpg" data-mid="85216421" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dff4608a3c94055ee916c06c977e3974904ae02320b977a4682574e558d9be33/spainrenderpersonas.jpg" /> <img width="5000" height="2813" width_o="5000" height_o="2813" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/282804ca2cbfa5ae1b7672c9f44d9d0307a1465de31878dc9dd3dae98c76139e/argentinarenderpersonas.jpg" data-mid="85216420" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/282804ca2cbfa5ae1b7672c9f44d9d0307a1465de31878dc9dd3dae98c76139e/argentinarenderpersonas.jpg" />