Arte Abierto presents the transversal journey with Cinthya García Leyva Disarming the texts in relation to the current exhibition Cositas by Mario García Torres (Coahuila, 1975).

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 in the Cositas exhibition will be thought of as artifacts and waste that can be rearranged to find internal connections within the works. rooms.

Seeking to do practical exercises that link the text with the sound, and the visual with the verbal, they will be placed 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 Transverse Tours are visits to the Open Art exhibitions with guests from various areas beyond art, to expand the themes and points of reference from other perspectives, perspectives, languages and disciplines.

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 Max Aub Chair - Transdisciplinary 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.

Free admission

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