Pepe Mogt & Tania Candiani | Sound kiosk activation

As part of the Arte Abrierto Public Program and in collaboration with the Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC, UNAM) Metal On Metal On Wind will be carried out, an outdoor sound intervention by Pepe Mogt to activate the Kiosk sculpture sound (2018) by Tania Candian that is part of the Arte Abierto Collection.

It is a piece made up of a series of trumpets connected to each other, which refers to the traditional kiosks in public squares. Its shape reflects on the social and cultural dynamics behind these constructions and how we appropriate them in our daily lives.

Tania Candiani (Mexico City, 1974) Lives and works in Mexico City. One of the central interests of her work is the expanded idea of translation, extended to the experimental field through the use of visual, sound, textual and symbolic languages. Many of her projects consider the universe of sound and the politics of listening as a tool capable of expanding and transforming perceptions, both human and non-human. A fundamental part of her work is related to feminist policies and practices, understanding them as a communal, affective and ritual experience. The production of it usually involves interdisciplinary work groups in various fields, consolidating intersections between art, literature, music, architecture, science and labor, with an emphasis on ancestral knowledge and techniques, technologies and their history in the production of knowledge. She is a member of the National System of Art Creators of Mexico; she is a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship in the Arts, the Smithsonian Institution Research Grant for Artists; she is an artist-in-residence at the Arts at CERN program, in Geneva, Switzerland. In 2015 she represented Mexico at the 56th Venice Biennale. Her work has been exhibited internationally in museums, institutions and independent spaces, and is part of important public and private collections.

— Arte Abierto