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WEATHER PAINTINGS
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Beeswax,
resin,
pigments
& steel rust
on wood.




WULKAN STUDIES
RESEARCH CENTER
FOR PHENOMENA
BEYOND OUR KEN



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Through layers of beeswax, resin, pigments and sometimes steel rust, Weather Paintings portrait scenarios. These scenarios are informed by atmospheric phenomena.

When questioning the constant mutation of our identity, conceiving as reciprocal our relationship with our context, with atmospheric phenomena and with all the innumerable forces that constitute the whole becomes reasonable.






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OPENING NIGHT

Eight paintings, along with two instalations and a three act performance titled Atmospheric Attunement No. 33 were exhibited as a show curated by Enrique Giner de los Ríos at Edificio Lolyta (Monterrey, Mx).



8.JUN.2024-
3.SEPT.2023

Edificio Lolyta 
Monterrey MX
























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Sol Oosel in colaboration with: 

Claudia Villarreal
Lissette Armendáriz
Nora Rodríguez
Hector Méndez
Daniel Fuentes
German Deheza
Ricardo Antúnez
and the special appearance of soprano singer Radha Mar







Inspired by works of expanded cinema; dance, music, paintings, TVs, light, dust, fog, electromagnetic signals, the sounds of street activity, preconceptions, the unexpected, forces of unknowable origin, et all., transformed the atmosphere of an entire building and directed our attention to the metaness of it all, to our shared responsibility of the ineffable sensations that prevail and to these scenarios in which we all coexist.


Atmospheric Attunement No.33






























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Collab show by
Ensamble 22
Curated by Sol Oosel

Claudio González
Emilio Algo
Jorge García
Magaly Ugarte
Ramón Saturnino
Sites
Sol Oosel














WULKAN STUDIES RESEARCH CENTER FOR PHENOMENA BEYOND OUR KEN


22.NOV.2023-
26.NOV.2023

Espacio Báltico
CDMX


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222 by 22
222 is the 2nd exhibition by 22
2222 will be the next
22222 will be the next after the next

- Collaborative exhibitions -

…we all collaborate on everybody’s individual work.


222 (a piece in itself)

¿To what extent do we collaborate?
(At the end of the day it does not matter, it ends up adding up).


Who does not claim authorship?

¡¡¡!!!

You while reading these letters?

Who at a 83405873409587 km distance breathes?



The landscape?
The context?
The weather?
The Unknowable?











The we among us may be an underestimated factor.




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There is no they.






















            

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Between november 18 and 21, Ensamble 22 carried out various actions at Wulkan Studies Research Center For Phenomena Beyond Our Ken.

The performance took place without assembled spectators or listeners (that we know of).

Starting on November 22, anyone who visits the space can direct their attention to the resonances of the performance that prevail.

Beyond what’s caused by material phenomena and their diverse volumes, beyond the magic of symbols, beyond the limits of our attention, beyond what the mind dictates... what can we feel?

Premonitions?
Intuitions?
Is it contagious?

“…ways of attending to the charged atmospheres of everyday life … how they constitute a compositional present, pushing circulating forces into form, texture and density so that can be felt, imagined, brought to bear or just born.”  
- Kathleen Stewart


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"The song becomes the meaning itself through the vibratory qualities. When we begin to catch the vibratory qualities... the song begins to sing us... I don't know anymore if I am finding that song or if I am that song."
- Jerzy Grotowski


Atmospheric Attunement No.22


























A QUIEN LE CANTA EL VIENTO,






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solo show at PEANA



3.FEB.2023-
3.AUG.2023

(Monterrey, N.L.)


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The Sound That Makes Us


The Sound That Makes Us is a series of 12 paintings inspired by the time spent at the desert of Mina while working with Las Coristas, these paintings portrait landscapes in which forces and phenomena beyond our ken are considered. Conceiving as reciprocal our relationship with the landscapes we inhabit and all the innumerable forces that constitute the whole becomes reasonable. An analogy could be made with the way we reciprocally relate with an artwork. The question is raised, “If all the time everything sculpts everything and the constitution of one is thanks to the other, where are the limits of one and the other?”.

Paintings were made using encaustic medium and pigments to portrait landscapes. Steel was then rusted on top of these landscapes covering them with dust.


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The landscape that makes us, as all else, we can agree, is at all times, mostly occult.



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The Sound That Makes Us
(A song to be heard in certain dreams)











The Sound That Makes Us
(Coyotes, wishing many more humans embraced not knowing)














The Sound That Makes Us
(What joins the dots of a constellation)






















LAS CORISTAS

Sculpture / Film / Performance



Horizontes - a collective show of public art by Las Artes Monterrey

curated by Paola Santos Coy

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30.SEP.2022-
11.NOV.2022

Macroplaza 
(Monterrey, N.L.)


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During a performance in the desert of Mina, Nuevo Leon, Sol Oosel sculpted two standing stones with sound waves amplified through a set of speakers; only to find out that simultaneously his own self was also being sculpted, not only by the sounds both menhir’s emanate on their own, but also, to another extent, by the sounds of the desert landscape and beyond. The question is raised, “If all the time everything sculpts everything and the constitution of one is thanks to the other, where are the limits of one and the other?”.


During the performance a film was shot in 16mm film in collaboration with artist Guillermo Garza.


















22

Collab Show / Performance
Curated by Sol Oosel


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A show where eight artists, in equal measure, collaborate on putting on a show on a set. The set is formed by individual artwork by the eight artists involved. The show (and a performance) is played by all of them in and with the set.

¿Is it the individual artwork, is it the set as a whole, is it the performance, is it the way the eight artists involved attend their relationship and the peculiar moods of this relationship, is it the atmosphere / vibe that is sensed or experienced at the show, is it the memory of it all, is it all of the above?




11.FEB.2022-
13.FEB.2022

Rio Nilo 220
(México City)


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A SONG TO BE HEARD IN CERTAIN DREAMS



UNATTENDED MESSAGES 1.1-1.4 & A LIGHT TO LIGHT THE WORK 



Sol Oosel 



Solo Show
Curated by Alejandro Romero

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@ EDA


02.DEC.2021-08.JAN.2022
Mexico City



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The four paintings in this show come from images channelled on a kinescope (cathode ray tube). These were accomplished by feeding the kinescope with sound waves and existing interferences in the atmosphere of an unknown nature. After this, linen canvases were prepared with resin, alabaster dust, waxes, Prussian blue pigment, and latex, to paint over with enamel paint.

“Unattended Messages” part from a conversation in which, among other things, we consider the existance of a certain part of us which is unknowable. This unknowable part of us seems to be in constant conversation with other entities from the unknowable realm. These conversations, which exclude knowledge and intelligible discourse, shape us. We are not who we think we are. Embracing this may help us celebrate being forever uncertain.





































WE SHALL NOT NAME THIS FEELING  



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Installation
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Conference
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Performace


9

preguntas para
cualquier tormenta

Sol Oosel & Mario Garcia Torres


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part of LA POÉTICA DEL REGRESO
an exhibition by Mario Garcia Torres 
curated by Taiyana Pimentel 


MARCO
(MONTERREY)




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These are three, of the ten, copper covered wall sculptures that conform the circuit of ‘Conductors Of Transtemporal Resonances’ that are part of the installation. The circuit is closed by copper wire. The sound/energy produced during the conference/performance passes through the copper sculptures before being amplified through the speakers.


CONDUCTORES DE RESONANCIAS TRANSTEMPORALES:


A Transdimentional Quantum Storm, 2021

Where The Feeling Is Felt, 2021

The Nature Of Any Messages Being Sent Is Unknown, 2021

The Chasm Between You And Me Is Nonexistent, 2021

As Deleuze And Guattari Said: “Noise May Break Some Connections, But Connections Will Always Continue To Grow In Other Directions, Creating New Thoughts And New Affects.”, 2021

More Than 100,000 Echos, 2021

Where The Thunder Roars, 2021

Lightning Is Four Times Hotter Than The Sun, 2021

An Accurate Frequency Not Only Acts On Our Ears But Also Produces A Transformation In All The Cells Of Our Body, 2021

Is The Crackling Of Cosmic Radiation An Intended Message?, 2021













PRACTICAL DEMONSTRATIONS OF UNIQUE QUANTUM SYSTEMS AS MECHANISMS TO PRODUCE RESONANCES IN THE EARTH’S ATMOSPHERE (A DOCUMENT)



Video (4:14)
Sol Oosel & Mario Garcia Torres


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OTRXS MUNDXS

MUSEO TAMAYO (MÉXICO CITY)



28.NOV.2020-28.APR.2021



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SOLO (EL PROCESO METAFÓRICO)

and/or

THE METAPHORICAL PROCESS BY WHICH A BEAM OF LIGHT OR OTHER SISTEM OF WAVES IS SPREAD OUT AS A RESULT OF PASSSING THROUGH A NARROW APERTURE OR ACROSS AN EDGE, TYPICALLY ACCOMPAINED BY INTERFERENCE BETWEEN THE WAVEFORMS PRODUCED (A VISIT).

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MUSEO JUMEX 


01.OCT.-25.OCT.2020


An exhibition by Mario Garcia Torres & Sol Oosel
curated by Kit Hammonds

















Sol Oosel & Mario Garcia Torres
Instalación en la Galería 1 del Museo Jumex 
2020





⁣Did the music set the mood or was the mood responsible for the music?? The mood, no doubt, was a special one. 2020´s summer lockdown politics, that helped shape SOLO a Mario Garcia Torres show at Museo Jumex, allowed only one visitor (myself) to visit what I recall as a show made up of three series of massive, impressive and thought provoking paintings. During my visit, after having had a fair share of words we shifted the conversation into the wordless musical realm.⠀As a result, five moments of our improvised casual musical conversation, were pressed on a 10” black vinyl.

Autum arrived and Museo Jumex once again welcomed visitors. The  sound works on vinyl were exposed as an echo of the ephemeral project where sound was now present in place of the image, and visitors occupy the gallery in place of the lone artist.

Not sure how to answer to the the opening question, but we’d bet on the later. 


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VOLCANIC ROCKS SCULPTED WITH SOUND WAVES: No.20, No.12 & No.22



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SCULPTED
DURING

72 HOURS



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LA ESCULTORA


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A SOUND INSTALATION

CANTERA NEGRA AND
SOUND WAVES

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Exhibited February 1, 2020
at MUDA 
curated by Alejandro Romero
for Casa Lü Mexico City




















EN ALLÉGEANCE À L’INCONNAISSABLE



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UNE ÉTUDE EN CHORÉGRAPHIE POUR LE FLUX D’ÉNERGIE


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TRACKLIST
01  In Allegiance To The Unknowable
02  The Remains Of Earlier Temples
03  Fare Il Proprio (Autres Directions)
04  Notre Soulèvement
05  North Wind Through The Gates Of Hearing
06  Asymmetrical Harmony And The Dissolution Of Reality
07  Here (Au Bord De L’Univers)
08  Temple Of Names
09  Attunement For A Thunderstorm
10  Temple Of Names (James Place remix — digital bonus track)











25  OCT  2019

Umor Rex • Catalog UR122
www.umor-rex.org



Composed, Recorded and Mixed at Wulkan Studies by Sol Oosel (Tepoztlán, México).

Mastered at Black Knoll Studios by Rafael Anton Irisarri (New York, USA).

Design by Daniel Castrejón, photographs by Diego Berruecos.

Attunement For A Thunderstorm video by Sol Oosel.


















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PRACTICAL DEMONSTRATIONS OF UNIQUE QUANTUM SYSTEMS AS MECHANISMS TO PRODUCE RESONANCES IN THE EARTH’S ATMOSPHERE  


AND THEIR

 CONDUCTORS OF TRANSTEMPORAL RESONANCES


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PERFORMANCE & EXHIBITION
by Mario García Torres & Sol Oosel 

SUMMER 2019


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Saturday, August the 3rd, 18h
Requires prior registration
Place: Exhibition Hall. Universidad Torcuato DI Tella. Av. Figueroa Alcorta 7350. CABA. Argentina.
The exhibition can be visited from Monday to Friday from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. until August 23













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PRESS RELEASE -

July 2019 The Art Department of the Torcuato Di Tella University is pleased to invite you to Practical Demonstrations of Unique Quantum Systems as Mechanisms to Produce Resonances in the Earth's Atmosphere, a performatic conference by artists Sol Oosel and Mario García Torres where the past resynchronizes with the present, through sound, music and spoken word. On Saturday, August 3 at 6pm, in the UTDT Exhibition Hall, the artists will bring sounds collected from places that witnessed in the sixties the activity at the Torcuato Di Tella Institute and the Latin American Center for Higher Musical Studies (CLAEM). These sounds, as well as those generated by the electronic instruments constructed and used in those years at CLAEM, will be part of the sound experiments conducted at the performatic conference. A conference where the resonances of these avant-garde activities give rise to a transtemporal collaboration.


The Conductors of Transtemporal Resonances are two works by artists Sol Oosel and Mario García Torres. Each one consists of a number of copper-covered panels that conducted all sounds produced in Practical Demonstrations of Unique Quantum Systems as Mechanisms to Produce Resonances in the Earth's Atmosphere, a performatic conference by the artists held in Buenos Aires in the summer of 2019. During the presentation of Practical Demonstrations, the artists evoked, through sound, music and spoken word, the characters - and their activities - that were part of the avant-garde Institute di Tella and the Latin American Center for Higher Musical Studies (CLAEM), which functioned during the sixties in the Argentine capital. All the sounds produced during the performance, both by the original analog oscillators and the rest of the pieces of furniture rescued from the CLAEM, as well as by the voices of the artists and their contemporary synthesizers were conducted, before their reproduction in speakers, through the Conductors of Transtemporal Resonances. Thus the panels that at one time looked like decoration of the set were essential elements in the transmission of the recanalized energies. Both pieces were, although in an invisible way, affected and reconstituted by what was developed in the performatic conference:

I am flooded by the inconceivable silence of what was & The loving state of the intentions contained before.
































VOLCANIC ROCK SCULPTED WITH SOUND WAVES No.91



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Exhibited April 13, 2019
at Potluck No. 1
curated by Alejandro Romero
for U.S.S.R Mexico City


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AN OPENING IN YOUR DREAM BODY

ref — SOL#002







—SEARCHING
FOR HACKS
IN
OTHER STATES

OF CONSCIOUSNESS





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AN
EXERCISE

WITH
SOUND WAVES

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Sound has may traits. An Opening In Your Dream Body (a series of performances) is a shout-out to one of these: the power of helping a listener cross from one state of consciousness to another.


Dream
/drēm/
a state of mind in which someone is or seems to be unaware of their immediate surroundings.

Is this a proper definition? Do you agree that nothing is, everything just seems to be? Is it smart to place a frontier between what´s immediate and what´s not? Are my surroundings infinite? Does “I” includes my surroundings? Is “I” a stale term? If the part of infinity that we can be aware of is minuscule (arguably to the point of irrelevance), is to dream with our conjectures our constant? Inspired by anything in our surroundings, have we a different state of consciousness with every pulse? Aren´t we all, inevitably, constant psychonauts? May what seems irrelevant and useless in one state of consciousness end up beneficial and powerful and in another state of consciousness? Is attention the most valuable asset? Does the plethora of thresholds we constantly cross make up what Robert Anton Wilson refers to as a reality tunnel? Are we answering every question with, “...it just seems”? Can god move?













































IF YOU´RE CLOSE ENOUGH
TO YOUR LOVER





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¿Can we learn to see two red dots?
(Try twisting your head.)













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JANUS


















—THE SUN            CASTS
      A
—SHADOW


IN   YOUR   MIND














Janus is my debut album as a solo musician. In a certian Rome, Janus is the god of doors, thresholds, transitions, beginnings as well as endings. Janus is commonly portrayed with two faces, each one attending a different direction.

The electronics of modular synthesizers, the olympic spirits of New wave, Krautrock beats, the plausible nonsense of No wave, Californian psychedelia, the colors of rural Mexican life, the thresholds between different states of consciousness, and overall the intimacy with oneself were some of the subjects that inspired.

Janus counts with the participation of distinguished colleagues: Yamil Rezc, Rodrigo Dávila from Villa Lobos, Alejandro Constanzo from Pura Crema, Migue from She’s a Tease, Julián from Disco Ruido, Phil Vinall, Renato del Real, Jose from Da Punto Beat, and Memo Guerra from Abstrakt Muzak.

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The Dark Side Of The Sun

The sun casts a shadow in your mind.
Heavy rain is gonna to fall fall fall on your side.

I’m feeling fine with the meltdown.
Forecasting the past we’ll survive.

I’m feeling fine with not knowing.
Greek distorted seas inhabit light.

Blueish greenish blood will speak of meaning.
I can feel the fire rise within.

Stand between the walls of Libyan Merits.
Janus may you dawn who we are.

The sun casts a shadow in your mind.
Heavy rain is gonna to fall fall on your side.










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THE HILLS


ref — SOL#001


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Sol explains, “The way Jaime channels his moves is very akin to the way I jabber some of my vocals; the sense of it seems to hide beyond the schooled language”.














For Sol Oosel’s The Hills, Mario García Torres directed a video in which he addresses innovative polish dramaturge Jerzy Grotowski’s methods. Grotowski, one of the main contributors to contemporary performance, created a psychophysical system of exercises to redefine the bodily and mental consciousness of the performer. In a psychedelic manner, the video consists of Jaime Soriano (Grotowski’s Mexican colleague) channeling cathartic dance movements to the song and of a dialogue, written by García Torres, that connects the ideas of everyone involved.

Press release



VIDEO by Mario Garcia Torres with the performance of Jaime Soriano



EXTRA FOOTAGE / BEHIND THE SCENES










¿DE QUÉ SE TRATA?

Se trata de una disciplina que tiende a la superación de la condición individual para ir más allá del propio Yo.

Se trata de una disciplina que se basa en partículas detalladas y definidas, en estructuras técnicas y ejercicios que nos permiten salir de la mecanicidad de la repetición de la vida cotidiana y reencontrar el flujo vital en el aquí y en el ahora, en la experiencia del presente.

Se trata de una disciplina que nos provee de ciertos instrumentos y de cierta competencia técnica que luego podrán ser utilizadas con fines profesionales en el caso del actor por ejemplo, o con fines personales en el caso de la vida propia.

- Jaime Soriano en referencia a sus prácticas.























18900s



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A total of nine sonic performances at josegarcia,mx booth ARTE BA - Buenos Aires (Argentina)

The number matrix announces the schedule for nine performances.

The first performance happens from 15:11 pm to 15:55 pm on the twenty third of May, 2018.

The last performance happens from 19:30 pm to 19:53 pm on the twenty fifth of May, 2018.

One plus five plus one plus one plus one plus five plus five plus five plus two plus three plus cero plus five plus two plus cero plus one plus eight equals forty five. Four plus five equals nine. In the same manner, the numbers of each line can be reduced to number nine.


The first day a total of 7,020 seconds were performed. The second day a total of 6,300 seconds were performed. The third day a total of 5,580 seconds were performed. In total 18,900 seconds were performed. All these numbers, in the same manner as before, can be reduced to number nine.

All these seconds and numbers, the math and the magic of number nine are just relevant to the poster that announces the schedule of the sonic performances. The sonic performances have to do with something else...






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LAS RELACIONES MENTALES



@ MUSEO TAMAYO  -  PERFORMANCE



EDUARDO
COSTA

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MARIO 
GARCÍA
TORRES

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MUSEO 
TAMAYO






Los artistas Mario García Torres y Sol Oosel realizarán una presentación performática del libro Las relaciones mentales de Eduardo Costa. Entre textos sobre el artista argentino, escritos de su autoría y música compuesta a partir de sus letras, se creará una lectura no-literal de la publicación.


Publicado con motivo de la exposición homónima en el Museo Tamayo, la edición realiza un recorrido por el trabajo literario y visual que Costa ha desarrollado a lo largo de más de seis décadas, a través de textos, material de archivo y un desplegado visual que, en conjunto, permiten generar un panorama amplio del interés del artista argentino por los medios de comunicación, los happenings, la música, la literatura oral, la poesía y la moda.


12 de Noviembre, 2017.

















XILATLÁN



Documentary of an expermiental concrete sculpture workshop organized by Tezontle Studio at Las Pozas (Xilitla, Mexico)







On August, 2016, Lucas Cantú y Carlos Matos of "Tezontle Studio" invited me to produce a video piece as they, with the rest of "Beton Machine", conducted an experimental concrete sculpture workshop in Edward James’ garden in Xilitla, San Luis Potosí. On October of the same year, the video piece was exhibited (modified for two screens), alongside a selection of the produced sculptures, at Mexico City’s Galería Marso. David Stent (Chair of The Edward James Research Committee) read fragments of "Xilatlan Taziol" a poem written by Edward Silence himself.
























TETELA




Performance and sound piece for a Mario García Torres art project.

Tetela is a film that forms part of 'The Strange Things My Eyes See', Mario García Torres' solo show for gallery Neugerreimschneider in Berlín, presented the 16th of September in 2015. Sol Oosel collaborated as an actor, sound man, and composing the music of the film.


'The Strange Things My Eyes See'
Installation view, neugerriemschneider, Berlin
September 17 - October 31, 2015


© Mario García Torres - Photo: Jens Ziehe, Berlin. Courtesy the artist and neugerriemschneider, Berlin
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