GuggenSITO is a portable, floating museum – an inflatable structure, much like a bouncy castle, that parodies major modern art museums.
GuggenSITO is a portable, floating museum, an inflatable structure similar to children's play equipment that parodies large modern art museums.
GuggenSITO is a portable, floating museum, an inflatable structure similar to children's play equipment that parodies large modern art museums. Its shape mimics the architecture of Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao. The design is deliberately clumsy, but beyond the obvious parody, it is a piece that addresses the inclusions and exclusions enacted by culture.
Its name includes a double trope: -sito as a diminutive and -sitio, alluding to the work in situ. This mobile museum does not operate from its formal presence, but from its architectural condition. It is not made to be seen, unlike the original, but to be used. It is a space intended for pure play and sociability that contrasts with the use of museums in post-industrial society.
For Múltiple, Eder Castillo presents the 3rd edition of GuggenSITO in co-production with Arte Abierto and Iraxine, accompanied by a series of activities and activations to explore the many ways of inhabiting this floating museum.
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Eder Castillo
GuggenSITO, 2011, 2016, 2024
Inflatable sculpture made of plastic tarp and synthetic fabric.
Since 2011, it has been located in different parts of Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean.
3rd Edition. Created in collaboration with Fundación Arte Abierto and Iranixe.
Learn more at: https://guggensito.blogspot.com/
Self-taught visual artist and curator focused on sociocultural research and art in public space, at the intersection of architecture, visual arts and anthropology. His projects aim at an interaction between non-traditional audiences and art. In parallel, he has developed professionally in the field of curatorship, teaching and cultural management. He has been a member of the National System of Art Creators of FONCA since 2020 in the discipline of alternative media. He has participated in multiple residency programs such as Tabacalera Estancias for Ibero-American Curators - Ministry of Culture of Spain (ES), Artery Foundation - Gilberto Alzate Avenaño Foundation (CO), YAXS Foundation (GT) and Casa Vecina Foundation of the Historical Center (MX); Beneficiary of the PAC/COVID-19 Support Fund (2020), FONCA-CONACYT International Artistic Residency Program (2012- 2013), FONCA Special Support Program (2010), Program to Support Production and Research in Art and Media Center Multimedia-CNA (2006) and National System of Art Creators FONCA (2020-2023). His work has been shown in Spain, Switzerland, Sweden, Italy, Slovenia, Poland, Indonesia, Japan, Egypt, South Africa, the United States, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Puerto Rico, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador, Mexico, and other countries.
Instagram: @edercastilloj
Arte Abierto inicia su programa de mediación y comunicación educativa 2022 con una conversación entre la investigadora y escritora Irmgard Emmelhainz y Sebastien Noel de Troika, tomando la exposición No Sound of Water como punto de partida. Abordarán los temas presentes en este proyecto, como el Antropoceno, y harán diferentes lecturas y cuestionamientos (Materialist Realism / Philosophy of Matter / Art as Image).
Irmgard Emmelhainz transmitirá en vivo desde No Sound of Water en Arte Abierto.
