Transplanetary Frequencies Station. Laboratory with Gabriela Munguía
Date: Wednesday, June 12, 2024
Time: 6:00 to 9:00 p.m.
Format: In-person
Free admission with prior registration
Today, outer space has also become a territory of extraction and conquest. We are in an era where technology is the main force that organizes and shapes the different aspects of society, while the planet is going through an economic, social, and environmental crisis that permeates our relationships and the way we inhabit territories.
It is in this scenario that, drawing from our creativity and cosmological imagination, the Transplanetary Frequencies Station emerges—a geocosmic and cultural laboratory in which, through sound experimentation, collective reading exercises, ritual experiences, and undisciplined intersections between art, astronomy, and the development of speculative technologies—we seek to recover and value a more dignified and resilient common planetary future and present.
On Wednesday, June 12, starting at 6 p.m., we invite you to explore possible interstellar communications as we carry out a terrestrial acupuncture exercise to collectively generate a sound message and retransmit it into space in the form of light. Relearning to perceive the vibrations of phenomena, reconnecting with the elementals, and recognizing ourselves as part of the life cycle of the commons allows us to explore other temporalities, spatialities, and materialities beyond human scales and pluriversalities.
About Gabriela Munguía
Mexican transmedia artist. In her work, she recovers different Latin American cosmovisions, speculative thought, and the indiscipline between art and technoscience to address topics of geopolitics, interspecies reciprocity, and environmental protection. Her work incorporates robotic, interactive, sound, and light installations, sound performance, and experimental educational and community projects. She is currently the director of the Diploma in Environmental Humanities at the intersection of art and technology at UNTREF. Founder of the Laboratorio de Ecologías Invisibles, a nomadic program of creation and experimentation that intersects art, the environment, and the development of open-source technologies. Co-founder of the Electrobiota collective and member of the Observatorio de Estudios Interespecies, AIseeds Project, and Colectiva Ecoestéticas. She has received numerous awards including the Mentorship Award Prince Claus-Institut Goethe Cultural and Artistic Response to Environmental Change, CIFO-ARS Electronica, Honor Mention PRIX Ars Electronica Interactive Art, among others. Her work has been exhibited in international shows and festivals across the Americas, Europe, Egypt, and Iran.