studio ANTIMUNDO encompasses the artistic practice of Oscar Santillán and the network of collaborative energy that shapes it. : : : Science, fiction, and non-human perspectives generate the ‘Antimundo’, a way of embracing realities that do not fit in our current world.
RECENT AND UPCOMING FOR STUDIO ANTIMUNDO :
Solo show: ‘THE ANDEAN INFORMATION AGE' AT COPPERFIELD (LONDON)
The exhibition's root is the multi-disciplinary project called 'Antimundo', an ongoing series materialized as paintings, drawings, sculptures and installations that explore what grows outside of ‘Western reality’.
On view from 15th March to 18th May 2024 at Copperfield. More info
ART Düsseldorf AT THE BOOTH OF COPPERFIELD GALLERY
Solo show: ‘ZONDA' AT LLANO (MEXICO CITY)
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Nov 25, 2023 — Jan 26, 2024
LLANO
Dr Erazo 172
Mexico City, MX
Solo show: ‘A HEAVY HALO' AT RADIUS cca
Under the umbrella of studio ANTIMUNDO, which encompasses both his artistic practice and the more-than-human network he collaborates with, Santillán investigates and reconsiders material, linguistic and technological entities and relationships in the formation of worldviews. Involving Artificial Intelligence, Andean knowledges, cybernetics, and science fiction, Santillán inscribes a plurality of philosophical and material lores onto a political ecology of agencies. With an ever-enquiring transhistorical and transdisciplinary practice, Santillán's work is a generative means to expand our awareness of the diverse entanglements between natures and cultures, across times, bodies, and technologies.
Oscar’s solo exhibition 'A Heavy Halo' is now open at Radius Center for Contemporary Art & Ecology in Delft through August 20, 2023.
Photography by Gunnar Meier, copyright RADIUS CCA.
TREELEMMA : A MEMORIAL FOR BURNING FORESTS
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LECTURE
THE INTERSPECIES VIRTUAL MACHINE : nov 10 : COLBY COLLEGE (us)
Lecture by artist Oscar Santillán in which he discusses for the first time the 'IVM' (Interspecies Virtual Machine), an attempt to connect biological and artificial, physical and virtual systems.
PUBLICATION: LATIN AMERICAN ARTISTS > PUBLISHED BY PHAIDON
Glad to be part of this long history of Latin American art.
From the Phaidon website: Latin American artists have gained increasing international prominence as the art world awakens to the area’s extraordinary art scenes and histories. In an accessible A-Z format, this volume introduces key artworks by 308 artists who together demonstrate the variety and vitality of artwork being made.
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Coming out in October > link
INTERVIEW BY ROLANDO CARMONA: EL ESTUDIO ANTIMUNDO (SPANISH)
NEW TEXT ON ARTISTIC EDUCATION
Imagen de background tomada del libro Diseñando la Libertad, de Stafford Beer
Hoy, la educación universitaria en artes visuales es un despropósito normalizado; es común que los estudiantes se gradúen sin haber desarrollado competencias relevantes, en su lugar recitan mantras de insufrible moralismo llamados “discurso crítico”, las escuelas de arte son gerenciadas por una burocracia arrogante e inútil, y el destino profesional de los graduados es la desocupación. Pretender que este panorama sea justificable me parece, en el mejor de los casos, torpe y, en el peor, negligente. Es importante saber cómo llegamos aquí y, así mismo, tratar de ir más allá del diagnóstico, o sea, ensuciarnos las manos buscando respuestas. > CONTINUAR LEYENDO
RECENT COMMISSION: hoLT/SMITHSON FOUNDATION
Holt/Smithson Foundation is delighted to announce details of its first artist commission. The Island Project: Point of Departure invites Tacita Dean, Renée Green, Sky Hopinka, Joan Jonas, and Oscar Santillán to develop proposals responding to an island in Maine that was purchased sight-unseen by Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson on September 30, 1971.
PODCAST
NEW EPISODE OF ‘A.I. MURMURINGS’: OSCAR SANTILLÁN ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, ECOLOGY, AND SCIFI
NEW WORKS
FRIEZE LONDON : OCT 12-16 : COPPERFIELD GALLERY BOOTH
MASTERCLASS: LA MÁQUINA VIRTUAL INTERSPECIES
Masterclass by Oscar Santillán given at Fundación Andreani, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in the context of the “Presente Continuo” Program.
PUBLICATION: THE ANDEAN INFORMATION AGE
Book. Over a thousand years ago a form of material code emerged among the Andes mountains. By means of knotted ropes, called 'quipus', numbers and words were enacted. This publication knots together a universe of stories related to the quipu system, the history of its ongoing decipherment, and the disruption that this sensorial code may be able to trigger in our present. | Texts by Oscar Santillán and Alessandra Troncone. Designed by Oscar Santillán. 114pgs. 23x16x1.3cm. Softcover. Published by ‘Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite’. 2020. English. ISBN: 978-3-96436-048-9
* While our copies are sold out, alternatively you can order a physical copy via the publisher (Bom Dia)
NEW VIDEO WORK: LA MUJER Y EL ROBOT (1938-2021)
New Latin American scifi coming up. 'La mujer y el robot' is returning from the future.
'La mujer y el robot' is a theater piece that Guatemalan writer Miguel Marsicovétere published in 1938. This near-forgotten wonder was brought to Oscar Santillán’s attention when visiting the country two years ago. He’s partnering with Guatemalan videomaker Elimo Eliseo and Peruvian sound artist Paola Torres Núñez to create this adaptation which will premiere at the forthcoming Bienal Paiz, curated by Alexia Tala and Gabriel Rodriguez.
LECTURE
INTERFACES FOR THE EARTHVERSE : MARCH 24 : THE NEW SCHOOL
In this online talk, Oscar engages with the notion of ‘decentralized cognition’, which has been vital to his artistic practice. It proposes that intelligence can emerge from infinite configurations; it is not the sole product of centralized brains. Following this premise, the artist explores ways in which diverse fields, such as A.I., scifi, ecology, indigenous worldings, and blockchain, may converge.
podcast interview: PROTOTIPOS PARA NAVEGAR (unam)
En este capítulo de la serie Prototipos para Navegar, el artista y cibernetista Oscar Santillán conversa acerca de la importancia de volver a tejer parentescos con los saberes ancestrales, a todo aquello previo a la cultura de consumo y extracción que nos ha traído al desastre en el que estamos y también tejer de otra forma nuestra relación con los no humanos. Exploramos, entre otros proyectos suyos, su investigación sobre el Khipu, este dispositivo tecnológico ancestral andino de memoria, de escritura, de cálculo, de encriptamiento, que comienza a ser descifrado en el occidente y que las culturas actuales estamos comenzando a comprender.