Conversation: Korallysis, a work by Gilberto Esparza at PULSAR (MUCA-PINCC, UNAM)

As part of the PULSAR exhibition, the Climate Change Research Program (PINCC), in collaboration with the University Museum of Science and Art (MUCA), extends the following invitation to a discussion on Korallysis.

In this session, Gilberto Esparza, artist and creator of the Korallysis project, part of the PULSAR exhibition at MUCA, will discuss the development and artistic reflections surrounding the work, which consists of a series of configurations of sensitive artifacts that seek to regenerate coral reefs. This hybrid organism, made up of technological devices and coral colonies that coexist in a mutualistic relationship, is formed from ceramic segments based on a geometric pattern that allows it to adapt to the seabed. Its structure creates an ideal habitat for the development of coral communities, providing refuge for early-stage fish and various species.

In addition, the Regional Center for Aquaculture and Fisheries Research (CRIAP) Manzanillo will discuss the installation of this work in the ocean, as well as its monitoring and study as a coral reef collecting system, and how the ecological succession process in this structure resists global change, including climate change.

Date: Friday, June 20, 2025, from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m.

Presented by: Gilberto Esparza (artist and creator of the work Korallysis) and the Regional Center for Aquaculture and Fisheries Research (CRIAP) Manzanillo (monitoring and research of the coral reef collecting system).