Gilberto Esparza, "Korallysis" (2018-2024)

Date:
05 May 2025 - 09 Jun 2025

Location: Museo Universitario de Ciencia y Arte (MUCA) Campus

Pulsar explores notions of "living" from multidisciplinary perspectives and proposes new ways of relating to and perceiving ourselves as an interspecies collectivity. The exhibition includes works by Tania Candiani, Lorena Mal, Gilberto Esparza, Marcela Armas, and Interspecifics, as well as Projected Ecologies, a project in partnership with Joseph Wilcox and Lydian Stater (NY), exploring boundaries between humanity, nature, and artificial environments.

Pulsar brings together a group of artists who intertwine art, science, and ecology to propose a series of alternative landscapes where the concept of commonality emphasizes that we are individual beings but critically connected. Through interdisciplinary projects, each of the participating artists explores our relationships with animals, rocks, bodies of water, and other organisms, where sound, language, time, magnetism, and artificial intelligence become the mechanisms that allow us to tune into multiple pulses and vibrations existing in the living world.

The exhibition features work by Tania Candiani, Lorena Mal, Gilberto Esparza, Marcela Armas, and Interspecifics, and includes Projected Ecologies, a project created in collaboration with Joseph Wilcox and Lydian Stater (NY), which presents a series of videos in which artists from different parts of the world explore the global and emotional consequences of anthropocentrism through speculative methods, archival explorations, and personal and family stories.

Pulsar is a space for dialogue between artists, scientists, and researchers. With the participation of the university community and other visitors, it seeks to think about new ways of creation and collaboration, not only on a human scale but also as an interspecies collectivity where different forms of knowledge converge.

Each of these projects integrates different forms of collaboration and connection between species, as well as with other artists, performers, scientists, and members of the university. It focuses on the creation and use of systems that allow for a poetic exploration of relationships between species and of frequencies that allow us to tune into realities that are less apparent to human senses—opening portals that let us see more, hear more, and demonstrate that other temporalities, interactions, perspectives, and possibilities exist in our environment.

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