Can art change the world? Instead of long discussions, Antonio Ortiz Loud created a work that in itself will carry that intention. Thus arose Antenna to change the world, installation with which this Saturday participated in the third edition of the global project Be-coming Tree, collective live art, performed using the Zoom platform.
For the occasion, the Mexican artist included the words “desde Chapultepec” in the title because the action was taken from the third section of that forest, with the purpose of endorsing the opposition that exists in a wide sector of civil society to the initiative of the federal government to build a cultural complex in this emblematic natural space of Mexico City.
Loud He is part of a group of artists, managers, architects and urban planners who are currently in talks with the Federal Secretary of Culture so that the project is “discussed, readjusted and transformed” Chapultepec Forest: Nature and Culture.
“There is a large movement that opposes this project of the Mexican state government. It is not necessary to build anything in Chapultepec, rather it is possible to demolish things that do not work, such as Atlantis (an inactive water park for years) and plant more trees, “he said in the transmission.
“You don’t need to build a museum to make an installation in the forest or a concert hall to have musical presentations in public spaces. As Alberto Castro Leñero wrote, the joke is to use public space, not to build in Chapultepec, which is .3 percent of the city’s surface. “
Be-coming Tree was headquartered in London, England, and featured a series of artists interacting simultaneously with specific trees in 17 countries, whether with artistic actions, stillness, dance or rituals, while listening to a live soundscape created from digitized tree information.
Antenna to change the world from Chapultepec, as explained Loud a The Day, is a work of contemporary art aimed at rethinking said project and modifying it to a proposal for environmental regeneration and pedestrian communication between the four sections of this urban forest.
“It is an adaptation that does not contemplate new buildings or constructions in any part of the forest, nor the onerous road works projected so far, and that the budget saved is aimed at the maintenance and operation of the cultural infrastructure of the entire country, as well as the creation of a small-format cultural center (equipped with cultural equipment, a library and sufficient budget to pay for artistic initiation workshops for four years) in each municipality of Mexico. “
“Spread the good vibes”
The installation of the Antenna… It started at around 6.30 in the morning (around 12:30 in London) and consisted of joining dozens of colored ribbons from one tree to another, in the manner of Chamula hats, the process of which was observed in Zoom for almost an hour.
At the end of the international broadcast, the artist carried out another artistic action in the same place, entitled Forests, which consisted of “a new fire ceremony” and a presentation of seven musicians with sound improvisations for an hour and a half, with the aforementioned artistic installation as the background. The purpose was “to send good vibes and music to the universe; spread the good vibes “, he clarified Loud.
Adriana Camacho (double bass), Rodo Ocampo (percussion), Misha Marks (tuba), Andrea Cravioto (drums), Germán Bringas and Ernesto M. Andriano (saxophone) participated in this action, broadcast live on the Radio Niagara Facebook page. ), among others, as well as the artists Néstor Quiñones and Beatriz Canfield.
The first time that Loud made the Antenna… It was four years ago at the home of the artists Mónica Mayer and Víctor Lerma.
It is, he explained, a “conceptual game” that sends “good vibes” to transform the world ”. Now it can be seen for a few weeks in the third section of Bosque de Chapultepec, next to the Dolores Dam, and on the artist’s Facebook page: www.facebook.com/antonio.grit.
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