inSite/Casa Gallina 2013-18

01.06.2013 — 31.12.2018

Overview
Publications
Team inSite/Casa Gallina 2013-18
Acknowledgments

Context 2013-2018

<p>Kiosco Morisco, Santa María la Ribera. </p>

<p>Sinergies, <em>5th Encounter With the Earth</em>, inSite/Casa Gallina, 2017, Kiosco Morisco, Santa María la Ribera. </p>

<p>Santa María la Ribera, Mexico City.</p>

<p>Neighborhood of Santa María la Ribera. </p>

<p>Mercado de la Dalia, Santa María la Rivera, Ciudad de México. </p>

<p>Artist Workshop, Pablo Helguera, inSite/Casa Gallina (Museo de Geología in Santa María la Ribera).</p>

<p>Iglesia del Espíritu Santo, Santa María la Ribera. </p>

<p>Shared Knowledge, <em>From the Plant to the Cup: Adopting Coffee Trees</em>, inSite/Casa Gallina (2017). </p>

<p>Damián Ontiveros process, inSite/Casa Gallina (Kiosco Morisco, Santa María la Ribera) .</p>

<p>Shared Knowledge, <em>Stories for Enjoying the Neighborhood</em>, inSite/ Casa Gallina, 2016. </p>

<p>Cadu, process, inSite/Casa Gallina. </p>

<p>Ana Maria Millan, process, inSite /Casa Gallina (Ana Maria Millan with colaborators, Museo del Juguete).</p>

<p>Renovation in process, Casa Gallina, 2013-2014. </p>

Artists Projects

Edgardo Aragón _ Fernando Bryce _ CADU _ Marianna Dellekamp _ Alex Dorfsman/Elías Cattan _ Miguel Fernández de Castro _ Ulises Figueroa _ Omar Gámez _ Cynthia Gutiérrez _ Iconoclasistas _ Mauricio Limón _ Mariana Magdaleno/Estanquillo El 32 _ Itzel Martínez del Cañizo _ Erick Meyenberg _ Ana María Millán _ Eduardo Navarro _ Damián Ontiveros _ Oswaldo Ruiz _ Rafiki Sánchez _ Tercerunquinto

Coparticipations

This platform included contextual interventions by commissioned artists and other cultural agents in residence. They were aimed at developing works of creative collaboration with specific groups in the neighborhood that were based on processual dynamics of collective interest. Coparticipations were the result of research residencies and materialized through relatively long-term processes of group dialogue, with the goal of creating an artistic work(s) in multiple mediums—from performance to intervention to video to installation.
Shared Knowledge

Saberes (shared knowledge) was an educational platform that included both a multimedia and bibliographic reference collection, training programs designed for specific groups that focused on professional development, and a wide variety of courses, workshops, and summer programs that were developed at sites throughout the neighborhood and in inSite/Casa Gallina’s garden, kitchen, and classroom area. The contents of Saberes programs utilized existing circuits of information in the neighborhood, with the goals of circulating shared knowledge, raising critical consciousness, and stimulating alternative economic models.
Synergies

Synergies encompassed a wide range of activities intended to forge alliances and detonate creative action with an impact on the neighborhood’s imagination--generating citizen consensus for local benefit. Likewise, Synergies facilitated mutual aid initiatives and networks of economic and professional collaboration.

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Overview

inSite/Casa Gallina, the sixth version of INSITE, encompassed several significant shifts from INSITE’s past practices. First, past versions maintained the art world construct of an exhibition that opened and closed during a specific time frame. By contrast, inSite/Casa Gallina was conceived as a processual project that was developed over a span of six years, from 2013 through 2018. As such, the timing and visibility of projects and programs unfolded according to their own rhythms and necessities; in turn, it was hoped that a more flexible timeframe would afford the freedom to pursue unexpected possibilities suggested by projects as they evolved.

Second, unlike past INSITES, where artists and their collaborators intervened in locations across a wide geographic zone, the focus of inSite/Casa Gallina was in a specific neighborhood, Santa María la Ribera, as a hybrid node of public life in the megalopolis of Mexico City. By establishing a physical center of operations in Santa María (the Casa in Casa Gallina), the goal was to install an artistic intersection in the complex eco-political weave of the neighborhood as a platform outside the conventional art world. The house not only served as a residence for guest artists, but also as a site to activate processes of neighborhood participation, which included an urban garden/farm, an open kitchen, meeting space for artists and their collaborators, space for technical workshops, and an open space devoted to the accumulation and sharing of knowledge produced through the realization of projects and programs.

In general, activities undertaken by inSite/Casa Gallina took shape on one of three programmatic platforms: Co-participations—commissioning artists to make new work in the context of long-term residencies; Saberes (Knowledges)—a multifaceted educational platform; and Synergies—an array of activities from the redesign of storefronts for local businesses to a publications program to projects developed by artists at the national Geology Museum located in the center of Santa María. As such, inSite/Casa Gallina was imagined as an enclave generating diverse gestures that might reveal points of both stress (fragility) and malleability (transformation) in the social fabric of the neighborhood.

Project planning for inSite/Casa Gallina began in mid-2013 with the Board of Directors’ decision to support Artistic Director Osvaldo Sánchez’s project framework and begin the search for a house in Santa María. Sánchez and a small team oversaw the renovation of the house during the first nine months of 2014. At the same time, they were working off-site to refine the project framework, begin the commissioning process with initial artist residencies, engage a group of cultural anthropologists to produce a social map of the sixteen-block radius surrounding the house, and design a website. The renovation of the house was undertaken by C Cubica, a three-person Mexico City-based firm of architects.

Publications

Publications
Related Materials

Edition Publications

Experiences of the Common Good, INSITE/ CASA GALLINA

2015-2018

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Experiencias del bien común, INSITE/ CASA GALLINA

2015-2018

2018

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Related Materials

Rivera Ribera #1. Community publication.

2016

inSite (US)

Michael Krichman, Executive Director (US)

Osvaldo Sanchez, Artistic Director

Danielle Reo, Director of Finance and Administration
Elizabeth Stringer, Executive Associate
Sergio Olivares, Production
Josefa Ortega, Cultural Synergies (2013-17), General Coordinator (2018)

INSITE Casa Gallina AC

Carmen Cuenca, Executive Director

Eric Álvarez, General Services
Mariano Arribas, Production Assistant
Rosa Elba Camacho, Community Liaison
Violeta Celis, Cultural Synergies
Luis Gómez, Communication
David Hernández, Shared Knowledge
Rosario Hernández, Operations Support
Andrés Ramírez, Operations Support
Rodrigo Simancas, Shared Knowledge
Susana Pineda, Administration

The following also formed part of the team at different moments:
Enrique Arriaga, Gabriela Correa, Naomi Rincón Gallardo, Eva Hernández, Natalia Pollak, Sandra Rodríguez, Héctor Tapia, Marcela Velázquez and Úrsula Verea.

Collaborators

Mauricio Badillo, Urban Garden
Luis Miguel León, Publication Designer
Margarita González, Spanish Translator
Julie Dunn, English Editor
Magda Carranza, Urban Garden
Pablo La Fuente, Editor of Primary Publication
Tonatiuh Martínez, Landscape Design
Emilio Cabrera, Architecture
Marco Coello, Architecture
Andrea Cesarman, Architecture

Boards

INSITE
Eloisa Haudenschild, President
Cathe Burnham
Rosella Fimbres
Randy Robbins

InSite/Casa Gallina
Aimeé Labarrere, President
Carmen Cuenca
Osvaldo Sánchez

Viewpoints

VIEWPOINTS is a forum featuring contributions by a diverse group of practitioners that share perspectives on the INSITE Journals’ main themes.

Cristina Flores Pescorán, Videorituales, 2021 (VIEWPOINTS)

Interview with Cristina Flores by Miguel A. López