Tania Candiani

Mexican artist Tania Candiani's Cinco variaciones de circunstancias fónicas y una pausa is open to the public at Laboratorio de Arte Alameda. The exhibition explores ways of telling and listening, and how they are transformed by new technologies.

The show is comprised of a series of works articulated on the basis of poetic actions around machines, language, codification, and the sound texture of narration.

The exhibition includes specially commissioned works that focus on the topics of machines, obsolescence, media archaeology, language, and codification as their conceptual axis. The audience finds six artworks in their path through the show: a series of devices for the reproduction of mechanical-piano rolls; a talking machine; modules for listening to audio stories; a video-installation about writers and scribes; an embroidery machine programmed to listen; and an architectural intervention to restore the voice of a belfry.

A broad program of parallel activities takes place as part of the exhibition. Among them: a workshop for specialized audiences, by Pedro Soler (Barcelona, Spain), focusing on the conceptual connections between magic, imagination, and technology.