Materia Abierta in Inhabiting the Museum

Through its residency program “Inhabiting the Museum”, the Museo Tamayo houses part of the 2026 summer program “para los tiempos de cuevas sónicas”, organized by Materia Abierta.

Materia Abierta is a space for mobilizing political will through collective principles. Based in Mexico City, his program causes meetings for the exchange of knowledge and ignorance. Its activities are essays to reimagine learning processes as shared responsibilities and experiences that stimulate critical intimacy.

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Summer Program 2026: para los tiempos de cuevas sónicas

Under the title para los tiempos de cuevas sónicas, the Materia Abierta 2026 summer program is curated by Yina Jiménez Suriel and will be held in Mexico City from July 27 to August 22.

This edition will explore the figure of caves as temporary, geological and revolutionary phenomena through their sonic materiality. For four weeks, Materia Abierta invites you to delve into these resonant spaces of political insurgency and connection between material, mythological and spiritual worlds. We will work from improvisation as an expressive tool and as an aesthetic strategy of deep contact with the pulses of the earth. In these underground shelters, collective demonstrations have been conjured up, through sound, that have given rise to resistance movements and imaginaries of radical transformation.

With the help of speleologists, archaeologists, philosophers and artists, you will hear the caves of the Anahuac basin. These sites—planetary ears, passages between worlds and witnesses of social movements—link people to geological temporalities beyond the human and to the material dimensions of sound. They are living entities, sacred shelters capable of returning us to a state of intimate contact with the fundamental frequencies of life.

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A performative conference based on samples, loops and field recordings, unstable signals, distortion and memory that are continuously reconfigured. Improvisation as a tactic of disruption, an unpredictable human gesture in the face of control systems and computational capture.

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Firas Shehadeh. Palestinian artist. His work explores the construction of worlds, meaning, aesthetics and identity. His practice investigates the post-colonial condition through the lens of technology, history, digitality and speculative realities. Through film, video and sound, Shehadeh conducts sustained research on the ways in which narratives and identities are constructed, disputed and mediated within contemporary society. He holds a master's degree in Fine Arts from the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Shehadeh's work has been presented internationally at festivals and institutions such as MUNCH Triennale (Oslo), 18th Lo dell'arte (Florence), 14th Mercosul Biennial (Porto Alegre), Beursschouwburg (Brussels), Soft Centre (Naarm/Melbourne), Los Angeles Filmforum, Ashkal Alwan (Beirut), unsafe+sounds (Vienna), the 7th Singapore Biennial, and the 64th Berlinale (Berlin), among others.