As part of the activities carried out on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura, the Centro de Investigación del Museo Tamayo, in collaboration with Arturo Lugo and Santiago Blaum, invites people interested in artistic experimentation, collective research and collaborative practices –whether students, artists, people dedicated to writing, choreography, performance, historiography or research– to be part of the Seminar Shared Resources: Electromagnetic Sequences.

This project proposes the creation of a platform for creation, production, research and circulation aimed at strengthening hybrid scenic practices in Mexico, as well as at shaping interdisciplinary artistic production practices. Based on the exploration of documents, photographs, plans, correspondence and multimedia materials from the Centro de Investigación's collections, we will reflect collectively with a view to proposing new ways of relating to the body, materials and spaces, as well as investigating different working methodologies based on exchange, hybrid collaboration, sound experimentation and the rewriting of memory.

The invited project, Shared Resources, is an infrastructure that articulates artists, communities and spaces, and whose objective is to develop sustainable and replicable interdisciplinary models, which are proposed as a way of approaching the exhibition archive of the Centro de Investigación del Museo Tamayo.

For this fifth edition of the program Public Hall, the seminar Electromagnetic Sequences, by Lugo and Blaum, will explore working with analog media such as magnetic tape and cassette —understanding them as tools for intervention, transformation and production—in order to produce a collective sound and body memory based on the dialogue between the archives of the Tamayo Museum and the personal archives of the participants.

The seminar will conclude with a public presentation to be held in the museum's Educational Room on November 28, 2026.

This project is possible thanks to the Programa Premios Saberes Danzados de la Secretaría de Cultura del Gobierno de México and the Coordinación Nacional de Danz (ConD) of the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (INBAL) and the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Internacional Rufino Tamayo.

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Practical Information

The Seminar Electromagnetic Sequences will be structured as follows:

• Five in-person sessions from November 23 to 27, from 2 to 5:30 p.m.
• Venue: Educational Hall of the Museo Tamayo
• Space limited to 12 participants
• Public presentation: November 28, from 11  – 13 hrs  
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To be part of the study group for this edition of Public Room, check that you meet the participation requirements and fill out the registration form. The results will be announced on November 20 through our social networks and via email.

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Participation requirements

• Show interest in collective processes of creation, research and experimentation, and commit to the collective process of the seminar.
• Be willing to participate in practical exercises related to choreography, objects, space, movement, sound, memory and archive.
• Availability to attend 80% of the seminar sessions is essential. Missing more than one session will cause a definitive cancellation.
• Submit application using the form: https://forms.gle/DFczhbAX3VgBTSqP7  
• Deadline to apply: November 17, 2026.
• The results will be published on November 20, 2026.

About the sessions

Duration: Five in-person sessions of 3 and a half hours each (17 and a half hours in total) and a presentation session (3 hours)
Modality: Seminar on research, production and circulation.

Electromagnetic Sequences
Session 1. Hybrid Practices and Production Models
Session 2. The archive and personal memory
Session 3. The body and sound: choreographic and sound explorations
Session 4. The archive and the memory of the museum: approaches to its body dimension. Working day with the Tamayo Museum archive.
Session 5. The transformation of the register: experimentation with analog tools and supports
Session 6. Activation and reflection: presentation of the exercises and articulation of the materials produced

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About Public Hall

The Centro de Investigación del Museo Tamayo, through its program Public Hall, seeks to consolidate collective platforms for reflection and discussion on the contents of its archive, with the intention of expanding the audiences that approach its Bibliographic, Documentary and Multimedia collections, as well as diversifying the readings of its institutional memory. To this end, it proposes holding seminars open to the public —considering them critical spaces and spaces for the socialization of knowledge—taught by specialized and relevant projects in the contemporary art scene both nationally and internationally.

‍Shared Resources: Electromagnetic Sequences It is the second initiative of 2026 of the Public Hall program and is coordinated by Abril Zales, Arturo Lugo, Cristina Torres, Santiago Blaum and Saúl Quiroz.

About the workshop facilitators

Arturo Lugo. Mexican interdisciplinary artist who works in the fields of performance, choreography, costume and scenography design, performative research and curatorial practice. He has presented his work in Mexico, Germany and the United States, encouraging dialogue around hybrid and interdisciplinary practices. He trained at the Professional Dance School of Mazatlán (EPDM) and at the Luis Spota Saavedra Center for Artistic Education. He has received grants from the Support System for Creation and Cultural Projects (2024), the FONCA (2011—2012) and the Akademie der Künste Berlin (2017—2018). Since 2011, he has worked as a performer and as a costume and scenography designer, collaborating with artists and companies in Mexico, Germany, France, the Ivory Coast and the United States. He has received international recognition for his work in costume design and scenography; part of his research project on costume and performance design was selected to be presented at the Mexican Performance Design Pavilion at the Prague Quadrennial in 2027.

Santiago Blaum. Argentinian composer, director and performer based in Berlin since 2004, whose practice articulates music, theater and performance within the European experimental scene. Trained in literature, music and dance, he has collaborated with companies such as Dorky Park and Sheshepop, and has developed his own musical theater productions presented in spaces such as HAU, Berlin, Hellerau, Dresden, and FFT, Düsseldorf. His research focuses on the construction of sound dramaturgies where the voice, the composition and the stage device operate as the same expanded body, blurring the boundaries between concert, theater and installation. Within the framework of the laboratory, his work is aimed at exploring the relationship between sound, memory and materiality using analog media such as magnetic tape, understood both as an archive and as a performing matter. From this perspective, the machine and the sound register are activated as interlocutors, where wear, noise and repetition become compositional and choreographic elements. Based on this approach, the process proposes to generate structures where sound does not accompany the scene, but rather configures it.