All activities of Altered Origins are free. Registration is required for workshops. Links to register will be available soon.
MORNING WORKSHOPS
10:30 am–12:00 pm
Digital Clay | Session 2
Sinuhé Acosta, Random Studio
William T. Cannady Hall, Fabrication Workshop
Archaeological Photogrammetry | Session 2
Francisco Regalado, Laboratorio de Arte, Arquitectura y Arqueología
Sewall Hall, Archaeology Lab
AFTERNOON WORKSHOPS
1:00 pm–4:00 pm
Utility Tour
Francisco Quiñones and Nathan Friedman, Departamento del Distrito
MD Anderson Hall, Jury Gallery
Petrographic Landscapes
Erika Loana, Materia Prima
Moody Center for the Arts
PRACTICE CONVERSATION
Mediums and Environments
5:00 pm–7:00 pm
Francisco Quiñones and Nathan Friedman, Departamento del Distrito
Adriana Salazar, Independent Artist
Erika Loana, Materia Prima
Moderator: Tania Tovar, Proyector
Moody Center for the Arts
To think about origins is to think about sources, materials, and places of provenance: natural or artificial, physical or virtual. The question of origins, however, is bound to the question of their alteration. Only when something changes, are we left asking where it came from. Transformations, in all scales and temporalities, have always been present in architecture: from the slow degradation of ancient ruins to the immediate repetitions of digital images. Architecture and its objects are not only inevitably bound to face alterations, but architectural practices have also incorporated them at the core of their methodologies, mixing old traditional processes and new technological tools in various gradients and conditions. Mass and digital production and dissemination methods are making for fast-changing conditions in architecture, taking a particular interest in replicating and reproducing objects, processes, and experiences. As technical and technological tools evolve, so do the forces that objects undergo, changing media, shape, location, temporality, and meaning.
Altered Origins invites contemporary spatial practitioners in Mexico who work at the intersection of architecture and the arts to share their insights into the physical and conceptual transformations, media, and disciplinary intersections shaping contemporary architectural discourse and practice through an open exchange of methodologies and experiments.
The three-day festival, featuring a program of open workshops, conversations, and live performances, will be held from 24 to 26 October at multiple venues in and around Rice University, including the Rice School of Architecture, the Archaeology Lab of the Rice University Anthropology Department, the Moody Center for the Arts, and the Houston Climate Justice Museum.
PARTICIPANTS:
Sinuhé Acosta, Random Studio
Andrea Carrillo Iglesias, Independent Artist
Nathan Friedman and Francisco Quiñones, Departamento del Distrito
Erika Loana, Materia Prima
Francisco Regalado, Laboratorio de Arte, Arquitectura y Arqueología
Diego Rivero Borrell, TANAT + María Alejandra Rojas and Arturo Salazar
Adriana Salazar, Independent Artist
Andrés Souto, mUcHo estudio/taller
Tania Tovar and Juan Carlos Cuock, Proyector