June 2024 – ∞ 24/7 | Light from 21:00 – 00:00

Angélica Castelló – Totem
Evolving Installation

In my ‚Altares‘ series, worn-out machines come to life, are powered by electricity and enter into a dialog with each other and with my media artifacts. These works are perhaps an homage to iconic works by Cildo Meireles, Nam June Paik and Benoît Maubrey and at the same time inspired by Mexican altar traditions, as well as immersed in a quiet personal narrative.

The totems/altar series evoke an atmosphere of surrealist religion, consumerism, and mourning for waste. This garbage-installations feature radios, cassettes, cables, records, computers, and record players—both old and functional—blending evolution and progress with sound and catharsis. Santisima electricidad!

the Totem series are part of the PEEK research project Spirits in complexity — Making kin with experimental music systems, funded by the Austrian Science Fund

[Grant DOI 10.55776/AR821]

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