El Tianguis del Chopo is a street market in Mexico City where every Saturday, punks, goths, emos, head bangers, and other rock-related tribes meet to swap and sell records, all dressed up for the occasion. I fabricated a series of sculptures in the shape of electric guitars.

I also had a sound system and a color background that I changed according to the style of the volunteer performer. They chose the song and guitar most in tune with their style. The principle is similar to karaoke, but here one performs by playing the prop-guitar and closes with the ultimate rock star fantasy—the cathartic ritual of smashing the guitar into pieces. In this exercise, I strove to create a space in which violence was an exercise of style.

Based on the principle of communicating vessels, two elastic chambers were connected. When one is inflated, the other is deflated and vice versa. This sculpture requires two people agreeing to sit at the same time for them not to sink.

In this “story without words”, participants were invited to create a character based on a geometric figure.

All scenes were improvised and portrayed a series of situations that occured between these characters due to the their geometric personalities.

The sea and the desert have something in common. They are wide undulating infinities. Perhaps it is the impossibility of fixing your gaze on a single detail that makes them so abstract. On the shores, you often find signs of civilization but beyond lies planet earth. Facing untouched earthscapes often makes you feel extraterrestrial. Sunsets on the sea suggest to me the following associations: mythological wars, stoned teenagers, transmigration of souls, sexual fantasies and lost civilizations. Facing the sun, I have had amusing epiphanies. For instance, realizing that the sound of the sea might be the single sound that has existed without interruption forever, even before any living creature had ears to listen. Actually such sound describes, according to my experience, a panneau moving from left to right.

Once I managed to hypnotize myself focusing on that sound, I felt each shhhooooaaaaaahhh was like wind turning the pages of a book, which was my own face. Being in this state for a whole week was like reading a long novel.

To make a piece for this enticing moment one needs a form that is universal, ideal, simple, mysterious and concrete: a Pyramid. Unlike concepts, symbols are beyond textual interpretation. This is a Floating Pyramid and, according to its own character, it will make us travel to unknown dimensions.

Wittengstein stated that if we were to imagine a book which contained only the truth it would have to be entirely composed with jokes. I think in jokes you are led to the truth so quickly that the only way to handle the shock is laughing. Not all jokes produce laughing, there are also slow-smiling jokes, visual puzzles and graphic puns, some jokes are diagrams.

Wittengstein stated that if we were to imagine a book which contained only the truth it would have to be entirely composed with jokes. I think in jokes you are led to the truth so quickly that the only way to handle the shock is laughing. Not all jokes produce laughing, there are also slow-smiling jokes, visual puzzles and graphic puns, some jokes are diagrams.

You may remember this one...

...a Mexican riding a bycicle. They are often a child's game but in fact very abstract and concrete depictions of social or spatial situations, like this one...four mexicans sharing a table:

The design process in architecture is concerned with drawing the object, but we often lack tools to draw the social interplay. How do you map individual actors? How do you represent collective entities? This figure below for instance...

I drew this diagram of a collective sombrero and it became the blueprint for a sculpture. It was one of my early participatory sculptures. I took it to different plazas in Mexico city and asked people to wear it. What happens is very curious, for me it represents a paradox of democracy, the huddle has to deliberate endlessly where to go, and they have to walk very slowly not to stumble.

In this exercise, two or more participants are bonded with plastic wrap. Two or more minds with their central nervous systems become one single body and have to Discovery a way to move. First performed at the Museum of Natural History in Mexico City, this activity explores the loss of individuality and alternative forms of locomotion.