Large-scale biofabricated sculpture winner of the COP25 contest of the Chilean Ministry of Public Works
Year: 2019
Role: General Director
Open Monument is an unbuilt big-scale sculpture made with fungal mycelium bricks, under the principles of open-source technologies. This work pretended to question the idea of the artwork as something immutable and the idea of the artist as the only producer of the work of art, through a biodegradable structure in continuous change and dialogue with the natural processes, asking the viewer trough an iconic image in continuous resignification. Project developed joint to the architect David Benjamin and the artis Ivan Navarro to be presented in the Medial Arts Biennale of Santiago and the later cancelled COP25 in Santiago de Chile.
Credits
Original idea: Museo del Hongo, Laboratorio de Biofabricación UC.
General Director: Aníbal Fuentes
General Curator: Juan Ferrer
General Producers: Catalina De Pablo, Galit Hojman, Gabriela Fuentes.
Author architect: David Benjamin
Author artist: Iván Navarro
Executive production: Museo del Hongo
Artistic project developers: The Living New York (Lindsey Wikstrom, James Stoddart, Ray Wang, Lorenzo Villaggi)
Projects coordinator: Daniel Monsalve
Structural calculation: Juan Acevedo
Landscape project: Agustina Hidalgo
Lighting project: Trimex
Electrical project: Eduardo Toro, Carlos Martínez
Risk prevention: Natalia Gárate
Constructor: Vicente Solis
Content edition: Gabriela Fuentes
Biotechnology: Andrés Romero, Felipe Muñoz, Matías Elliott
Industrial & production design: Sebastián Aguilera, Ricardo Aliste, Sebastián Rodríguez, Esteban Lagos
Production advisor: Rafael Astaburuaga
Architecture advisor: Francisco Chateau
Production process architecture: Germán Guzmán
Mediation pavilion architecture: Gabriela Martínez
Architecture assistants: Amilcar Garrido, Paula Ulloa
Fabrication assistants: Claudia Rudloff, Florencia De La Maza, Francisca Orroño, Francisca Feijoo, Matías Torres, Constanza Arenas, Sofía Claverìa, Montserrat Martìnez, Maiitaki Gomez, Ignacia Vicuña, Vicente Soto, María Trinidad Miranda, Tania Pedraza, Fernanda Peñaranda, Francisca Zamora, Magdalena Pragra
Graphic Design: Francisco Blumel
Museography: Montserrat Monasterio, Beruz Herrero, Lucas Moyano
Partners: Museo del Hongo, Laboratorio de Biofabricación UC, Bienal de Artes Mediales de Santiago, Hongos de Chile.
Funding: Chilean Ministry of Public Works & Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile