"Blueprint for No Museum" leaves the exhibition space empty with only a few exemptions. Inside, there is nothing but a sleeping area for several people, and the restroom in the same building satisfies basic human needs. Oscar Cueto’s installation takes place largely outdoors. With simple structures made from wood panels based on Hartz IV Moebel-concept, he transforms the space in front of Kunstraum Lakeside and arranges these objects in various constellations, as small tables, seating elements, or as a container for a palm tree. Together, they form different spatial typologies: spaces for discussion, for collective storytelling, spaces for reflecting on the past and the future in the present, community spaces. The spaces Cueto creates around the Kunstraum can be used in multiple ways, too. For example, the large display window transforms on occasion into a cinema screen for films by the artist’s colleagues, such as Marie-Christine Camus, Marisa Raygoza, Larissa Escobedo, Israel Martinez, Yanieb Fabre, and Juanjose Rivas, which have been shown at various venues as part of the MUME Museo Mexicano program over the past ten years. Other components combine to form a bookshelf that displays publications by the Fehras Publishing Practices collective as recommended reading material. Fehras’s publishing work focuses on the history and present state of publishing in relation to the socio-political and cultural context of the Eastern Mediterranean, North Africa, and the Arab diaspora. Also on the bookshelf, available for consultation, there are books by Juan Pablo Macias, Lorena Moreno Vera, Maiz, Gabriela Sandoval, Carla Rippey, RRD, Frida Robles, Israel Martinez, IN_SITE, Manuela Picallo Gil, PrivatePrint and others. The exhibition is accompanied by a publication that compiles nearly ten years of the MUME project through a transcription of its sound archive, in the form of a glossary of the themes addressed during this period. The publication also contains a curatorial text by Gudrun Ratzinger and Franz Thalmair, as well as a philosophical text by Ulrich Ambruester that analyses MUME through the lens of Jacques Derrida’s ideas on deconstruction.Photos: Johannes Puch, Karina Fernandez, Manuela Picallo Gil and Istvan Antal.
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