Journey to the Mexican Megalopolis
Jovis Verlag (Germany), 2008
Trilingual edition: English, Spanish, German
The catalogue of the exhibition of the book of the city…
The Citámbulos project took over my life for several years just when I was meant to be working on my PhD. It began with the ‘Guide to the Marvels’ of Mexico City, an anti-guidebook begun with some friends when I was living at the heart of that megalopolis. It expanded into a multi-disciplinary exhibition that was shown at major centres for urbanism and architecture in Europe, before being mounted in even vaster and sensorially more overwhelming form at the National Anthropology Museum in Mexico City itself. My role was as co-curator, creator of some of the content, and co-editor and translator of the texts.
Project website (Spanish): www.citambulos.net
Project archive (English): citambulos.wordpress.com
Renato Cisneros' great-great-grandmother Nicolasa bore seven children by her secret love, a priest…
In his final version of the Variations, Glenn Gould introduces a subtle, almost imperceptible change…
They inhabited a present that was weightless, fickle even, and yet at the same time effortlessly assembled…
In this sprawling family saga stretching across Latin America, a son embarks on a journey…
