The Mesoamerican Conceptual Art Summer Course (For Folks That Get Things Done) was born in 2025 as an experiment, a provocation, and—above all—a mystery. It came to life thanks to an invitation from Campeche to co-organize a major event in their venue: a space for thinking-through-making-art, a hybrid of classroom, workshop, and gallery where we can assemble, disassemble, and reassemble that ever-puzzling creature known as Mesoamerican conceptual art—or, if you prefer, Our-American art with concept.
Truth be told, we don’t really know what that even means. Is something like that even possible? Either way, we love the question—and we’re thrilled to answer it in polyphony: with five invited facilitators—Alejandro Magallanes, Benzoato de Sodio, Job Samoano, Anacarsis Ramos, and Mili Herrera, fifteen participants selected through this call that’s already turned into a collectively authored novel, and a trio of artists/organizers/hosts —Odeth Sofía González, Daniel Aguilar Ruvalcaba, and Gustavo A. Cruz Cerna— determined to make this adventure as uncertain as it is unhinged.
Click here to apply before June 20th.
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About the organizers
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Odeth Sofía González (Mexico City, 1994) is a transdisciplinary artist from the southern part of Mexico City. She studied Communication at UNAM and Visual Arts at the National School of Painting, Sculpture and Engraving “La Esmeralda.” Her practice lies at the intersection of cultural management and artistic production. Since 2019, she has been exploring the concept of a public program as both a tool and a platform for artistic research, collaborating with various institutions and cultural practitioners. Her work has been exhibited both individually and collectively in venues such as CENART, Biblioteca Vasconcelos, Art Room 19, and Biquini Wax E.P.S.
Gustavo A. Cruz Cerna (Oaxaca, 1986) studied Philosophy and Art History at UNAM. He is an active member of the collective Biquini Wax E.P.S., with which he has participated in exhibitions at MUAC, Museo Universitario del Chopo, and kurimanzutto in Mexico City, as well as at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. His writings have appeared in publications such as Blog de Crítica, Campo de Relámpagos, Horizontal, Revista de la Universidad de México, Gatopardo, OEI, Nexos, and Revista Cubo Blanco. He is currently an editor at Centro de la Imagen.
Daniel Aguilar Ruvalcaba (León, Guanajuato, 1988) is a drawer and an anti-capitalist entrepreneur. In 2011, he co-founded the collective Biquini Wax E.P.S. He was a participant in the SOMA Educational Program in Mexico City and completed artist residencies at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten and the interdisciplinary program Pressing Matter, both in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He is currently a member of the collective Tropical Tap Water.
