Conocimiento – habilidad – espíritu” II
( Crossing Echoes)
On the Poetics of Loose Ends, 2025
2 Channel Gutiar & Video Installation
The diasporic condition of musical instruments, their traditions, and sounds imply a form of relational production, connected to knowledge and materialities from different places, united in an action and object. The guitars from Paracho, a community located in the Purépecha plateau of the state of Michoacán with a strong luthiery tradition, are referenced by some migrant musicians from Mexico and Latin America. In Paracho, an artisanal and serial production system of various types of guitars and string instruments is developed.
In Knowledge - Skill - Spirit, Buenrostro brings together different types of string instruments as well as visual exercises referencing the Enríquez Brothers guitar workshops, a family dedicated to luthiery whose production headquarters is in Paracho and whose distribution space is the La Ciudadela market in Mexico City.
In a gesture that articulates the workshop’s own history as an act of sonic interpretation and amplification of production relationships, the recorded sounds of the instrument production are heard: acts such as scraping, cutting, carving, filing, and striking that open up a repository of knowledge and an archive of usually hidden sounds. The soundscape of production and the music that the luthier himself listens to while working overlap with the sound of the guitars themselves, as a record of the practical knowledge involved in making things.
Conocimiento, Habilidad, espíritu was part of Miguel Buenrostro’s solo exhibition “Saber a Qué Suena” : Eceshowcased at Casa del Lago Museum in Mexico city, Curated by Julio Garcia Murillo.
Credits
Miguel Buenrostro with the participation of the Agustin & Enrique Enríquez
Courtesy of the artist and the Enríquez Brothers Workshops (Ciudadela, Mexico City / Paracho, Michoacán) with the support of 99 Questions from Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss
Image, courtesy of the artist
In Knowledge - Skill - Spirit, Buenrostro brings together different types of string instruments as well as visual exercises referencing the Enríquez Brothers guitar workshops, a family dedicated to luthiery whose production headquarters is in Paracho and whose distribution space is the La Ciudadela market in Mexico City.
In a gesture that articulates the workshop’s own history as an act of sonic interpretation and amplification of production relationships, the recorded sounds of the instrument production are heard: acts such as scraping, cutting, carving, filing, and striking that open up a repository of knowledge and an archive of usually hidden sounds. The soundscape of production and the music that the luthier himself listens to while working overlap with the sound of the guitars themselves, as a record of the practical knowledge involved in making things.
Conocimiento, Habilidad, espíritu was part of Miguel Buenrostro’s solo exhibition “Saber a Qué Suena” : Eceshowcased at Casa del Lago Museum in Mexico city, Curated by Julio Garcia Murillo.
Credits
Miguel Buenrostro with the participation of the Agustin & Enrique Enríquez
Courtesy of the artist and the Enríquez Brothers Workshops (Ciudadela, Mexico City / Paracho, Michoacán) with the support of 99 Questions from Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss
Image, courtesy of the artist