PABELLÓN DE MÉXICO 18A MUESTRA INTERNACIONAL DE ARQUITECTURA LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA 🏀 INFRAESTRUCTURA UTÓPICA: LA CANCHA DE BÁSQUETBOL CAMPESINA 🏀 PABELLÓN DE MÉXICO 18A MUESTRA INTERNACIONAL DE ARQUITECTURA LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA 🏀 INFRAESTRUCTURA UTÓPICA: LA CANCHA DE BÁSQUETBOL CAMPESINA 🏀 PABELLÓN DE MÉXICO 18A MUESTRA INTERNACIONAL DE ARQUITECTURA LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA 🏀 INFRAESTRUCTURA UTÓPICA: LA CANCHA DE BÁSQUETBOL CAMPESINA 🏀
UTOPIAN INFRASTRUCTURE: THE CAMPESINO BASKETBALL COURT
MEXICO PAVILION 18TH INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE
EXHIBITION LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA
ARSENALE DI VENEZIA
30100 VENECIA, ITALIA
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TUESDAY-SUNDAY 11:00-18:00 H
20.[MAY].2023

26.[NOV].2023

The Mexico Pavilion at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia 2023, curated by Mariana Botey and APRDELESP, is an immersive space based on a 1:1 scale fragment of the expanded model of the campesino basketball court, an infrastructure that has become repurposed as a privileged space for poly- and pluri-valent processes of decolonization in Mexico’s indigenous communities. Our case study on these basketball courts functions as a laboratory for investigation of the adaptations and transformations that have allowed these spaces to transcend their original purpose, dedicated entirely to recreation and the promotion of sport, and to become instead focal points for the construction of political, social and cultural processes.

The campesino basketball court, repurposed, is much more than the deconstruction of a Western sporting facility: It is the foundational unit of construction upon which indigenous utopias build cultures of resistance.

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Mexico Pavilion at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia
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Radio Nopal, the alternate venue of the pavilion in Mexico City