22/08/2026
We were happy to have Marcelo Guajardo Dávila as a volunteer at Maajaam for a few weeks in July!
Marcelo Guajardo is a multidisciplinary designer, artist, and researcher interested in creating meaningful experiences across objects, spaces, sound, and visual media.
He spent half his residency focused on his own creative projects:
“I explored context-reactive creativity through sound, making, and everyday life. Working with materials, technologies, and situations I encountered on site, I developed the Self-Service Cumbia, an interactive installation that transforms vegetables and found objects into a collaborative musical instrument, and the Riga Chair, built from a discarded Soviet-era piano and the restored frame of an abandoned chair.
Alongside these projects, I experimented with synthesizers and electronic instruments, improvised music, field recordings, photography, and collaborative making while assisting fellow artists and participating in the daily rhythms of the residency. The experience became an exploration of how serendipity, improvisation, and attentive observation can become creative tools for making, reflection, and discovering new possibilities within a specific place.”
If you are interested in volunteering at Maajaam, you can find the link in our bio! 💪
