History of Children’s Games
September 30, 2025
7pm
Ingreso libre
proyectoamil
Lima
proyectoamil is pleased to invite you to a talk with the renowned Mexican historian, researcher, and curator Cuauhtémoc Medina. In this lecture, Medina will explore the history of children’s games, reflecting on their persistence across time and their transmission between civilizations.
As Roger Caillois once noted, “empires and civilizations fall, but children’s games endure.” From this perspective, the talk will present a millenary view of games and will offer an assessment of the archive of games compiled by artist Francis Alÿs, which has been presented in diverse locations around the world.
About Cuauhtémoc Medina
(Mexico City, December 5, 1965)
PhD in History and Theory of Art from the University of Essex and BA in History from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He has been a researcher at the Institute of Aesthetic Research at UNAM since 1993. From 2013 to 2024, he served as Chief Curator of the University Museum of Contemporary Art (MUAC) at UNAM. In 2018, he curated the 12th Shanghai Biennale, Proregress. Among other distinctions, he received the Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Excellence from the Menil Foundation (2012) and the National University Prize in the field of Arts Teaching (2018).
