Image: Ligia Lewis, "deader than dead" (2020) in Proyecto Público Prim, TONO Festival by Brenda Jauregui

ABOUT

A NEW FESTIVAL FOR TIME-BASED ARTWORK, INCLUDING PERFORMANCE, DANCE, MUSIC AND VIDEO ART IN MEXICO CITY

With museum and gallery partners across the city, the inaugural exhibition featured local, regional, and international artists. The festival opened on April 18th with a performance by Osías Yanov at 7 pm at Museo de Arte Moderno.

The festival had programming through April 30th, with eleven video installations open every day and new screenings, performances, and parties every night. We welcomed more than 8,000 visitors. Save the date for TONO 2024 (March 12-24th).

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2023 edition

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April 2023

Tuesday, Apr.18

Type
Artist
Where
Music Installation

Ian Duclos & Alonso Leon-Velarde: Elefante

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

Ian Duclos & Alonso Leon-Velarde, Elefante, 2023

Performance

Osías Yanov

Museo de Arte Moderno

Tono dates:

April 18th - 19th, 19:00 hrs

Venue:

Museo de Arte Moderno

RepiT RepiT RepiT nunca RepiT the RepiT (2023) explores how to practice from the body conceptual and sensory fields of resistance against the stereotyped control of subjectivity. The performative and sculptural work is made based on sketches and essays from 2013. A decade later, it is updated to manifest changes and notions that our bodies have gone through regarding notions of gender and violence. Through the work as a space for exercise, as well as in a nocturnal Burma, it will seek to untrain our body format, mistrust our forms of presence. Dancers: Quillen Mut, Ana g. Sambrano, el Man.

Installation

Cecilia Bengolea

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

Shelly Belly Inna Real life, 2020

Installation

Meriem Bennani

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

Party on the Caps, 2018-19

Installation

Naomi Rincón Gallardo

Museo Anahuacalli

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Museo Anahuacalli

Verses of Filth, 2021

Installation

Santiago Gómez

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

Global Warming, 2020

Installation

Agata Ingarden

Centro de Cultura Digital

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Centro de Cultura Digital

4ROOMS, 2023

Installation

ARTHUR JAFA

Laboratorio Arte Alameda

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Laboratorio Arte Alameda

akingdoncomethas, 2018

Installation

PALOMA CONTRERAS LOMAS

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

Untitled, 2023

Installation

GARUSH MELKONYAN

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

Untitled, 2023

Installation

Diane Severin Nguyen

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18th - 30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

IF REVOLUTION IS A SICKNESS, 2021

Installation

LUIZ ROQUE

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

XXI, 2021

Installation

Jacolby Satterwhite

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

We Are In Hell When We Hurt Each Other, 2020

Wednesday, Apr.19

Type
Artist
Where
Music Installation

Ian Duclos & Alonso Leon-Velarde: Elefante

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

Ian Duclos & Alonso Leon-Velarde, Elefante, 2023

Performance

Osías Yanov

Museo de Arte Moderno

Tono dates:

April 18th - 19th, 19:00 hrs

Venue:

Museo de Arte Moderno

RepiT RepiT RepiT nunca RepiT the RepiT (2023) explores how to practice from the body conceptual and sensory fields of resistance against the stereotyped control of subjectivity. The performative and sculptural work is made based on sketches and essays from 2013. A decade later, it is updated to manifest changes and notions that our bodies have gone through regarding notions of gender and violence. Through the work as a space for exercise, as well as in a nocturnal Burma, it will seek to untrain our body format, mistrust our forms of presence. Dancers: Quillen Mut, Ana g. Sambrano, el Man.

Screenings

“Watch & Chill” Part I

Centro de Cultura Digital

Tono dates:

April 19th, 6:00 - 9:00 pm

Venue:

Centro de Cultura Digital

Song Sanghee, Come Back Alive Baby, 2017

Watch and Chill 3.0: Streaming Suspense is a screening program in collaboration with the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (MMCA), the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM), and the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV). The program will include physical presentations at all of the hosting partners as well as an online presentation on the MMCA’s Watch and Chill (watchandchill.kr/en) platform, the world’s first subscription-based streaming platform for contemporary art, where the audience worldwide can freely access to the media collection of major international art institutions. Entitled Streaming Suspense, Watch and Chill season 3 explores ways in which methods of storytelling and imaging conjure immersion through the strategies of tension. Sub-themed as “Landscape under Moonlight,” “Assembly of Evidence,” “Mutable Corpus,” “Performance of the Undead,” “Post-dystopian Worldbuilding,” the contents for both online platform and the offline exhibition presents works that experiment with the psyche of uncanny, abnormality, shape-shifting, and related implications today. Artists include:

Meriem Bennani, Pia Borg, Club Ate (Justin Shoulder, Bhenji Ra), Fyerool Darma, FHHH friends (Han Seungjae, Han Yangkyu, Yoon Hanjin), Cécile B. Evans, Naomi Rincón Gallardo, Chitra Ganesh, Nic Hamilton, Kwon Hayoun, Jang Minseung, Jung Jaekyung, siren eun young jung, Paloma Contreras Lomas, Liang Luscombe, Garush Melkonyan, Alison Nguyen, Park Chan-kyong, Luiz Roque, Jacolby Satterwhte, Skawennati, Lior Shamriz, Song Sanghee, Karina Utomo and Cūrā8

More info here.

Installation

Cecilia Bengolea

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

Shelly Belly Inna Real life, 2020

Installation

Meriem Bennani

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

Party on the Caps, 2018-19

Installation

Naomi Rincón Gallardo

Museo Anahuacalli

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Museo Anahuacalli

Verses of Filth, 2021

Installation

Santiago Gómez

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

Global Warming, 2020

Installation

Agata Ingarden

Centro de Cultura Digital

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Centro de Cultura Digital

4ROOMS, 2023

Installation

ARTHUR JAFA

Laboratorio Arte Alameda

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Laboratorio Arte Alameda

akingdoncomethas, 2018

Installation

PALOMA CONTRERAS LOMAS

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

Untitled, 2023

Installation

GARUSH MELKONYAN

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

Untitled, 2023

Installation

Diane Severin Nguyen

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18th - 30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

IF REVOLUTION IS A SICKNESS, 2021

Installation

LUIZ ROQUE

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

XXI, 2021

Installation

Jacolby Satterwhite

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

We Are In Hell When We Hurt Each Other, 2020

Thursday, Apr.20

Type
Artist
Where
Music Installation

Ian Duclos & Alonso Leon-Velarde: Elefante

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

Ian Duclos & Alonso Leon-Velarde, Elefante, 2023

Performance

JAO MOON

Museo Anahuacalli

Tono dates:

April 20th, 7:00 pm

Venue:

Museo Anahuacalli

The Lifetime of Fire (2022) is a performance that Jao Moon created for the group exhibition “This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection,” at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt. His practice is informed by his experience of growing up in the marginalized periphery of Cartagena, Colombia. Living in an environment of constant resistance transformed him into a political body and made him question the predominant social order. In this artwork, he places candles in a mask on his head, slowly moving across a room. As the candles melt, the wax leaves marks on his skin. In this ritual between pain and pleasure, he seeks to decolonize ancestral memory through fire.

Installation

Cecilia Bengolea

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

Shelly Belly Inna Real life, 2020

Installation

Meriem Bennani

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

Party on the Caps, 2018-19

Installation

Naomi Rincón Gallardo

Museo Anahuacalli

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Museo Anahuacalli

Verses of Filth, 2021

Installation

Santiago Gómez

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

Global Warming, 2020

Installation

Agata Ingarden

Centro de Cultura Digital

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Centro de Cultura Digital

4ROOMS, 2023

Installation

ARTHUR JAFA

Laboratorio Arte Alameda

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Laboratorio Arte Alameda

akingdoncomethas, 2018

Installation

PALOMA CONTRERAS LOMAS

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

Untitled, 2023

Installation

GARUSH MELKONYAN

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

Untitled, 2023

Installation

Diane Severin Nguyen

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18th - 30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

IF REVOLUTION IS A SICKNESS, 2021

Installation

LUIZ ROQUE

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

XXI, 2021

Installation

Jacolby Satterwhite

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

We Are In Hell When We Hurt Each Other, 2020

Friday, Apr.21

Type
Artist
Where
Music Installation

Ian Duclos & Alonso Leon-Velarde: Elefante

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

Ian Duclos & Alonso Leon-Velarde, Elefante, 2023

Performance

Kebra with Chicloso, La Maga, Mabe Fratti & Hector Tosta, Monkey Junkie Funky and Bruja Prieta

Cafe Sismo

Tono dates:

April 21st, 9:00 pm

Venue:

Cafe Sismo

Party at Café Sismo, curated by Kebra

There will be performances and DJ sets by Chicloso, La Maga, Mabe Fratti & Hector Tosta, Monkey Junkie Funky y Kebra B2B Bruja Prieta

 

Installation

Cecilia Bengolea

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

Shelly Belly Inna Real life, 2020

Installation

Meriem Bennani

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

Party on the Caps, 2018-19

Installation

Naomi Rincón Gallardo

Museo Anahuacalli

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Museo Anahuacalli

Verses of Filth, 2021

Installation

Santiago Gómez

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

Global Warming, 2020

Installation

Agata Ingarden

Centro de Cultura Digital

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Centro de Cultura Digital

4ROOMS, 2023

Installation

ARTHUR JAFA

Laboratorio Arte Alameda

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Laboratorio Arte Alameda

akingdoncomethas, 2018

Installation

PALOMA CONTRERAS LOMAS

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

Untitled, 2023

Installation

GARUSH MELKONYAN

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

Untitled, 2023

Installation

Diane Severin Nguyen

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18th - 30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

IF REVOLUTION IS A SICKNESS, 2021

Installation

LUIZ ROQUE

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

XXI, 2021

Installation

Jacolby Satterwhite

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

We Are In Hell When We Hurt Each Other, 2020

Saturday, Apr.22

Type
Artist
Where
Music Installation

Ian Duclos & Alonso Leon-Velarde: Elefante

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

Ian Duclos & Alonso Leon-Velarde, Elefante, 2023

Installation

Cecilia Bengolea

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

Shelly Belly Inna Real life, 2020

Installation

Meriem Bennani

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

Party on the Caps, 2018-19

Installation

Naomi Rincón Gallardo

Museo Anahuacalli

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Museo Anahuacalli

Verses of Filth, 2021

Installation

Santiago Gómez

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

Global Warming, 2020

Installation

Agata Ingarden

Centro de Cultura Digital

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Centro de Cultura Digital

4ROOMS, 2023

Installation

ARTHUR JAFA

Laboratorio Arte Alameda

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Laboratorio Arte Alameda

akingdoncomethas, 2018

Installation

PALOMA CONTRERAS LOMAS

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

Untitled, 2023

Installation

GARUSH MELKONYAN

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

Untitled, 2023

Installation

Diane Severin Nguyen

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18th - 30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

IF REVOLUTION IS A SICKNESS, 2021

Installation

LUIZ ROQUE

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

XXI, 2021

Installation

Jacolby Satterwhite

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

We Are In Hell When We Hurt Each Other, 2020

Sunday, Apr.23

Type
Artist
Where
Music Installation

Ian Duclos & Alonso Leon-Velarde: Elefante

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

Ian Duclos & Alonso Leon-Velarde, Elefante, 2023

Installation

Cecilia Bengolea

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

Shelly Belly Inna Real life, 2020

Installation

Meriem Bennani

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

Party on the Caps, 2018-19

Installation

Naomi Rincón Gallardo

Museo Anahuacalli

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Museo Anahuacalli

Verses of Filth, 2021

Installation

Santiago Gómez

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

Global Warming, 2020

Installation

Agata Ingarden

Centro de Cultura Digital

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Centro de Cultura Digital

4ROOMS, 2023

Installation

ARTHUR JAFA

Laboratorio Arte Alameda

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Laboratorio Arte Alameda

akingdoncomethas, 2018

Installation

PALOMA CONTRERAS LOMAS

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

Untitled, 2023

Installation

GARUSH MELKONYAN

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

Untitled, 2023

Installation

Diane Severin Nguyen

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18th - 30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

IF REVOLUTION IS A SICKNESS, 2021

Installation

LUIZ ROQUE

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

XXI, 2021

Installation

Jacolby Satterwhite

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

We Are In Hell When We Hurt Each Other, 2020

Monday, Apr.24

Type
Artist
Where
Music Installation

Ian Duclos & Alonso Leon-Velarde: Elefante

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

Ian Duclos & Alonso Leon-Velarde, Elefante, 2023

Installation

Cecilia Bengolea

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

Shelly Belly Inna Real life, 2020

Installation

Meriem Bennani

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

Party on the Caps, 2018-19

Installation

Naomi Rincón Gallardo

Museo Anahuacalli

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Museo Anahuacalli

Verses of Filth, 2021

Installation

Santiago Gómez

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

Global Warming, 2020

Installation

Agata Ingarden

Centro de Cultura Digital

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Centro de Cultura Digital

4ROOMS, 2023

Installation

ARTHUR JAFA

Laboratorio Arte Alameda

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Laboratorio Arte Alameda

akingdoncomethas, 2018

Installation

PALOMA CONTRERAS LOMAS

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

Untitled, 2023

Installation

GARUSH MELKONYAN

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

Untitled, 2023

Installation

Diane Severin Nguyen

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18th - 30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

IF REVOLUTION IS A SICKNESS, 2021

Installation

LUIZ ROQUE

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

XXI, 2021

Installation

Jacolby Satterwhite

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

We Are In Hell When We Hurt Each Other, 2020

Tuesday, Apr.25

Type
Artist
Where
Music Installation

Ian Duclos & Alonso Leon-Velarde: Elefante

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

Ian Duclos & Alonso Leon-Velarde, Elefante, 2023

Screenings

“Watch & Chill” Part II

Centro de Cultura Digital

Tono dates:

April 25th, 6:00 - 9:00 pm

Venue:

Centro de Cultura Digital

Lior Shamriz, Port Saïd, Santa Cruz, Sarmad Kashani, 2022

Watch and Chill 3.0: Streaming Suspense is a screening program in collaboration with the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (MMCA), the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM), and the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV). The program will include physical presentations at all of the hosting partners as well as an online presentation on the MMCA’s Watch and Chill (watchandchill.kr/en) platform, the world’s first subscription-based streaming platform for contemporary art, where the audience worldwide can freely access to the media collection of major international art institutions. Entitled Streaming Suspense, Watch and Chill season 3 explores ways in which methods of storytelling and imaging conjure immersion through the strategies of tension. Sub-themed as “Landscape under Moonlight,” “Assembly of Evidence,” “Mutable Corpus,” “Performance of the Undead,” “Post-dystopian Worldbuilding,” the contents for both online platform and the offline exhibition presents works that experiment with the psyche of uncanny, abnormality, shape-shifting, and related implications today. Artists include:

Meriem Bennani, Pia Borg, Club Ate (Justin Shoulder, Bhenji Ra), Fyerool Darma, FHHH friends (Han Seungjae, Han Yangkyu, Yoon Hanjin), Cécile B. Evans, Naomi Rincón Gallardo, Chitra Ganesh, Nic Hamilton, Kwon Hayoun, Jang Minseung, Jung Jaekyung, siren eun young jung, Paloma Contreras Lomas, Liang Luscombe, Garush Melkonyan, Alison Nguyen, Park Chan-kyong, Luiz Roque, Jacolby Satterwhte, Skawennati, Lior Shamriz, Song Sanghee, Karina Utomo and Cūrā8

More info here.

Installation

Cecilia Bengolea

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

Shelly Belly Inna Real life, 2020

Installation

Meriem Bennani

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

Party on the Caps, 2018-19

Installation

Naomi Rincón Gallardo

Museo Anahuacalli

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Museo Anahuacalli

Verses of Filth, 2021

Installation

Santiago Gómez

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

Global Warming, 2020

Installation

Agata Ingarden

Centro de Cultura Digital

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Centro de Cultura Digital

4ROOMS, 2023

Installation

ARTHUR JAFA

Laboratorio Arte Alameda

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Laboratorio Arte Alameda

akingdoncomethas, 2018

Installation

PALOMA CONTRERAS LOMAS

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

Untitled, 2023

Installation

GARUSH MELKONYAN

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

Untitled, 2023

Installation

Diane Severin Nguyen

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18th - 30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

IF REVOLUTION IS A SICKNESS, 2021

Installation

LUIZ ROQUE

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

XXI, 2021

Installation

Jacolby Satterwhite

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

We Are In Hell When We Hurt Each Other, 2020

Wednesday, Apr.26

Type
Artist
Where
Music Installation

Ian Duclos & Alonso Leon-Velarde: Elefante

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

Ian Duclos & Alonso Leon-Velarde, Elefante, 2023

Dance

DIEGO VEGA SOLORZA

Ex Teresa Arte Actual

Tono dates:

April 26th, 7:00 pm

Venue:

Ex Teresa Arte Actual

Dorje is a contemporary dance piece about ritual and the cyclical nature of things. The work results from the “Generadores de Movimiento,” a movement laboratory directed by Vega Solorza, in which he investigates dance patterns and physical concepts such as balance, weight, dislocation, suspension, vertigo and gravity. As an exercise, the dance uses the tools discovered through the research process to explore different bodily dynamics and structures, ultimately placing the performers in situations that lead them to physical and mental states of alteration and complexity. The dance allows us to understand the body’s construction as a dialogue between the physical and emotional connection of bodies.

Installation

Cecilia Bengolea

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

Shelly Belly Inna Real life, 2020

Installation

Meriem Bennani

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

Party on the Caps, 2018-19

Installation

Naomi Rincón Gallardo

Museo Anahuacalli

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Museo Anahuacalli

Verses of Filth, 2021

Installation

Santiago Gómez

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

Global Warming, 2020

Installation

Agata Ingarden

Centro de Cultura Digital

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Centro de Cultura Digital

4ROOMS, 2023

Installation

ARTHUR JAFA

Laboratorio Arte Alameda

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Laboratorio Arte Alameda

akingdoncomethas, 2018

Installation

PALOMA CONTRERAS LOMAS

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

Untitled, 2023

Installation

GARUSH MELKONYAN

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

Untitled, 2023

Installation

Diane Severin Nguyen

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18th - 30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

IF REVOLUTION IS A SICKNESS, 2021

Installation

LUIZ ROQUE

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

XXI, 2021

Installation

Jacolby Satterwhite

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

We Are In Hell When We Hurt Each Other, 2020

Thursday, Apr.27

Type
Artist
Where
Music Installation

Ian Duclos & Alonso Leon-Velarde: Elefante

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

Ian Duclos & Alonso Leon-Velarde, Elefante, 2023

Performance

Lotte Andersen, Naima Karlsson, Alonso Leon-Velarde, and Max Manzano

Museo de Arte Moderno

Tono dates:

April 27th, 5:00 pm

Venue:

Museo de Arte Moderno

Synthetic Opus (2023) is a live performance adaptation of Chaos Has No Morality (2022), a three-channel audio installation by Lotte Andersen with was composed by Naima Karlsson and Alonso Leon-Velarde. The installation was a proposal for a deconstructed anthem and explored histories of national anthems and the hypnotic quality of a musical hook. For TONO, the artists are working with composer Max Manzano and Mexico City-based jazz musicians to interpret and perform the composition.

Installation

Cecilia Bengolea

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

Shelly Belly Inna Real life, 2020

Installation

Meriem Bennani

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

Party on the Caps, 2018-19

Installation

Naomi Rincón Gallardo

Museo Anahuacalli

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Museo Anahuacalli

Verses of Filth, 2021

Installation

Santiago Gómez

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

Global Warming, 2020

Installation

Agata Ingarden

Centro de Cultura Digital

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Centro de Cultura Digital

4ROOMS, 2023

Installation

ARTHUR JAFA

Laboratorio Arte Alameda

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Laboratorio Arte Alameda

akingdoncomethas, 2018

Installation

PALOMA CONTRERAS LOMAS

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

Untitled, 2023

Installation

GARUSH MELKONYAN

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

Untitled, 2023

Installation

Diane Severin Nguyen

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18th - 30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

IF REVOLUTION IS A SICKNESS, 2021

Installation

LUIZ ROQUE

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

XXI, 2021

Installation

Jacolby Satterwhite

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

We Are In Hell When We Hurt Each Other, 2020

Friday, Apr.28

Type
Artist
Where
Music Installation

Ian Duclos & Alonso Leon-Velarde: Elefante

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

Ian Duclos & Alonso Leon-Velarde, Elefante, 2023

Screenings

“Watch & Chill” Part III

Centro de Cultura Digital

Tono dates:

April 28th, 6:00 - 9:00 pm

Venue:

Centro de Cultura Digital

Cécile B. Evans, A Screen Test for an Adaptation of Giselle, 2022

Watch and Chill 3.0: Streaming Suspense is a screening program in collaboration with the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (MMCA), the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM), and the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV). The program will include physical presentations at all of the hosting partners as well as an online presentation on the MMCA’s Watch and Chill (watchandchill.kr/en) platform, the world’s first subscription-based streaming platform for contemporary art, where the audience worldwide can freely access to the media collection of major international art institutions. Entitled Streaming Suspense, Watch and Chill season 3 explores ways in which methods of storytelling and imaging conjure immersion through the strategies of tension. Sub-themed as “Landscape under Moonlight,” “Assembly of Evidence,” “Mutable Corpus,” “Performance of the Undead,” “Post-dystopian Worldbuilding,” the contents for both online platform and the offline exhibition presents works that experiment with the psyche of uncanny, abnormality, shape-shifting, and related implications today. Artists include:

Meriem Bennani, Pia Borg, Club Ate (Justin Shoulder, Bhenji Ra), Fyerool Darma, FHHH friends (Han Seungjae, Han Yangkyu, Yoon Hanjin), Cécile B. Evans, Naomi Rincón Gallardo, Chitra Ganesh, Nic Hamilton, Kwon Hayoun, Jang Minseung, Jung Jaekyung, siren eun young jung, Paloma Contreras Lomas, Liang Luscombe, Garush Melkonyan, Alison Nguyen, Park Chan-kyong, Luiz Roque, Jacolby Satterwhte, Skawennati, Lior Shamriz, Song Sanghee, Karina Utomo and Cūrā8

More info here.

Installation

Cecilia Bengolea

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

Shelly Belly Inna Real life, 2020

Installation

Meriem Bennani

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

Party on the Caps, 2018-19

Installation

Naomi Rincón Gallardo

Museo Anahuacalli

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Museo Anahuacalli

Verses of Filth, 2021

Installation

Santiago Gómez

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

Global Warming, 2020

Installation

Agata Ingarden

Centro de Cultura Digital

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Centro de Cultura Digital

4ROOMS, 2023

Installation

ARTHUR JAFA

Laboratorio Arte Alameda

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Laboratorio Arte Alameda

akingdoncomethas, 2018

Installation

PALOMA CONTRERAS LOMAS

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

Untitled, 2023

Installation

GARUSH MELKONYAN

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

Untitled, 2023

Installation

Diane Severin Nguyen

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18th - 30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

IF REVOLUTION IS A SICKNESS, 2021

Installation

LUIZ ROQUE

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

XXI, 2021

Installation

Jacolby Satterwhite

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

We Are In Hell When We Hurt Each Other, 2020

Saturday, Apr.29

Type
Artist
Where
Music Installation

Ian Duclos & Alonso Leon-Velarde: Elefante

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

Ian Duclos & Alonso Leon-Velarde, Elefante, 2023

Performance

Atlacoya: Agua Triste del Lago de Texcoco, a new opera by NAAFI

NAAFI Opera

Tono dates:

April 29th, 9:00 pm

Venue:

NAAFI Opera

ATLACOYA: Agua Triste del Lago de Texcoco is a live performance and a contemporary opera conceived by Mexican record label NAAFI that looks at the history of the Monolith of Tlaloc and explores wider notions of spirituality, water, queerness, and history. It will be performed by La Bruja de Texcoco, with original music by Lao, a script by Pepx Romero, a set design by WangShui, and produced and art directed by Mexican Jihad. It is a performance that reflects the state of the contemporary queer creative scene in Mexico City. Following the opera, the evening will transition into a NAAFI party.

RSVP here.

Installation

Cecilia Bengolea

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

Shelly Belly Inna Real life, 2020

Installation

Meriem Bennani

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

Party on the Caps, 2018-19

Installation

Naomi Rincón Gallardo

Museo Anahuacalli

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Museo Anahuacalli

Verses of Filth, 2021

Installation

Santiago Gómez

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

Global Warming, 2020

Installation

Agata Ingarden

Centro de Cultura Digital

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Centro de Cultura Digital

4ROOMS, 2023

Installation

ARTHUR JAFA

Laboratorio Arte Alameda

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Laboratorio Arte Alameda

akingdoncomethas, 2018

Installation

PALOMA CONTRERAS LOMAS

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

Untitled, 2023

Installation

GARUSH MELKONYAN

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

Untitled, 2023

Installation

Diane Severin Nguyen

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18th - 30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

IF REVOLUTION IS A SICKNESS, 2021

Installation

LUIZ ROQUE

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

XXI, 2021

Installation

Jacolby Satterwhite

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

We Are In Hell When We Hurt Each Other, 2020

Sunday, Apr.30

Type
Artist
Where
Music Installation

Ian Duclos & Alonso Leon-Velarde: Elefante

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

Ian Duclos & Alonso Leon-Velarde, Elefante, 2023

Performance

LIGIA LEWIS

Proyecto Público Prim

Tono dates:

April 30th, 7:00 pm

Venue:

Proyecto Público Prim

Originally developed for Made in L.A. 2020, the multifaceted performance work began with an intrigue-based inquiry into deadpan, an impassive mannerism deployed in comedic fashion in order to illustrate emotional distance. However, Lewis abandoned this recursive ensemble of death due to COVID-19 and had the dancers use Macbeth’s culminating soliloquy (“Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,” a reflection on repetition and meaninglessness) as the beginning of a work that unfolds in modular parts, each one an illustration or parody of death, stasis, and the void, each one tied to its own carefully selected soundtrack or sample. The work is full of play but is also a meditation on “playing,” or acting, as well as on tragedy’s recurring cycles and familiarity within Black and brown experience; on time, as it loops; on performance; on touch, as an act of both care and violence. The work is built in the form of a musical lament, a protracted complaint on loop performed ad infinitum, decomposing itself along the way.

Installation

Cecilia Bengolea

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

Shelly Belly Inna Real life, 2020

Installation

Meriem Bennani

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

Party on the Caps, 2018-19

Installation

Naomi Rincón Gallardo

Museo Anahuacalli

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Museo Anahuacalli

Verses of Filth, 2021

Installation

Santiago Gómez

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

Global Warming, 2020

Installation

Agata Ingarden

Centro de Cultura Digital

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Centro de Cultura Digital

4ROOMS, 2023

Installation

ARTHUR JAFA

Laboratorio Arte Alameda

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Laboratorio Arte Alameda

akingdoncomethas, 2018

Installation

PALOMA CONTRERAS LOMAS

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

Untitled, 2023

Installation

GARUSH MELKONYAN

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

Untitled, 2023

Installation

Diane Severin Nguyen

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18th - 30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

IF REVOLUTION IS A SICKNESS, 2021

Installation

LUIZ ROQUE

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

XXI, 2021

Installation

Jacolby Satterwhite

Casa Margarita

Tono dates:

April 18-30th

Venue:

Casa Margarita

We Are In Hell When We Hurt Each Other, 2020

Venues

TONO will take place at 8 core venues across the city.

  • MUSEO ANAHUACALLI

    OPENING HOURS
    TUE - SUN
    11:00 - 18:00 HRS
    DIRECTIONS
    Museo 150, San Pablo Tepetlapa, Coyoacán, 04620 Ciudad de México, CDMX
  • MUSEO DE ARTE MODERNO

    OPENING HOURS
    TUE - SUN
    10:15 - 17:30 HRS
    DIRECTIONS
    Av. Paseo de la Reforma s/n, Bosque de Chapultepec I Secc, Miguel Hidalgo, 11100 Ciudad de México, CDMX
  • EX TERESA ARTE ACTUAL

    OPENING HOURS
    TUE - SUN
    10:00 - 18:00 HRS
    DIRECTIONS
    Lic. Verdad 8, Centro Histórico de la Cdad. de México, Centro, Cuauhtémoc, 06060 Ciudad de México, CDMX
  • LABORATORIO ARTE ALAMEDA

    OPENING HOURS
    TUE - SUN
    09:00 - 17:00 HRS
    DIRECTIONS
    Calle Dr Mora 7, Colonia Centro, Centro, Cuauhtémoc, 06050 Ciudad de México, CDMX
  • CENTRO CULTURAL DIGITAL

    OPENING HOURS
    TUE - SUN
    11:00 - 18:00 HRS
    DIRECTIONS
    Av. Paseo de la Reforma S/N, Juárez, Miguel Hidalgo, 06600 Ciudad de México, CDMX
  • CASA MARGARITA

    OPENING HOURS
    TUE - SUN
    12:00 - 20:00 HRS
    DIRECTIONS
    Córdoba 87, Roma Nte., Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico
  • PROYECTO PÚBLICO PRIM

    OPENING HOURS
    SUN (April 30th)
    18:00 - 22:00 HRS
    DIRECTIONS
    Calle Gral. Prim 32, Juárez, Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico
  • NAAFI OPERA

    OPENING HOURS
    SAT (April 29th)
    19:00 - 2:00 HRS

    DIRECTIONS
    TO BE ANNOUNCED WITH RSVP
  • Café Sismo

    OPENING HOURS
    FRI (April 21st)
    21:00 - 3:00 HRS
    DIRECTIONS
    República de Uruguay 84, Historic center of Mexico City, Centro, Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico

News

  • "In Mexico City, Club Kids Take the Stage" TONO in The New York Times

  • Interview with TONO Founder Sam Ozer in Reforma

    The independent curator and writer Samantha Ozer is the founder of the TONO festival, which will take place from April 18 to 30 in CDMX. Keep reading
  • TONO in RSVP

  • "Watch & Chill: Streaming Suspense" TONO in e-flux

  • TONO in Whitewall

  • TONO in Time Out

  • "Interview with TONO Founder Samantha Ozer" in Office Magazine

  • “Tono 2023 - El nuevo ritmo del arte” in Metal Magazine

  • “TONO: the new art festival for time-based work” in Schön

  • "Inaugura Laboratorio Arte Alameda "akindoncomethas", exposición del artista Arthur Jafa" in Crónica

  • TONO in Coolhuntermx

  • TONO in G7

  • TONO in Local MX

  • TONO in C&: América Latina

  • TONO in Revista de Arte

  • TONO in Kaltblut

  • TONO in Hoja de Ruta

  • "Watch & Chill 3.0: Streaming Suspense" with TONO in Digicult

  • TONO in Clot Magazine

  • "Marcando el tono" TONO in Vogue Mexico

  • "Impressions from Mexico City's Bustling Art Week" TONO in Hyperallergic

  • TONO in Flash Art

  • TONO in Milenio

  • TONO in Art Observed

  • "In Conversation with TONO's Sam Ozer" TONO in Matte Journal

  • “In conversation with curator Samantha Ozer” TONO in Curation Hour

  • TONO in The Happening

  • TONO in Onda MX

  • TONO in MX City

  • TONO in El Sol de México

  • TONO in ASVOF

Contact

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