La Culebra Biennale Venezia 2024. Photo credit: Clelia Cadamuro
ABOUT
TONO OFF-SITE includes projects organized by TONO at international partner institutions outside of the festival dates in Mexico. These projects include exhibitions, physical and digital screening programs, performances, talks, and parties. These projects serve as a way to tour TONO original productions as well as expand the TONO footprint internationally through co-curations. TONO has organized projects with institutions such as the Pérez Art Museum Miami; Rockefeller Center, New York; the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul; the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Peabody Essex, Massachusetts; Pinacoteca de São Paulo; the Serpentine Galleries, London, and La Biennale di Venezia.
PROJECT
TONO x La Biennale di Venezia
Dates:
November 21 & 22, 2024
Where:
Artigliere gallery in the arsenale as part of the 60th Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia
La Culebra (55’) was a live performance conceived by WangShui and Alberto Bustamante as a closing ritual for the Biennale Arte 2024. Set within WangShui’s chamber-like installation, which featured their Cathexis paintings exploring the serpent as a cipher for knowledge, violence, and love, the performance echoed the story of the Tlaloc monolith. La Bruja de Texcoco embodied the serpent, her voice moving fluidly through Indigenous Mexican music traditions, orchestral choruses, and contemporary club sounds, weaving time and space with the frequency of love.
Co-produced by TONO and La Biennale di Venezia, with the support of Kuboraum
Performer: La Bruja de Texcoco
Music: Lauro Robles, Alberto Bustamante, and La Bruja de Texcoco
The performance opened with a ceremonial prelude by Little Owl and Debit
Costumes: Bárbara Sánchez-Kane
Photo credit: Clelia Cadamuro
Read more in La Biennale di Venezia, Nasty Magazine, Document Journal, Purple Magazine.
TONO x La Biennale di Venezia After Party
Dates:
November 22, 2024
Where:
COMBO Venice
TONO and Kuboraum hosted an after party to celebrate the world premiere a La Culebra (55’), a live performance conceived by WangShui and Alberto Bustamante as a closing ritual for the Biennale Arte 2024. Following the final performance in the arsenale of the Biennale, guests were invited to continue the festivities at COMBO Venice. There were DJ sets by Mexican Jihad, LAO, and Debit, with drinks by Yola Mezcal.
Photo credit: Clelia Cadamuro
TONO x PAMMTV
Dates:
March 14 - April 14, 2024
Where:
PAMMTV streaming platform & Pérez Art Museum Miami Auditorium
TONO x PAMMTV Selects was a program of shapeshifting video art which screened across Mexico City, South Florida, and PAMMTV. TONO x PAMMTV Selects premiered during the 2024 TONO festival in Mexico City with a screening at the Centro de Cultura Digital on March 13th. Works were subsequently presented in the PAMM auditorium and online on PAMMTV.
The twelve works featured in this program explored how bodies transform across virtual, natural, and supernatural worlds. From the atomic to the cosmic and the cell to the pixel, the videos in TONO x PAMMTV Selects explored processes of metamorphosis. Spanning creatures constructed out of mud and bodies transformed through science, to digital avatars and bodies manipulated through rituals, the figures in these videos burst a discrete definition of a body. Here, bodies are material vessels as much as they are objects for imagination and groups. A body, from a river to a digital stream, is constantly in a state of flux.
Participating artists included Biarritzzz, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Seba Calfuqueo, Leo Castañeda, Cristóbal Cea, Colectivo Ixqcrear, Edny Jean Joseph, (La)Horde, Carlos Motta, Simon(e) Jaikiriuma Paetau, Agnes Questionmark, and Tania Ximena.
Read more in Hyperallergic
TONO at Rockefeller Center
Dates:
October 27, 28, 29, 2023
Where:
Rockefeller Center Plaza
Casa Dragones invited TONO to curate a performance program for Mexico Week at Rockefeller Center. TONO subsequently commissioned Mexican choreographer Diego Vega Solorza to imagine a new dance piece. Performed by Pascale Ussel and Carla Segovia, “Las Olas” was an exercise on time and stillness, where the body narrated the mystical and historical relationship between humans and the tide.
Choreography: Diego Vega Solorza
Music: Sebastián Lechuga
Dancers: Carla Segovia y Pascale Ussel
Costumes: Mauricio Ascencio
TONO as part of ‘Watch & Chill: Season III'
Dates:
Spring 2023 - Fall 2024
Where:
TONO, the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Korea, The Peabody Essex Museum, and The National Gallery of Victoria
Watch & Chill was a hybrid video art exhibition created by the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Korea, Seoul (MMCA) to explore the hierarchies between online experience and physical exhibition. TONO’s participation in season three with institutions in the Americas and Oceania followed the success of season one, which included collaborations with Asian museums (Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MCAD) in Manila, MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum in Chiang Mai, and the M+, West Kowloon Cultural District in Hong Kong) and season two, which brought in partnerships with Middle Eastern and European art institutions (ArkDes, the Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design and Sharjah Art Foundation).
For Season III, TONO collaborated with the MMCA, The Peabody Essex Museum, Salem (PEM); The National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (NGV) on a program that travelled between all venues and was simultaneously streamed on the MMCA’s Watch & Chill streaming platform. Artists included 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 Satterwhite, Skawennati, Lior Shamriz, Song Sanghee, Karina Utomo and Cūrā8.
More info here.
Photo credit: Cheolki Hong