TONO 2023 — Sam Ozer

TONO Festival 2023

Mexico City

TONO Festival ran from April 18-30th, 2023 and took place across Museo Anahuacalli, Museo de Arte Moderno, Ex Teresa Arte Actual, Centro de Cultura Digital, Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Café Sismo, Proyecto Público Prim, Casa Margarita, and Zyana.

We welcomed over 8,000 visitors and presented eleven video installations, seven performances, six live DJ sets, an opera, and a sound installation.

TONO also collaborated with the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Korea, Seoul (MMCA); The Peabody Essex Museum, Salem (PEM); and The National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (NGV) on the MMCA-initiated touring video exhibition “Watch & Chill” that was presented across TONO and our partner venues. Learn more about this initiative here and here.

Learn more about TONO here.

Press: The New York Times, Flash Art, Vogue Mexico (print), Milenio, Reforma, Schön Magazine, Matte Journal, Office Magazine, Time Out, and Whitewall, amongst others.

We worked with artists from Argentina, Armenia, Brazil, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Mexico, Morocco, Peru, Poland, Sweden, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Venezuela. They include:

Lotte Andersen, Cecilia Bengolea, Meriem Bennani, La Bruja de Texcoco, Alberto Bustamante aka Mexican Jihad, Bruja Prieta, Chicloso, Ian Duclos, Pablo Flores aka Monkey Junkie Funky, Mabe Fratti, Naomi Rincón Gallardo, Santiago Gómez, Agata Ingarden, Arthur Jafa, Naima Karlsson, Kebra, Alonso Leon-Velarde, Ligia Lewis (with Corey Scott-Gilbert, Justin Kennedy, and Jasmine Orpilla), Paloma Contreras Lomas, La Maga, Max Manzano, Garush Melkonyan, Jao Moon, Diane Severin Nguyen, Lauro Robles aka Lao, Pepx Romero, Luiz Roque, Jacolby Satterwhite, Diego Vega Solorza, Hector Tosta, WangShui, and Osías Yanov (with Quillen Mut, Manns Ana G. Zambrano and Manns).

Image: Arthur Jafa, akingdoncomethas, 2018 on view at Laboratorio Arte Alameda; Photo: Carolina Pimenta

Jao Moon performance; Photo: Guillermina Cetkovich Bakmas

Osías Yanov performance; Photo: Pablo Astorga

Rehearsal stills for Atlacoya: Agua Triste del Lago de Texcoco (NAAFI Opera); Photo: Eunice Adorno

Arthur Jafa video installation; Photo: Carolina Pimenta

Ligia Lewis performance; Photo: Brenda Jauregui

Diego Vega Solorza performance; Photo: Brenda Jauregui

Diego Vega Solorza performance; Photo: Pablo Astorga

Lighting design at Diego Vega Solorza performance; Photo: Pablo Astorga

Atlacoya: Agua Triste del Lago de Texcoco (NAAFI Opera); Photo: Rodrigo Álvarez

Agata Ingarden video installation; Photo: Carolina Pimenta

Naomi Rincón Gallardo video installation; Photo: Carolina Pimenta

Chicloso performance as part of "Kebra & Friends" at Café Sismo

La Maga performance as part of "Kebra & Friends" at Café Sismo

Bruja Prieta B2B Kebra DJ sets as part of "Kebra & Friends" at Café Sismo; Photo: Pablo Astorga

Luiz Roque video installation; Photo: Carolina Pimenta

Jacolby Satterwhite video installation; Photo: Carolina Pimenta

Diane Severin Nguyen video installation; Photo: Carolina Pimenta

Arthur Jafa video wall text; Photo: Carolina Pimenta

Arthur Jafa wall text; Photo: Carolina Pimenta

Mabe Fratti performance as part of "Kebra & Friends" at Café Sismo; Photo: Pablo Astorga

Osías Yanov performance; Photo: Guillermina Cetkovich Bakmas

"Synthetic Opus" performance; Photo: Guillermina Cetkovich Bakmas

Pablo Flores aka Monkey Junkie Funky DJ set as part of "Kebra & Friends" at Café Sismo; Photo: Pablo Astorga

Hector Tosta performing as part of "Kebra & Friends" at Café Sismo; Photo: Pablo Astorga

Design at Café Sismo; Photo: Pablo Astorga

La Maga performance as part of "Kebra & Friends" at Café Sismo; Photo: Pablo Astorga

Chicloso performance as part of "Kebra & Friends" at Café Sismo; Photo: Pablo Astorga