Mexico City & Puebla

TONO Festival ran from March 12-24th, 2024 and took place across Museo Anahuacalli, Ex Teresa Arte Actual, Centro de Cultura Digital, Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Museo Amparo, Por Detroit in collaboration with BUTT Magazine, Museo Cárcamo de Dolores, Centro Cultural España en México, and online on PAMMTV.

The festival included the newest chapter of Gabriel Massan: Continuity Flaws: Rumors of a Leak (2023-24), an innovative digital artwork co-commissioned by TONO Festival and Serpentine Arts Technologies, that connects with Third World: The Bottom Dimension, Massan’s ongoing project commissioned and produced by Serpentine Arts Technologies, Powered by Tezos; the Mexican premiere of video installations by Ali Cherri and Emilija Škarnulytė; a new dance commission by Nicolás Poggi; the Mexican premiere of a performance by Joshua Serafin; a new music performance by Tania Ximena; a music performance by Emilija Škarnulytė and Ezeta, amongst other activities.

We welcomed over 8,000 visitors across the two weeks of festival programming and at the video installations at Museo Amparo (Ali Cherri) and Centro de Cultura Digital (Emilija Škarnulytė) that were extended for an additional two weeks.

TONO also partnered with the Pérez Art Museum Miami to co-curate “TONO x PAMMTV Selects” and share video art with a wider audience by presenting a series of works in a cinema in Mexico City during the festival and online on PAMMTV (through October 14, 2024).

Learn more here.

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