Beyond the festival: meet the artists behind TONO 2025
Briefly

The TONO Festival celebrated its third edition in Mexico, focusing on time-based artistic works through a series of immersive exhibitions in various museums. This year, over twenty artists and collectives participated, including significant local and international figures. Highlights included a collaboration with MoMA, performances that integrated poetry and sensory experiences, and new commissions that examined the relationship between language, body, and environmental themes. The festival aimed to redefine artistic boundaries while fostering community engagement through dynamic, participatory events.
TONO Festival, a celebration of time-based work, returned for its third edition this spring in Mexico, showcasing immersive exhibitions and notable local and international attendees.
This year's edition of TONO featured over twenty artists, including immersive performances, video installations, a collaborative screening program with MoMA, and contributions from renowned international curators.
Works like 'Aguas Frescas' expanded poetry's definition, turning fresh juice gatherings into communal sensory acts, and 'Corriendo hacia la asamblea de las cosas' reimagined environmental themes through local song.
The festival's highlight included works leveraging embodied movement and free dance to interweave personal and cultural language, showcasing the interconnectedness of human experience and artistic expression.
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