Partner of
TONO Festival
In 2025, Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels is supporting the TONO Festival for the presentation of Mothering the Tongue by Adam Linder.
The TONO Festival is a US non-profit arts organization dedicated to exploring and supporting time-based artwork, including performance, dance, music, and moving-image. Through direct commissions with artists and collaborations with institutional partners in the United States and abroad, the Festival instigates new threads of research and networks of exchange. TONO Festivals 2023 and 2024 brought together over fifty artists from twenty-two countries to Mexico City and Puebla. Hosted across thirteen museums and music venues, the festival took over the city and featured a series of video installations, performances, music events, screenings, and talks. Beyond the institutional partners in Mexico, TONO has organized projects with the Peabody Essex Museum, Massachusetts; Pérez Art Museum Miami; Rockefeller Center, New York; National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Pinacoteca de São Paulo; the Serpentine Galleries, London; The Venice Biennale, etc. These projects have involved co-commissioning artwork, touring artwork, and introducing artists to new audiences through exhibitions, screenings, talks, digital programming, and live programming.
With the support of Villa Eugénie, the Rosenkranz Foundation, Mendes Wood DM, kurimanzutto gallery, Lisa Milton and C3 Residency, Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels, Olivier & Desiree Berggruen, and the Judelson Family Foundation.
With the Friends of TONO and the leadership of the board – Lisa Milton, Enrique Norten, Sam Ozer, and Lucía Sanroman.
Film curator at The Museum of Modern Art of New York Sophie Cavoulacos
Museum partners and collaborators Karla Niño de Rivera and her team at the Museo Anahuacalli; Xavier de la Riva Ros, Marcos Ysair Pérez Botello, Fabiola Garza Talavera and their team at Laboratorio Arte Alameda; Ramiro Martínez Estrada and Sergio Flores Martínez and their team at Museo Amparo; Valeria Macias Rodríguez and María Eugenia Ledezma Pérez and their team at Ex Teresa Arte Actual; Cinthya García Leyva, Jean Pierre Espinosa López, and their team at Casa del Lago UNAM; Sol Henaro Palomino, Abril Castro-Prieto, Karol Wolley Reyes, Miguel Lopes at Museo Universitario del Chopo UNAM; the Secretaría de Cultura del Gobierno de México and the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura; as well as all of the technicians and installers involved in realizing the vision of TONO.
Organization of a video program Alberto Bustamante Traícion at Axe Ceremonia.
Research Megan Yuan
Logistical support Clearing and Carlos∕Ishikawa galleries
Thanks to all the artists participating in TONO
Edition 2025
Mothering the Tongue
Adam Linder
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