29.JAN. - 04.MAR.2022
Actions at a Distance

Actions at a Distance brings together six artists commissioned by the Museo Jumex to produce performances and events that take place outside the museum. Each interacts with a specific context including communities in the museum’s locale, the U.S.-Mexico border, or ancient and modern ruins in the Yucatan peninsula. The events speak to forms of connection between the here and now and distant places, times, and states of existence.

The title of the project refers to Albert Einstein’s description of an effect in physics that would become known as quantum entanglement. The scientist’s research suggested that two independent objects are interrelated despite no direct connection where a change to one would instantly cause a change in the other, describing the effect as ‘spooky action at a distance’. Taken metaphorically, the projects ‘entangle’ what happens inside the gallery and beyond its walls.

Artist: Lorena Ancona, Oscar Cueto, Galia Eibenschutz, Cristina Ochoa, Calixto Ramírez, Rafiki Sánchez.

The participating artists will be part of Upside Down Earth, a special offsite project in Izamal, Yucatán, as part of the Páayt'aan Festival.

Actions at a Distance is part of Museo en común, an initiative of the Museo Jumex to bring contemporary artists, designers and communities in contact, to create common spaces where practices, knowledge and experiences can be shared.

Actions

THUERDAY 03.FEB. | 1PM – 3PM
Consultorio Pharmakon, psychotropic botany with Cristina Ochoa
Terrace

Cristina Ochoa will offer consultations on herbalism and plants to interested visitors, explaining the properties and effects of the tinctures and recipes that make up the Pharmakon apothecary, an herbal kit containing extracts from plants like pericon, calea zacatechichi, and sinicuichi, among others. The artist explores the uses of these plants, which allow an expansion of consciousness and can have an influence in mood and overall health. Each appointment is 15 minutes long.

Actions in the Plaza
Program:

TUESDAY 08.FEB.
11AM Grand Concert: Entre caballos de fuerza y caballos de vapor. Josué Mejía
4PM Reading of Izamal Donc. Erika Torres y Galia Eibenschutz

WEDNESDAY 09.FEB.
11AM Combustus. Rafiki Sánchez
4PM Reading of Izamal Donc. Erika Torres y Galia Eibenschutz

THUERSDAY 10.FEB.
11AM Grand Concert: Entre caballos de fuerza y caballos de vapor. Josué Mejía
12PM Of Exceptions and Miracles. Oscar Cueto with Afromega + Ese o
4PM Drawings that are Choreographies. Ana G. Zambrano in collaboration with Camila Arroyo. Sound by HERD

FRIDAY 11.FEB.
11AM PERMANENT. Movement Workshop by Ana G. Zambrano
4PM Reading of Izamal Donc. Erika Torres and Galia Eibenschutz

SATURDAY 12.FEB.
4PM Drawings that are Choreographies. Ana G. Zambrano in collaboration with Camila Arroyo. Sound by HERD

SUNDAY 13.FEB.
4PM Terence Maquina. Cristina Ochoa in collaboration with Eduardo Vindiola

Photo: Ramiro Chaves