Nina Hoechtl’s long-term project PENACHO VS PENACHO explores the colonial history of Moctezuma’s feathered headdress.

Faye Driscoll’s latest project, Weathering, troubles the distinctions between the multiple meanings of its titular root in order to provide a multi-sensory, leaky cry against surrender and despair in the face of a collapsing environment.

Siniarska’s performance can be thought of as part of a raucous tradition of sonic art that rebels against political censorship. Mimicking the sounds of a bomb and a siren, she confronted audiences with a monstrosity that emanated from the human body.

Clotilde Jiménez’s subversive version of an opera told the story of a child in rural Central Mexico who is taken by chaneques – shape-shifting guardians of the forests who are also believed to play tricks on humans and kidnap children who wander alone in forests.