Tania Candiani

Tania Candiani starts her research stay at CERN as part of the Guest Artists programme, aiming to interweave the narrative of quantum physics and ancestral Indigenous knowledge.

Nombrar el agua, an installation of embroidery hoops and single-channel video with sound, in which words in different native languages ​​of Mexico are embroidered by hand to name the water. This piece is based on a legend of a community in the Huasteca mountains that once a year spends the night naming all the things that exist so that at dawn they continue to exist. Name as an act of resistance.

ASU Art Museum is presenting a site-specific installation that incorporates sound, land, and animals as a way to raise awareness about risks facing endangered species living in the Sonoran Desert. Tania Candiani worked with electronic musicians to create experimental sound scores conceived as lullabies for these indigenous animals. The exhibit includes videos, sculptural sounds works, and other objects.

Reverencia (Reverencia). Penachos Series es una instalación compuesta por un tocado tradicional mexicano, una coreografía, una acción grabada en video y activaciones en vivo que resignifican una danza tradicional llamada Danza de Los Quetzales. Reverencia propone una reinterpretación del significado simbólico de los movimientos de la Danza de Los Quetzales, así como una traducción de los elementos simbólicos del “Penacho”.