Erick Meyenberg: The wheel bears no resemblance to a leg at Americas Society, May 4 – July 22, 2017
Erick Meyenberg: The wheel bears no resemblance to a leg at Americas Society, May 4 – July 22, 2017
Erick Meyenberg's exhibition at Americas Society takes a critical stance toward normative pedagogical structures, culminating in a synesthetic experience.
The end result of the artist’s collaboration with members of the high school marching band, Banda de Guerra Lobos, at the Colegio Hispanoamericano in Mexico City. Meyenberg and the teenagers—together with curators, guest musicians, composers, costume designers, and a video production team—co-created choreographies, musical scores, and a series of performances that took the band through some of the city’s most emblematic and politically marked sites: the Plaza de Tlatelolco, where striking university students clashed with the state in 1968; the Monumento a la Revolución, commemorating the Mexican Revolution of 1910; and the Forum Buenavista shopping center, symbolizing Mexico’s embeddedness in transnational capitalism...
