Tóxico is a creative think-tank, a cultural salon.
Our projects vary from month to month:
Tóxico is constantly recreated in a modular, flexible fashion: a fluctuating beehive structure. We group and regroup, collaborating with many of Mexico’s most talented creative people, across disciplines; both the experienced and award-winning professionals, plus the young students that will surely be influential in the things to come.
We like exploring the gray areas between disciplines, the outer edges of our respective languages, looking for different ways of coming together to create unique contents and international projects. And even though Tóxico’s projects change constantly, they do have certain points in common: the relentless belief that imagination is not a luxury. That excellence is contagious. That intoxicating ideas are the best fuel for the creative mind.
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Founder & Director: Gabriella Gomez-Mont
Tóxico advisory committee 2009: Paula Astorga, Javier Toscano, Trisha Ziff, Avelino Rodriguez, Fran Ilich, Emiliano Godoy, Vanessa Eckstein, Colección/Fundación Jumex.
2009-2010 collaborators: Vanessa Eckstein, Javier Sirvent, Santiago da Silva, Manuel Bueno, Ramiro Chaves, Marcelino Islas, Rodrigo Sandoval, Jorge Orozco, Maggie Delgado, Niki Nakazawa, Rodrigo Teie.
Mentorship program 2011: Eunice Adorno, Santiago da Silva, Nika Milano
InVitro Interdisciplinary Program 2010: Emilio Bassail, Frida Escobedo, Brenda Anayatzin
International Intern at Tóxico 2010: Audrey Young
Some organizations with whom Tóxico has collaborated include la Colección/Fundación Jumex, The Lift, TED, Cineteca Nacional de México, The British Council, FICCO International Film Festival, The Danish Embassy, The Spanish Embassy, The Catalán Cultural Institute, The American Embassy, The Italian Institute of Culture, The Goethe Institute, 212BerlÃn, Anglo Foundation, The French Embassy, The Gates Foundation, The Copenhagen Art Agency, Museo de la Ciudad de México, The Tamayo Museum, The Carrillo Gil Museum, Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Casa Vecina, CCC, Fundación del Centro Histórico, MUCA Roma, Centro, Laboratorio Curatorial 060, Cine Abierto, Blok Design, Foro General León, among many others.
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Tóxico is partly sponsored by La Colección/Fundación Jumex, one of Latin America´s most prestigious patron of the arts. Tóxico is also supported by The Lift, an international production and prostproduction house.
Gabriella Gómez-Mont was chosen as a TED Fellow 2009 and then as a TED Senior Fellow (2010-2013) thanks to the Tóxico project.
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