Cuerpxs en Resonancia: Energetic Body — Resonance, Sound + Reset

Cuerpxs en Resonancia is a three-part, bilingual movement-and-sound workshop curated by MexFest Co-Directors Arantxa Araujo + Xtian Ávila.
About this Event

Cuerpxs en Resonancia: Energetic Body — Resonance, Sound, and Reset
Artists: Vicios Ocultos & Violeta Picayo

The third offering centers the energetic body as a space of vibration, resonance, and collective renewal. Through sound practices, meditation, somatic rest, and repetitive movement inspired by the rhythms of breath, heartbeat, and drumming, the artists explore how repetition can shift perception, regulate the nervous system, and awaken our capacity for deep connection.

The experience culminates in a shared resonance activation where movement, sound, and vibration become a collective ritual. As rhythmic patterns build and synchronize, participants are invited to expand their energetic field—to sense the body beyond its physical boundaries, extending into its aura, the collective body, and the surrounding biosphere. Together, the offering becomes an act of attunement, reminding us that resonance is not only something we hear, but something we embody, share, and carry into the world.

ABOUT
Cuerpxs en Resonancia is a three-part bilingual series of participatory performances, communal rituals, workshops, and artistic offerings organized by MexFest, curated by Arantxa Araujo and Xtian Ávila, and hosted at Socrates Sculpture Park during Hispanic Heritage Month.

The series intentionally pairs Mexican artists with artists from across the Latinx diaspora, creating interdisciplinary collaborations that generate new artistic relationships, shared methodologies, and spaces for cross-cultural dialogue. Together, the three offerings explore the physical, cognitive, and energetic dimensions of the body through movement, sound, storytelling, visual art, and collective care.

Cuerpxs en Resonancia welcomes immigrant communities, essential workers, hospitality, kitchen and delivery workers, artists, cultural workers, families, and neighbors into a shared space of creativity and care. Through free bilingual artistic offerings, the series celebrates the wisdom carried by our bodies while creating opportunities to build relationships across cultures, generations, and disciplines.

Together, we transform public space into a place where belonging is practiced, culture is shared, and community is created through participation.

MexFest is an artist-led platform for multidisciplinary artistic exchange, cultural visibility, and community care. Founded by Xtian Ávila in 2023, MexFest was created to center Mexican artists, culture, and traditions while fostering meaningful dialogue with the broader Latinx diaspora.

In 2025, Arantxa Araujo joined as Co-Artistic Director expanding the initiative into a collaborative platform that commissions and presents participatory performances, exhibitions, workshops, and public programs rooted in experimentation, cultural memory, and collective care.

Rather than presenting Mexican culture as a fixed identity, MexFest embraces it as a living, evolving practice—one that invites collaboration across disciplines, generations, and Latinx diaspora. MexFest cultivates new artistic relationships, cross-cultural exchange, and shared methodologies that honor tradition while generating new forms of collective creation.

BIOS
is a queer Mexican transdisciplinary artist, curator, and cultural organizer whose practice centers performance while expanding into video, installation, photography, sculpture, and participatory systems. Influenced by neuroscience, somatic practice, and social choreography, Araujo creates multisensory environments where movement, sound, light, and collective participation converge to explore migration, perception, memory, and alternative forms of social connection.

Their work has been presented at the Brooklyn Museum, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, Queens Museum, Abrons Arts Center, and internationally through festivals including Illuminus (Boston) and Nuit Blanche (Canada). A recipient of the Franklin Furnace Fund and other awards, Araujo is currently developing a new commissioned work with Franklin Furnace and ISSUE Project Room, premiering on September 23, 2026. They serve as Program Manager at the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, are Co-Artistic Director of MexFest, and Curator of Art in Odd Places 2026: UTOPIAS, where they continue to champion experimental, interdisciplinary, and community-centered artistic practices.

is a Mexican-born curator, theatermaker, teaching artist, and cultural producer whose practice creates spaces for artistic exchange, cultural visibility, and community building. His work spans theater, curation, and public programming, centering Mexican culture while fostering dialogue with the broader Latinx community. His theatrical credits include Last Christmas (The Tank NYC), The Sun Serpent (Hangar Theatre), and productions of Romeo & Juliet and Twelfth Night (New York Live Arts). He is the founder and Co-Artistic Director of MexFest, an artist-led platform that commissions and presents multidisciplinary programs rooted in collective care, experimentation, and cultural exchange. Ávila has collaborated with Flushing Town Hall, The Public Theater, The Clemente Center's Historias initiative, and The Tank NYC. A Drama League Fellow, yoga instructor, and board member of the Gay Latino Collective, he remains committed to employing the arts as a catalyst for connection, belonging, and social impact.

Vicios Ocultos is the multidisciplinary project of Mexican artist, multi-instrumentalist, DJ, and music curator Mariana Uribe, based between New York City and Mexico City. Drawing from more than two decades of experience in music, her practice weaves together sound, photography, and video to explore emotional landscapes, collective memory, and the relationship between nature and the built environment. Inspired by the repetitive patterns found in architecture, design, and natural systems, Vicios Ocultos transforms rhythm into a method for discovering order, resonance, and connection. Recent releases include como el agua, Ep. 1 (DJ Mix), como el agua, Ep. 2 (DJ Mix), and the single estúpida y naïve (2026). Through immersive sonic experiences, her work invites deep listening, introspection, and collective attunement.

is a bilingual Cuban American actor, director, choreographer, and educator born and raised in New York City. Her interdisciplinary practice explores the inherited body as a living archive, investigating how memory, ancestry, culture, and lived experience are transmitted through movement and performance. A company member of Bedlam and The SuperGeographics, and an Associate Artist with SITI Company, she has performed, directed, and taught throughout the United States and internationally. Her work has been presented at BAM, The Public Theater, La MaMa, Second Stage, the American Repertory Theater, and the Fisher Center, as well as in Argentina, England, Greece, India, and Scotland. Drawing from physical theater, ensemble practice, and embodied storytelling, Picayo creates work that cultivates presence, deep listening, and meaningful human connection.