The Luminal Boom

Arantxa Araujo

A multimedia performance exploring ideas of sharing energy beyond one’s skin or kinesphere. By spreading one’s presence, others get affected in some manner. The concept that two electrons close together can vibrate in unison, according to the quantum theory. If one electron jiggles, the other electron ‘senses’ this vibration instantly, faster than the speed of light. Einstein himself referred to it as “spooky action at a distance,” though it is actually known as quantum entanglement.

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Arantxa Araujo is a Mexican artist with a background in neuroscience. Her work is essentially multidisciplinary, feminist, and rooted in bio-behavioral research. Explorations of gender constructions, performativity and identity, and the politics of migration are seen and experienced in her installations, which often include video, sound, photography, mapping, light, and performance. Araujo is particularly interested in repetition and durational performance, to access states of heightened awareness for the artist and audience. 

In the US, her work has been shown in the Brooklyn Museum, at the Radical Women Latin American Art Exhibit, Chashama Space to Present, Grace Exhibition Space, Glasshouse Gallery, The Queens Museum, Panoply Lab, Art in Odd Places in NYC, RAW during Miami Art Week, the Semel and Huret & Spector Gallery in Boston, and the SPACE Gallery and Bunker Projects in Pittsburgh. She has performed in Mexico, at El Monumento a la Revolución and La Explanada del MUAC, during the Hemispheric Institute’s Encuentro and El Vicio. She has also participated in the Nuit Blanche Festival in Saskatoon, Canada.

Araujo is a Franklin Furnace Fund award recipient (2020), a Fellow at the Leslie Lohman Museum (2019-20), and an LMCC Creative Engagement grantee(2019). She was featured in EMERGENYC (2017) and the ITP Camp (2018, 2019). Araujo was awarded a full scholarship from Mexican Government Institution CONACYT (2012). She holds an MA in Motor Learning and Control from Teachers College, Columbia University.