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# A Mexico City Marching Band Meets Political History at Americas Society in NY
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/new-exhibition-by-erick-meyenberg-opens-may-3-at-americas-society/
- Published: 2017-05-01T18:58:55.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:27:24.000Z
- Description: An exhibition chronicles a collaborative project that took artist Erick Meyenberg and a local high school marching band to politically charged sites throughout Mexico City.
- Author: Americas Society
- Tags: Announcement, Americas Society, Exhibition Announcement, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:23 (2016, 2017, part 2)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2017/05/rueda-018_meyenberg.jpg)

Borrowing its enigmatic title from the words of Guillaume Apollinaire, [*The wheel bears no resemblance to a leg*](http://bit.ly/2pNYnXL?ref=hyperallergic.com) is the end result of Erick Meyenberg’s collaboration with members of a local high school marching band. The artist and the teenagers — together with teachers, curators, musicians, composers, choreographers, costume designers, and a video production team — co-created 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.

Meyenberg developed *The wheel bears no resemblance to a leg* (2016) over two years as a commission for inSite/Casa Gallina, the sixth edition of the public art project, inSite. The exhibition is co-organized by Americas Society and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, and is curated by Gabriela Rangel and Lucía Sanromán.

Composed of a three-channel projection, flags, a relief sculpture, and archival materials, Meyenberg’s project takes a critical stance toward normative pedagogical structures in the form of uniforms, discipline, education, gender, the state, and symbols of nationhood. Culminating in a synesthetic experience, *The wheel bears no resemblance to a leg* suggests the complexities of Mexican modernity.

Free admission.  
Hours: Wednesday–Saturday, 12–6pm.

[Writers Francisco Goldman and Monica de la Torre in Conversation](http://bit.ly/2pOV5CQ?ref=hyperallergic.com)[](http://www.as-coa.org/events/exhibition-opening-and-panel-discussion-erick-meyenberg-wheel-bears-no-resemblance-leg?ref=hyperallergic.com)**May 16, 7pm**  
Novelist Francisco Goldman engages in a conversation with writer Mónica de la Torre about his personal memoir *The Interior Circuit: A Mexico City Chronicle* touching on subjects such as writing on the self alone and the self in the community of the megacity.

For more information, visit [as-coa.org/visualarts](https://bit.ly/2qbPGY6?ref=hyperallergic.com) or contact[mediarelations@as-coa.org](mailto:mediarelations@as-coa.org?subject=New%20Exhibition%20by%20Erick%20Meyenberg%20Opens%20May%203%20at%20Americas%20Society).

[The wheel bears no resemblance to a leg](http://bit.ly/2pNYnXL?ref=hyperallergic.com) *is on view through July 22 at Americas Society (680 Park Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan).*