On February 6–8,  2015, Triple Canopy presented How Far Is Near, a series of conversations at Material Art Fair in Mexico City. The series considered the ways in which political representation might be achieved—or recognized as a chimera, or disavowed—through the work of representing politics, and focuses on the various responses by Mexican artists and writers to social and political crises in recent months and decades. In doing so, the series examined the affordances of new and old media; the relationship between the ways in which art and literature circulate and attain meaning; and the various responses by Mexican artists and writers to social and political crises in recent months and decades. Participants included Juan Caloca, Maru Calva, José León Cerrillo, Felipe Ehrenberg, Waysatta Fernández, John Gibler, Gabriela Jauregui, Prem Krishnamurthy, Sofía Olascoaga, and Isaac Torres.