Forensic Approaches: Memory Dissections for Our Creative Processes

The concept of this pavilion is based on a laboratory of processes, which is oriented at the study of the memory of the creator against the ephemeral temporality of his work. An essay of the living material where the files are formulated through emotional spaces within the composition of the language, but also a critical evaluation of the documentary archive as a scheme of observation, implication, or refusal of artistic procedures, which make up our personal or joint biography.

This platform has provided treatment to the resignification of projects created for the scene, which is derived from the origin, instinct, forms of transmission, aesthetics, and discourse, thus generating conceptual archeology of the forensic tools, systems, or methodologies which generate a permanent relationship with the context, management schemes, production, and collective creation.

The authors gathered in this pavilion perform an autopsy on the biographical body of our work, by dissecting the anatomy that derives from the processes themselves, by inspecting the remains of the design, by reinterpreting the collection of archives, through a necessary exploration on the worktable, and the mechanisms that marked an intervention. It is a symbolic treatment from different perspectives, a visual essay associated with the transformation of us from the complex structure of the scenic universe as a source of identity and changing reality.

Country/Region Mexico

Presenting Organization Secretaria de Cultura, Secretaria de Relaciones Exteriores, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura INBAL, Coordinación Nacional de Teatro, Embajada de México en la República Checa

Curatorial Team Curator: Auda Caraza, Associate Curator: Angel Hernández, Producer: Carolina Jiménez

Artists JORGE BALLINA: Snow White, Ompahlos, Carmen, The Glass Menagerie, Constellations, JERILDY BOSCH: Numancia, The Rite Of Spring, ELOISE KAZAN: Split, Inanna Macbeth, King Kong Cabaret, Dreams, LA LIGA-TEATRO ELÁSTICO: The Dancing Beasts Or The Discrete Spell Of The Wild, LAGARTIJAS TIRADAS AL SOL: Santiago Amoukalle, Tijuana, It Is Written In The Fields, I Shall Melt A Volcano’s Snowcap With A Match, TEATRO OJO: Doves Chant, Deus Ex Machina