39 Festival de Otoño, Teatros del Canal, 2021
Contemporary Live Arts festival, Madrid, 18-21/11/2021. Jinete Último Reino Frag. 1 + Frag. 2 + Frag. 3, trilogy of audiotextual performances co-authored with Fran MM Cabeza de Vaca. Light design: Carlos Marquerie. Sound director: Óscar García-Villegas. Graphics: Rubén García-Castro / ANFIVBIA. Producer: Lorenzo García-Andrade. Photo: Jorge Anguita Mirón.
+ info: https://www.madrid.org/fo/2021/programacion.html
+ tickets: https://www.teatroscanal.com/espectaculo/jinete-ultimo-reino-frag-123/
Jinete Último Reino is a journey that is neither linear nor narrative around the formation of any subjectivity in the betweens of norm and desire, past, present and future, the ear and language. The historic Festival de Otoño -in which artists like Romeo Castellucci, Robert Lepage, Angélica Liddell or Rodrigo García, among others, have shown their work- offers a unique opportunity to experience the three pieces scenic pieces that conform the zone of investigation we have been working on these last years.
Fragment 1 of Jinete Último Reino tries to travel to the impossible moment, completely hidden in our memory, in which we learnt to talk, and that can only be transferred by an aesthetical moment: music and poetry as roads of access to what we cannot remember but we have and at the same time contains us. We try to recuperate the musical experience of the language moving and growing, between what is understood by rhythm and what is understood by semantics. We also explore in forms of remembering and recording, in the history (of a collectivity of bodies) and the story (of a singular life). We want to reflash the sensations that we felt in that very moment of immersion in the world/language and of differentiation of our uniqueness in it through an octophonic sound system, a light design, recording machines and music players, informatic engines of buffer multiple reading that operate with lists of words, phrases and sentences necessarily finite but selected one by one with pleasure and strangeness.We share with you the video teaser of the new piece, its a total premier.
Fragment 2 of Jinete Último Reino puts on stage the passage from dream to letter, the literacy and other normalization processes (such as those related with gender and sexual identity) to which children are exposed until their color or difference is retained in a fixed meaning, classified. Where does this violence come from? Where does it go? And what part of body differences resist the norm? Frag. 2 also travels briefly to the past, to the civil war and fascism, and to the future, to the indentitarism and reactionary moment that we are living and will be inhabiting, always looking for those parts of our bodies, language and desire that survive in our gestures, calligraphy and errors. Formally, Frag. 2 is a 3D poem that synchronizes stereo sound with text on screen with performance thanks to the help of sound and graphic scores. A theory of language and writing is displayed through the combination of graphics, performance, sound and the live friction of what we hear and what we read.Jinete Último Reino Frag. 2 was premiered at the Idorritmias Festival at MACBA in 2019, and was selected by Ruth Estévez in 2019, for Artforum magazine, as one of the best artworks of the year.
Fragment 3 is about all kinds of Nights, that is, this place where things change their form during a night until the next morning they are not the same anymore. It is about desire as a political engine. It is about Feminism as the subject of the Era. It is about the distortion, detour and emotions that Night seeks to anybody who gives in to it. We invite the audience to enter in a scenic space without a front, drawn by a quadraphony, where we can all listen in an active and concentrated way and let sound and lights make one whole night happen in less than one hour without betraying its secret. The challenge was to compose electronic music without using its bass. Using live voice as sound material, the quadraphonic space, the sound and structures of dance music, its characteristic and ubiquitous loop, and dozens of microvariations that, inserted in the loop, widen its possibilities, fuel it, and respond to the diverse nature of human bodies.Jinete Último Reino Frag. 3 was premiered at the festival El porvenir de la revuelta in Matadero Madrid in 2017, it has toured through numerous spaces like the sala de bovédas of Reina Sofía Museum or the Mercat de les Flors. In december it will be presented in the Centro Cultural Kirchner of Buenos Aires.
> podcast: "Especial Jinete Último Reino con María Salgado y Fran MM Cabeza de Vaca", La Hora extra, by Marta García, Cadena Ser, 7/11/2021: https://play.cadenaser.com/audio/1636110703670/?mm_time=0&mm_time_id=1636110703670&autoplay=true
> interview: "JInete Último Reino: la desobediencia a la llanura", La Hora extra, by Marta García, Cadena Ser, 7/11/2021: https://cadenaser.com/programa/2021/11/07/la_hora_extra/1636266609_812780.html
> review: #241 Sangre Fucsia "Poesía en acción": https://sangrefucsia.wordpress.com/2021/11/28/sangre-fucsia-214-poesia-en-accion/
> review: https://revistatarantula.com/maria-salgado-fran-mm-cabeza-de-vaca-y-jinete-ultimo-reino-fragmentos-1-2-y-3/