Terén
Field for performing arts

Insider in Mexico

Fri 1. 9. 2023, 15:00
Mexico City

Insider is hosted in Mexico City in collaboration with the Museo Universitario del Chopo, the artistic organization of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). The performance is part of the PerformCzech Links out project, a presentation of Czech performing arts in Mexico, organized by the Institute of Arts - Theatre Institute with the support of the National Recovery Plan.

A performance by an international team of authors led by Cristina Maldonado between virtual and physical reality for one audience member.

In our daily life, technology enables us to exist simultaneously in multiple places. We are immersed in a continuous negotiation with things, processes, and people that are not physically present. We commonly identify them as a “virtual presence”, as a sort of representation of an original that exists somewhere else. We place this “copy” at a lower level in the scale of reality as it cannot fully affect us. It cannot be touched and therefore cannot be considered truly real.

For some, the virtual world is a place to momentarily escape reality; others fear that it will replace it completely. For us, there is no conflict between the virtual and real worlds, together they create a continuum of mixed realities.

Unfolding the inner space outwards, and the outer space inside is a strategy to unwrap the various layers of reality. The performance is proposing a perceptual laboratory in which the audience members have the space to formulate their questions regarding their position towards reality and reflect on the existential and philosophical dimensions of being present.

Director: Cristina Maldonado (Sistema Nacional de Creadores)
Devisers and performers: Cristina Maldonado, Eva Rosemarijn, Lea Kukovičič, Keya Singh
Performers: Isabela Juchniewicz, Lamija Čehajić
Dramaturg consultant: Sodja Lotker
Anthropological and conceptual consultant: Fernanda Eugenio
Technical consultant: Pascal Silondi
Object creator: Isa Juchniewicz
3D print: William Holmes
Producer: Lea Kukovičič, Cristina Maldonado, Keya Singh, Lamija Čehajić
Production Manager: Sona Borodáčová, Produced by Terén

With the support of Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, Mexico. This project is part of the author’s series The Stranger Gets a Gift. Special thanks to Maria Cavina, Jedefrau.org Thanks to research support and volunteers: Theresa Schrezenmeir, Lamija Cehajić, Ana Dinger, Liaman Khankishiyeva.

Performance lasts 60 minutes and is held in English.

1–10/9/2023, Mexico City

We play at time: 1/9 15:00 and 16:30, 2/9 12:00, 13:30, 15:00 and 16:30, 3/9 12:00 13:30, 15:00 and 16:30, 7/9 12:00 13:30, 15:00 and 16:30, 8/9 12:00 13:30, 15:00 and 16:30, 9/9 12:00 13:30, 15:00 and 16:30, 10/9 12:00 13:30, 15:00 and 16:30

Accompanying programme:
5/9, Artist talk: Cristina Maldonado, 10–13:00 and 14:30–17:30