A poetic museum to awaken the memory of objects
Museo de los relámpagos is a fantastic small-scale architecture that brings together revelations and rebellions of objects from various collections. Based on residencies and fieldwork in museum storerooms, the project by Shaday Larios and Jomi Oligor gathers stories of found pieces, testimonies from custodians, dreams and animistic outbursts of matter and beings that demand a voice, restitution and a new space of meaning.
Conceived as an invented “poetic institution”, the museum combines automata, analogue machines, object theatres, display cases and corridors of critical memory to imagine other ways of making a museum outside the museum. The proposal questions the technical-historical and colonialist discourses that decontextualise collections and separate objects from their biographies. Drawing on fantasy and science fiction, it offers a political reflection on the desire to possess, accumulate and immobilise cultural heritage.
Artistic team
Direction and performance: Shaday Larios and Jomi Oligor
Dramaturgy: Shaday Larios
Construction of artefacts: Jomi Oligor, Peperino Oligor, Ivan Puig, Diego Liedo and Gilberto Esparza; Taller 30SM
Light and space design: Jomi Oligor
Original music: Suetszu & Jayrope
Anthropological accompaniment: Valeria Mata
Thanks to Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas de Madrid, Museo de la Ciudad de Quito, Museo de la Ciudad de Múnich, Museo Universitario del Chopo de CDMX, Museo Anahuacalli de la CDMX, Sandra Rozental, Yolanda Galicia and Don Memo from Museo de Fuego Nuevo, Mr Abel Cortés from Templo Mayor, the clay workers of Teotihuacán and Monte Albán, Museo de América de Madrid, Jhon Antón Sánchez
Co-production by Centro Dramático Nacional, Iberescena and Festival Temporada Alta (other co-producers to be confirmed)
