Escribir desde la escalera

Museo de Arte de Zapopan presents the workshop Writing from the Staircase in the lobby of Estación MAZ.

Inspired by the works Grounded (2025) and Reimagined Staircase (2025) by artist Alejandra Laviada, currently featured in the exhibition La escalera hizo caer la casa, as well as by the book Especies de espacios (1974) by Georges Perec, this workshop explores writing as a practice of observation and spatial taxonomy.

Beginning with the staircase—understood as a site of transition and decision—participants will engage in exercises of inventory, affective cartography, and epistolary writing to reflect on the house as an emotional archive in constant transformation. The texts produced will oscillate between instructions, memories, and fictions, moving across poetry, documentation, and action. As a result, a collective archive composed of letters and inventories of everyday dwelling will be created.

Juliana de la Torre is a stage creator whose artistic exploration centers on poetry, performance, and autobiographical materials. Her stage practice encompasses directing, dramaturgy, costume design, and acting. Since 2022, she has collaborated on the Documentary Theater Cycle Made by Women and has led writing workshops—particularly for children and youth—since that same year. She has written and directed Dientes de león | dientes de leche (2023) and Pasaje en que nos soltamos las manos (2021). She has also written and co-written dramaturgies for theatrical works such as Iré al teatro para arrojarme bajo los caballos (2024), Impoztoras: fraude en ezcena (2023), Crisálidas: una flama (2022), HUIZACHES (cuerpos que habitan en resistencia) (2022), and VERDADERO/FALSO (2019); as well as for dance pieces including Flores, bacterias y un cyborg (2024), Cuando Dios era Mujer (2024), Bestiario (2023), and Pequeño Ballet (2022).

She wrote Refugio: Mirar hacia arriba y hacia adentro (2021), a dreamlike journey inspired by the work of Leonora Carrington for the Museo de las Artes de la Universidad de Guadalajara. As part of the Live Arts Residency Program at Estudio Teorema, she developed TUMBADAS (2021), an interactive installation based on the text of the same name by Iveth Luna Flores.

Free activity

Prior registration required

— Museo de Arte de Zapopan