Slavs and Tatars

As part of the closing of the exhibition Sonoridad Samovar by Slavs and Tatars, Museo Jumex invites you to the following performances:

Eufonía: Sala de té con Layla Fassa, Guillermo Martínez de Velasco y Sebastián Ce

The artistic project Sala de té will host a tea house inside the installation Sonoridad Samovar by Slavs and Tatars. The beverage will be served before, during, and after the activity from an Iranian samovar, alongside a 30-minute intervention that is at once a soundscape and a performative reading. Based on the tradition of the tea house as a place of oral storytelling, the reading will incorporate stylistic elements from the premodern travel narrative and early modernity, particularly the writings of Hanna Diyab, an 18th-century Syrian writer and interpreter known mainly for being the uncredited author of some of the most famous stories of One Thousand and One Nights.

The soundscape will be based on cinematic interpretations of these stories in a multiplicity of languages — French, Japanese, English, Tamil, and Persian — emphasizing the tonal and phonological similarities of words and phrases rather than direct or precise translation. In doing so, it highlights the transnational resonance of these archetypal folk tales, while playfully subverting millennia of Orientalist tropes.

5 PM | Free activity | Open to all audiences

Cacofonía: diSONARE // Burbujas que explotan

The diSONARE project, together with musicians and poets Tilsa Otta, Kunt Vargas, Israel Ramírez Reyes "Belafonte," and Verónica Mejía, will present a performance based on the idea of boiling as one of the manifestations of transmutation. This notion has been explored by diSONARE as an agent of transcendent change. For these artists, the oral and aural intertwining of poetry with sound provokes the boiling and dissipation of the word through cacophony and sustained sonic experience, seeking to lead toward a space of collectivity, participation, and communion.

In their exploration, the following questions arise: When a bubble bursts, are we speaking of an end or a transformation? Is there continuity in our perception of time? What is transformed?

6 PM | Free activity | Open to all audiences

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