The melancholy of the tourist", objects that tell their own stories

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The objects become subjects to tell their stories, the lives and anecdotes of those who were with them one day. It is the basis of the work of Oligor and Microscopia , a Mexican-Spanish group that this week premieres in the Valencian Community The Melancholy of the Tourist , after passing through the Catalan festival Montaña Alta .Within its line of promoting new scenic languages, on November 29 and 30, the Teatre el Musical ( TEM ) hosts three showings of this delicate proposal of Object Documentary Theater , a subgenre created by the Mexican Shaday Larios and the Navarrese Jomi Oligor , the members of this company. On the trip to Valencia, Sharay gives us some clues, although not many - since she is very careful with spoilers and there are no photos of her representations - to awaken our curiosity.


Readings as well. But the places we are talking about are places where tourists are very welcome, although that does not mean that tourism appears as a form of extractivism of the ruins, of the landscapes and of many other situations in the work  Country Email List  Rather, we were interested in talking about that state, which we coin as melancholy, which for us is a state of consciousness, of perception, that occurs in that suspension of lives that is usually called vacation period, in which we become aware of certain ruptures. , certain discontinuities, especially in the contexts that appear in the work, which I am not going to tell you so as not to create spoilers . They are places we went to, and that at some point have been very renowned vacation spaces, but that are now in decline.




The images of those places that were paradisiacal, however, in contrast to reality, do not fit. There is a gap there, a void. And that's what we mean by melancholy.Anyone would think that melancholy comes when the trip ends and you return to routine...Yes, of course. In this case, it happens in both ways. A bit of the melancholy that happens when you are in that place and what they have sold you has nothing to do with that reality, but is quite the opposite. And also, of course, they say that the great reason for the trip is oneself, so in the end the question remains of what we have brought back, what is left. The two states appear, the one experienced in that field work and the remains of that trip.