Cocina Plural

THE EPHEMERIDES

Ephemerides are usually patriotic or religious dates, determined by the regions where they are celebrated. They are events that constitute the nation. National, regional, municipal identity, is built by customs and traditions that are kept during these celebrations. They are dates that mark family, school, work, private and collective rituals, in which historical milestones are commemorated, as well as forgotten. Although the ways and places of meeting are new and the rituals are transformed, often through consumption, the ephemerides are the fabric in the space time that make up the national identities.

Then, to make a dislocation of the ephemerides is to invite to the identity crisis, to the estrangement, to surrender to the time without conventions, to the suspension of the productivity and to surrender laboriously to the sacralized leisure. This is what we are inviting you to participate in a calendar without a nation, a nation without a calendar, a jumble of identities, an act of faith, but without knowing what to believe.

In the encounter with that which is evident but which has been hidden in its obviousness. The celebration becomes inevitable, even if it is to the death to come, the toast with a decidedly incoherent speech. We enter into crisis, and we meet, we collect the fragments of broken temporalities.

We want to found dates, confuse parties, eat atypical foods, experiment with the calendar. You will receive a fraternal but mysterious invitation, with instructions, with rules, so that you can join the game.

We are some of the graduates of the VIII Cohort of the Maestría Interdisciplinar de Teatro y Artes Vivas – MITAV, and we propose a short cycle of three meetings around the celebration and the food, meetings that blur us, that introduce us to another time, to other places. Three ephemerides that have not been, that are at another time, or that could be.

Old/New. Saturday, October 7, 2023, 5:00 p.m. Let’s celebrate what has already happened, the good and the bad. Let’s burn the past. Let’s welcome the new, what the future holds for us. The clock will strike 12, we will toast and hug…

Lxs Raza: Foreign Navigators. Saturday, October 14, 2023, 4:00 p.m. Is it a celebration? What did they celebrate, who celebrated it? How does it remain in the memory of those who have nothing to celebrate? Who owns the party and who owns the pain?

The Blackout. Saturday, October 21, 2023, 5:00 p.m. Time burns, runs and melts. The light projects shadows and memories, draws in our memory, while we wait. A warm light warms and colors us until it goes out in a thread of smoke.

– Matilde Guerrero Gutiérrez de Piñeres (Curator).