A STORY FOR THE LOST DAYS (COLLECTIVE READING)

'A story for the lost days' is a project that traces the gaze of European women chroniclers who traveled to the territory that is now Argentina in the 19th and 18th centuries. These women wrote their journals during the years in which 'the conquest of the desert' displaced the frontiers of western civilization throughout the Argentine territory with a violence of unusual ferocity and a logic of total extermination of lives, cultures and existences. In the journals of these foreign women, images of a lost world appear: the daily life of vast cultures whose existences where about to change dramatically. A choir of teenagers uses these chronicles to question the inheritance of violence and displacement that constitutes us.


This project was supported by the Pro Helvetia/Coincidence program and was developed during a residency at La Becque / Fondation Françoise Siegfried-Meier.

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with Alyssa, Fonjallaz, Eleonor Bürki, Daniela Dias, Mathilde Krenger y Rotem Solomon

Text and mise en scene: Agustina Muñoz
sound: Guillermina Etkin
based on the chronicles of Florence Dixie, Lisa Beck Bernard, Frances Erskine Inglis, Maria Graham, Flora Tristan, Alcide d'Orbigny, Francis Bond Head.
publication design: Manon Briod