About the show

Jinete Último Reino is the name of a research and a trilogy of self-contained autonomous scenes that, in turn, are Fragments of an extended future work by María Salgado and Fran MM Cabeza de Vaca to conclude this project that they began in January 2017. Between music, poetry and performance, Jinete Último Reino is a journey of sound and language that is neither linear nor narrative, on desire, about the formation of any subjectivity between desire, the norm, repression and rebellion.

Frag. 1 of Horseman Last Kingdom focuses on an impossible journey to the moment, of all that remains hidden in the memory, where we learn to speak, which can only be transferred by an aesthetic moment: music and poetry as access routes to that which we don’t remember but have, and which contains us. It is about directly experiencing an audiotext that recovers in our bodies the musical experience of language in movement and growth, between what is understood as rhythm and what is understood as semantics. It is to go to the past in the present and to reconstruct infinity, chance and the continuum of the verbal experience of a moment that is as strange and enjoyable as it is utopian. Through an octophonic sound and a light system, recorders and cassette players, computer systems of multiple buffered readers that contain lists of words, syntagms and sentences that are necessarily finite and selected one by one with pleasure and strangeness, they want to reflash sensations that we imagine, we feel in that moment of complete immersion in the world/language and in discerning our uniqueness in it. When the journey ends, a lullaby invites us and alerts us anout about the danger that immediately follows it.

About the Company

María Salgado (1984) and Fran MM Cabeza de Vaca (1976) have been working together in Madrid since 2012. Their common work focuses on the idea of the audiotext as a confluence between poetry, language, music, sound art and performance. Together they have created an important body of works, essentially on two research zones: Hacía un ruido (2012-2016), which explores the global cycle of political disobedience of 2011, and which took the shape of a book (Frases para un film político, 2016), a record, an instrumental piece for an ensemble, a sound installation and a stage piece that toured very different contexts such as CDN Valle Inclán, Espacio Naranjo (Madrid), 16 Beaver (New York) and LARVA (Guadalajara, México); and Jinete Último Reino (2017-...), which explores subjective disobedience, and likewise has generated an instrumental piece for an ensemble, posters (Manifesto, 2018), sheet music, a sound art piece for Radio Reina Sofía (Negro, 2016), an octaphonic installation exhibited as Tabakalera, the audiovisual Lullaby for this Little Age (Bergen Assembly, 2020) and its installation version (Politics of Life, WKV Stuttgart, 2020) and two stage pieces lasting 60 minutes, Frag. 3 and Frag. 2, launched, among other spaces, at the Mercat de les Flors, Museo Reina Sofía and MACBA.