La Columna Durruti is back at the Festival de Otoño two years later (although in its previous embodiments, we saw them several more times, without the framework of the mythical Periférico de Objetos). Art and philosophy, theatre and thought, action and critical quest. The common recipe for these anarchists on the stage (hence, the reference to Buenaventura Durruti in its name) doubles their disruptive and iconoclastic vision. Company founders, Argentines Maricel Alvarez and Emilio García Wehbi, are joined on this occasion by Spanish artist, activist and cultural critic Marcelo Expósito.

This show is divided into two parts (corresponding to the double title). There is a more fictional part, El Nocturno de Ulrike, where the ghost of the journalist is given corporality on stage through Maricel Alvarez to call for the return of her brain, which was surgically removed without consent from her family, because the forensic experts wanted to study the neurology of ‘such violent behaviour’.

The second part, which alternates with the first and is entitled El sujeto histórico, is less representational and sees the stage presence of Marcelo Expósito and Emilio García Wehbi, who will deconstruct the long transoceanic conversation they held over the course of 2021. During these talks, a series of materials of all types were unfolded that seek to nourish the central question of the work: What is the historic subject of the present? And even more… Is it possible to speak of a historic subject today?