LEXIKON

"Human beings are a hodgepodge of flesh and words.”

Santiago Alba Rico

LEXIKON means collection of words. The piece works as an accumulation of situations, a collection of seven stories — seven tales for the future — where voice, sound, and images seek to push beyond the limits of the present, opening onto the abyss to imagine and reconfigure themselves without fear of contradiction. LEXIKON is a parade of tableaux vivants, offered to the audience to unfold the possibilities of expression and charge the stage with that dispute over imagination.

A group of people paints an enormous Jean-Michel Basquiat canvas while an insomniac neighbor tells the moon everything she sees. The famous Spanish writer Enrique Vila-Matas takes his seat as an academic of the Royal Spanish Accademy, speaking to the audience through a puppet. An editor drives at midnight through a great city, and her life takes a radical and unexpected plot twist. Two Spanish tourists visit the documenta exhibition in Kassel. The Grand Jury Prize at Cannes goes to an experimental film that probes the most intimate resources of the audience. Two galactic conversationalists recite verses to the Universe. Five humanoid robots premiere a theater piece entirely created and performed by themselves.

LEXIKON LEXIKON moves freely through all these realities, traversing — without inhibition — a vast aesthetic and stylistic repertoire to create an experience of constant surprise, founded on the principle of possibility and on a very simple gesture: gathering together in a space and telling stories, because to converse means to turn in circles together.