The residency draws on a series of references connected both to critical thinking around reading, performance, and contemporary forms of existence, and to the company’s own practical methods of work.

Among the key texts informing the residency are The Queer Art of Failure and Trans by Jack Halberstam, Lesser Existences by David Lapoujade, and Instructions for Use by Belén Gache.

Alongside these materials, the research will also work with texts censored or silenced during the last Argentine military dictatorship, revisiting writings marked by the memory of what could not be spoken.

Reading aloud appears here as a public, collective, and political practice. Recovering the communal dimension of reading today — in a context of growing isolation and the weakening of shared spaces — functions as a form of resistance and as a way of reactivating collective listening.

Text Selection

Week 1
Theater — El beso de la mujer araña, by Manuel Puig (1976)

Week 2
Narrative / Chronicle — Operación Masacre, by Rodolfo Walsh (1957; banned during the dictatorship that began in 1976)

Week 3
Poetry — Relaciones and Carta abierta, by Juan Gelman (1973 and 1980; censored and banned during his exile)

Week 4
Theater / Novel — El campo, by Griselda Gambaro (1967; her work was banned and she was forced into exile during the dictatorship)

Week 5
Open Letter / Political Writing — Carta abierta de un escritor a la Junta Militar, by Rodolfo Walsh (1977)

Week 6
Children’s Literature — La torre de cubos, by Laura Devetach (1966; banned by decree and removed from circulation in 1976)