18 February 6 pm. Free admission until capacity is reached.

Stage proposal. Premiere in Madrid. Matías Daporta.

Washington is a process of inquiry that speculates on what may have been the last film in an unfinished trilogy: USA: Land of Opportunities by Lars Von Trier. What happens when a trilogy or project is never finished? Or when a series whose last chapter is a cliffhanger is cancelled? Perhaps the poetics of speculation moves in. Absence becomes political potential. The project no longer belongs to its author and becomes democratised in the minds of those who want to imagine a continuation or an ending.

There is no information on the treatment or the approach Washington would have had. Because the trilogy was left unfinished, the author left us an empty space to ask new questions about the United States and humanity. The absence of a film becomes the framework in which this proposal operates.

With Washington, Matias Daporta is conducting a project of inquiry into the points of interference between film and theatre, seeking to transform the way the cinematographic mechanism works onstage. He has done this with projects like Funerals, Welcome, where he examines the editing; Flat, not Apartment where he focuses on projection; Knock Down on where the topic is filming; and MOCAP where he questions the framing.

Washington premiered at the TNT Festival of Live Arts and New Forms of Terrassa, Barcelona in 2022 with the support of the Teatre Lliure and Carlota Sotdevila Grants and LaPoderosa.

Collaborators include the casting director Alejandra Allaf and the actresses Daniela Jacques, Emiliana Carvallo, Lucía Lorente and Fati Fernández. We also wish to thank the Escuela Universitaria de Artes TAI for its support.

Matías Daporta is a non-disciplinary artist and curator who examines issues surrounding the homogenisation of culture and the relationship between the performing arts and the digital world. He has been working alongside Begoña Cuquejo on the project #spanishwashing since 2010. His works have been presented internationally at venues like Veem, Arti et Amicitiae, Corridor Space Project, Frascati Theatre in Amsterdam, Projection Room in Brussels, Oxo Tower in London and the Centre of Mental and Physical Well-being in Bristol, among others. He has been the curator of the Festival Me Gustas Pixelad_ at La Casa Encendida and is a member of LaJUANGallery (Madrid).

Credits: Washington. Photograph: Miramemira.