MUME

„Reverse journey through the anti-museum and the miseries of the institutional world“

by Lorena Tabares in collaboration with Violeta Valadez, Alfredo Ledesma, Natalia Hurst, Marko Dinić and Marko Marković

MUME (Mexican Museum / Mexikanisches Museum) is a nomadic anti-museum founded by Oscar Cueto to provoke new narratives in the context of evolving geopolitical changes and global migration. It invites international cultural workers to present joint projects in Austria. For the 18th edition, Lorena Tabares (CO/PT) in collaboration with Violeta Valadez (MX), Alfredo Ledesma (PE), Natalia Hurst (AR/DE), Marko Dinić (RS/AT) and Marko Marković (HR) proposes a visual, performative, poetic, and sonorous „sub essay“ that traces the genealogy of MUME as a nomadic para_museum in a context of obscurities, disasters, and global reconfigurations.

The exhibition is composed of segments listing projects that have attempted in various ways to dismantle the museum model as an embodiment of the Western world. The Para-Archive documents practices across and beside art history that have challenged official cultural institutions with their temporary, profane, faulty, deficient, ghostly, mutated, irregular, and lateral existence. In an effort to reverse the narrative of the archive itself, Tabares will invite five artists living in Austria to select a narrative fragment and subjectively reinterpret it through sound poetry, electronic music, or performance. This series of poetic and sonorous activations of the archive suggests that even in the capitalist night, systems emerge that realign their forces and create decentralized memory and history paths as well as fleeting fictions between „architectural mastodons,“ „jurisdictions,“ and „artistic artifacts.“

PROGRAM:

Opening  / Sound Action by: Violeta Valadez / May 31, 2024, 7:00 pm

Activation / Sound Action by: Alfredo Ledesma / June 3, 2024, 7:00 pm

Activation / Sound Intervention by: Natalia Hurst / June 4, 2024, 7:00 pm

Activation / Poetry Jam by: Marko Dinić / June 5, 2024, 7:00 pm

Activation / Performance by: Marko Marković / June 6, 2024, 7:00 pm

Finissage / Sound Performance / June 7, 2024, 7:00 pm

LOCATION:

ada (artistic dynamic association) Wattgasse 16/6, 1160 Vienna

MUME is a project by Oscar Cueto

”MUME: Reverse journey through the anti-museum and the miseries of the institutional world” is part of INDEX Festival

With the support of: MA7 and the cultural budget of the Ottakring district