In this 60-minute meditative protocol, you will engage in an inner journey through experiences and stories collected in various countries and in conversation with archaeologists, funeral directors, activists, curators, and artists.

Sitting at the table, with others but in introspection, we will meditate on memory, permanence, and finitude. We will invite you to listen, write, read, feel, and think with your body, in an introspective journey that will lead you to find your place in the cycles of the infinite game.

Infinite Game was created in the frame of Invisible Bonds: Performativity of Death in the Everyday Maldonadoʼs four years of artistic research in various countries that draws on local knowledge to devise critical immersive experiences with the aim of recovering intimacy with our finitude and with the natural cycles of which we are part of.

“Join the game in which there are no losers or winners, the game that has no beginning or end!“

Medium: table performance for 40 persons, indoors or outdoors

Duration: 75 min
Year: 2024 -
Version: English, Spanish, French 
Performed in: Fira Tarrega, Spain
Festival de la Mort, Rennes, France
Atelier 231, Sotteville-les-Rouen, France
Punctum, Prague, Czech Republic
HAPU Festival Teatri Oda, Pristina, Kosovo

Keywords: funeral practices, meditation, game, memory, experience

Project development: Světlana Silich, Cristina Maldonado, Marine Frugès. 
Advisers: Cooperative Funeraire de Rennes, À bout du Plongeoir and Fira Tarrega. 
Performers: Světlana Silich, Cristina Maldonado, Marine Frugès, Bleuenn Pasco and Manon Gloro Original sound design: Theresa Schrezenmeir 
Sound adaptation and technical implementation: Joan Cot Ros 
Brass band: La Follia 
Testimonies and stories from: Icela Bravo, Eva Rosmarijn and Gaby Kiss and current events from the city of Tàrrega 
Voices by: Theresa Schrezenmeir, Eva Rosmarijn, Laila Romo, En-Ping Yu 
Production: GALA Global Arts and Leadership Alliances, Dali Estrada and Gisel Vergara Performance developed with the support of Atelier 231, Čtyři Dny and Fira Tarrega Photography: Dani Hernández Marin 
Production carried out with the support of: European IN SITU platform for artistic creation in public spaces, within the framework of the (UN) COMMON SPACES project, co-financed by the Program Creative Europe of the European Union.

Publication:

in-situ.info: Infinite Game Epistolary Recount [EN]