ghostbox – caja fantasma is a sound-lecture performance about ghosts, siblinghood and lost futures. The director and performer María F. Giacaman Hasbún, together with her brother, the sound artist Juan Lázaro, invites the audience to an intimate listening session.
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Zwei Personen in schwarzer Kleidung auf einer dunklen Bühne, von schräg oben gesehen. Im Vordergrund sitzt eine Person auf einer niedrigen Kante und spricht in ein Handmikrofon. Dahinter bedient eine Person an einem Tisch einen Synthesizer mit bun...
Silhouetten zweier Personen vor einem Abendhimmel, der von Blau zu zartem Orange verläuft. Eine Person legt der anderen die Hand auf die Schulter, die andere neigt den Kopf zur Seite. Links ragt eine dunkle Gebäudekante schräg ins Bild, am unteren...
Dunkle Bühne mit einer verschwommenen Projektion im Hintergrund. Links sitzt eine Person in Schwarz an einem Tisch und bedient einen verkabelten Synthesizer. Rechts steht eine Person in einer hellen, gemusterten Bluse an einem Pult mit Mikrofon un...
Drawing on their own family history, they recount Latin American horror stories and explore the uncanny from psychoanalytic and Marxist perspectives.
Through live sound and storytelling, an acoustic séance emerges in which live voices, analogue synthesisers and archive recordings merge into a gentle haunting. The lecture-performance thus becomes an active practice of remembrance and mourning: repressed and forgotten stories become audible once more, and ghosts transform into figures that can be experienced both physically and aurally.
In doing so, the siblings explore the uncanny from psychoanalytic and Marxist perspectives. A spectre is that which refuses to accept a given reality; the notion that our present is haunted by a future that was promised to us but never materialised. In a culture that seems stuck in a cycle of repetition, and in which alternative forms of coexistence are becoming increasingly difficult to imagine, ghosts emerge as memories of lost futures. What if, hidden behind these ghosts, lies what is still possible?
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Dates
December 2026
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