The time is out of joint, a new program cycle by La Tallera
The time is out of joint: O curse spite, that ever I was born to set it right!
William Shakespeare, Hamlet
With the title El tiempo está fuera de quicio (The time is out of joint), La Tallera begins a new program cycle. Like the program of activities América espectropical, held from 2022 to 2024, this initiative also comes from the “fantological” conception embodied in Espectros de Marx (1993), a book by French Algerian philosopher Jacques Derrida (Algeria, 1930–2004), with which he evokes the spectral conception of Marxist theory to characterize our time as a time out of kilter, haunted by the ghosts of totalitarianism, the crisis of human rights and climate cataclysms.
The time is out of joint is a statement from Hamlet, a tragedy written by William Shakespeare (1564–1616). This phrase has been recontextualized in our time by Derrida to refer to the spirit of Marxism as a form of radical thought, that is, “a procedure capable of self-criticism”. On the other hand, this spectral reference also refers to the political and aesthetic legacy of David Alfaro Siqueiros (1896–1974), which includes his culminating work La marcha de la humanidad en la tierra y hacia el cosmos (1965–1971), whose political aesthetics is debated between the vision of Marxist utopia and the premonitory enunciation of untimely times with its monstrous figures, phantasmagoric entities and apocalyptic imagery. This work was made at La Tallera, founded by the artist as a workshop-school in 1965.
Based on these theoretical precepts and references to the legacy of David Alfaro Siqueiros, La Tallera subscribes to its museum vocation with a wide range of public programs and exhibitions oriented by self-critical reflection on our times.
