Autumn Chacon’s experimental noise opera returns this summer

Join us for a screening of MALINXE, whose New Mexico debut was performed outdoors as part of the 12th SITE SANTA FE International: Once Within a Time. This screening is an opportunity to finally experience the haunting, multilayered performance—the first time for most of our audience, as the original live shows were immediately sold out. Artist Autumn Chacon (Diné – Navajo/Chicana) will participate in a discussion with SITE SANTA FE Curator Brandee Caoba after the screening.

In an original opera, Autumn Chacon and Laura Ortman (White Mountain Apache) examine La Malinche, the real Nahua woman deemed the mother of modern Mexican people. Her complex story is often equated with that of La Llorona, or “the weeping woman.” In this interpretation, “Malinxe” embodies a contemporary woman who submerges into La Llorona’s dangerous realm and must make transformative decisions to save her spirit from continuing down the destructive path of La Llorona.

CO-CREATED BY
Autumn Chacon and Laura Ortman

LIBRETTO BY
(interpretation of the myth of La Llorona) by Autumn Chacon

STARRING
Marisa Demarco as Malinxe
Jeffrey Gibson as La Llorona

DIRECTED BY
Autumn Chacon

ORIGINAL COMPOSITION BY
Laura Ortman

VIDEO COMPOSER
Mateo Galindo