{"id":53843,"date":"2026-03-16T08:06:57","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T14:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/?p=53843"},"modified":"2026-03-16T09:58:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T15:58:02","slug":"el-arte-es-una-maldicion-capitan-marcos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/?p=53843","title":{"rendered":"[:es]El arte es una maldici\u00f3n | Capit\u00e1n Marcos[:en]Art is a Curse | Capit\u00e1n Marcos[:]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[:es]<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>EL ARTE ES UNA MALDICI\u00d3N<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">24 de febrero del 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Damas, caballeros y quienes no son los unos ni las otras:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp; Antes que nada, queremos agradecer a Gabriel Pascal, David Olgu\u00edn, a Philippe Amand y a toda la banda que hace posible este evento.&nbsp; A Steph por su incondicional complicidad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp; Tambi\u00e9n agradecemos a Lenin y a Marina, quienes han tenido la bondad de leer nuestras participaciones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp; Quiero aclarar que no fuimos invitados a este homenaje al maestro Luis de Tavira.&nbsp; Digo esto no como reproche, sino como prueba de descargo para quienes, en buena oportunidad, organizaron esta reuni\u00f3n.&nbsp; Sirva el presente texto para que puedan lidiar con reclamos, mentadas de menta y de las otras, procesos judiciales y lo que se derive del caso, o cosa, seg\u00fan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp; Entonces se puede decir que estamos aqu\u00ed de \u201ccolados\u201d.&nbsp; Imagino su desagrado, pero tomen en cuenta que ser\u00eda peor si hubi\u00e9ramos dado \u201cportazo\u201d, esa sana costumbre ciudadana de meterse sin tener invitaci\u00f3n, ni paga para los boletos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp; Celebramos as\u00ed no s\u00f3lo que sus cercanos saluden al maestro, tambi\u00e9n y sobre todo para manifestar el abrazo de quienes, sus lejanos, lo pensamos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp; Y esta celebraci\u00f3n, en la que el maestro viene siendo como el pretexto, nos plantea varias cuestiones.&nbsp; A saber: \u00bfqu\u00e9 es lo que posibilita que converjan, en una geograf\u00eda y un calendario, comunidades tan distintas y lejanas?&nbsp; Porque eso son quienes aqu\u00ed se encuentran presentes -algo de lo mejor de la comunidad art\u00edstica-.&nbsp; Y, bueno, nuestras palabras son para hacer presentes a quienes est\u00e1n alejadas: algunas de las comunidades ind\u00edgenas, originarias de ra\u00edz maya -las zapatistas-.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp; Una comunidad art\u00edstica y comunidades ind\u00edgenas coincidiendo.&nbsp; Diferentes encontr\u00e1ndose sin dejar de ser lo que son.&nbsp; Y un maestro teatrista, Luis de Tavira, como convocante involuntario.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp; A las primeras las convoca el arte dram\u00e1tico.&nbsp; \u201cEl reto art\u00edstico supremo\u201d, sol\u00eda decir el finado SupMarcos -que diosito lo tenga en su santa gloria y la virgen sant\u00edsima lo colme de bendiciones-, para diferenciarlo de las otras artes.&nbsp; Y supongo, sin que me conste, que el difunto se refer\u00eda a que la realidad acosa al Teatro (as\u00ed como a la danza y, en algunos casos, la m\u00fasica) en un presente vertiginoso.&nbsp; A diferencia del cine, las artes gr\u00e1ficas, la escultura, la literatura y la arquitectura, por ejemplo, donde el acto art\u00edstico se crea en un espacio diferente a donde se confrontan con las personas escuchas-videntes y no videntes, el teatro se relaciona con lo otro en una situaci\u00f3n espacio- temporal especial.&nbsp; Lo que hace que la geograf\u00eda y el calendario sean creados tambi\u00e9n como parte de esa creaci\u00f3n art\u00edstica.&nbsp; As\u00ed, cuando se dice \u201cteatro\u201d, se refiere lo mismo a la obra representada y al espacio donde se confronta a veces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp; Estamos as\u00ed aqu\u00ed -nosotros los pueblos zapatistas-, bajo protesta de quienes organizaron este homenaje, en un espacio teatral llamado \u201cEl Milagro\u201d, tal vez porque el ejercicio del arte dram\u00e1tico, al menos en M\u00e9xico, es un milagro logrado pese a todas las dificultades que se topan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp; Pero, en los tiempos sombr\u00edos de una Inteligencia Artificial que acosa a las artes, el teatro parece estar a salvo.&nbsp; Al menos por ahora, parece imposible que un organismo cibern\u00e9tico pueda emular esa confrontaci\u00f3n maravillosa que se da entre los teatristas y el p\u00fablico.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp; Parece dif\u00edcil (al menos ahora), que la Inteligencia Artificial pueda aproximarse siquiera a las distintas caracterizaciones del personaje de <em>Adela<\/em>, en <em>La Casa de Bernarda Alba<\/em>, quien, con el fuego del amor prohibido, desaf\u00eda al autoritarismo:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>&nbsp; \u201c\u00a1Aqu\u00ed se acabaron las voces de presidio! <\/em>(Adela arrebata un bast\u00f3n a su madre y lo parte en dos). <em>&nbsp;Esto hago yo con la vara de la dominadora. No d\u00e9 usted un paso m\u00e1s. \u00a1En m\u00ed no manda nadie m\u00e1s que Marcos!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(Ok, ok, ok, el texto original dice \u201c<em>Pepe<\/em>\u201d, pero digamos que es una licencia po\u00e9tica).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp; Cierto, tienen ustedes raz\u00f3n en que no es inocente que haya yo elegido una obra de teatro de Federico Garc\u00eda Lorca, alguien diferente, distinto, acosado y asesinado por ser quien era y por la causa que abrazaba.&nbsp; Tampoco es gratuito que haya escogido un parlamento de una mujer rebelde.&nbsp; Ni puede ser ocioso que una artista, Marina, lea este texto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp; Pero en realidad, lo que me ha movido a esta menci\u00f3n es el amor subversivo que en esa obra se decanta.&nbsp; Y, claro, el reto esc\u00e9nico que esas breves l\u00edneas plantea a cualquier hombre, mujer u <strong><em>otroa<\/em><\/strong> teatristas: Adela rompiendo el sepulcro blanqueado en el que, junto al resto de sus hijas, Bernarda Alba las ten\u00eda encerradas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp; Y todo esto viene al caso, o cosa, seg\u00fan, porque, en el pasado semillero de diciembre de 2025, Don Luis de Tavira, el maestro, fue el \u00fanico que entendi\u00f3 lo que pretendimos al introducir, en los temas, los del amor y el desamor.&nbsp; Cuando le escrib\u00ed invit\u00e1ndolo, le dije que lo m\u00e1s probable era que ninguno de los ponentes tocara esos puntos, adem\u00e1s de nosotros, claro.&nbsp; As\u00ed que no ten\u00eda por qu\u00e9 preocuparse de eso.&nbsp; \u00c9l entendi\u00f3 inmediatamente que eran precisamente \u00e9sos los temas m\u00e1s importantes de \u00e9sa y de todas las reflexiones habidas y por haber.&nbsp; El maestro acept\u00f3 el reto (en realidad, el teatro en s\u00ed es un reto).&nbsp; Y su participaci\u00f3n, a la lejan\u00eda -como estas palabras-, centr\u00f3 el misterio por develarse: el amor y el desamor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp; Brillante, como de por s\u00ed, el maestro revel\u00f3 y rebel\u00f3 el <em>leit motiv<\/em> de la historia humana, de sus \u00e9xitos y sus fracasos, de sus ascensos y ca\u00eddas, de guerras escondidas detr\u00e1s de desamores y de amores escondidos detr\u00e1s de guerras, de resistencias y rebeld\u00edas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp; En su participaci\u00f3n, el maestro dice que yo dije lo que en realidad \u00e9l dijo: el arte es una declaraci\u00f3n de amor a la humanidad.&nbsp; Y si \u00e9l dijo que yo dije lo que \u00e9l dijo que dije que \u00e9l dijo, entonces no se trata de una confusi\u00f3n, sino de una feliz coincidencia.&nbsp; Una coincidencia entre dos lejan\u00edas, como las que se encuentran hoy aqu\u00ed, de milagro, en El Milagro.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp; Deb\u00e9is ser fuertes: en este amor terrible y maravilloso, en el arte, camin\u00e1is al desamor.&nbsp; Porque la humanidad no os corresponder\u00e1.&nbsp; Ella es d\u00edscola, rejega, ingrata, <strong><em>p\u00e9rjida<\/em><\/strong>, rom\u00e1ntica insoluta -como bien defini\u00f3 el fil\u00f3sofo mexicano Salvador Flores Rivera-.&nbsp; Y aun as\u00ed deb\u00e9is perseverar.&nbsp; As\u00ed es como podr\u00e9is entender que las artes son una maldici\u00f3n.&nbsp; Una maldici\u00f3n hermosa, cierto, pero maldici\u00f3n, al fin y al cabo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp; Ahora imagino los gestos de Steph, quien es coautora de esta irrupci\u00f3n.&nbsp; Debo decir, en su descargo, que no ha sido s\u00f3lo c\u00f3mplice de \u00e9ste, y que hay otros cr\u00edmenes en el horizonte que esperan la misma dedicaci\u00f3n y compromiso de su parte.&nbsp; Porque el teatro, amigas y enemigas, es eso tambi\u00e9n, es decir, complicidad, dedicaci\u00f3n y compromiso.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp; Imagino tambi\u00e9n la risa contenida de Marina, a quien le hice saber que se tratar\u00eda de un texto serio, y que deb\u00eda leer en el momento, sin conocerlo con antelaci\u00f3n.&nbsp; No s\u00f3lo, tambi\u00e9n le dije que el guion exig\u00eda que se peinara, algo que ustedes constatar\u00e1n o no, depende si se impuso o no su disciplina art\u00edstica.&nbsp; Supongo que har\u00e1 gestos de desagrado y reproche.&nbsp; Un moh\u00edn de incomodidad, o de preludio a un lloriqueo fingido, no vendr\u00eda mal en el momento de llegar a estas letras.&nbsp; Gracias Marina, pero creo que necesitas practicar m\u00e1s, los pucheros, frente al espejo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp; Porque eso es tambi\u00e9n el teatro, un espejo que refleja lo mejor y lo peor de la humanidad, que interpela a la imaginaci\u00f3n del espectador y que lo vuelve c\u00f3mplice embozado tras un aplauso o una rechifla o un reclamo iluso de \u201c\u00a1devu\u00e9lvanme el costo del boleto, y agreguen el precio del taxi de aplicaci\u00f3n, mi valioso tiempo, y m\u00e1s el IVA!\u201d, por aquello de que el SAT, el Sistema de Administraci\u00f3n Tributaria, se ha convertido en la migra, el ICE, que persigue artistas como si el arte fuera un negocio y no lo que es en realidad, es decir, un milagro.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>-*-<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp; Pero no se distraigan.&nbsp; Al maestro le ha tocado el papel de pretexto, papel que \u00e9l ha asumido, imagino, bajo protesta.&nbsp; Pero el tema central de este encuentro es el teatro.&nbsp; O, m\u00e1s en general, las artes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp; Ya antes, hace un a\u00f1o, hice un s\u00edmil entre el director de teatro y el mando militar.&nbsp; No importa cu\u00e1nto ensayen o practiquen, a la hora de enfrentar la realidad (la confrontaci\u00f3n con el p\u00fablico en el caso del Teatro (tambi\u00e9n la Danza y, en algunos casos, la M\u00fasica), y con el enemigo en el caso del combatiente), no hay oportunidad de repetir la escena.&nbsp; Tal vez eso explique la simpat\u00eda espont\u00e1nea que apreci\u00e9 en el encuentro de Artes de hace un a\u00f1o, entre ellos dos, cuando el Subcomandante Insurgente Mois\u00e9s y el maestro Luis de Tavira compartieron la mesa y la palabra-. Estuvimos con Steph y un servidor como flancos guardianes, y las participaciones de Iv\u00e1n Prado, los Zurdos, y, desde otra lejan\u00eda, Antonio Ram\u00edrez.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp; Por esto he dicho antes que el arte dram\u00e1tico, como la danza, representa un reto mayor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp; Y m\u00e1s: en el teatro confluyen, en el instante fugaz de la representaci\u00f3n, multitud de factores.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp; Las partes que el todo reclama para constituirse en arte.&nbsp; La iluminaci\u00f3n, el vestuario, la escenograf\u00eda, la sonorizaci\u00f3n, y hasta los anuncios, el boletaje y el acomodo de los asistentes.&nbsp; Ahora imagino a Gabriel, a Philipe y a David pregunt\u00e1ndose si somos los \u00fanicos colados, porque hay asistentes que, se sospecha, s\u00f3lo llegaron para ver si hab\u00eda coctel y ambig\u00fa.&nbsp; Y ya comentan, entre dientes, que s\u00f3lo hay un agua azucarada de sabor indescifrable, y un triste s\u00e1ndwich que conoci\u00f3 mejores d\u00edas.&nbsp; Claro, todas, todos y <strong><em>todoas<\/em><\/strong> sonr\u00eden y dicen en voz alta \u201c\u00a1Ah, el teatro!\u201d, mientras se acercan sigilosamente a la salida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>-*-<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp; Ya les advert\u00ed, no se distraigan, conc\u00e9ntrense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp; Mucho se ha hablado del teatro como diversi\u00f3n, como denuncia, como reflexi\u00f3n y como recurso did\u00e1ctico.&nbsp; As\u00ed las cosas, un maestro o una maestra de teatro, en realidad son educadores de educadores.&nbsp; Ac\u00e1 les decimos \u201cformadores\u201d.&nbsp; Hay formadores de educaci\u00f3n -que forman promotores de educaci\u00f3n-, formadores de salud -que preparan a promotores de salud, primeros auxilios, medicina preventiva, parteras, herbolaria, laboratoristas y, alg\u00fan d\u00eda, formar\u00e1n carniceros o \u201cmete cuchillo\u201d, que es como llamamos a quienes le saben a las cirug\u00edas-.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp; En fin, tenemos al teatro como diversi\u00f3n, como denuncia, como imagen de \u00e9poca y cultura, como reflexi\u00f3n y como pedagog\u00eda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp; Seguro hay m\u00e1s filos en el erizo del arte dram\u00e1tico, pero yo les voy a se\u00f1alar una espina que tal vez ignoran.&nbsp; Esto es, el teatro como amor y desamor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp; Y para esto, les traigo un cuento que cont\u00e9 en una reuni\u00f3n donde se encontraban j\u00f3venes y <strong><em>j\u00f3venas<\/em><\/strong> coordinadores de arte y cultura, as\u00ed como no pocos teatristas, hombres y mujeres zapatistas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp; El cuento se llama\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(continuar\u00e1)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Desde las monta\u00f1as del Sureste Mexicano.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/firma.png?resize=374%2C303&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24439\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">El Capit\u00e1n.<br>M\u00e9xico, marzo de 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>[:en]<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>ART IS A CURSE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">February 24, 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ladies, gentlemen, and those who are neither one nor the other:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">First of all, we want to thank Gabriel Pascal, David Olgu\u00edn, Philippe Amand, and the whole crew who make this event possible. And Steph, for her unconditional complicity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We also thank Lenin and Marina, who have kindly read our contributions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I want to clarify that we were not invited to this tribute to the master Luis de Tavira. I say this not as a reproach, but as a disclaimer for those who, at the right time, organized this gathering. May this text serve to deal with complaints, insults (mint-flavored and otherwise), legal proceedings, and whatever else may arise from the matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So it can be said that we are here as \u201cgatecrashers.\u201d I imagine your displeasure, but keep in mind that it would be worse if we had forced our way in\u2014that healthy civic custom of showing up without an invitation and without paying for the tickets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We thus celebrate not only that those close to the master greet him, but also\u2014and above all\u2014the opportunity for those of us who are distant yet think of him to embrace him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And this celebration, in which the master is somewhat like the pretext, raises several questions. Namely: what is it that enables communities so different and distant to converge in the same geography and calendar? For that is what those present here are: some of the best among the artistic community. And, well, our words are also meant to make present those who are far away: some of the Indigenous communities, of Mayan origin\u2014the Zapatistas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An artistic community and Indigenous communities coinciding. Differences meeting without ceasing to be what they are. And a theater master, Luis de Tavira, as the unwitting convener.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The former are brought together by dramatic art. \u201cThe supreme artistic challenge,\u201d the late SupMarcos used to say\u2014may God keep him in his holy glory and the Blessed Virgin shower him with blessings\u2014to distinguish it from the other arts. And I suppose, though I cannot confirm it, that the deceased meant that reality stalks Theater (as it does dance and, in some cases, music) in a vertiginous present. Unlike cinema, graphic arts, sculpture, literature, and architecture, for example\u2014where the artistic act is created in a space different from the one in which it confronts the listening-seeing (and non-seeing) audience\u2014theater relates to the other in a special space-time context. This means that geography and calendar themselves become a part of the artistic creation. Thus, when one says \u201ctheater,\u201d one refers both to the work performed and the space where it sometimes meets the audience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So here we are\u2014the Zapatista peoples\u2014under the protest of those who organized this tribute, in a theatrical space called \u201cEl Milagro,\u201d perhaps because the practice of dramatic art, at least in Mexico, is a miracle achieved despite all the difficulties it encounters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But in these dark times of an Artificial Intelligence that stalks the arts, theater seems to be safe. At least for now, it seems impossible for a cybernetic organism to emulate the marvelous confrontation that occurs between theater-makers and the audience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It seems difficult (at least for now) for Artificial Intelligence to even approach the different characterizations of the character Adela in <em>The House of Bernarda Alba<\/em>, who, with the fire of forbidden love, defies authoritarianism:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHere the voices of prison end!\u201d (Adela snatches a cane from her mother and breaks it in two.) \u201cThis is what I do with the rod of the tyrant. Do not take another step. In me no one commands except Marcos!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(Okay, okay, okay\u2014the original text says \u201cPepe,\u201d but let\u2019s say it\u2019s a poetic license.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yes, you\u2019re right, it is not by chance that I chose a play by Federico Garc\u00eda Lorca\u2014someone different, persecuted and murdered for being who he was and for the cause he embraced. Nor is it accidental that I chose the speech of a rebellious woman. Nor is it coincidental that an artist, Marina, is reading this text.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But what in fact motivates me to mention it is the subversive love that flows through that work. And, of course, the scenic challenge that those brief lines pose to anyone involved in theater\u2014man, woman, or other: Adela breaking the whitewashed tomb in which Bernarda Alba had locked her away together with the rest of her daughters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And all this is relevant because at the December 2025 seedbed gathering, Don Luis de Tavira, the master, was the only one who understood our intention in introducing the topics of love and heartbreak. When I wrote inviting him, I told him that it was most likely that none of the speakers would touch on those points\u2014except for us, of course. He therefore did not need to worry about it. He immediately understood that those were precisely the most important aspects of that reflection and of all others past and present. The master accepted the challenge (actually, theater itself is a challenge). And his participation\u2014from afar, like these words\u2014focused on the mystery to be revealed: love and heartbreak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brilliant, as always, the master revealed\u2014and rebelled\u2014the <em>leitmotif<\/em> of human history: its successes and failures, its rises and falls, wars hidden behind heartbreak and loves hidden behind wars, resistances and rebellions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In his remarks, the master says that I said what in fact it was he who said: that art is a declaration of love to humanity. And if he said that I said what he said that I said he said, then it is not confusion but a happy coincidence. A coincidence between two distances, like those that meet today here, by miracle, in El Milagro.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You must remain strong: in this terrible and marvelous love\u2014in art\u2014you walk toward heartbreak. Because humanity will not requite your love. It is unruly, stubborn, ungrateful, perfidious, and hopelessly romantic\u2014as the Mexican philosopher Salvador Flores Rivera well argued. And yet you must persevere. That is how you will understand that the arts are a curse. A beautiful curse, yes\u2014but a curse nonetheless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now I imagine the gestures of Steph, who is coauthor of this intrusion. I must say, in her defense, that she has been an accomplice not only in this crime, and that there are others on the horizon awaiting her dedication and commitment. Because theater, friends and enemies, is also that: complicity, dedication, and commitment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I also imagine Marina\u2019s restrained laughter\u2014I told her that this would be a serious text and that she would have to read it on the spot without knowing it beforehand. And not just that. I also told her that the script required her to comb her hair, something you will confirm or not depending on whether her artistic discipline prevailed. I suppose she will make gestures of displeasure and reproach. A pout of discomfort\u2014or a prelude to a feigned whimper\u2014would not be out of place when reaching these lines. Thank you, Marina, but I think you need to practice your pouting more in front of the mirror.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because that is also theater: a mirror that reflects the best and worst of humanity, that challenges the spectators\u2019 imagination and turns them into accomplices\u2014hidden behind applause, or boos, or the na\u00efve complaint: \u201cGive me back the money I paid for the ticket\u2014and add the cost of the rideshare taxi, my valuable time, and VAT!\u201d All because the tax authority\u2014the Tax Administration Service\u2014has become like immigration enforcement, chasing artists as if art were a business and not what it really is: a miracle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">&#8211; * &#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But don\u2019t get distracted. The master has been assigned the role of a pretext\u2014a role he has assumed, I imagine, under protest. But the central theme of this gathering is theater. Or, more generally, the arts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier, a year ago, I made a comparison between theater directors and military commanders. It doesn\u2019t matter how much they rehearse or practice; when the moment comes to face reality\u2014the confrontation with the audience in the case of theater (and also dance and, sometimes, music), and with the enemy in the case of the combatant\u2014you have no chance to repeat the scene. Perhaps that explains the spontaneous sympathy I noticed at the arts gathering a year ago between the two of them, when Subcomandante Insurgente Mois\u00e9s and Master Luis de Tavira shared the table and the word. Steph and I stood as guardian flanks, with contributions from Iv\u00e1n Prado, Los Zurdos, and, from another distance, Antonio Ram\u00edrez.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That\u2019s why I said above that dramatic art, like dance, represents a greater challenge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And more: in theater\u2014in the fleeting instant of performance\u2014converge a myriad of factors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The parts that the whole requires to constitute itself as art: lighting, costume, scenery, sound, and even the announcements, the ticketing, and the seating of the audience. Now I imagine Gabriel, Philippe, and David wondering if we are the only gatecrashers, because there are attendees who are suspected of having come only to see if there was a cocktail reception and hors d\u2019oeuvres. Already they are complaining in whispers that there is only a sugary drink with an indecipherable flavor, and a sad sandwich that has known better days. Of course, everyone smiles and says out loud, \u201cAh, theater!\u201d while quietly inching toward the exit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">&#8211; * &#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I warned you\u2014don\u2019t get distracted. Focus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Much has been said about theater as entertainment, as denunciation, as reflection, and as a pedagogical tool. In that sense, a theater teacher is really an educator of educators. Here we call them <em>formadores<\/em> (\u201ctrainers\u201d). There are trainers in education\u2014who train education promoters; trainers in health\u2014who prepare health promoters, first aid workers, preventive medicine practitioners, midwives, herbalists, laboratory technicians, and someday they will train butchers\u2014or \u201cknife-inserters,\u201d as we call those who know how to perform surgeries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In short, we have theater as entertainment, as denunciation, as an image of its time and culture, as reflection, and as pedagogy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Surely there are more spines on the hedgehog of dramatic art, but I will mention one that you may ignore: theater as love and heartbreak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And for this, I bring you a story I told at a meeting where there were young coordinators of art and culture, as well as quite a few Zapatista theater-makers, men and women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The story is called\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>(to be continued)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From the mountains of the Mexican Southeast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/firma.png?resize=374%2C303&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24439\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">El Capit\u00e1n<br>Mexico, March 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>[:]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[:es] EL ARTE ES UNA MALDICI\u00d3N 24 de febrero del 2026. Damas, caballeros y quienes no son los unos ni las otras: &nbsp; Antes que nada, queremos agradecer a Gabriel Pascal, David Olgu\u00edn, a Philippe Amand y a toda la banda que hace posible este evento.&nbsp; A Steph por su incondicional complicidad. &nbsp; Tambi\u00e9n agradecemos [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,118,955],"tags":[1139,644,56,926],"class_list":["post-53843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chiapas","category-ezln","category-ezln-temas","tag-artes","tag-comunicados-ezln","tag-encuentros","tag-ezln"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53843"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53861,"href":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53843\/revisions\/53861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/53844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}