Activity included in the Contemporary Authors Theater Exhibition of Alicante, Guillermo Heras.

Recreativos Federico is an installation composed of seven arcade machines customized around a dramatic work by Federico García Lorca or its context. In this EXO-dramatic installation, Alicante-based actor, performer and cultural agitator Álex Peña uses humor and poetry to reflect on the commodification of artistic legacy in the context of the capitalist system.

Guided tour by Álex Peña: November 9 (from 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM) Free admission until capacity is reached.

We are accustomed to converting historical figures into consumer objects. Any of us can buy in Granada a keychain with the inscription I Love Lorca without ever having read a single verse by the author of "Gypsy Ballads". The EXO-dramatic installation proposed by Álex Peña at the MACA aims to criticize with humor and very subtle irony the conversion of artistic legacy into banal souvenirs.

The installation consists of seven interactive arcade machines equipped with sensors that perceive human presence. They react with sounds and lights, proposing games or the sale of some product, always inspired by the Lorca universe. "Bernarda Alba's Crane" is a mechanical skill game in which the player can obtain Adela's Comb, Pepe el Romano's original perfume or Bernarda's Fan; "Blood Balls" is a surprise ball machine that randomly contains a bag of blood from the Bridegroom or Leonardo, the lover in the well-known dramatic work "Blood Wedding"; the machine named "The Hatless Women" is inspired by the women artists of the Generation of '27 who removed this fashion accessory as a sign of protest and were stoned for it along with Dalí and Federico at the Puerta del Sol. In the foosball table inspired by "The Love of Don Perlimplín with Belisa in His Garden" we can face the characters from the work published by Lorca in 1929; "Yerma, La Nuit" is a phallic condom vending machine that alludes to the condom that a liberated Yerma could well have hidden while enjoying the Parisian night, while "Cadaqués Invaders" is an arcade machine with an original shooting game based on the famous "Space Invaders" in which the player Lorca shoots La Argentinita's castanets against a Dalí who responds by launching his mustache against the Granadian poet. Finally, "So Five Euros Pass" is a machine that exchanges coins for bills. Here, Federico himself represents that arcade owner of all time who would grumble while feeding the stuffing of his mattress of bills.

All installations are accompanied by a soundtrack featuring collaborations from different contemporary independent artists and groups such as Rocío Márquez, Pablo Peña and Darío del Moral (Pony Bravo, Fiera); Daniel Alonso (Pony Bravo), Alicia Acuña, The Gardener/Stay P MSRT (Califato ¾), Los Voluble and Yunke Junk Preachers. Additionally, the "Blood Balls" machine features the original voice of one of the poet's descendants, Laura García-Lorca.