Nocturnal Walkthroughs: Memories of Water
Performative tour with Juan Pablo Pacheco and Pablo Zamorano Azócar

The Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza and TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary present a new edition of their nocturnal walkthroughs, this time featuring a new type of workshop in connection with Seba Calfuqueo’s exhibition CAUTÍN. Through listening, historical counternarrative, and performative action, the activities invite you to walk through the exhibition and see it with fresh eyes while reflecting on the connections between territory, identity, and memory.

Memories of Water is a performative walkthrough that offers a shared experience of listening, contemplation, and sensory activation. Through an immersive audio-walk and a voice performance, this activity invites you to explore the connections between body, water, memory, and territory in a participatory ritual.

Juan Pablo Pacheco and Pablo Zamorano Azócar are artists and researchers whose collaborative practice explores the connections between territory, memory, body, and more-than-human ecologies. They use transdisciplinary methods that combine living arts, research, and community processes to carry out projects that delve into epistemologies of nature, ancestral lore, and poetic forms of knowledge. Their work approaches water, spirituality, infrastructure, contemporary ritual, and embodied memory as spaces for imagining other ways of inhabiting and caring for the world, generating participatory experiences where the sensory, the political, and the ecological intertwine.which to imagine other ways of inhabiting and caring for the world, creating participatory experiences in which the sensory, the political, and the ecological intertwine.

For this activity, each participant must bring a charged cell phone and headphones/earbuds compatible with their device. Both items are essential for accessing and engaging in the experience. The museum cannot loan cell phones, headphones, or earbuds. 

Dates and times: October 24 and November 21, 2026, at 9:00 PM and 10:00 PM
Location: Exhibition space (floor -1), Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
Registration: Through the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza website
Access: Free activity with prior reservation*
Recommended age: All ages
Language: Spanish
Capacity: Groups of 25 people per session

*Participants registered for the Nocturnal Walkthroughs should approach the staff at the museum entrance and present their ticket for direct access. To ensure the tour begins on time, there is no need to join the general admission queue.

The public program for Seba Calfuqueo’s exhibition CAUTÍN is presented in collaboration with Centro Cultural de España in Santiago, Cineteca Nacional de Chile, Festival Eñe, Filmoteca Española, Museo de América, and Complutense University of Madrid, with funding from the National Fund for Cultural Development and the Arts (FONDART), and with Radio 3 and NUEBO as media partners.