The Last Judgement is an immersive installation and pyrotechnic performance that uses large-scale sculptures and sound to narrate the struggles and resistance of the Mexican community of La Villita, in Chicago. The Last Judgement is a co-created, participatory project that subverts and contests the first conversion play performed in Mexico, written in the 16^th century by Franciscan priest Fray Andrés de Olmos. The theater of conversion introduced pyrotechnics to frighten and indoctrinate the indigenous populations, and it is the first documented use of pyrotechnics in the continent. The new script revolves around issues of gentrification, environmental justice and deportation, and was developed through conversations, meetings and art workshops with community members (activists, teachers, students, community organizers, and local artists). The structures were built in collaboration with Artsumex collective, whose members traveled to Chicago from Tultepec, Mexico. The play became an effigy-burning event: pyrotechnic effects used by the Franciscans to frighten were transformed into tools of celebration and protest to perform an allegorical collective purging of social ills, to correct official narratives, to bridge between dislocated communities, and to envision new futures through collective destruction.