From expressions of historical memory construction — with new visual, audio-visual, sound readings linked to new media — the exhibition addresses the processes of territorial and cultural re-appropriation, the construction of identities and imagined territories.
Taking as its starting point the tragic history of the Selknam people, originally from the Isla Grande of Tierra del Fuego — the southernmost end of South America — the exhibition alludes to the worldview, transculturation process, displacement and genocide suffered by this community through artists working in a research context and critical production.
Selknam: Skies of the Infinite seeks to generate a space for encounter, reflection and dialogue, questioning the historical processes that have marginalised indigenous populations and approaching hidden themes of official history, restoring the value of this dialogue through contemporary art.
More info: www.cielosdelinfinito.com
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ROUND TABLE (not at Centre Espronceda)
“Identity and representation of the indigenous from museums and the visual arts”
CASA AMÉRICA CATALUNYA [Carrer de Còrsega, 299] | MONDAY, JUNE 3, 7pm |
RESSONS, SOUND ASSEMBLY
COMMUNITY ART WORKSHOP + SOUND PERFORMANCE
A performance traversing the Navas and La Sagrera neighbourhoods, generating dialogues between the community, instruments and soundscape through the echoes produced across the urban territory.
Meeting point: Plaça de Ferran Reyes, culminating at Espronceda | SATURDAY 8 JUNE, 6pm |
Workshop registration: info@cielosdelinfinito.com
SCREENING OF THE WEB SERIES DISTANCE
+ conversation with Camila Marambio | co-director
A poetic yet scientific journey arising from an interdisciplinary research programme in Tierra del Fuego.
ESPRONCEDA CENTRE FOR ART | SATURDAY JUNE 15TH, 7:30 PM
