Saint Sebastián/Tañi kalül mongeley weychan mew
(My body is resisting)
2019
Performed at The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
The performance “Saint Sebastián/Tañi kalül mongeley weychan mew (My body is resisting)” utilizes the image of Saint Sebastian and his relation with torture and pleasure. By means of an audio text, the audience is asked to start tying and knotting up the artist’s body while his body remains still, resisting.
Sebastián Calfuqueo Aliste is a contemporary Chilean artist of Mapuche origin who creates ceramics, installations, performances and video art to reflect critically on the Mapuche subject’s social, cultural and political status. Calfuqueo’s art explores cultural similarities and differences as well as stereotypes produced at the intersection of indigenous and western ways of thinking.
View the performance HERE.
NOTE: The artist will be semi-nude for this performance
Sebastián Calfuqueo Aliste’s residency is hosted by the K’acha Willaykuna Andean and Amazonian Indigenous Arts and Humanities Collaboration, an interdisciplinary Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme initiative committed to critical engagement with Indigenous cultures of Abya Yala (the Guna denominator for the American continent in its entirety). For more information about the K’acha Willaykuna Collaboration and to join our email list, visit our homepage.
Event co-sponsored by the Global Arts and Humanities Discovery Theme, the Center for Latin American Studies, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Spanish and Portuguese Colloquium Series, Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design, and Livable Futures.
