The Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme and the K’acha Willaykuna Andean and Amazonian Indigenous Arts and Humanities Collaboration are pleased to announce the residency of Sebastián Calfuqueo Aliste from November 18-22, 2019. Calfuqueo Aliste is the first artist in residency hosted by K’acha Willaykuna. This collaboration is 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).

Sebastián Calfuqueo Aliste, a contemporary Mapuche artist from Chile, uses 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. Sebastián Calfuqueo will be with us for a week of workshops, performances, reflections, project support and exploration.

Events (free and open to public)

Welcome of the artist and discussion of the Andean & Amazonian 
Indigenous Art and Cultural Artifact Collection
Monday, November 18, 10:15 a.m.-noon (Hagerty Hall 255) 

Performance Workshop: Bodies in Resistance 
Wednesday, November 20, 9:10-11 a.m. (MLK Auditorium, Hale Hall)

This Decoloniality? Reading Group
Thursday, November 21, 2-3:30 p.m.  (Fine Arts Library Rm 038L)

Public Performance 
Thursday, November 21, TBA (Motion Lab, Sullivant Hall 331)

SPPO Colloquium Series: Artist’s Talk (with informal reception to follow)
Friday, November 22, 4-5 p.m. (Hagerty Hall 255)

These events are co-sponsored by the Global Arts and Humanities Discovery Theme, Center for Latin American Studies, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Spanish and Portuguese Colloquium Series, Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design, and Livable Futures Project.