dear fellow settler colonizer, Monthly Radio Show

One of our Co-PIs Professor Richard Fletcher will be hosting a monthly radio show on the Columbus-based community internet radio site Verge.fm called dear fellow settler colonizer,. It will run once a month from January through May of 2021.

The show will explore the transformative work of contemporary global Indigenous artists from the explicitly problematic perspective of the settler colonizer. By critically examining our complicity in ongoing structures of colonial violence, the show offers tools for settler colonizers to engage with Indigenous art-making beyond positions of exploitation, appropriation and other harmful moves to innocence. In each episode, I will be joined by Cannupa Hanska Luger, concept artist of STTLMNT: Indigenous Digital Occupation. For more information and resources, visit Professor Fletcher's website MinusPlato site, where you can find more information on the topics for each episode.

January: How can a settler colonizer engage with contemporary Indigenous artists & their work? (recorded 1/22)

February: How can a settler colonizer be an accomplice for Indigenous artists? (recorded 2/19)

March : focus on Potu faitautusi: Faiāʻoga o gagana e, ia uluulumamau! Be Courageous, Language Teachers! Reading Room, organized by Léuli Eshrāghi at Columbus Printed Arts

April: How can settlers transform institutions (e.g. museums, universities) from within?  
May: How can settlers change their relationship to the internet as a space for Indigenous artists? 

Dancing with Devils Exhibit, Interview and Artist Talk

Exhibit
The K’acha Willaykuna Knowledge Equity and Legacy Preservation Working Group, led by Co-PIs Pamela Espinosa de los Monteros (Latin American, Iberian and Latinx Studies Librarian) and Eric Johnson (Curator of Thompson Special Collections) partnered with University Libraries’ Exhibit Coordinator Ken Aschliman and Senior Exhibitions Preparator Justin Luna to convert the “Dancing with Devils: Mask Traditions of Latin America” exhibit into an online format. You can also watch a CLAS Virtual Coffee from summer 2020 bby the original donor of the masks, Mark Gordon, below. He discusses his research and the origins of these masks

Interview
We completed an interview/conversation with exhibit curators Pamela Espinosa de los Monteros, the Latin American, Iberian and Latino/a Studies Librarian with Ohio State University Libraries, and exhibit photographer Leonardo Carrizo, a multi-platform lecturer for the School of Communications. Together we discussed the newly acquired Latin American mask collection connected to the exhibit, the challenges posed by the pandemic, and the importance of narrative construction connected to indigenous culture. 

Video of Artist Talk

We are excited to share the recording and transcript for the Artist's Talk on Dancing with Devils: Latin American Mask Traditions from March 22nd, 2021. This was a conversation about the making of this online exhibition with documentary photographer and Ohio State School of Communication instructor Leonardo Carrizo and special guest Fernando Endara, a Diablo de Píllaro from Ecuador.  The video is available above and the transcript is available via Box. 

Sumac Puringashpa: Walking the Meaningful Path: Coming and Going in Andean and Amazonian World Views

Sumac Puringashpa: Walking the Meaningful Path: Coming and Going in Andean and Amazonian World Views is a virtual reality project in progress created by the Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design (ACCAD), Center for Latin American Studies and Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the Ohio State University. This video, in which you explore the sights, sounds, and artifacts of the Andean and Amazonian world through virtual reality, can be seen below. It provides a glimpse of the methods and research questions we are exploring.