Humboldthuaca
Workshops, performance, video installation
Berlin, DE / Chuquitanta, PE (2020)

with Daniela Zambrano Almidón

Enacting a symbolic reversal of the colonial museum system (Pachacuti in quechua cosmovision) to confront the Humboldt Forum. The project focused on the 56,000 pre-Hispanic pieces and human remains held in Berlin without the consultation of Indigenous communities. Through relational art, we facilitated assemblies and performances involving Berlin-based Indigenous resistance groups to reconnect living cultures with the objects privatized within the Berliner Schloss. The process culminated in a community ritual and a documentary designed to bridge the gap between the extracted knowledge in European museums and the communities maintaining that knowledge today.

With: Luz Hualpa García, Emilio Urbay Zevallos, Rossana Poblet, Sicuris Berlin, Frederik Becker, Imogen Heath, Zsofía Puszt, Óscar Moreno, Santiago Calderón, Nika Grigorian, Natalia Rodríguez Ramírez, Alessandra Plaza, Helga Elsner Torres, Beatriz Rodríguez, Adriana Bickel, Aliza Yanes, Santiago Calderón García, Kristina Leko, Lara Kemnitz, Imogen Heath.

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