Son[i]a #458. Francisco Huichaqueo y Catalina Alvarado-Cañuta
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We dig up some unreleased fragments of our conversation of our conversation with Mapuche filmmaker and lecturer Francisco Huichaqueo. Drawing on memories of everyday racism, Mapudungun silences, and dreams in the revived language, Huichaqueo weaves together stories about human remains and Mapuche ‘artefacts of memory’ held in European and North American museums, restitution processes, and small acts of institutional disobedience. Art becomes a spiritual and political tactic for exercising one’s rights, opening up display cabinets, accompanying stolen objects, and sowing the seeds of the future in long-term struggles.
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