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[Performance] Seba Calfuqueo at HKW Berlin 2023
Summary
Seba Calfuqueo at HKW Berlin 2023; event "A Participatory Planet".
About the artist:
Seba Calfuqueo (she/they) is a visual artist and curator of Espacio218, Santiago de Chile. Calfuqueo's work takes her own cultural heritage as a starting point for critical reflection on the Mapuche subject's social, cultural, and political status in contemporary Chilean society. In installations, ceramics, performance, and video, Calfuqueo explores cultural similarities and differences at the intersection of indigenous and Western ways of thinking and stereotypes. Calfuqueo's work aims to make feminist and queer theories visible in this context. Calfuqueo lives and works in Santiago de Chile.
About the event:
In many places, debates on the environmental crisis oscillate between climate fear and top-down solutions. They leave little room for active and participatory solutions involving the most affected. A Participatory Planet attempts to bridge the gap between the desire for centralized regulation and feelings of powerlessness. It invites those already practicing and developing participatory and collaborative ways of living on the planet [read more].