Extinction is an artwork that shares the words of the Mapuche Machi (Shaman) Millaray Melinao to the Susquehanock people, original inhabitants of the Susquehanna river basins. Mapuches are the indigenous people of Central Chile and the Susquehannock people, as a cultural entity, are considered extinct. Machi Millaray Melinao addresses in Mapudungún (Mapuche language) a message […]
The term “syndemic” was introduced in the 1990s in anthropological medicine to describe two or more concurrent epidemics in a population, which enhance the disease burden. Chilean artist Voluspa Jarpa uses this term as a metaphor to analyse the social movements that took place in Chile and Latin America between 2019 and 2023. In the […]
In The Emancipating Opera, Voluspa Jarpa uses the musical form of the cantata, which originated in European musical history, to create a narrative about power and emancipation. Voices come together to sing of the hegemonic psyche of paternalistic European and US colonizers and the subaltern psyche of marginalized social classes. Two protagonists mediate between these […]
In The Emancipating Opera Voluspa Jarpa draws on the musical form of the cantata, the sung piece, and uses this genre from European musical history in the form of a contemporary video cantata in order to unfold a narrative about power and emancipation. Voices come up against each other, singing of the hegemonial psyche (the […]
The term “syndemic” was introduced in the 1990s in anthropological medicine to describe two or more concurrent epidemics in a population, which enhance the disease burden. Chilean artist Voluspa Jarpa uses this term as a metaphor to analyse the social movements that took place in Chile between October 2019 and March 2020. In the first […]
The Chilean artist Voluspa Jarpa’s work is based upon a meticulous analysis of political, historical, and social documents, which she uses as a starting point to reflect upon notions of memory, trauma, violence, displacement, and resistance. Human Zoo brings together new installation, mixed media works, textile, and engraving related to the inhumane practices of the […]