The phenomenon of human zoos, exhibited in Europe, served to establish economic expansionist principles by constructing notions of the savage, the exotic and the other. From 1815 to 1958, they signified the popularization of European racism and the legitimization of conquest over the territories of these non-European places. From 1874, with Germany taking the lead, […]
The particularity of the experience of the arrival of the coronavirus pandemic in Chile was marked by the historical singularity of being preceded by a social revolt, identified as the greatest crisis that the country has had since the return to democracy in 1990. The crisis would be resolved politically, in the agreement to plebiscite […]
The phenomenon of human zoos, exhibited in Europe, served to establish economic expansionist principles by constructing notions of the savage, the exotic and the others. From 1815 to 1958, they signified the popularization of European racism and the legitimization of conquest over the territories of these non-European places. From 1874, with Germany taking the lead, […]
The particularity of the experience of the arrival of the coronavirus pandemic in Chile was marked by the historical singularity of being preceded by a social revolt, classified as the greatest crisis that the country has had since the return to democracy in 1990. The crisis would be resolved politically, in an agreement to plebiscite […]
Since October 18, 2019, in Chile, a social movement has been present for the claim of living conditions in a privatized society up to the limit of the possibilities that its citizens can resist. Health, pensions, education and even water, are services for which citizens must pay. Different social movements, since 2011, have claimed against […]
Voluspa Jarpa presented the work Altered Views (Miradas Alteradas) that represented the Chilean Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale. The project originates in a question the artist seeks to answer: how is configured the modernist, Eurocentric and colonial gaze that later expands from Europe to the United States and constructs a symbolic contempt that is […]