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Bilingual Book Presentation/Presentación del libro: Sik’inik Chukojol Cholaj

October 15 at 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm

October 15, 2024: In person at Whitsett Room & Online via ZOOM 2:00pm PST Indigenous Resistance Day 2024 In English and Spanish.

This virtual and in-person book presentation will host guest speakers Angel Poyón and Fernando Poyón, both Maya Kaqchikel artists from Comalapa, Guatemala, and the Kaqjay Collective in Patzicia, Guatemala that organized their exhibition titled Sik’inik Chukojol Cholaj (Voices within the fields).

The event will highlight the publication of their exhibition catalog, a publication that is unprecedented because it is rare for an Indigenous collective to take on a curatorial role and because contemporary art is rarely installed surrounded by agricultural fields or for Indigenous communities to have access to the works. More importantly, it makes visible the production of thought, art, and content from within contemporary Indigenous communities.

En persona en el Whitsett Room y en línea via ZOOM 3:00pm Indigenous Resistance Day 2024

Esta presentación de libro tendrá lugar de forma virtual y en persona. Incluirá la presentación de Angel Poyón y Fernando Poyón, ambos artistas Maya Kaqchikeles de Comalapa, Guatemala, y el colectivo Kaqjay de Patzicia, Guatemala, quienes organizaron la exhibición titulada Sik’inikChukojol Cholaj (Voces entre los zurcos).

El evento celebra la publición del catálogo de la exhibición, una publicación que es sin precedentes porque no es frecuente que un colectivo indígena desempeñe el papel curatorial y porque el arte contemporáneo rara vez se instala rodeado de milpas y hortalizas o para que las comunidades indígenas tengan acceso a las obras.

Más importante aún, hace visible la producción de pensamiento, arte y contenido desde las comunidades indígenas contemporáneas.

Sponsored by / Patrocinado por: Department of Central American and Transborder Studies; College of Humanities Academic Programing Fund; Central American Research and Policy Institute; & BHALAM Rhizomatic Community.

 

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Date:
October 15
Time:
2:00 pm to 4:00 pm
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