Duration
17.7.26, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Location
Terrassensaal
Language
German, English, Spanish, Español
Admission
Free
Info
On Friday, 17.7., representatives of Red Atacama — the network of indigenous Atacameño communities from the Salinas Grandes in Argentina — join artist Tomás Saraceno in conversation about their long-standing collaboration, the struggle for water rights in their ancestral territory, the making of the sculpture El Santuario del Agua, and the mounting pressure from international mining corporations and lithium extraction in the Terrassensaal of Haus der Kunst.
Speakers
Miguel Casimiro is a lawyer, adviser, and community member of the Lickanantay Corralitos Community. He has presented at the Université de la Sorbonne and the Universidad de Tarapacá, and served as Vice President of the Indigenous Peoples' Rights Commission of the Buenos Aires Bar Association (2013–2014).
Iván Arjona Acoria is a member of the Atacama Nation, educator, writer, and researcher at the Universidad Nacional de Salta. His work centers on Andean languages, cosmology, and sacred knowledge.
Luisa Casimiro is a social worker, Indigenous educator, and community defender from the Lickanantay Corralitos Community and a member of Red Atacama.
Gastón Chillier is an Argentine human rights and environmental justice activist. He currently serves as Deputy Director and a founding member of the International Network of Civil Liberties and Human Rights Organizations (INCLO), and is a member of the Argentine Association of Environmental Lawyers.
Andrei Fernandez is an artist and curator who works with Indigenous women's communities on long-term processes that bring together contemporary art, textile epistemologies, social economies, and territorial memory. She is the co-founder of Silät, an organisation of Wichí weavers in northern Salta, and a coordinator of Unión Textiles Semillas, a living network of weavers, artists, and activists from northwest Argentina.
Moderated by Tomás Saraceno, Sarah Johanna Theurer (curator of the exhibition Ancestral Futures) and Andrea Lissoni (Artistic Director Haus der Kunst München)
With generous support from Salta art and the Goethe-Institut.