Jul 13 2022
Conversation | Sueño y curación rarámuri with Noé Martínez, María Sosa and Dr. Carlo Bonfiglioli
Wed | 7PM
On the occasion of their exhibition, Tepalcates de sueños, artists Noé Martínez and María Sosa will be joined by scholar Carlo Bonfiglioli to discuss the importance of sleep and dreaming within healing rituals of Rarámuri peoples. Bonfiglioli’s decades of research on the practices of this Chihuahua-based indigenous community will be considered in dialogue with Martínez and Sosa’s understanding of dreams as sites of restoration and resistance.
This program will be held on Zoom at 7PM EST / 6PM CDT. To register, please click here.
Con motivo de su exhibición Tepalcates de sueños, los artistas Noé Martínez y María Sosa serán acompañados por el académico Carlo Bonfiglioli para discutir la importancia del dormir y el soñar dentro de los rituales de curación de las personas rarámuri. Las décadas de investigación de Bonfiglioli sobre las prácticas de esta comunidad indígena de Chihuahua dialogarán con la visión de Martínez y Sosa de los sueños como lugares de restauración y resistencia.
Este programa estará disponible vía Zoom a las 7 pm EST / 6 pm CDT. Para registrarse, por favor de dar click aquí.
Noé Martínez (b. 1986, lives and works in Mexico City, MX) is a visual artist and filmmaker who graduated from Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado (“La Esmeralda”), Mexico City. His work functions as a case study that emerges from personal history, making use of ethnographic methodologies and research of the various histories of indigenous communities of the American continent. His work has been presented at the Orange County Museum of Art, Santa Ana (2020); The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2019); 21 Bienal de Arte contemporáneo SESC Videobrasil, Sao Paulo (2019); FilmFront, Chicago (2019); Native Crossroad Film Festival, Norman (2018); Festival Internacional de Cine, Morelia (2018) Festival Internacional de Cine, Morelia (2018), where he, with María Sosa won the Eye to the Best Short Film of Michoacán Award; and International Performance Art Week, Venice (2016).
María Sosa (b. 1985, lives and works in Mexico City, MX) holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolas de Hidalgo. Her work develops from research about colonial pasts and how they shape contemporary racial, sexual and social dynamics in the American continent. Throughout her practice, Sosa pays particular attention to the eradication of knowledge surrounding non-western ways of life and prehispanic cultures. Her work has been exhibited at Fundación Casa de México, Madrid (2022); Laboratorio de Arte Alameda, Mexico City (2021-2022); Tale of a Tub, Amsterdam (2021); Arewá, Madrid (2021); Servais Family Collection, Brussels (2020); Lasécu Artothèque, Lille (2019); FilmFront, Chicago (2018- 2019); Native Crossroad Film Festival, Norman (2018); Festival Internacional de Cine, Morelia (2018), where she won the Eye to the Best Short Film of Michoacán Award; and International Performance Art Week, Venice (2016).
Carlo Bonfiglioli holds a doctorate from the Autonomous Metropolitan University. On two occasions, in 1994 and 1999 he has received the Bernardino Sahagún Prize. He is the author of two books: Fariseos y Matachines en la Sierra Tarahumara (1995) and La epopeya de Cuauhtémoc en Tlacoachistlahuaca (2004). He has edited six anthologies, including: Las danzas de conquista en el México contemporáneo (1996); Las vías del Noroeste, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 (2008-2011); Reflexividad y Alteridad. Estudios de caso en México y Brasil, Volume 1 (2019) and Volume 2 (forthcoming). Additionally, he has authored more than 50 scientific articles. Since 2000, he has been a professor and researcher in the Anthropological Research Institute and the Postgraduate Anthropology program at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM.) His current field of inquiry is focused on theories of Rarámuri shamanism.
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