{"id":3409,"date":"2024-10-15T19:20:48","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T18:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fineartcommunityboard\/?p=3409"},"modified":"2024-10-16T18:25:54","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T17:25:54","slug":"the-power-of-plants-viruses-healing-and-amazonian-indigenous-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fineartcommunityboard\/2024\/10\/15\/the-power-of-plants-viruses-healing-and-amazonian-indigenous-art\/","title":{"rendered":"The Power of Plants: Viruses, Healing and Amazonian Indigenous Art\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Wednesday 23 October, 5.15pm, <\/strong>Fine Art seminar room, KEVII Building<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Giuliana Borea<\/a><\/strong> (Newcastle University), The Power of Plants: Viruses, Healing and Amazonian Indigenous Art <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Drawing on the work of Amazonian indigenous artist Harry Pinedo-Inin Metsa, \u201cOur Plants, Our Oxygen. Lung Healing\u201d and other works by Pinedo and Santiago Yahuarcani featured in the exhibition Ite\/Neno\/Aqu\u00ed: Respuestas al Covid 19<\/em>, this talk explores the role that plants played in helping to defeat, and cure, Covid-19 in the Amazon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Focusing on the pandemic, I show how networks of help and knowledge between people, plants, animals and other beings, in what is understood as an extended humanity, occurred through dreams, \u201cmareaciones\u201d and various forms of mobility; and I explain the role of art in this set of exchanges, synaesthesia, and translations and what I call \u201cagents of interface\u201d. I argue that just as scientific visualization techniques offered an image of COVID-19, indigenous art offered a visualization of COVID-19 in the Amazon, and of its forms and agents of healing and care. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While this presentation concerns the power of plants, it distances itself from recent exhibitions on ayahuasca art in Europe and the UK which I argue re-fuel the exoticism and \u201cprimitivist\u201d consumption of the Amazon for a European audience, particularly at a time of global interest in indigenous art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Giuliana Borea<\/a><\/strong> is an anthropologist and Senior Lecturer in Latin American Studies at Newcastle University. Her research concerns the different epistemologies of art; the political economy of contemporary art; museum politics and practices; place-making and sensory knowledge with a focus on Peru and the Amazon. She has been Peru\u2019s Director of Museums and Cultural Heritage, Coordinator of the Lima Contemporary Art Museum, and has curated various exhibition of indigenous art. She is co-convenor of the Anthropology and Art Network (AntArt) of the European Association of Social Anthropologists. She is the editor of Arte y Antropolog\u00eda: Estudios, Encuentros y Nuevos Horizontes<\/em><\/a> (PUCP 2017), co-editor of Antropolog\u00edas Visuales Latinoamericanas: Estudios, Genealog\u00edas y Ense\u00f1anza<\/em><\/a> (FLACSO, 2024) and the author of Configuring the New Lima Art Scene: An Anthropological Analysis of Contemporary Art in Latin America<\/a><\/em> (Routledge, 2021), recently translated into Spanish as La nueva escena art\u00edstica de Lima. Pr\u00e1cticas, museos y mercado. <\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wednesday 23 October, 5.15pm, Fine Art seminar room, KEVII Building Giuliana Borea (Newcastle University), The Power of Plants: Viruses, Healing and Amazonian Indigenous Art  Drawing on the work of Amazonian indigenous artist Harry Pinedo-Inin Metsa, \u201cOur Plants, Our Oxygen. Lung Healing\u201d and other works by Pinedo and Santiago Yahuarcani featured in the exhibition Ite\/Neno\/Aqu\u00ed: Respuestas al Covid 19, this … Continue reading “The Power of Plants: Viruses, Healing and Amazonian Indigenous Art\u00a0“<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8273,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fineartcommunityboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fineartcommunityboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fineartcommunityboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fineartcommunityboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8273"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fineartcommunityboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3409"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fineartcommunityboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3420,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fineartcommunityboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3409\/revisions\/3420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fineartcommunityboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fineartcommunityboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fineartcommunityboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}