Mapurbekistan. Performance and preview of the documentary, with Claudio Alvarado Lincopi

As part of the cycle Colonial Memory II. Tuning in to the whispers, the museum is presenting Mapurbekistan, a project by Claudio Alvarado Lincopi, in an event that includes a performance, a viewing of the audiovisual project and a conversation with the directors of the cycle, Andrea Pacheco González and Yeison F. García López. 

In a museum in Santiago, Chile, a Mapuche ritual mask (Kollong) awakens from its slumber. Transformed into a colonial spectre, it leaves the display case and takes on physical form to wander through the city. On its way it encounters the indigenous memories that the capital has tried to erase, as well as the new poetics and aesthetics emerging from the urban Mapuche experience. 

Inspired by the concept of Mapurbe created by the poet David Aniñir, the film connects performances by contemporary artists such as Seba Calfuqueo with an audiovisual archive spanning almost eighty years, following the traces of the Mapuche migration to Santiago and the forms of invisibility that marked that experience. Its narrative traverses the social uprising and the Chilean constitutional process of 2022, when the country first attempted to recognise itself as a plurinational society under the presidency of Elisa Loncón. Accompanied by music from VÑVM and manipulated archival footage, Mapurbekistan locates that moment within a longer story. Inhabited by dreams, memories and ghosts, the film seeks out the persistence of a people that, despite displacements and defeats, continues to imagine other futures.