Friday Finds: 'Plumas Migratorias' with Juan Suárez Ontaneda.

Join Spanish Department's Professor Juan Suárez Ontaneda for “Plumas migratorias: Archival Provenance and Feathers in Andean Literature and Performance," a gallery talk inspired by "Not~At Home: Cecilia Paredes." 

In this conversation, we will place in dialogue Cecilia Paredes’ installation "Not ~at Home" with the history of feathers in Peruvian literature and performance. As an ecological, artistic, and religious artifact, feathers have been central to Indigenous, mestizo, and Afro-Peruvian communities in Peru, so we will discuss how Paredes makes use of feathers in her work, informed by the literary and performative history of this resource. Paredes invites us to think about her installation as a conceptual framework to consider the limits of intelligibility. We will use feathers to examine the artists’ work, the silences in the provenance of objects from Peru in the Special Collections, and the political costs of migration and displacement.