Day Program: Identities as Constellations and the Structures We Inhabit

First lecture by the Academia de la Identidad Indígena (ACII), conceived as an exercise in which language is understood in a state of fermentation. Based on ongoing research since 1491, the proposal situates discourse as living matter in process: fragmented, mixed, and left to rest in order to enable its transformation. Through an assemblage of quotations as a cultivation base, and hesitation established as a methodological principle, language is put under tension through the question of what remains when its tragic function of naming is removed.

Category: Lecture
Title: Toward a Theory-in-Action of Language Fermentation: Transformations, Residues, and Excesses of Meaning
Speakers: Salvador Xharicata and Alan Maqueda Gálvez
Date: May 22, 7:00 PM
Location: Auditorium

The exhibition Constellations and Drifts. Latin American Art from the FEMSA Collection seeks to make visible the network of relationships, debates, and tensions that artists from different times and territories have transformed into sensitive and critical knowledge about their environment. In this context, this dialogue space brings together two artists and two curators to explore intersections between two sections of the exhibition: “Colonial Structures: Between Language and Bodies” and “Identities: On the (Im)Possibility of a Chorus.” From these thematic constellations—connecting highly diverse works—they will address questions related to voice, language, corporeality, and the various politics that traverse them.

Category: Conversation
Title: Identities as Constellations and the Structures We Inhabit
Speakers: Ana Hernández, Erika Hirugami, Rosi Huaroco, and Salvador Xharicata
Date: May 22, 7:30 PM
Location: Auditorium

An act by artist Ana Hernández based on a statement related to the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. Through a comparison of population percentages, the artist transforms this official document into a gesture of hope, using elements that are characteristic of her artistic practice.

Category: Act
Title: ¿Caara’ ca didxa’?, Are Languages Disappearing?
Participant: Ana Hernández
Date: May 22, 8:30 PM
Location: Sculpture Garden

This activity is part of the Public Program of the exhibition Constellations and Drifts: Latin American Art from the FEMSA Collection.