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April 21 | 7pm - 9pm AST
with Paulina Asencio, Amanda Guzmán, Gabriel Maldonado y Reniel Rodríguez
In A Matter of Possession (Una Cuestión de Posesión), archaeologist Reniel Rodríguez speaks about the Las Piedras collection of Father Nazario, part of which is housed at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, where the objects are classified as fakes even though the museum has never studied them. Building on this video, we will discuss the crisis of storage and preservation of historical material in Puerto Rico, the looting and private collecting of ancestral material, and forms of reclamation and connection through artistic and archival practices.
April 21 | 7pm - 9pm AST
with Paulina Asencio, Amanda Guzmán, Gabriel Maldonado y Reniel Rodríguez
In A Matter of Possession (Una Cuestión de Posesión), archaeologist Reniel Rodríguez speaks about the Las Piedras collection of Father Nazario, part of which is housed at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, where the objects are classified as fakes even though the museum has never studied them. Building on this video, we will discuss the crisis of storage and preservation of historical material in Puerto Rico, the looting and private collecting of ancestral material, and forms of reclamation and connection through artistic and archival practices.