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Global Gallery: “The Hidden Life of Things: Andean and Amazonian Cultural Artifacts and the Stories They Tell”

The Hidden Life of Things: Andean and Amazonian Cultural Artifacts and the Stories They Tell
September 1 - October 31, 2016
12:00AM - 12:00AM
Global Gallery, Hagerty Hall Lobby

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Add to Calendar 2016-09-01 00:00:00 2016-10-31 00:00:00 Global Gallery: “The Hidden Life of Things: Andean and Amazonian Cultural Artifacts and the Stories They Tell” An interactive exhibit, “The Hidden Life of Things: Andean and Amazonian Cultural Artifacts and the Stories They Tell” is on view in the Global Gallery September 1-October 31stThe Andes and Amazonia have a long history of oral traditions. The absence of written documents has led some scholars and officials to characterize cultures in this region as a “people without history.”  This exhibit presents the perspective that indigenous communities are by no means deficient in historical and cultural texts; that narratives of their experiences are richly inscribed in tactile surfaces and performance traditions rather than on paper. The exhibit challenges us to think critically about the limitations of Western literary canons that privilege written text and visual mediums, and about the advantages of acknowledging and including non-Western literacies in our classrooms and in our research.This exhibit includes interactive features for viewers with smartphones with a QR code reader app.There will be an opening reception for the Global Gallery exhibit. It will be held in the Global Gallery space on the 1st floor of Hagerty Hall on September 21st at 4:00 p.m. Michelle Wibbelsman, Assistant Professor of Latin American Indigenous Cultures, Ethnographic and Ethnomusicological Studies, Department of Spanish and Portuguese; Diego Arellano, Collection Curator, Undergraduate Arts Management Major and History of Art and Theatre Minor, The Lawrence and Isabel Barnett Center for Integrated Arts and Enterprise; Abhijit Varde, Global Gallery Curator, Center for Languages Literatures and Cultures & ASC Tech. Global Gallery, Hagerty Hall Lobby Center for Languages, Literatures and Cultures cllc@osu.edu America/New_York public

An interactive exhibit, “The Hidden Life of Things: Andean and Amazonian Cultural Artifacts and the Stories They Tell” is on view in the Global Gallery September 1-October 31st

The Andes and Amazonia have a long history of oral traditions. The absence of written documents has led some scholars and officials to characterize cultures in this region as a “people without history.”  This exhibit presents the perspective that indigenous communities are by no means deficient in historical and cultural texts; that narratives of their experiences are richly inscribed in tactile surfaces and performance traditions rather than on paper. The exhibit challenges us to think critically about the limitations of Western literary canons that privilege written text and visual mediums, and about the advantages of acknowledging and including non-Western literacies in our classrooms and in our research.

This exhibit includes interactive features for viewers with smartphones with a QR code reader app.

There will be an opening reception for the Global Gallery exhibit. It will be held in the Global Gallery space on the 1st floor of Hagerty Hall on September 21st at 4:00 p.m

Michelle Wibbelsman, Assistant Professor of Latin American Indigenous Cultures, Ethnographic and Ethnomusicological Studies, Department of Spanish and Portuguese; Diego Arellano, Collection Curator, Undergraduate Arts Management Major and History of Art and Theatre Minor, The Lawrence and Isabel Barnett Center for Integrated Arts and Enterprise; Abhijit Varde, Global Gallery Curator, Center for Languages Literatures and Cultures & ASC Tech.

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