Bearing in mind that photographs of indigenous peoples towards the end of the nineteenth century and throughout the twentieth were taken in the context of colonial relations, Geraldine Lublin and Mariela Eva Rodriguez co-organised another series of workshops, within the framework of an intervention project funded by the British Academy and the Leverhulme Trust. The aim of the project called Settler Colonialism in Patagonia: Theorising through Experience was to reflect on the particular type of colonialism that operated in Patagonia, the consequences of which continue to this day.
One of those workshops was held in the territory of the Tehuelche Camusu Aike Community, where those who had been part of the original co-design process for this app presented ORÍGENES to an audience of almost one hundred people. A second workshop, this time in the town of Caleta Olivia, lasted two days and was attended by members of various indigenous communities from the provinces of Santa Cruz and Chubut, having travelled for the Pewmagen festival organised by the Mapuche-Tehuelche Newen Mapu community. Other workshops and presentations followed: in the Board of Directors' Hall of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Buenos Aires, by Viviana Bull Macías and Antonio Perich; on the Rio Grande Campus of the National University of Tierra del Fuego, led by anthropologists Celina San Martín, Marcela Alaniz, Ana Cecilia Gerrard and Mariela Eva Rodríguez, and Selk'nam researcher Miguel Pantoja; on the National University of Tierra del Fuego's Ushuaia campus, coordinated by the former three; in the town of Gobernador Gregores (Santa Cruz Province) with Celina San Martín; and finally at the Martín Gusinde Museum of Puerto Williams (Navarino Island, Chile), coordinated by the latter, with the support of the Director of the Museum Alberto Serrano and the participation of members of the Yagan Bahía Mejillones Community.
For more details about each of these workshops, see here.
