Tuesday 10 March at 18:00 (UK time), Natalia Sassu Suarez Ferri, ‘Mapuche Silverware and Decolonial Performance in Neyen Pailamilla’s My Body is a Museum’.

This lecture examines Mi cuerpo es un museo (My Body is a Museum, 2019) by queer Mapuche artist Neyen Pailamilla (formerly Paula Baeza Pailamilla, b. 1988), a performance that reimagines museum displays of Mapuche silverware through embodied intervention. Focusing on the specific objects incorporated into the work, I explore their spiritual and historical meanings, their role in challenging ongoing colonial structures, and the ways in which the performance asserts indigenous agency within spaces traditionally governed by colonial narratives.

Natalia Sassu Suarez Ferri is a Lecturer (education focused) and current Director of Teaching in the School of Art History, University of St Andrews. Her academic research focuses on Latin American modern and contemporary art and particularly on transcontinental links between Latin America and Europe. Recent publications include articles for Tate Papers (https://www.tate.org.uk/research/publications/tate-papers/32/carlos-cruz-diez-physichromies) and Third Text (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09528822.2023.2296207 ). She recently co-edited the volume Transmission and Gender: Women Artists as Teachers in the XXth Century for The German Center for Art History in Paris (DFK) and the University of Heidelberg (https://www.dfk-paris.org/en/publication/transmission-and-gender-3775.html)

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