SASKIA CALDERÓN

Requiem Huao

Title: “Requiem Huao”
Modality: Video-performance
Duration: 3 minutes
Year: 2005
Photograph: Video Stills

It represents a funeral chant by means of a composition of the Amazonian cultures of Ecuador. The ethnic melody is interpreted with lyric voice, and to visualize this cultural shock a dress of industrial manufacture with the face painted and the characteristic hair of a Huaorani woman was used. The play reflects on the upcoming extinction a language, of its musical sounds and apparel, an identity that dies due to the historical processes of westernize.

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