Territories of effusion

Kurüche Festival in Wallmapu

Abstract

This text is shown as a bodily processed memory, felt in the need to promote the relationship between historically racialized bodies, thus giving rise to an effusion of multiverse, actively enunciative, and creatively expressive corporealities that convene the Mapuche and Afro-descendant performing arts festival called “Kurüche,” which has been held three times in La Araucanía, in southern Chile, which is the ancestral territory of the Mapuche people. This calls for visibility, multi-expression, and reflection on blackness, the Mapuche, and the Kurüche as a Mapuche-Afro existence that finds a place of manifestation in this instance, constituting a space of significant and precedent-setting effusion around these corporealities and their scenic and political potentialities.