Event Details
Date & Time:
Thu January 28, 2027
3:30 PM-4:30 PM
Audience:
Open to the public
Details:
Who gets to map a place, and what histories do those maps preserve or erase?
The lithograph Tiguex (2025) memorializes a musical performance by Diné composer and artist Raven Chacon. Part map and part music score, it marks various sites across Albuquerque, New Mexico, where musicians performed each of its twenty experimental compositions. The score-map guides movement through the city, recalling the history of mapping and colonial exploration of the central Rio Grande valley. But unlike those expeditions , this performance did not seek to discover or conquer territory. Instead, it functioned as a procession honoring and moving through places already rich with history. Join Emmanuel Ramos-Barajas (2026-27 Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellow) for a gallery talk on how Tiguex uses music, performance, and movement to connect Albuquerque’s landscapes, histories, and listeners.
About the Speaker:
Emmanuel Ramos-Barajas (he/him) is a doctoral candidate in Screen Cultures at Northwestern University. His research traces lineages between visual technologies—from nineteenth-century painting and print culture to twentieth-century cinema—examining how cultural production across Mexico and the United States has shaped our understanding of national identifications, placemaking, and history.
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