Exhibitions & Pavilions
Tours & Information: The central exhibition of the 56th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale 2015, and selected national pavilions and collateral exhibitions.
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Sound Installation, 2014
Ethnic group: Selk'nam or Onas
Language: Selk'nam (Ona)
Speaker: Lola Kiepja
Location: Tierra del Fuego
Population: 0
Level of extinction: total (except for people of mixed race)
The Selk'nam or Onas (name of language Yagán) were an Amerindian people, located in the north of the Greater island of Tierra del Fuego, in the extreme south of the American continent. They were originally pastoral nomads, hunters and gatherers.
Today there are only the descendants of mixed-race peoples who, after a process of transculturation have entirely lost their original culture.
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© Photo: Martin Gusinde, Anthropos Institut
Tours & Information: The central exhibition of the 56th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale 2015, and selected national pavilions and collateral exhibitions.