LEWISBURG — The Bucknell Department of Art and Art History’s Ekard Artist-in-Residence program will present renowned Chilean artist Voluspa Jarpa, who will be presenting an immersive video performance entitled EXTINCTION at 7:20 p.m. Monday, March 25, outside Bertrand Library. The 40-minute performance is free and open to the public.
During her Bucknell residency, Voluspa has conducted research around the Susquehanna River and the Susquehannocks peoples who inhabited the lands in its vicinity and who were extinct during the 17th century. Since 2018, Voluspa has been researching the global phenomenon of the exhibition of people during colonial and universal fairs, where they constituted veritable human zoos associated with the idea of extinction, modernity and progress.
