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Taquile – A selfportrait
Indeginous peruvians embraces the digital age and creates an
unusual self-portrait.
Exhibition in Rundetaarn 28th October to 26th
November 2006
Taquile
is an island (6km2), located in the Titicaca Lake
in the Andes Mountains in Peru. In 2005 its textile crafts
was proclaimed Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible
Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO. It is also an integrated
part of the second biggest tourist attraction of Peru (the
Titicaca area). In 2005 the island was visited by 75,000
tourists, the majority of the visits in the form of a 2-hour
lunch time stay, organised and guided by people from the
mainland. In this current organisation, the Taquileños play
the role as passive extras in the tourist experience and in
the thousands of photos the tourists take of them.
The project Annegrete Mølhave
and Niels Ole Sørensen organised on the island in 2005 gave
the Quechua speaking Indians the opportunity to present
themselves through digital photography. The project and the
resulting exhibition added a creative dimension to a
development of the community the Taquileños had recently
started. This development is aimed at increasing the
society’s own organisation of tourism and promoting
responsible tourism on the island. It is happening in
co-operation with a Danish financed project run by an
alliance of three NGOs, Axis, Ibis and DIB.
Taquile
– A self-portrait is sponsored by:
Iberia
Allianceprojektet på Taquile (Axis,
Ibis, DIB)
Den peruvianske ambassade i
Stockholm
PromPeru
Augustinus
Fonden
Grosserer L.F. Foghts Fond
Center for Kultur og Udvikling
(CKU)
The exhibit is sponsored by:
Nationalbankens Anniversary Grant
Augustinus Foundation
L.F. Foghts Foundation
Frimodt-Heineke Foundation
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