ABSTRACT
Drawing on experiences from practice-based curatorship, this chapter discusses the role of museography and performativity in two exhibitions installed at the Chilean Museum of Pre-Columbian Art. Both exhibitions mix new media, video, sound, mapping and photogrammetry (drone technology) to highlight aspects of local people and heritage through forms of vestiges and ancient rock art in the Atacama desert. The exhibitions also show and discuss the living situations and extreme conditions of the desert faced by people native to the north of Chile, including challenges related to the disappearance of natural resources. The native peoples are part of the country’s living heritage and should be preserved as part of a complex history of native people and miscegenation. The two projects explore the use of new technologies to transmit the difficult content that these two cases represent. Hence, the chapter discusses the role of new technologies in making invisible (pre)historical heritage visible and relevant as an active part of contemporary everyday lives of native peoples in Latin America.
