Quintinada Muralista: Reading and Art Workshops on "Camino y Ruptura": A Graphic History of Indigenous Legal Practices

The "Quintinada Muralista" workshops are a unique blend of reading and painting activities set in indigenous territories in Cauca and Valle del Cauca. These workshops mark the culmination of a transmedia narrative from the doctoral thesis, "Citizenship, Justice, and Indigeneity: A History of Indigenous Legal Practices in Cauca, 1880-1938" written by Karla Escobar.

Our primary goal is to introduce and discuss the graphic history book "Camino y Ruptura: A Graphic History of Indigenous Legal Practices in Cauca, Colombia" published by Universidad de los Andes (Colombia) and financed by the mpilhlt.

The workshops aim to stimulate new insights into legal practices in the region through oral legal history and art. Each workshop will be structured in two parts: the first part focuses on reading, discussing, and creatively engaging with the comic to craft new narratives. The second part involves crafting a revised version of the history by integrating discussions from the comic and local stories into murals.

Given the symbolic significance of murals to the indigenous communities, we've chosen mural art as our medium. To ensure the longevity and mobility of these artworks, we will create them on large-format canvases that can be rotated and displayed across different areas of the territory.

These workshops serve as a platform to test the premise of the Transmedia HistoryTelling project initiated in 2020: to enrich and diversify historical narratives by incorporating new methodologies, methods, and diverse voices in discussions about the significance of history, particularly legal history, for contemporary populations.

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