American Indian Ritual Object Repatriation Foundation

Body Maps III
This performance piece took place at the Santa Fe Art Institute on August 16, 2007. Visual Artist, Leland Chapin and Dancer, Rulan Tangen.
This multi media event integrated live painting, dance, musical soundscapes, and film. Working with topics such as indigenous displacement, threats to traditional homelands, and globalization, the Body Maps III installation and performance took visitors on a journey around the world. Stemming from their experiences in Belize, El Salvador, Panama, Argentina, Mexico, & North American Indian reservations, Chapin and Tangen created artwork celebrating the courage of those peoples struggling to defend their traditional lands, while honoring the memory of those who have lost their lands and their way of life.