Skin & Ink: An Introduction to Indigenous Tattooing

In this class, Dr. Krutak will share part of his journey to understand how tattoos “make” the people who wear them, part of which he chronicled in his Discovery Channel series Tattoo Hunter, as well as Netflix’s Explained, Instagram TV’s Patterns of Life, and the forthcoming feature documentary Treasure of the Rice Terraces, featuring the world’soldest tattoo artist–107-year-old Kalinga master Apo Whang-Od Oggay of the northern Philippines.

In a richly illustrated presentation based on his field research and the accounts of explorers, historians, and anthropologists, he will speak about tattoos around the world dating from 3000 BCE to the present. He will explore ancient and more recent tattooing traditions and reveal how tattoos exposed individual desires and fears, cultural values, spirituality, and ancestral ties that were written on the body in ink.

by: Dr. Lars Krutak

Slot: 14 / Room 03 : Sat. 7pm-8:30pm / Sa. 19:00-20:30 Uhr