Forced Secularization and Postmodern Discourses within Contemporary Performance: Weaponizing Multicultural Rhetoric to Ratify Asymmetries among Dance Practitioners

In the context of multicultural and postmodern rhetoric contemporary art festivals, we examine a case study in which Hungarian choreographer Eszter Salamon appropriates Mapuche practices—the kawell tayil choike purrún—in her piece Monument 0.6: Landing (A Ritual Empathy) (2017). We analyze discursive embodied dimensions this borrowing its harmful consequences for indigenous communities. show how values secular institutions legal limitations to protect ritual expressions contribute these dynamics. Adopting an optimistic stance, outline criteria curatorial practices that could prevent further misuses culture.