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BoCA Summer School: Body and Nature
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BoCA Summer School: Corpo e Natureza
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BoCA Summer School: Corpo e Natureza
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Workshop: "Corpo e Natureza" 

in this first workshop, guided by the Amerindian perspective, the collective proposes a practice and reflection on the role of art in the process of strengthening bodies in Huni Kuin society. When children are born, for example, the Huni Kuin paint them with the dye they extract from the jenipapo fruit, allowing the chants to penetrate their skin and strengthen their bodies. This is just one of the many traditional rites of this people, rich in elements that connect worlds. In the workshop Body and Nature, designed for the BoCA Summer School programme, the collective and participants cultivate a non-dualist worldview and contemplate epistemological construction in an Amazonian society. During the two-day programme, each body will take on different conditions: at times an instrument, at times a collective vessel, at others a support for artistic, symbolic and communicative intervention with nature through the discovery of painting. The workshop ends with a ritual performed by Katxa Nawa, involving dance, song and movement, a participatory manifestation that evokes fertility and potency among humans, plants, and animals.

 

Prices:

  • Normal: €50
  • Artists co-operating with the GDA Foundation: €25
  • Registration for the two workshops with Huni Kuin (10% discount applied to the Standard price): €90
     

Target audience: 18+, students, artists, researchers, and people curious about indigenous cosmologies.

Capacity: 18 participants

Registration: Until 01/07/2024, using this form

Registrations will be confirmed in order of arrival.

 

Política de reembolso:

- A inscrição nos workshops da BoCA Summer School não dá direito a reembolso.

- Em caso de desistência, válida até ao dia 27 de junho, os participantes ficam com o valor em crédito para aplicar na inscrição de outro workshop da presente edição da BoCA Summer School.

 

 

Refund policy:

- Registration for BoCA Summer School workshops does not entitle you to a refund.

- In the event of withdrawal, valid until 27 June, participants will be credited with the amount to be used to register for another workshop in the current edition of the BoCA Summer School.

 

 

Production: BoCA
Partnership: GDA Foundation, MAAT - Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology
Support: Directorate-General for the Arts, Lisbon City Council, Millennium BCP Foundation

 

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Accordion

Zenira Neshane Huni Kuin: Zenira Neshane is the daughter of Maria Sabino Huni Kuin and Sabino Ixã Huni Kuin, two important leaders of the Huni Kuin people. From an early age Neshane learnt from her mother about handicrafts, graphics, cooking, and women's knowledge within the tradition of her people. As well as being a teacher and artisan, she is one of the few Huni Kuin women recognised as a ‘pajé’ shaman, as she carries a lot of knowledge about the traditional medicine practices of her people. Neshane is also a forerunner of the Huni Kuin feminist movement, one of the first women from her indigenous land to leave the territory and leading workshops and cultural exchange activities in different states in Brazil and abroad.

Sabino Dua Ixã: Sabino Dua Ixã is a Huni Kuin elder who acts as a political and spiritual leader. He formerly lived and worked in the rubber plantations, actively participated in the struggle for the right to demarcate his land, and studied with great shamans to become one of the greatest masters of the Huni Meka (ceremonial songs) of the Huni Kuin people. Sabino lives with his entire family in one of the most remote villages of the Upper Jordão River, a place where very few consumer goods arrive from the city and where deep communication with the territory is maintained.

Txaná Nixiwaka: Txaná Nixiwaka Huni Kuin is from a younger generation of Txanás, or shaman artists, from the village furthest from the Jordão River. Since childhood, he has dedicated himself to the study of traditional song, painting, and drawings related to the traditions of his people. He is married to one of the granddaughters of Sabino Dua Ixã, of whom he is a pupil, and has been invited by him to leave his village for the first time to represent his community.

Mediation, Research, and Production

Rodrigo Moreiras: Rodrigo Moreiras is a psychologist from PUC-Rio and has a master's degree in Archaeology from the National Museum in Rio de Janeiro. He has been working with the Huni Kuin people for 16 years through projects on indigenous health, financial autonomy, infrastructure, ethno-tourism, and cultural exchange. He is the founder of the Guardiões Huni Kuin collective in Rio de Janeiro and the Guardiões da Floresta Institute, where he acts as scientific director, organises cultural exchange experiences in different countries, and coordinates the Huni Kuin Expedition project. He also works clinically, relating the knowledge of psychology to the knowledge of native peoples in different individual and collective therapeutic processes.

Mariana Carvalho: Mariana Carvalho is a cultural producer and educator with a research degree in indigenous education from the Cândido Mendes University in Rio de Janeiro. She has been working with the Huni Kuin people for 16 years through projects related to indigenous education, cultural exchanges, infrastructure, and financial autonomy. She is the founder of the Guardiões Huni Kuin collective in Rio de Janeiro and of the Guardiões da Floresta Institute, where she serves as vice-president, coordinates the institute's cultural exchange programme, the Huni Kuin Expedition project, and cooperates to improve the infrastructure conditions of the villages in the Jordão river indigenous land.

Consultancy, Mediation and Curatorship

Ana Rocha: Choreographer, curator and performer, Ana Rocha has been mediating in the field of culture and the arts for 23 years. She works in fields of multiplicity and cultural diversity, connecting points of reflection and transition by accompanying and advising institutions, non-profit organisations, artistic collectives, and national and international creators. She has a degree in Visual Arts and Art History and is studying for a PhD in Human Ecology at NOVA University of Lisbon.

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