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BoCA Summer School: Songs in the Huni Kuin Cosmovision
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06/07/2024 - 06/07/2024
07/07/2024 - 07/07/2024
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Workshop "Songs in the Huni Kuin Cosmovision" 

In the Huni Kuin worldview, the efficacy of a given medicine, ritual or food is closely associated with the strength of the ‘performer’ chanting different songs while evoking the plants, stories, and specific elements in each use. In this workshop, the collective proposes an immersive experience that relates to the musical culture of its people, thinking of voice and melody as vehicles and instruments for acting in the world, constituting bodies and life well lived. Starting with a theoretical contextualisation of this traditional practice, the group invites participants to take part in the Hampaya ritual, a rite for the initiation of artists to traditional song. In a model adapted for the introduction of this practice to non-indigenous people and people from other communities, the idea is to start with the pepper test, a method for ‘opening up’ the voice, and with the Txaná, a bird that imitates the song of all the other birds in order to help everyone sing, speak, and express their own art.

 

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 03/07/2024, using this form

Registrations will be confirmed in order of arrival.

 

Registrations will be confirmed in order of arrival.

 

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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