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Ziel Karapotó
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ancestral indigenous
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the indigenous ancestry it is active in the present, arrowed to the future, in the past and in the perennial movement of the cosmic serpent. 

the transit between the times makes the movement of the indigenous images create like woven fabrics with which our stories are transmitted in the bodies, gestures, sounds, visions and invisible threads on earth and sky.

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Pepyaká Krikati
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"We use annatto for body painting, as well as genipap paint, which has its dark bluish texture. The annatto is red, it is essential and cannot be missed on days of play and cultural festivals in the village."

 
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"With genipap paintings representing Gavião, Amjijahere is getting ready to dance.
Kwai Preparation  to dance in front of the singer in the courtyard, Povo Gavião Aldeia Printipar - PA/Brasil.
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"Like all other types of tools such as weapons need to be calibrated, the bow is also like that, there's a whole step for that, first get a good strong string and then put it on the end of the bow and then test it.
Young Krikati preparing his bow at the banana tree party in the village of Poocatiji/Krikati - MA/Brazil.
"A utopia for Brazil. When I think about what Brazil would be like, if it weren't for these bad things that have been happening in our territories? And this is not new, it goes back many years since the invasion of Brazil to the present day.
If our desires and dreams were fulfilled in relation to our struggle of the indigenous movement, for one day we could live happily in our villages in our territories, it would be more or less like that in my speech."

 

Pepyaka Krikati

@pepyaka_krikati

Indigenous Communicator
Krikati People - Macro Linguistic Branch Jê Maranhão/Brazil
Photoethnography

Duhisió
@vivi_carneiroo

Ye'pa mahsã (Tukano)
He was born in the community called Duraka Kapuamu, which is located in the municipality of São Gabriel da Cachoeira, in the northwest of Amazonas, in the northern region of the country. 
Currently lives in a permanent protection area called Itaporã, which is located in Suzano-SP.

She is a storyteller, stylist, costume designer, seamstress, builder, poet, farmer, artisan, plastic artist, visual artist and indigenous rights activist.

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Ziel Karapotó
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Ziel Karapotó
@zielkarapoto

Karapotó Nation
Visual multimedia artist, filmmaker, actor and cultural producer, graduated from the Federal University of Pernambuco – UFPE.

He believes in the strength of his ancestry and the power of his body as an anti-colonial discursive tool.

The short film 'The verb became flesh, 2019', was his first film. In 2020,  was awarded the prize "Another Sky",  an award organized by the network of universities in Bahia (UFBA, UNEB, UFRB), Pará (UNIFESSPA), England (Sussex), with support from Fapex, together with the indigenous movement, through APOINME. 

In 2021, it was one of the  curators of Festival Alagoanes: 100 years of audiovisual in Alagoas and  jury of the competitive show of the Black Audiovisual Week in Recife. Even in 2021,  was one of the authors, along with other indigenous filmmakers, of the special "Falas da Terra", a project promoted by TV Globo Rio de Janeiro. He participated in the art direction of the audiovisual project "Aracá" by Abiniel Nascimento and is finalizing the experimental doc Paola as co-director.

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o verbo se fez carne

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bear fruit. Part of the Retomada series, part of the 34th Bienal de São Paulo.
Performance - Kunstraum, Innsbruck, 07.2021

Performance - Kunstraum, Innsbruck, 07.2021

Uýra
@uyrasodoma

"The tree that walks"

Artist
Biologist and Educator

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LIVING MONUMENT

Performance to the public, recorded in photography.

Guatemala City's Central Square

October 2021

Living Monument is presented at the Kaji Tulam Memory House in Guatemala as part of the 2021 Resistance Biennial with the support of Colectivo La Revuelta.

@labienalenresistencia

@larevuelta.arte

Marilyn Boror Bor

@marilynboror

Maya-Kaqchikel indigenous

Visual Artist 

Researcher in Contemporary Art

Who wakes up early
Wake up with the birds.
Wake up singing.
Singing for one more day
Sung for life...

The boss says that painting is forbidden here,
That it's been a while since no one has heard

of an artist, cut off the hands of those who

paint,

why do they wake people up like the bird.

And have you sang today?
Have you painted today?
Did you wake up today?
There's still time,
It's not banned yet.

Yaku Urku
Pajarito

Photographic record of ephemera painting with leaves in a backyard around, 2021
Photographic record of intervention in the landscape with Lambe-Lambe, Juazeiro do Norte, CE/Brazil, 2021
"Abya Yala (Living Land or Land that blooms) is what our ancestors called this territory that would be today from Tierra del Fuego in Argentina to Nunavut in Canada.

The indigenous peoples are native to these lands, we have always been here.

In these last few days there has been another attack on our lives and our way of living in Brazil.

In an ethnocidal country, basic rights are a privilege and to obtain it is a constant, never-ending struggle.

Do you still wonder why the constitution does not represent us?

In none of the countries that make up the Abya Yala (America) are indigenous peoples respected, none of their constitutions like traditional peoples.

All the people in these lands have indigenous blood, some in their veins, others in their hands."
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Mural of the Abya Yala Ancestral Knowledge Encounter.First meeting of indigenous children and young people drawing and lambistas from the Krikati Ma/Brazil people, 2020

 
in partnership with @pepyaka_krikati   @vanessadepaula   @toda_natural  @nmariakaroline  @yas.sous  

Yaku Runa Simi (Quechua)

@_condorandino


* Abya Yala vanishing point

.Researcher on the go

. multilingual artist
.musician
.Muralist
.Potter
.Popular communicator

Photographic record of Amulet carved in avocado seed Andean ancestral art
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"Xejaryi'i kuery (Elders).

Young people had the opportunity to learn how to extract honey.
Returned with these from Pindo Poty, which is located in Bairro Lami in Porto Alegre, it is a great opportunity for young people to learn from the elders about the Mbya Guarani culture."

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Photographic records of the Levante Acampamento Terra Livre, Brasília, DF/Brazil, 2021

Richard Wera Mirim

@richard_wera_mirim

Guarani Mbya indigenous 
Photographer

indigenous communicator

coordinator of  @midiaguaranimbya

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Video from the series @onaolugar

The project is a realization of Coletivo O Não-Lugar with the Program for Valuing Cultural Initiatives in the Municipality of São Paulo - VAI 2020.

TIME

Performance recorded in photography and documentary film of the performance.

Center of São Paulo capital/Brazil

2019

Ray Pará Poty
@curedje

ᴇʟᴜ/ᴇʟᴀ (ɴαo вιɴαrιe) ⚧
ɴᴀᴛɪᴠᴇ • ғᴏᴛóɢʀᴀғᴇ • ᴀɴᴛɪᴄᴏʟᴏɴɪᴀʟ!
@florestaperiferica

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"Peju Rekó A'e Kwaracy
Tata Endy eté M'ba'é katu
Nhamandu Tenondé
Pendu pendu Qua'á Txeretarã Kwery, Nhande kwery
M'baerete katu Nhande Nhe'ē
Djagwatá Djoupiwe pave'i"
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Video from the series @onaolugar

The project is a realization of Coletivo O Não-Lugar with the Program for Valuing Cultural Initiatives in the Municipality of São Paulo - VAI 2020.

Tataendy Kaamutá Tupinambá
@mbodjape

Tataendy Eté Ka'amytá Tupinambá
Pindoreta/Abya Yala
Non Binary
/Anti-Colonial\
SP / PA - BA
Traditional Graphics
Designer, Multiartist

"As a native of the place once inhabited by the Ka'aeté, I (re)emerge as an indigenous person, while the Ka'aeté find their expression and life in me. But who were these fantastic people?
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"Ka'aeté in resurgence. Tupi language learner, transvestite, currently living in São Paulo.  function is to "play Tupi on the internet".
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poema 1

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Ellen Lima
@aellenlima

Researcher, experimenter and poet.
To be a walker, a scribe and an apprentice.
Wassu citizen and the world
'ytu r-aîyra'

"Both a love song and a battle cry of defiance against colonialism, "Under Your Always Light" is a whispered declaration of love for the land and sets the stage for a hypnotic rhythm of sinuous sounds."

Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg
Music, poet, writer and storyteller Anishinaabe, indigenous people of the territory located in the region of present-day Ontario/Canada.

https://www.leannesimpson.ca
https://leannesimpson.bandcamp.com
https://soundcloud.com/betasamosake

Isaak Pataxo
Akuã MC
@isaak.pataxo

Hábkahay niognãga
KAhab Akatê upã ībá
"That is done for love
Is Always Beyond Good and Evil"

 

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Renovation
Ethereal
Nó de peia
Cosme and Damião
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Sant'Ana hydrangea
@hortencia_s

Historian, Visual Artist and Teacher
Caatinga Luzense



"Weaving with threads of memories so that they remain alive as a mirror/reflection for the resumption and reconstruction of identities, the territory is the sustenance of these narratives that gradually fill in the gaps of silencing and forgetting."

Caatinga Luzense.
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"Little bird bringing connection and ancestral pride through painting and music"
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"Fictionalizing habitable worlds, as the audiovisual does, is also present in the flow of waters and roots that run through art, as well as arrows and hybrid beings"

Thaysa Aussuba

@aussuba

"I am an educator, graduating in Arts at UFPE, willing to the collective practice of self-love connected to ancestral social, racial and economic justice, with experience in institutions such as SESC, João Pernambuco Municipal School of Arts and City Hall of Recite. I am 32 years old and have experience in carrying out Aldir Blanc projects, in addition to planning and carrying out more than 50 art, creative economy and sustainability workshops. I seek to exercise the potential for affective and social transformation through the collective construction of knowledge and expressiveness. I'm a painter and I use different supports and pigments (I mainly use watercolor and acrylic paint techniques), I'm a performer and also an illustrator of movie posters and urban art (lambe-lambe). Currently, I also dedicate myself to a research of scientific innovation (PIBIC-UFPE) mapping collections and educational curatorship of favelas. I am a guest indigenous artist of the CAIN Extension Group (Indigenous Science and Art in the Northeast) and I participate in the TROVOA collective (national articulation of racialized artists, curators and educators)."

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Gabriela Correia Cardoso
@_amanara

She is a self-taught artist who seeks to express through illustrations the thoughts and feelings that permeate her ancestral resurgence journey. Inspired by human frailty, she is fond of experimentation without rules and emotional art, without neglecting the intrinsically political factor of artistic creation.

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Tassia Mila (gatopretopulando)

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@tassia_mila

"I am a sound composer and visual artist, a weaver - I make hand-knitted garments - and an experimental artist with the body, voice and other media, supporting transmission lines for the transit of sounds, images, voices, music and atmospheres.

I compose sound and visual books, sonic tales, imaginations, vignettes, video art, experimental films; 

I research the practice of experimental cinema and the survival of images, their presence, appearances, persistence and movement in the fabric of time, and beyond.

I was born and raised in Jequié-Bahia. My family comes from the region of the city of Maracás, in Bahia, and has Kiriri-Tupinambá indigenous peoples origin.

I currently live in São Paulo capital and I'm studying Fine Arts at USP-University of São Paulo"

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Douglas Miles
@dmiles1_apache

Artist
designer
Photographer
Muralist
Apache in the territory of US

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The selfie of the “other” [self-portrait]

"The image as a resistance tool is, above all, its own resistance to time and memory. It provides the opportunity to know the other and oneself through the time captured by the body-camera. Knowing the power that the image has , the person wants to show himself based on how he feels represented."

(the indigenous gaze that crosses the lens, 2019)

Stories Art

E d g a r  Kanayko
@edgarkanayko
@kanayko_art

Xakriabá indigenous
"Rowaste mba to īnrõwa
 
One foot in the village, another in the world"

Photographer
visual artist

 

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Daniel Munduruku
@danielmundurukuoficial

Indigenous Writer
Story teller
PhD in Linguistics
55 Books
2 Jabuti Awards
CBL 2 Order of Cultural Merit - MInc UNESCO Prize ABL Award

Vitor Tuxá
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Ezequiel Vitor Tuxá
@vitor.tuxa

Tuxá Kiniopará Indigenous 
LGBTQIAP+ | Him his
Graduating in Psychology - UFBA
Photography and Digital Collage
Project @__nanike app.linktree.com.br/ezequielvitortuxa

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