Cosmocoreografias: poéticas e políticas do mover entre artes e territórios indígenas e da arte contemporânea

Abstract

This work is about relationships. It is about the circulation of people, practices, and forms of knowledge between diverse worlds. It is about the relationships of bodies with territories and about diverse concepts of body and territory. It is about the relationship between subjects both human and non-human in transit between distinct modes of producing humanity and the world. It is about the insertion of difference in space; visibility and invisibility; modes of speaking, listening, and silencing; bodies and difference; resistance and struggle. Presence, dance, and song inscribe themselves through the moving body in order to make themselves strong, and to make themselves see and hear. Here, the body in movement is understood as a dispositive in the production of life and relationships. We propose plotting a course from the ritual time-spaces of the Mbya Guarani people to the time-spaces of contemporary art, and the meetings among the people in these time-spaces. Experiences in cultural strengthening projects, art exhibits, artistic projects, and political protests constitute this project s central core. In examining the relations between indigenous and non-indigenous people, it is worth noting that the former articulate strategies for producing enunciation of themselves and their effective actions in the world toward the continuity of the production of humanity, of the world, and of difference. On the other hand, it is also worth noting how the interests of artists and curators who approach these indigenous modes of production and thought are oriented by the search for other paradigms of thought, life, and relation to the world when faced with the collapse of the paradigm of Western modernity. Beginning from these encounters, we can approach art in its potential for articulating other possible relationships with existence and intervention in the world. Art and politics articulate themselves as capacities for redistributing sensorial relations and for acting in the world. Cosmochoreography emerges as a concept that evokes the inscription of the flows and movements of a diversity of humans and non-humans who inhabit the world and affect one another. This concept takes on a political meaning to the extent that movements written on bodies in the world reveal modes of resistance, insistence, and the struggle for life.