Indigenous Histories
11.9.2021
TUESDAY
11 am-4:30 pm
ONLINE
This is the fourth seminar in a long-term project that anticipates MASP's 2023 program of exhibitions, lectures, workshops, publications, and courses dedicated to Indigenous Histories. The first seminar took place in June 2017, with participants including Ailton Krenak, Aristóteles Barcelos Neto, Claudia Andujar, Davi Kopenawa, Edson Kayapó, Els Lagrou, Joseca Yanomami, Luis Donisete Grupioni Benzi, Luis Elvira Belaunde, Lux Vidal, Milton Guran, Pedro de Niemeyer Cesarino, and Sandra Benites. The second, which took place in July 2019, included Brook Andrew, Daiara Tukano, Denilson Baniwa, Franchesca Cubillo, Heather Ahtone, Moara Brasil, Nigel Borell, Sandra Benites, Sarah Ligner, Scott Manning Stevens, and Ticio Escobar. Speakers in the third seminar, in July 2020, included Ariel Kuaray Ortega, Carlos Fausto, Rosaura Andazabal, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Sebastián Calfuqueo Aliste, and Sandra Gamarra.
These seminars have reintroduced indigenous cultures to the museum. Throughout its history, MASP has organized numerous exhibitions with objects and documents from indigenous communities in Brazilian territory: Exposição de arte indígena [Exhibition of Indigenous Art] (1949), Alguns índios [Some Indigenous People] (1983), Arte karajá [Karajá Art] (1984), Índios yanomami [Yanomami Indigenous people] (1985), and Arte indígena kaxinawa [Kaxinawa Indigenous Art] (1987).
Bringing together theorists and practitioners from different locations, situations, and perspectives, this seminar aims to showcase and discuss the richness and complexity of indigenous materials and immaterial cultures, their philosophies, cosmologies, and struggles, as well as the challenges and possibilities of working with these fields, particularly in the museum context.
ORGANIZATION
Adriano Pedrosa, Artistic Director, MASP, André Mesquita, Curator, MASP, David Ribeiro, Curatorial Assistant, MASP, Guilherme Giufrida, Assistant Curator, MASP, Lilia Schwarcz, Adjunt Curator of Histories, MASP, and Sandra Benites, Adjunt Curator of Brazilian Art, MASP.
LIVE STREAMING
The seminar will be streamed online, for free, on MASP's YouTube page, with translation in Brazilian sign language.
CERTIFICATE
In order to obtain a certificate of participation, please register in the link made available during the seminar.
FOLDER
Click here to download.
These seminars have reintroduced indigenous cultures to the museum. Throughout its history, MASP has organized numerous exhibitions with objects and documents from indigenous communities in Brazilian territory: Exposição de arte indígena [Exhibition of Indigenous Art] (1949), Alguns índios [Some Indigenous People] (1983), Arte karajá [Karajá Art] (1984), Índios yanomami [Yanomami Indigenous people] (1985), and Arte indígena kaxinawa [Kaxinawa Indigenous Art] (1987).
Bringing together theorists and practitioners from different locations, situations, and perspectives, this seminar aims to showcase and discuss the richness and complexity of indigenous materials and immaterial cultures, their philosophies, cosmologies, and struggles, as well as the challenges and possibilities of working with these fields, particularly in the museum context.
ORGANIZATION
Adriano Pedrosa, Artistic Director, MASP, André Mesquita, Curator, MASP, David Ribeiro, Curatorial Assistant, MASP, Guilherme Giufrida, Assistant Curator, MASP, Lilia Schwarcz, Adjunt Curator of Histories, MASP, and Sandra Benites, Adjunt Curator of Brazilian Art, MASP.
LIVE STREAMING
The seminar will be streamed online, for free, on MASP's YouTube page, with translation in Brazilian sign language.
CERTIFICATE
In order to obtain a certificate of participation, please register in the link made available during the seminar.
FOLDER
Click here to download.
11 am-11:10 am
Introduction
Adriano Pedrosa, Artistic Director, MASP
11:10 am-1 pm
DIRCE JORGE KAINGANG
Culture, Spirituality, and Resistance
Dirce Jorge Kaingang will speak about the aspects of Kaingang spirituality and culture that underpin their ways of being and thinking, as well as their forms of resistance. In addition, she will address how museums should consider the question of the sacred when these cultures are the subject matter.
GREG HILL
Contemplating the Global Indigenous Creative Landscape: Looking Back to Tomorrow
Drawing on some examples of works from the National Gallery of Canada’s first exhibitions of contemporary international Indigenous art, Hill will speak on themes present in the works and curatorial strategies that amplify these ideas.
SUZENALSON KANINDÉ
Indigenous Museums, Native Museologies, and Networks of Memory
This presentation aims to show how indigenous peoples in Brazil have been appropriating the museum as a tool to strengthen their fights for their land and building relationships through creating networks of memory.
NUNO PORTO
Museums, Indigenous communities, Truth, and Reconciliation
At a time when the Museum of Anthropology at UBC is reimagining itself as a pioneer of practices of truth and museological reconciliation, Nuno Porto intends to explore ways to activate the museum towards social justice.
Mediation
David Ribeiro
Curatorial assistant, mediation and public programs, MASP
2:30 pm-4:30 pm
LIÇA PATAXOOP
Pataxoop Learning: Nature, Orality, and Writing Through Images
Dona Liça will speak about her study and learning with the land, and about her life values, customs and traditional knowledge, which she passes on to students and other members of the community through orality and writing, which is constructed through images called Tehêy.
MEGAN TAMATI-QUENNELL
A seat at the table
This talk looks at the Women of Maori modernism, during the 1930s through to the mid-1970s. Thinking about what it was to be a Māori woman artist at this time in New Zealand, Megan addresses the silencing of Indigeneity and women in the established narratives of modernism.
LUIZ ELOY TERENA
Indigenous Peoples, Judicialization, and Public Policies: Contextualizing ADPF 709 in the STF and in Confronting the Pandemic
The Covid-19 pandemic exposed structural problems concerning indigenous peoples in Brazil. Social demands relating to land protection, indigenous healthcare, and the creation of public indemnity policies have ended up in the judiciary system. This talk will analyze this context, especially since ADPF 709 in the STF (Supreme Federal Court).
PABLO JOSÉ RAMÍREZ
Ancestrality and the Predicament of the Contemporary
This talk sets forth an introduction to indigenous artistic practices articulated from places of occlusion, observing aesthetic articulations that disrupt the capitalization of difference and the semantic abduction of non-Western cultures.
Mediation
Guilherme Giufrida
Assistant curator, MASP
Introduction
Adriano Pedrosa, Artistic Director, MASP
11:10 am-1 pm
DIRCE JORGE KAINGANG
Culture, Spirituality, and Resistance
Dirce Jorge Kaingang will speak about the aspects of Kaingang spirituality and culture that underpin their ways of being and thinking, as well as their forms of resistance. In addition, she will address how museums should consider the question of the sacred when these cultures are the subject matter.
GREG HILL
Contemplating the Global Indigenous Creative Landscape: Looking Back to Tomorrow
Drawing on some examples of works from the National Gallery of Canada’s first exhibitions of contemporary international Indigenous art, Hill will speak on themes present in the works and curatorial strategies that amplify these ideas.
SUZENALSON KANINDÉ
Indigenous Museums, Native Museologies, and Networks of Memory
This presentation aims to show how indigenous peoples in Brazil have been appropriating the museum as a tool to strengthen their fights for their land and building relationships through creating networks of memory.
NUNO PORTO
Museums, Indigenous communities, Truth, and Reconciliation
At a time when the Museum of Anthropology at UBC is reimagining itself as a pioneer of practices of truth and museological reconciliation, Nuno Porto intends to explore ways to activate the museum towards social justice.
Mediation
David Ribeiro
Curatorial assistant, mediation and public programs, MASP
2:30 pm-4:30 pm
LIÇA PATAXOOP
Pataxoop Learning: Nature, Orality, and Writing Through Images
Dona Liça will speak about her study and learning with the land, and about her life values, customs and traditional knowledge, which she passes on to students and other members of the community through orality and writing, which is constructed through images called Tehêy.
MEGAN TAMATI-QUENNELL
A seat at the table
This talk looks at the Women of Maori modernism, during the 1930s through to the mid-1970s. Thinking about what it was to be a Māori woman artist at this time in New Zealand, Megan addresses the silencing of Indigeneity and women in the established narratives of modernism.
LUIZ ELOY TERENA
Indigenous Peoples, Judicialization, and Public Policies: Contextualizing ADPF 709 in the STF and in Confronting the Pandemic
The Covid-19 pandemic exposed structural problems concerning indigenous peoples in Brazil. Social demands relating to land protection, indigenous healthcare, and the creation of public indemnity policies have ended up in the judiciary system. This talk will analyze this context, especially since ADPF 709 in the STF (Supreme Federal Court).
PABLO JOSÉ RAMÍREZ
Ancestrality and the Predicament of the Contemporary
This talk sets forth an introduction to indigenous artistic practices articulated from places of occlusion, observing aesthetic articulations that disrupt the capitalization of difference and the semantic abduction of non-Western cultures.
Mediation
Guilherme Giufrida
Assistant curator, MASP
DIRCE JORGE KAINGANG
Dirce Jorge is a kuiã (spiritual leader) Kaingang and manager and curator of the Museu Worikg, located in her village at Terra Indígena Vanuíre [Vanuíre Indigenous Territory].
GREG HILL
National Gallery of Canada’s inaugural Audain Chair and Senior Curator of Indigenous Art. He is a Kanyen’kehaka (Mohawk) member of the Six Nations of the Grand River, and an artist.
LIÇA PATAXOOP
Liça Pataxoop lives in the indigenous village Muã Mimatxi, in the Itapecerica municipality (Minas Gerais), and belongs to the Pataxoop people. She teaches through this traditional knowledge.
LUIZ ELOY TERENA
Indigenous lawyer, Terena has a PhD in social anthropology from the Museu Nacional (UFRJ) and a post-doctorate in anthropology from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris.
MEGAN TAMATI-QUENNELL
Te Āti Awa, Ngāti Mutunga and Ngāi Tahu, Kāti Māmoe and Waitaha Māori descent. Curator Modern & contemporary Maori & Indigenous art at Te Papa and Associate Indigenous Curator, Contemporary Art Kairauhī Taketake Toi Onāianei at the Govett Brewster Art Gallery in New Plymouth.
NUNO PORTO
Anthropologist, with research developed in Portugal, Cape Verde, Angola, and Brazil. Curator, Africa and South America, at the Museum of Anthropology at UBC.
PABLO JOSÉ RAMÍREZ
Curator, art writer and cultural theorist. Adjunct Curator of First Nations and Indigenous Art at Tate.
SUZENALSON KANINDÉ
Vice Cacique, indigenous to the Kanindé people from Ceará state, and a Master's student in interdisciplinary humanities at the UNILAB. Coordinator of the Museu Indígena Kanindé.
Dirce Jorge is a kuiã (spiritual leader) Kaingang and manager and curator of the Museu Worikg, located in her village at Terra Indígena Vanuíre [Vanuíre Indigenous Territory].
GREG HILL
National Gallery of Canada’s inaugural Audain Chair and Senior Curator of Indigenous Art. He is a Kanyen’kehaka (Mohawk) member of the Six Nations of the Grand River, and an artist.
LIÇA PATAXOOP
Liça Pataxoop lives in the indigenous village Muã Mimatxi, in the Itapecerica municipality (Minas Gerais), and belongs to the Pataxoop people. She teaches through this traditional knowledge.
LUIZ ELOY TERENA
Indigenous lawyer, Terena has a PhD in social anthropology from the Museu Nacional (UFRJ) and a post-doctorate in anthropology from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris.
MEGAN TAMATI-QUENNELL
Te Āti Awa, Ngāti Mutunga and Ngāi Tahu, Kāti Māmoe and Waitaha Māori descent. Curator Modern & contemporary Maori & Indigenous art at Te Papa and Associate Indigenous Curator, Contemporary Art Kairauhī Taketake Toi Onāianei at the Govett Brewster Art Gallery in New Plymouth.
NUNO PORTO
Anthropologist, with research developed in Portugal, Cape Verde, Angola, and Brazil. Curator, Africa and South America, at the Museum of Anthropology at UBC.
PABLO JOSÉ RAMÍREZ
Curator, art writer and cultural theorist. Adjunct Curator of First Nations and Indigenous Art at Tate.
SUZENALSON KANINDÉ
Vice Cacique, indigenous to the Kanindé people from Ceará state, and a Master's student in interdisciplinary humanities at the UNILAB. Coordinator of the Museu Indígena Kanindé.
