Are Walking Birds
This letter was sent to institutions that have in their collections one or more Tupinambá mantles and their ancestors that were lost to Europe from the 17th century onwards.
- Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac
- Musées royaux d’Art et d’Histoire
- Museo di Antropologia ed Etnografia / Sistema Museale di Ateneo
- Museum der Kulturen Basel
- National Museum of Denmark
- Pinacoteca Ambrosiana
The mantle is a being that connects the Tupinambá community to the world of the magical in a broader sense, acting as a Tupinambá diplomat between the physical and metaphysical worlds. The artist carried out research and practice with her community so that she could present it once again according to the present time and Tupinambá reality. Assojaba was born, the mantle that, as well as performing diplomacy, communicates with the eleven other mantles that are scattered around Europe (Belgium, Denmark, France, Italy and Switzerland), seeks access to its peers who have been taken far away from Tupinambá territory (the ibirapema, for example), and creates connections with archives, documents and ancestral memories in search of the location of two mantles whose whereabouts are still unknown.
As well as crossing borders, the Manto em movimento [Mantle in Motion] project is also a proposal for a living, mobile archive. In this sense, imprisoning the mantle in a single space is considered to be a neo-colonial discourse and, respecting Assojaba’s wishes, the artist proposes that it travel, meet more Indigenous people around the world and meet with leaders and authorities so that it can weave the thread that will connect it to the other mantles. For this reason, Manto em movimento is part of the Hãhãwpuá Pavilion, but only it will decide how long it stays and when it returns to its community, bringing with it news of where it has been and keeping those present in the Pavilion appraised.
Credits
Conception and organization: Casa do Povo in partnership with MAC-USP
Activist and artist: Glicéria Tupinambá
Curatorial committee: Glicéria Tupinambá, Augustin de Tugny, Benjamin Seroussi, Caio Lescher, Fernanda Pitta, Juliana Caffé, Juliana Gontijo
Graphic design: Laura Daviña, Lívia Vigano
Production: Olga Torres
Are Walking Birds
This letter was sent to institutions that have in their collections one or more Tupinambá mantles and their ancestors that were lost to Europe from the 17th century onwards.
- Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac
- Musées royaux d’Art et d’Histoire
- Museo di Antropologia ed Etnografia / Sistema Museale di Ateneo
- Museum der Kulturen Basel
- National Museum of Denmark
- Pinacoteca Ambrosiana
The mantle is a being that connects the Tupinambá community to the world of the magical in a broader sense, acting as a Tupinambá diplomat between the physical and metaphysical worlds. The artist carried out research and practice with her community so that she could present it once again according to the present time and Tupinambá reality. Assojaba was born, the mantle that, as well as performing diplomacy, communicates with the eleven other mantles that are scattered around Europe (Belgium, Denmark, France, Italy and Switzerland), seeks access to its peers who have been taken far away from Tupinambá territory (the ibirapema, for example), and creates connections with archives, documents and ancestral memories in search of the location of two mantles whose whereabouts are still unknown.
As well as crossing borders, the Manto em movimento [Mantle in Motion] project is also a proposal for a living, mobile archive. In this sense, imprisoning the mantle in a single space is considered to be a neo-colonial discourse and, respecting Assojaba’s wishes, the artist proposes that it travel, meet more Indigenous people around the world and meet with leaders and authorities so that it can weave the thread that will connect it to the other mantles. For this reason, Manto em movimento is part of the Hãhãwpuá Pavilion, but only it will decide how long it stays and when it returns to its community, bringing with it news of where it has been and keeping those present in the Pavilion appraised.
Credits
Conception and organization: Casa do Povo in partnership with MAC-USP
Activist and artist: Glicéria Tupinambá
Curatorial committee: Glicéria Tupinambá, Augustin de Tugny, Benjamin Seroussi, Caio Lescher, Fernanda Pitta, Juliana Caffé, Juliana Gontijo
Graphic design: Laura Daviña, Lívia Vigano
Production: Olga Torres