Indigenous contemporary art: the case of MAHKU

• Grant number: 16/09692-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: August 01, 2016
• End date: February 28, 2018
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Anthropology - Indigenous Ethnology
• Principal Investigator: Antonio Roberto Guerreiro Júnior
• Grantee: Daniel Revillion Dinato
• Host Institution: Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas (IFCH). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 13/26676-0 - Transforming amerindian regional systems: the Upper Xingu case, AP.JP

Abstract

This research theme is the phenomenon of "indigenous art" - the processes by which indigenous productions of various kinds have been characterized as art and started occupying new spaces and involving new agents. The focus of this project will be a particular indigenous collective, the Huni Kuin, and their respective artists and works grouped around the MAHKU (Movement of Artists Huni Kuin). This research will investigate, discuss and understand the possible conceptions of art mobilized by these indigenous artists and analyse how the so-called art objects are inserted in both their creation and circulation contexts. It is therefore about making ethnography of Huni Kuin involvement with the recent production that has been categorized as art, seeking, above all, to follow artists and art objects (paintings and drawings, mostly) circulations inside complex networks of exchanges and meanings. It is intended, therefore, to contribute to the description and analysis of a poorly studied phenomenon in Brazil and advance understanding of the expressive forms of South America Lowlands, especially those in transformation contexts and in contact with non-indigenous societies.

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

DINATO, Daniel Revillion. The paths of MAHKU (Movement of Huni Kuin Artists). 2018. Master's Dissertation - Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas Campinas, SP.