Ontographic dialogues: speaking cloaks

• Grant number: 24/13577-9
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: October 01, 2024
• End date: September 30, 2025
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Anthropology - Indigenous Ethnology
• Principal Investigator: Pedro de Niemeyer Cesarino
• Grantee: Paloma Pin Salvan
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This research project proposes the interpretation of relational networks through contemporary indigenous art, specifically, the Manto Tupinambá and the artistic productions of Glicéria Tupinambá. Considering indigenous art as the dialogue between different ontographies, we ask how conceptual tensions are operated between art, artifact, object, body and person; and beyond discussions about theory, how contemporary indigenous art is included in the political debate, in the struggles for land demarcation and indigenous rights. The aim is to understand these intersections from the speeches and perspectives of indigenous artists and intellectuals themselves, in addition to contact, observation and listening to the works in non-indigenous institutional exhibition spaces, approaching the dialogues that are created between the art pieces, their creative contexts, and the world of Western art and expography, with its audiences and organizers.