Irineu Nje'a Terena

Brazil °1974
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Irineu Nje'a Terena é ceramista e historiador indígena pertencente à etnia Terena. É um dos dirigentes da Aldeia Kopenoti, localizada no interior de São Paulo, Brasil. Há mais de uma década, Irineu realiza atividades relacionadas à cultura do povo Terena para não indígenas em escolas, universidades e centros culturais.

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  • Distance, transmission, and journey in the collective construction of an Itaaká (2023) author(s): Bruno Moreschi, Irineu Nje'a Terena published in: HUB - Journal of Research in Art, Design and Society
    This exhibition discusses the collective construction of an ancestral instrument of the Terena indigenous people in the context of the artistic residency Con/Cri/Tec, held in 2023 at Casa do Povo, in São Paulo. The functions of the itaaká instrument, as well as the process of creating it in the residency, offered decolonial opportunities for understanding the idea of "distance" beyond the non-indigenous scientific view. The first contribution to this expanded understanding of distance comes from the functions of the itaaká, in particular, that of reducing the distance between the terrestrial and the spiritual worlds, based on the idea of "transmission". The second perspective of distance analyzed here came from the experience of building the itaaká, seen in the Terena culture as part of a collective initiation ritual. The making of itaaká performed in the artistic residency showed part of this ritualistic character and how this ancestral instrument relates distance to the idea of collective construction of a "journey".
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