Exposition

Distance, transmission, and journey in the collective construction of an Itaaká (2023)

Bruno Moreschi, Irineu Nje'a Terena
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About this exposition

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".
typeresearch exposition
keywordsItaaká, Terena culture, transmission, journey, collective practices
date11/07/2023
published21/12/2023
last modified21/12/2023
statuspublished
share statuspublic
affiliationUniversity of São Paulo
copyrightIrineu Nje'a Terena and Bruno Moreschi
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
languageEnglish
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/2230451/2230452
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/hub.2230451
published inHUB - Journal of Research in Art, Design and Society
portal issue1. HUB Issue #1 / Autumn 2023 / Distance


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2270034 Irineu Nje'a Terena and his sculptures Irineu Nje'a Terena All rights reserved
2270035 Irineu Nje'a Terena and his sculptures Irineu Nje'a All rights reserved
2270036 Irineu Nje'a and the Ancestral Tree sculpture, 2022, ceramics Irineu Nje'a All rights reserved
2270037 Irineu3 Rhaissa Rodrigues All rights reserved
2270038 Irineu5_low Rhaissa Rodrigues All rights reserved
2270039 Irineu6_low Rhaissa Rodrigues All rights reserved
2270040 Irineu7_low Irineu Nje'a All rights reserved
2270041 Teste0 Teste1 All rights reserved
2270047 Itaaka_low Irineu Nje'a All rights reserved
2270048 IMG_5589 copy_low Irineu Nje'a All rights reserved
2270049 IMG_5595 copy_low Irineu Nje'a Terena All rights reserved
2270050 IMG_5604 copy_low Irineu Nje'a Terena All rights reserved
2270051 IMG_5610 copy_low Irineu Nje'a Terena All rights reserved
2270052 IMG-20230426-WA0040_low Irineu Nje'a Terena All rights reserved
2270056 ConCriTec1_low Irineu Nje'a Terena All rights reserved
2270057 ConCriTec2_low Irineu Nje'a Terena All rights reserved
2270058 ConCriTec3_low Irineu Nje'a Terena All rights reserved
2270059 ConCriTec4_low Irineu Nje'a Terena All rights reserved
2270060 ConCriTec5 Irineu Nje'a Terena All rights reserved
2270061 Contexto2_low Irineu Nje'a Terena All rights reserved
2270062 Contexto3 Irineu Nje'a Terena All rights reserved
2270064 The itaaká in use. Illustration by Irineu Nje'a. All rights reserved
2270067 The old Koipihapati Irineu Nje'a Terena All rights reserved
2270071 ConCriTec6 Irineu Nje'a Terena All rights reserved
2270072 ConCriTec7 Irineu Nje'a Terena All rights reserved

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