Pop-Up Exhibition

"Curing the World": worldviews in dialogue

August 28: 18h00-23h00 | Agust 29: 11h00-23h00

Rua Fernando Tomás n.º17 (Coimbra)

Framework

This exhibition is based on the research work of Giovanna Micarelli and Hernán Gomez among the indigenous peoples of the Colombian Amazon over 8 years, and our conversations with the Angolan artist Hamilton Francisco. Without intending to reflect the complexity of philosophical thought of Amazonian indigenous peoples, the exhibition's objective is to present some concepts re the relationship between humans and nature, their conceptions of the individual and society, of territory and spiritual world, and the personal and collective work of healing the world.

The exhibition features 13 works accompanied by texts of oral tradition of the indigenous peoples of the Colombian Amazon, recordings of ritual songs and a documentary (17') about the process of intercultural organization of indigenous peoples to whom the exposed works refer.

The exhibition is part of the outreach component of IEIPWA research projects o IEIPWA - Indigenous Epistemologies and Images of Public Wealth in Amazonia and  ALICE – Strange Mirrors, Unsuspected Lessons: Leading Europe to a new way of sharing the world experiences.


Bio notes

Giovanna Micarelli  is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia, and Researcher at the Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra. She is recipient of a 2013 Marie Curie Fellowship.Her research is mostly focused on the Amazon region, and it reflects the attempt to reconcile academic work and support to indigenous peoples' emancipatory struggles. Since 1995 she has worked with the Conibo Shipibo of the Ucayali region in Peru, the Tikuna of the Amacayacu river, and the indigenous peoples belonging to the supra-ethnic cluster People of the Center at the periphery of the Colombian town of Leticia.Her interests bring together two different fields of study: one - more political - explores indigenous critical engagements with development and modernity, the place of social-environmental understandings in the construction and defense of territory, the emergence of indigenous rights movements, and cultural politics in intercultural contexts. The other - more epistemological - focuses on native modes of knowing, particularly the place of embodied knowledge, in indigenous theories about personhood, power, experience, and sociality.

Hernán Gomez - Colombian artist with an early off start early in the performing arts. During cultural exchange with Peru at the Amazon School of Painting Usko-Ayar, he fell in love with the indigenous arts and peoples of the Amazon.  Gomez has developed his work through  cultural and environmental projects in the Peruvian and Colombian Amazon, as well as in urban areas,in the attempt to rebuild the bridges between the sciences and the arts. he has produced communications materials and strategies, illustrations, urban art and plays and is co-director of the Eutopia-Buen Lugar Foundation (Colombia).

Hamilton Francisco (Babu) - born in Angola in April 1974 and with a passion for painting from an early age, Babu studied Industrial Design in the Training and Technology Centre Manauto 2 in Luanda. In Portugal, he furthered his knowledge in this field. Working with various techniques, including screen printing craft , currently he is an artist in Project Museus no Centro, in Coimbra. babu has participated in several solo and group exhibitions and artist residencies in several countries. His works are present in public and private collections in Portugal and abroad.


Funding
Bolsas Marie Curie - CE - 7º Programa Quadro