Indigenous people in urban context and identity: an artistic collaboration with the Wapichana
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https://doi.org/10.36025/arj.v8i2.25417Keywords:
urban indigenous, identity, Wapichana ethnicity, indigenous video-art, indigenous rapAbstract
This paper is intended to reflect upon the concept of identity on the perspective of urban indigenous. Besides, it aims to present an artistic artwork resulting from the interaction between the author and the members of Wapichana (a Brazilian indigenous community living in Brasília), this artwork boosted the discussions regarding identity. The researcher participated in a few protests and in religious manifestations organized by the indigenous people in defense of their land. After that, it was accomplished an artistic intervention aimed to produce a video-art piece. The goal of this work was to put in evidence different voices belonging to the same indigenous community, so mixing tradition and modernity and, consequently, distinct views of similar issues. This performative action had the intention to contribute to diminish the prejudice against indigenous groups that live in Brasília and to provide visibility for some of their issues.
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