In recent years in Brazil, indigenous art has had repercussions on the national and international art scene. Through the presentation of the works of some of the main exponents, Jaider Esbell, Denilson Baniwa and Daiara Tukano, the conference will analyse the meaning of Amerindian cosmologies, which will allow us to identify the cosmopolitical and aesthetic specificities of these expressions, whose meanings go beyond those of the Western artistic tradition, presenting not landscapes or external materialities but complex architectures of ecologies of interaction between non-subjective and trans-specific entities (animals, plants, spirits, objects, etc.).
Eliete da Silva Pereiras is a research professor at the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology of the University of São Paulo USP. She holds a PhD in Communication Sciences from the School of Communication and Arts of the same university, where she is a researcher at the ATOPOS International Research Centre as coordinator of the research line on the digitisation of local knowledge. She holds a degree in History and a Master’s degree in Social Sciences from the University of Brasilia (UnB). She is currently a consultant at the Organisation of Ibero-American States (OEI) for indigenous education on behalf of the Brazilian Ministry of Education (MEC). She has published several articles on communication and indigenous net-activism. She is the author of the book – Ciborgues indígen@s.br: a presença nativa no ciberespaço – (Annablume, 2012)
On the cover: A Guerra dos Kanaímés 8 from the series A Guerra dos Kanaímés 2020, Acrylic and marker on canvas 145x110cm