Theaterformen: Currents

In the organizer's words:

Currents - Lilly Baniwa, Ziel Karapotó, Olinda Tupinambá
Amazonas, Alagoas, Bahia

The artists Lilly Baniwa, Ziel Karapotó and Olinda Tupinambá open their working space and present their previous artistic works as an expression of indigenous poetics. The presentation will be accompanied by their films Kaapora - The Call of the Forest (Olinda Tupinambá), The Word Became Flesh (Ziel Karapotó) and Lithipokoroda(Lilly Baniwa).

Kaapora - The Call of the Forest

Olinda Tupinambá, Brazil 2020, 20min.

The film tells of the connection of indigenous peoples with the earth and their spirituality from the perspective of the indigenous woman Olinda, who is developing an environmental protection project on her people's land. From the perspective of Indigenous cosmovision, spiritual characters such as Kaapora are at the center of the cinematic narrative.

The Word Became Flesh

Aim Karapotó, Brazil 2019, 6min.

The conquest of the Americas by the Europeans has left many scars. Ziel Karapotó uses his body as a tool to denounce five centuries of colonization and its consequences for indigenous communities.

Lithipokoroda

Lilly Baniwa, Brazil 2021, 28 min.

Lithipokoroda is an indigenous performance manifesto from São Gabriel da Cachoeira in the Amazon region. The film portrays an ancestral woman walking through the forest to the maloca (a traditional communal house of knowledge in indigenous communities) while white men destroy the forest. Despite this destruction, the knowledge of the ancestors lives on. Young Indigenous people today are using technology to denounce violence, defend their culture and demand an end to genocide, violence and discrimination.

Lilly Baniwa is an Indigenous actress, performer, artist and researcher from the Amazon region. Her most recent performances include SER-UMA-NÓS (BEING-US-HUMAN) and Antes do tempo existir, which she both developed and performs. Her latest projects include the video performance manifesto Lithipokoroda and the workshop IPerformatividades Identitárias.

Ziel Karapotó is a multidisciplinary artist, curator and filmmaker. His artistic practice and research is characterized by the exploration of Indigenous poetry, identity affirmations and racism against Indigenous communities. In 2024, he was one of three Indigenous artists representing Brazil at the 60th Venice Biennale with the work Cardume II (School of Fish II). His most important audiovisual works include the short film The Word Became Flesh (2019), the documentary Speeches of the Earth (2021) and the short film Paola (2022).

Olinda Tupinambá is a multidisciplinary artist with a degree in Social Communication. She is a cultural worker, performer and filmmaker. Her work is characterized by using her body as a political body - a body that transforms to speak of other possible worlds, to make visible environmental-political issues and to discuss the relationship between humans and nature, which is a recurring theme in some of her works. She has been working in the audiovisual field since late 2015, producing and directing ten independent films in the fields of documentary, fiction and performance.

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