Maloca Museum - a report from the Rio Negro (Brazilian Amazon)
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| free of charge |
| 14 years and older |
| English, Portuguese |
| Americas, 2nd floor |
| Belongs to: 99 Questions Gathering |
How do we create contexts to learn with displaced heritage, its history and meanings? To discuss these issues, we will present the Maloca Museum project. This project aims to promote processes of re-appropriation of artifacts and images assembled in the Upper Rio Negro (Brazilian Amazon) and currently kept by the Ethnological Museum of Berlin. These collections range from items produced more than one century ago to contemporary artistic works. As an itinerant installation, the Maloca Museum will land in different parts of the Rio Negro, creating an assembly space for listening to the meanings and practices inspire by the contact with these artifacts and images. From this initial contact, the project foresees a second stage, marked by collaborative design to establish a protocol for the future of these displaced beings along with local artists and political leaders. The Maloca Museum is the first node, a newly emerging local residency format of 99 Questions.
Participants
Denilson Baniwa: Sometimes the challenge is not to fill up positions. When the existing ones don’t fit, it is necessary to create something new. Denilson Baniwa is an indigenous artist; he is indigenous and an artist, and his being indigenous leads him to invent another way of making art, where processes of imagining and making are forcibly interventions in a historical dynamic (the history of colonization of the indigenous territories we now know as Brazil) and interpellations to those who encounter him to embrace their responsibilities.
Thiago Lopes da Costa Oliveira is an anthropologist, curator and documentarist. He is a co-founder of the Amazonian Future Lab project, which intends to connect Amazonian biocultural heritage held in Europe to indigenous people in Brazil. Since 2011, he has been working with indigenous partners from this region, exploring objects, photographs, plants and sounds as boundary objects to research the art, territory, and technology of the Amazonia Rainforest and its people.
Partner: Ethnologisches Museum