contemporary indigenous art and Tupinambá culture

on Moara Tupinambá

Dates: May 20, 27, June 03, 10, 17, 24, July 01 and 08, 2026
Wednesdays
Hour: 19h to 21h
Duration: 8 meetings
Audience: general interested parties
Investment: R$ 640,00 + fees

Online course
Live, via video conferencing platform
Recorded classes available for a limited time only
Includes certificate at the end

This course proposes a critical, poetic, and historical journey through contemporary Indigenous art, focusing on Tupinambá culture and Amazonian territories. Articulating lived experience and artistic production, the course addresses issues related to cosmologies, enchantments, memory, coloniality, processes of cultural reclaiming, politics, and spirituality. Aimed at artists, students, educators, curators, and others interested in contemporary art and Indigenous cultures, the course offers conceptual and sensitive tools to understand the centrality of Indigenous peoples in current Brazilian cultural production.

Agenda

Lesson 1 – Mairi & Tapajós: a living territory

• History of ancient Mairi (Belém) and the Tupinambá presence.
• Tapajós as a cosmological, political, and aesthetic territory.
• Indigenous territory as body, memory, and pedagogy
• Introduction to the enchanted Tupinambá

Lesson 2 – Contemporary Indigenous Art

• Timeline of contemporary indigenous art in Brazil
• Invisibility, resumptions and re-existence
• Amazonia and contemporary art
• Indigenous women and aesthetic creation

Lesson 3 – Cosmologies and Enchanted Beings

• Tupinambá enchanted beings and non-human creatures
• Curupira, Matinta, Jurupari and Mother of the River
• Spirituality and artistic creation
• Art as a cosmological language

Lesson 4 – Body, memory and resistance

• Indigenous bodies as political territory
• Genocide, epistemicide, and erasures
• Performance, photography and collage
• Aesthetics of resistance

Lesson 5 – Creative processes and artistic practices

• Art as healing and reconnection.
• Collage and montage in the work of Moara Tupinambá
• Territory, affections and ancestry
• Poetic methodologies

Lesson 6 – Indigenous Art, Activism, and Politics

• Indigenous art as political action
• Activism, denunciation, and creation.
• Cultural institutions and indigenous peoples
• contemporary challenges

Lesson 7 – Ancestral Future and Political Imagination

• Ancestral future and indigenous cosmopolitics
• Imagining futures based on ancestry.
• City, forest and territory
• Creation as a strategy for permanence.

Lesson 8 – Closing: Mairi Lives

• Summary of contents
• Dialogues between art, territory and spirituality
• Final reflections and sharing.
• Collective closure

Moara Tupinambá

Moara Tupinambá is a visual artist, creative director, and researcher of the Tupinambá Nation.
Amazon. Works with collage, photography, performance and digital art, articulating territory,
Ancestral memory, indigenous cosmopolitics, and activism. Participated in exhibitions,
residencies and projects in institutions such as the Museum of Tomorrow, the Amazon Biennial,
Montevideo Biennial, Greenpeace, and TEDxAmazonia. She is the founder of GEMTUPY – Group
Maenry Tupinambá Studies.

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credits

Picture: Poem to Oswald de Andrade, 2026. Denilson Baniwa.