This audiovisual and performative experience proposes the creation of a temporary autonomous collective to occupy the festival, having reflections about the image and its mediums as its conceptual trigger. For this purpose, the artists build on the concept of “image” coming from many Indigenous peoples: it is beyond what society can see, and the term can also refer to the idea of the spirit. This action therefore aims to create what is called “Povoar-Miração” (“Populate-Miration”), to make bodies-images dance through photography, video, performance, and word. As an outcome of this activity, the participants will have the opportunity to share the materials and studies collectively conducted on 9.14.  

Register online from Aug. 21st to 30th through the app Credencial Sesc SP and at centralrelacionamento.sescsp.org.br

Edgar Kanaykõ Xakriabá is from the Xakriabá land, in the city of São João das Missões (Minas Gerais). A photographer with a degree from the Intercultural Training Course for Indigenous Educators (FIEI/UFMG) and a master’s degree in social (visual) anthropology from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG). His thesis Etnovisão: o olhar indígena que atravessa a lente (2019), which discusses the use of photography by Indigenous peoples as an instrument of struggle and resistance and the concept of image, is the first conducted by an Indigenous researcher in a graduate program at UFMG. 

Idylla Silmarovi is a performing artist and researcher. She holds a master’s degree in performing arts from the Federal University of Ouro Preto and she understands the body as the main medium for memory, connecting art and activism in performing arts. Her practice and research are directly connected to feminist and racialized LGBTQIA+ struggles. She has conceived Plataforma Ka’adela and Zona de Encontro, and is the actress in the solo shows GUERRILHA – experimento para tempos sombrios and CAÇADA. She is an artist-in-residence at PACT Zollverein (Germany) and conducts projects in international coproduction.