To resound the question: what is Txaism?

Abstract

Originally conceived as a lecture-performance, the article presents a network of dialogues and questions around Txaism, a term coined by the artist, writer and curator Jaider Esbell. Referring to a kind of policy of alliances between indigenous peoples, and between indigenous and non-indigenous people, present in the author's articles and works, the article seeks to echo the question raised by Jaider ("What is Txaísmo?"), extending -a to a set of agents of this web, amplifying its implications and ethical contradictions. In this process, historical and anthropological aspects are also explored about how the term txai was endowed with a meaning beyond its original huni kuin meaning and spread throughout the world.