Contemporary indigenous art, anthropophagy of the Revolt

Abstract

We present a collective memory, based on the trajectory of Coletivo Kókir. The objective is to analyze the processes of creation of the collective, aligned with the recognition of indigenous ancestry. In addition to the theoretical-methodological subsidies of autoethnography (SANTOS; BIANCALANA, 2017; VERSIANI, 2005), we resort to research in visual arts (REY, 1996) in the establishment of a hybrid, urban, indigenous and contemporary poetics. Based on studies on reverse anthropology (WAGNER, 2010) we investigate in shared creations ways of incorporating elements of our origins. The concept of reverse anthropophagy refers to the critique of eurocentric modernity, proposing a revolt, associated with decolonial thinking (PALERMO, 2019). The revolt signals the non-acceptance of the subalternity imposed by coloniality on the indigenous peoples and also the incorporation of the knowledge of the native peoples in Brazilian art and culture. The analysis is justified by the importance of expanding, through art, knowledge about our indigenous relatives. The results are expectations that the sky does not fall on the heads of future generations (KOPENAWA, ALBERT, 2015).