Calling of the Tupinambá Mantle
Glicélia Tupinambá
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Date
- 15:00 / Cancelled 15:00 / Sold out Saturday, 15:00
Location
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Free – Under 18
25% – Under 30
10% – Over 65
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Free – Under 30, saturdays 18:00 – 21:00
50% – Under 30
20% – Over 65
10% – 30 to 64
The Calling of the Tupinambá Mantle is a ceremony ritual conceived by Glicélia Tupinambá which summons the ancestral presence and the spiritual strength of the Tupinambá people.
At a turning point in her life and work, she heard in her dreams the call of the ancestral cloak, which is considered a relative, a living being, and went in search of the cloaks that had been confined for centuries in European institutions, and then she herself began to make cloaks using ancestral indigenous techniques, seeking to conduct a cultural and spiritual rescue of her people.
More than a celebration of the physical return of an object, the Calling of the Mantle is a rite of reactivation: a call to the original forces, a gesture of healing and continuity, and an affirmation of the cultural, spiritual, and territorial rights of the Tupinambá.
The ritual includes the screening of the film Pena por Pena: o Manto em Movimento (2021), by Glicélia Tupinambá and Fernanda Liberti.
This event is part of the complementary programme for the exhibition complexo brasil, curated by José Miguel Wisnik, Guilherme Wisnik and Milena Britto.
Biographies
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Glicélia Tupinambá
Teacher, anthropologist, activist, researcher, filmmaker, and village leader in Serra do Padeiro, in the Tupinambá indigenous land of Olivença, in southern Bahia, Brazil. She completed her Intercultural Indigenous Degree at the Federal Institute of Education, Science, and Technology of Bahia, and her master’s and doctorate in Social Anthropology at the National Museum in Rio de Janeiro. She directed, with Cristiane Julião, of the Pankararu people, the documentary Voz das Mulheres Indígenas (2015). She has participated in several exhibitions as an artist and curator and was a guest artist at the Hãhãwpuá Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale in Italy.
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Programme
Pena por Pena: o Manto em Movimento (2021), 8´57
The video revives the ritual and political power of the Tupinambá Mantle, transforming it into body and territory with the sound of birds. Created in dialogue between the artist and Tupinambá leadership and the filmmaker, the work shifts the mantle from its museum condition – as an immobile artefact, a testimony to the past – to restore its vitality as a collective body. Instead of a sacred object, imprisoned in display cases, what we see is the rebirth of a spiritual technology: the movement of the feathers, the flight over the territory of Serra do Padeiro and the rhythm of the filming restore the mantle's function of enveloping, protecting, singing and affirming the existence of the Tupinambá people.
Credits
Image
Glicélia Tupinambá, Pouso do Manto Feminino – Embaixador em Veneza, April 2024. Photo: Jéssica Tupinambá
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