Hosted by Animated Ecologies and Contingencies, a Journal of Global Pedagogy at NYU, the colloquium is a full-day event celebrating the work of individuals and organizations around the world whose indigenous creative expression is revising our understandings of the past and helping us craft dynamic and sustainable visions for our collective future.
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The presentations will include observations by the Brazilian indigenous philosopher Ailton Krenak of Outra Margem; performance works shared by Anton Bouchard of Indigenous Performance Productions in Olympia, Washington; the online resources facilitated by Andreia Duarte at TEPI in Sao Paolo, Brazil; a poetry reading by Rena Priest of the Lummi Nation; indigenous television part of the Sistema Plurinacional of Indigenous Comunication created by the CEFREC collective and Ivan Sanjines in Bolivia; Yakut mural projects by Kydana Ignateva, a musical performance by Ayepbergen Otgenov from Uzbekistan and Robert Willard from The World Aral region Charity; graphic literature created by Sabine Siekmann and Catherine Moses from the University of Alaska at Fairbanks; approaches to indigenous education undertaken by anthropologist , Maureen Porter, Associate Director of the IISE at the University of Pittsburgh, and video game development by Jin Jin Wu and Loretta Fernandez, also from Pitt, who are creating t games to address language extinction.
The program runs from 10:00am EST. to 7:30pm EST, on February 24th , 2022, with a panel discussion from 6:00-7:00pm. on indigenous art and its potential to help facilitate community cohesion and address ecological and social justice issues both nationally and internationally. Sean Eve and Edd Carr, from Animated Ecologies will be running the event with technical support provided the Liberal Studies Program at NYU and funding from New York University, William Mellon Hitchcock, and the Cloud Hill Fund.
The Event schedule is as follows.
10.00-10:30 – Introductions and land acknowledgement: Sean Eve and Edd Carr, Animated Ecologies
10:30- 11:15 – Kydana Ignateva, The curator of the contemporary art festival, LETO Yakutia since 2019, Kydana will speak on her work with the Yakut people in North Eastern Russia, and a mural and associated film project she is undertaking for late summer of 2022 (Russia).
11:15- 12:00 – Robert Ailton Willard, Director, World Aral Region Charity, together with the composer Ayapbergen Otgenov, will share and perform works from the “Spirit of Water” Project - an original suite of music inspired by the indigenous traditions and ecological challenges facing 5 major bodies of water, primarily in Eurasia. Robert will also be speaking on “Narratives of Resistence”, an eco-theatre work, being undertaken by WARC in the spring of 2023 (Uzbekistan).
12:00-12:45 – Andre Bouchard, the Executive Creative Producer, Indigenous Performance Productions, will be sharing the current work and objectives of his organization and its performers, who are changing stories of indigenous people to stories by indigenous people (U.S.).
1:00- 1:45 – Rena Priest, current Poet Laureate of Washington State and a member of the Lummi Nation, will be reading from tow of her books: Patriarchy Blues and Sublime Subliminal (U.S.).
1:45:-2:15 -- Loretta Fernandez, Visiting Professor, University of Pittsburgh. Loretta along with Jin Jin Wu, a student there, will be sharing work they and a team from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and Carnegie Mellon University have been doing on a video game designed to address language extinction.(U.S.).
2:15-2:45 -- Sabine Seikmann and Catherine Moses will be sharing graphic literature works they created to help engage young members of the Yupik and speaking communities in Alaska.(U.S.).
2:45- 3:00 -- Maureen Porter, Associate Director of the IISE at the University of Pittsburgh will be discussing her work in indigenous education, and reflecting on the graphic literature and video games shared previously from the perspective of educational anthropology. (U.S.).
3:00-3:45 -- Ivan Sanjines. A founder of CEFEREC, part of the Sistema Plurinacional of Indigenous Coumunication in Bolivia, an art, performance and . television collective and political advocacy group, Ivan will be sharing the work and objectives of CEFEREC and the indigenous television network they have launched. (Bolivia).
4:00- 4:45 -- Andreia Duarte , A Co-founder of Outra Margem, an art, performance and filmmaking collective based in Sao Paolo. Andreia will speak about the launch of TEPI, the online environment built around the theatre of indigenous people that was launched in January of 2021.(Brazil)
5:00- 5:45 -- Aliton Krenak, Professor, Federal University of Juiz de Fora. A writer, journalist and philosopher, Krenak will be speaking about the work of the art collective Outra Margem, and address value of indigenous perspectives for a world looking to reimagine its future. (Brazil)
6:00-7:00 PM -- Panel Discussion. A panel of the participants will discuss the impact of creative expression on community formation and coherence. They will consider the role art and performance can play in communicating indigenous perspectives to the larger world. Finally, the panel will look at how indigenous art and ideas can help in our collective invention of a vibrant and sustainable future.
7:00-7:30 PM.-- Closing remarks and next steps. As the objective of the colloquium is to connect organizations and individuals, to reinforce existing work, and to help facilitate future projects, we will take a few minutes at the end of the event for people to make contact and to share plans and ideas. The colloquium will also be recorded and shared via a website that will help facilitate future collaborations.
(Source: Loretta Fernandez)