Component 1, An Encounter: Research Insights

An Encounter: curating a cultural exchange between an indigenous and a non-indigenous artist (TAKUMÃ Kuikuro and Simon MCBURNEY).

1.2.1 Essay: Memory and Identity

Research Output (Physical Item)

Author: Paul HERITAGE. Edited by Complicite and Simon MCBURNEY. London: Nick Hern Books, 2016. Play text.

In the essay, HERITAGE details insights from the research process about how the collaboration between UK theatremaker MCBURNEY and indigenous peoples in the Amazon region raises important questions about the role of ethical and equitable cultural exchange in achieving social development.

1.2.1.1 Trailer from The Encounter (2015)

Contextual Material

A production by Simon MCBURNEY and Complicite, co-produced with Edinburgh International Festival, the Barbican London, Onassis Cultural Centre - Athens, Schaubühne Berlin, Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne and Warwick Arts Centre. Live stream supported by The Space. Trailer publicly available on Complicite's website.

1.2.1.2 Filmed Interview: ‘The Encounter Artistic Collaborator Paul HERITAGE’ (2016)

Contextual Material

Produced by Complicite. Publicly available on Complicite’s YouTube channel.

1.2.2 A 6-week residency for indigenous filmmaker TAKUMÃ Kuikuro

Creative Practice Research Output

This 6-week residency was designed by HERITAGE based on findings about how equitable and ethical exchange programmes can be most effectively constructed. TAKUMÃ was resident artist at People’s Palace Projects in London, March-April 2015. The residency was a partnership with the Brazilian Ministry of Culture.

1.2.2.1 Photo-essay of TAKUMÃ Kuikuro’s residency in London, 2015

Creative Practice Research Output

In April 2015, filmmaker TAKUMÃ Kuikuro travelled all the way from his village to spend six weeks in London producing and directing a film that would capture his vision of the city as a “village”. TAKUMÃ was selected from dozens of applicants through a grant scheme called Culture Connection Brazil, promoted by Brazil’s Ministry of Culture with the support of British Council and the Transform Programme. He was commissioned to record London from an indigenous perspective, exploring similarities and differences between his Kuikuro culture and the Londoners he christened “the Hyper-Whites”. The result is a captivating and humorous anthropological documentary about western society and the many villages hidden under the skyscrapers of London.

1.2.2.2 ETE LONDRES: London as a Village (2017)

Creative Practice Research Output

A film by TAKUMÃ Kuikuro. Produced by HERITAGE/People’s Palace Projects, Association of Kuikuro Indigenous People of the Upper Xingu (AIKAX) and the Ministry of Culture Brazil (MinC). Uploaded and publicly available on YouTube since 16th February 2017: 1,050 views to date.