Reimagining the representation of indigenous performance practices with contemporary cultural institutions, Multiplicidade Festival, October 2017
HERITAGE invited Batman Zavareze (Artistic Director of Multiplicidade Festival, Rio de Janeiro: Brazil’s leading international festival for arts and technology) to join the Kuikuro residency programme. HERITAGE subsequently co-curated a week of workshops, public discussions and performances by 10 Kuikuro artists as part of Multiplicidade: 2017 [Physical audience: 4,545; Online reach: 250,519].
Multiplicidade Festival Catalogue and vinyl LP featuring the Kuikuro’s programme, ensuring the work’s reach following the live event.
Across the two years of the Kuikuro residency programme, HERITAGE brought museum curators and technologists to the Ipatse Village, exploring Motion-Capture and Virtual, Augmented and Mixed-reality technologies and their capacity to transform the representation of indigenous social, cultural and material practices in museum collections. This has resulted in a number of creative practice research outputs and public exhibitions, produced in collaboration with various galleries and museums.
Xingu Village, an immersive installation in partnership with Factum Foundation, A Casa Gringo Cardia, Playground Entertainment and WeSense. Co-curated by HERITAGE and TAKUMÃ Kuikuro, with Gringo Cardia and Clelio de Paula (both artists who participated in the residency programme). [Audience: 212.]
‘Evaluation of Xingu Village Experience at the Horniman Museum and Gardens’ (2019): An independent evaluation detailing public engagement with the insights from the research. By Chrissie Tiller. Publicly available on People’s Palace Projects' Website.
Reimagining ways of preserving and sharing indigenous cultures through the use of digital capture and materialisation technologies, a collaboration with Factum Foundation, 2017-2020.
HERITAGE invited British digital visual artist Adam Lowe and a team from his company Factum Foundation to participate in the Kuikuro residency programme on two occasions. In collaboration with members of the Kuikuro community they undertook a process of digitally capturing their village, their artefacts, their performance practices as well as the sacred site of the Kamukuwaká cave, which had recently been systematically and purposefully vandalised, the ancient carving chipped away at using a chisel. Whilst the exact assailant is unknown, the attack is similar to many other examples of attempts to delegitimise indigenous claims to their ancestral lands.
The Sacred Cave of Kamukuwaká: The Preservation of Indigenous Cultures in Brazil (2019). Produced by Factum Foundation, with editorial support from HERITAGE. Publicly available from Factum Foundation’s website.
Produced by BBC World Service. Publicly available from the BBC website. Facilitator: HERITAGE. [Estimated Audience 44,154.] HERITAGE invited British producer Mark Rickards from the BBC and Professor Jerry Brotton from QMUL to participate in the Kuikuro residency programme.