Ané of the Stones
Coletiva Flecha Lançada Arte
Crato/CE and Kariri-Xocó village/AL, 2020 | 50 min | Parental Rating Free
ORIGINAL TITLE
Ané das Pedras
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Online booking, up to 2 tickets per person, through the Sympla website from February 2, Monday, at 12am.
SYNOPSIS
In the kariri people language, “ané” means living dream. For them, stones are living beings that feel and speak: in difficult times, they go to the yard, collect a stone, talk to it and return it to nature. This work is a ritual of stone planting, as if telling a dream. The performance is part of the Coletiva Flecha Lançada Arte trilogy, which enters the land and shoots its indigenous look on it. Assuming the scene as a field, in which the seeds are preserved, the land harvested and the planting done collectively, the indigenous artist Barbara Matias and the spiritual leadership Idiane Crudzá meet with the public around a bonfire. There, like an indecipherable oracle, they invite to a counter-colonial act, a gathering and healing moment.
HISTORY
Conceived by Barbara Matias in 2017, Coletiva Flecha Lançada Arte cultivates indigenous demarcation in the arts territory with the Kariri-Xocó village natives and their allies. Her creations move in a non-linear way through different languages, such as theatre, performance, poetry, crafts and audiovisual. Most of the productions were developed in the Marreco community (Marrecas village), in Ceará, where Barbara was born and raised. In her work, the artist and doctoral student in performing arts at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) uses her body as a medium to expose the memoricide and ethnocide of the Kariri nation.
CRITIC
Contemporary indigenous art is our cry against ecocide projects in the Anthropocene, it is our manifest to the world, it is above all the demarcation of both the physical and mind territory we inhabit. We are manifesting our memory and culture in various artistic languages for quite a while.
By thinking the body as territory, we indigenous artists call for reflection on the extent of violence through art. Memory is our heritage of struggle, vindication, and continuity.
THECNICAL SHEET
Direction: Barbara Matias
Performance: Barbara Matias and Idiane Crudzá
Production: Joedson Kariri
Costumes: Artesanato das Mamas Kariri
Presented by: Coletiva Flecha Lançada Arte