How are the rights of Indigenous people worldwide connected to environmental justice? How can art and activism contribute to struggles for Indigenous sovereignty and climate justice?
The exhibition The Yanomami Struggle tells the story of the collaboration and friendship between artist and activist Claudia Andujar and the Yanomami people, one of the largest Indigenous groups living in Amazonia today.
In conjunction with the exhibition, this four-day series of events offers a platform for Yanomami and Indigenous voices, while exploring the contexts and themes of the exhibition, from the fight for Indigenous rights and sovereignty to environmental justice and the connections between art and activism. Panel conversations and events will feature Yanomami and other Indigenous artists and community-builders, including academics, policy-makers, and representatives of community organizations.
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To mark the opening weekend of The Yanomami Struggle, join the Shed community for a day devoted to the defense of the Amazon rainforest and the Yanomami, one of Brazil’s largest Indigenous groups. Davi Kopenawa, shaman and spokesperson for the Yanomami of Brazil and president of Hutukara Associação Yanomami, along with Dário Kopenawa, vice president of Hutukara Associação Yanomami, and artists included in the exhibition, will travel to The Shed from their home in Yanomami territory. Their communities are currently experiencing urgent environmental and health crises after years of incursions on their land by non-Indigenous society, and centuries of colonialist violence.
These special guests will speak directly to this emergency as well as other issues central to the exhibition, including Indigenous autonomy, environmental justice, and activism.
1:30 pm, Level 4 Overlook: Yanomami Address:
Davi Kopenawa, shaman and spokesperson for the Yanomami of Brazil and president of Hutukara Associação Yanomami, and Dário Kopenawa, vice president of Hutukara Associação Yanomami, will address the audience on the current crisis facing the Yanomami people.
They will be accompanied by Claudia Andujar, an artist with a lifelong commitment to the Yanomami, and the event will include remarks by Thyago Nogueira, head of contemporary photography at the Instituto Moreira Salles, Brazil, and curator of The Yanomami Struggle.
This address will be delivered in Portuguese, with simultaneous translation from Portuguese to English.
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