Life and its Transits as an Art Studio

A conversation with Arissana Pataxó

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10038145

Keywords:

Identity, Creative Processes, Indigenous art, Knowledge transfer, Community

Abstract

The interview is an excerpt from a dialogue that took place in two video calls between the author and co-author and visual artist Arissana Pataxó in 2022. The conversation is part of the project “A South–North Dialogue on Afro-Indigenous Art”,  which aims to bring Brazilian and Sámi indigenous artists into dialogue. The interview is organized  through an open dialogue that covers the artist's ways of producing, linked to community life and her daily life as a community educator.

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Author Biographies

Laura Burocco, CRIA-ISCTE University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal

Laura Burocco's research interrogates the intersection of culture and power as the main focus of decolonization of knowledge, critically approaching academia and the arts as a tool for meaningful decolonization.

Arissana Souza, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil

Arissana Pataxó is a Brazilian visual artist and educator from the Pataxó people. She was born in Porto Seguro and is a community teacher at the Indigenous school at Coroa Vermelha. She holds a degree in fine arts from the Federal University of Bahia and is a doctoral candidate from the same institution (UFBA).

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Published

26.10.2023

How to Cite

Burocco, L., & Souza, A. (2023). Life and its Transits as an Art Studio: A conversation with Arissana Pataxó . Archivo Papers, 3(2), 69–84. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10038145