Overview

Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, is the territory of historical land conflicts that involve and impact the Guarani and Kaiowá people. This reality is internationally known and the face of it is violence and hunger. At the same time, indigenous peoples, at the international level, affirm their ways of life, their knowledges, values, art. Re-exist. From the Social Sciences, Art Education and Epistemologies of the South, the researchers reflect on the impacts of colonisation as a long-term process, linked to patriarchy and capitalism, the struggles for rights and the corpographs that are enunciated in the interlaced experiences by Kaiowá and Guarani in contemporary times. These themes emerged in the oguata - the walk - in the presence of the Kaiowá and Guarani at the university. They are elements that emerged in an ecology of knowledges, due to a multidimensional characteristic, which approached the many experiences of struggle of these collectives, reflecting in various areas (time/space) of co-experiences, crossed by the ara pyahu struggles - current times - and fed do ymaguare - past time. This oguatá welcomes and collects the different historicities and corpographies of living and re-existing in a history crossed by colonialism. In that welcome, he learns and teaches. In the process of welcoming and teaching by word, body and art, it forms new perspectives, re-dimensioning perspectives and re-existences.

Programme
The presentations aim to present work trajectories, methodologies and experiences in the struggles of the Kaiowá and Guarani, based on the teaching, outreach and research of Célia Maria Foster Silvestre, professor at the State University of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, visiting post-doctoral research intern at CES/UC, developing research on Colonialism, law and teko porã (good living): for a kaiowá and guarani epistemology and by Carla Cristina de Oliveira de Ávila, professor at the Federal University of Grande Dourados, recently doctor by USP (2018), with the thesis Afro-oriented and Amerindian Corpographies: cartographies of creation processes in Brazilian theatre dance and UNICAMP (2020), with a thesis called Originating Corpographies: intercultural poetic immersion process.