Munay kollektiv
Munay kollektiv
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At Munay Kollektiv, we work between art and science to highlight ethical challenges and the origin of raw materials such as cocoa. We seek to promote sustainable actions and reconnect the links in the supply chain through research and community action.
Photo by Mayeli Villalba
Peruvian twin sisters Benazir Basauri Torres (artist and researcher) and Yanisse Basauri Torres (forest scientist) promote a transdisciplinary approach to raise awareness of issues such as the decent income gap and child labour, thus highlighting the connections between the Global South and the Global North.
This project aims to make us understand, as a community, that we are all interconnected and that our daily actions have an impact on other regions of our planet.
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Our heart is still full and we are thankful to have been part of BIPoC Climate Justice Conference 2025 (Spain) in September 2025.
We presented a workshop that invites us to rethink cocoa not as a simple commodity, but as a symbol of memory, connection, and resistance in Abya Yala. Through a participatory methodology that intertwines critical exposition, sensory memory, and collective creation, we will explore cocoa as a portal to ancestral Quechua knowledge, climate justice, and decolonization.
From Andean perspectives, we will ask ourselves: What stories inhabit cacao? What violence, care, and pleasures run through it? How can we transform it into a political and affective tool for Sumak kawsay (good living)?
Through touch, aroma, and words, we will open an intimate space to connect with our food and territorial memories. To conclude, each participant will create a speculative visual manifesto that expresses a vision of cacao beyond extractivism: as a link, an offering, and an act of care.
Collaborative speculative visual manifesto
In September 2024, we presented our work at the Tropentag Conference at BOKU University in Vienna, Austria, where we shared our vision of community, knowledge, and collaboration for positive change.
Contact/collaborations ꥟ munaykollektiv@gmail.com ꥟ instagram munay kollektiv
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