Technical information

Project

Filipa Cordeiro and Rui Mourão

Creation of the performance

Rui Mourão

Publication project and design

Filipa Cordeiro

Videos

Alberto Alvares

Denilson Baniwa

Ibã Huni Kuin

Jaider Esbell

Marilya Hinostroza

Essays

Filipa Cordeiro and Rui Mourão

Jacqueline Sarmiento

Nicholas Mirzoeff, interviewed by Inês Beleza Barreiros

Oscar Roldán-Alzate

Viv Golding

Winani Thebele

Additional texts

Filipa Cordeiro and Rui Mourão

Website project and design

José Soares

Translations

Filipa Cordeiro and Rui Mourão

Editing and proofreading of the introduction

Pascal Ansell

Editing and proofreading of Nicholas Mirzoeff’s interview

Inês Beleza Barreiros

Drawings

Filipa Cordeiro

Photographs

Rui Mourão

We warmly wish to thank

All the artists, authors and friends who wholeheartedly shared their time, energy and skills to support the project and the questions it raises.

Nicholas Mirzoeff, for the encouragement and support. The collective conversations we had at his Decolonizing Media seminar (which was held at FCSH-UNL, in June 2017) fueled this work and we also wish to thank all of our friends and colleagues who were part of that temporary collective.

Maria Inês de Almeida, for helping us get in touch with the Brazilian artists and for her guidance throughout the project.

Núcleo Transdisciplinar de Pesquisas Literaterras and ¡Mira! Artes Visuais Contemporâneas dos Povos Indígenas, for kindly letting us use Ibã Huni Kuin’s video.

For their help with proofreading, we thank Anabela Bravo, Ana Azevedo, Ermelinda Eusébio, Jorge Cordeiro, Naïd Mubalegh, Pascal Ansell and Raquel Ermida. We alone are responsible for any remaining mistakes.

André Trindade, for his support throughout the project and, particularly, in cutting and folding printed leaflets.

For sharing their experiences regarding museum decolonization, we thank Sonya Atalay, Catherine C. Cole and Wendy Black.

Although this project was developed from outside the Carmo Archaeological Museum and in a completely independent way, its aim is to raise dialogue around questions we deem important. We wish to thank the Carmo Museum and Portuguese Archaeologists Association professionals with whom, before the project assumed its final shape, we talked about the collection and learned about the history of the museum - Célia Pereira, Rita Santos and Rui Gomes Coelho.

Alberto Alvares (Portuguese name) / Tupã Ra'y (Guarani name)

A filmmaker of the Guarani people, Alberto Alvares was born in Mato Grosso do Sul (1983, Brazil), near the Paraguay border. He lives and works in Rio de Janeiro. He works in documentary film as a director, editor, director of photography, historian and sometimes as an actor. He is a video professor and translator of the Guarani language at Universidade Federal Fluminense. He has worked at the Lab for Ethnographic Film – UFF of the Museu do Índio/Funai, and at the Observatory for Indigenous Education - FAE/ UFMG.

Denilson Baniwa

An artist of the Baniwa people, Denilson Baniwa was born in Darí, Amazonas state (1984, Brazil). He lives and works in Niterói. He is a graphic artist, working in illustration, drawing and painting, as well as an art director and designer. He co-founded and directs Radio Yandê, the first Brazilian Indigenous web radio, and created Denilson Baniwa – Estúdio to think the relationship between design, illustration and art and Indigenous Brazilian culture. He is an activist for the rights of Indigenous peoples.

Ibã Huni Kuin

An artist of the Huni Kuin people, Ibã Huni Kuin was born in Tarauacá, Acre state (1964, Brasil). He is txana, a master of chants in the tradition of his people. He studied at Universidade Federal do Acre and, as a professor, joined Indigenous and academic knowledge, researching with his students traditions and rituals that faced disappearance. With his son Bane he created the project Espírito da Floresta, which seeks to investigate ways to translate these chants into multimedia (drawing, painting, writing, video), forming the collective of artists-researchers MAHKU – Movement of Huni Kuin Artists. His work has been shown in individual and collective exhibitions in Brazil, and he was shortlisted for the PIPA art prize, in 2016.

Jaider Esbell

An artist of the Makuxi people, Jaider Esbell was born in the bay of Rio Branco, Roraima state (Brazil, 1979). He lives and works in Boa Vista. He is a multimedia artist, writer and independent cultural producer. He created Galeria de Arte Indígena Contemporânea. He was awarded the 2016 PIPA art prize in the online voting category, and the prize Selo Funarte 2010 for Literature, with the work “Terreiro de Makunaima - Mitos, Lendas e Estórias em Vivências”. His work has been exhibited in solo and group shows in Brazil and the US.

Marilya Hinostroza

Artist of the Wanka people, Marilya Hinostroza was born in Huacrapuquio, Huancayo province (Peru, 1990). She lives and works in Lima, using drawing and painting as media. She studied at Escuela Nacional Superior Autónoma de Bellas Artes del Perú, where she was awarded the Silver Medal in Painting (2013). She was a finalist in several art competitions, including Salón Nacional de Pintura Icpna 2015, and stands out among the generation of young Peruvian painters. Her work has been exhibited in Peru, Bolivia, Spain, the US, England and Mexico.

Inês Beleza Barreiros

Visual archaeologist. Studies the migration of images in time and space and is particularly interested in Indigenous and African cosmogonies. A lover of trees, she works in documentary film. Soon she will complete a PhD in Media, Culture, and Communication from NYU, with a thesis on visuality and counter-visuality in the Portuguese empire. She holds a Master’s Degree in Art History, from FCSH-UNL and an Undergraduate Degree in History – Art History, from FLUL. She is the author of Colonial Specters: a Visual Archaeology (forthcoming).

Jacqueline Sarmiento

Jacqueline Sarmiento is a professor of American History and researcher at the Center of American and Argentinian History at UNLP - Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Since 2001, she is part of the Museum of Women, in Argentina, and between 2008 and 2016 she worked at the educational service of Museo de La Plata, which recently restituted Indigenous human remains to their communities. She did several research stays at Universidade Federal Fluminense and Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, both in Brazil. Currently, she participates in research projects in American History and Museum Studies. She holds an Undergraduate Degree in Anthropology and a PhD in History from UNLP, Argentina.

Nicholas Mirzoeff

Nicholas Mirzoeff is a visual activist working at the intersection of politics, race and global/visual culture. He is professor at the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU and one of the founders and leading theorists in the field of Visual Culture. He has published several books, including The Right to Look: A Counterhistory of Visuality (2011) and How to See the World (2015). His most recent project, The Appearance of Black Lives Matter (2017), is available as a free e-book. He was director of the International Association of Visual Culture from 2011 to 2016 and is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Photography and Culture, Situation Analysis and The Journal of Visual Culture. He regularly publishes articles and gives talks and lectures internationally. He holds an Undergraduate Degree in History from Oxford University, and a PhD in Art History from Warwick University.

Oscar Roldán-Alzate

Oscar Roldán-Alzate is a curator, art and culture critic, artist and political scientist. He is the director of the Department of Cultural Extension at Antioquia University, Medellín, Colombia. He was chief curator at the Medellín Modern Art Museum from 2007 to 2014. He has worked as an advisor to several cultural and educational institutes in Colombia and Latin America, also organizing and leading several cultural projects. In 2010 he founded the ALBO program, a cultural platform that promotes site-specific projects by young artists. He regularly publishes in History, Political Science and Art Theory journals. He holds a Master’s Degree in Political Science from Antioquia University.

Viv Golding

Viv Golding is a senior professor at the School of Museum Studies at Leicester University, where she is Joint Director of Postgraduate Research. She is president of the ICME - International Committee for Museums and Collections of Ethnography (ICOM) and was head of the Department of Formal Education at the Horniman Museum (1992-2002). She is a leading researcher in the area of prejudice and stereotypes in museums, with projects such as Behind the Looking Glass: 'Other-Cultures- Within' Translating Cultures. She has authored numerous articles and books, such as Museums and Communities: Curators, Collections, Collaboration (2013) and Learning at the Museum Frontiers: Identity, Race and Power (2009). She was co-editor of the influential book Museums and Truths (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2013), and was awarded the Museum and University Collaboration prize (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science). She holds a PhD in Museum Studies from the University of Leicester.

Winani Thebele

Winani Thebele is chief curator and head of the Ethnology Division of the National Museum of Botswana since 1993. She is a researcher at the History Department of Botswana University, and a member of several international organizations dedicated to cultural heritage, such as The Southern African Heritage Association, The African International Council of Museums, UNESCO Inter-Governmental Committee for the Return of Cultural Property and ICOM - International Council of Museums. She regularly publishes articles in cultural heritage journals. Her doctoral thesis (Anthropology Department, Wits University, South Africa) is titled "The Migrated Museum: Restitution or Shared Heritage?".

Filipa Cordeiro

Filipa Cordeiro (Coimbra, 1988) holds an Undergraduate and a Master’s Degree in Multimedia Art (FBAUL) and a Master’s Degree in Philosophy (FCSH-UNL). She is currently a PhD student in Art Studies at FCSH-UNL, with an FCT scholarship. She has worked as a research assistant at the Vilém Flusser-Archiv (UdK, Berlin), at Zé dos Bois Gallery and at the experimental film project Oporto. She also works as an artist and independent publisher with the label URUBU.

Rui Mourão

Rui Mourão (1977, Lisbon) is a visual artist and researcher. He studied Arts (UAB, Barcelona; CECC, Barcelona; Maumaus, Lisbon; Malmö Art Academy, Malmö-Sweden) and holds a Post-graduate Degree in Digital Visual Cultures and a Master’s Degree in Ahtropology (both from ISCTE, Lisbon). He is a PhD student in Art Studies (FCSH-UNL) with an FCT scholarship. He creates video art (his work has been selected for LOOP – The Video Art Festival, in Barcelona, and received the audience prize at FUSO – Anual de Videoarte de Lisboa). He directed a film that premiered at the Portuguese Cinemateca and was shortlisted for best documentary at QueerLisboa Festival. He has participated in art residencies, performances, talks, articles, books and over 50 exhibitions in 16 countries.

Mail: outrasvozesnomuseu@gmail.com

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José Soares

(1976, Lisbon) José Soares holds an Undergraduate Degree in Communication Design from Lusófona University. Throughout the years, he has collaborated with different institutions and companies in several areas, such as editorial design, branding and advertising. Fascinated by the digital world and a lover of images and the 7^th art, he created in 2008 the first Portuguese online cinema magazine: Take Cinema Magazine, a collaborative not-for-profit project, which has become a reference in the area. Over the last years, his skills and love for the online realm have allowed him to develop several webdesign projects.