TEPI - THEATER AND
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES,
3rd edition
TePI – Theater and indigenous peoples – 3rd edition
Thinking above the clouds and another sky full of stars
When we opened TePI, in 2018, bringing the relationship between the performing arts and indigenous peoples, we were already thinking about further demarcating this territory that is theater, with the presence of indigenous artists who, increasingly, present their political and ancestral expressions in art spaces. With this perspective, we encompass the notion of scenic language as a place that does not intend to reproduce patterns, but a sphere of knowledge that is in itself an experience to be lived.
With these foundations, TePI was built bringing the importance of indigenous artistic protagonism in its representation, in the format of five major axes: Artistic Exhibition, Meetings, Circula TePI, Critical Landscape and Publications, conducted in person in the city of São Paulo and the platform TePI.Digital, which reached an audience of more than 26 thousand visitors.
This year, 2023, TePI reached its 3rd edition as an artistic exhibition that took place between the 7th and 16th of July. Conceived and directed by curator, director and artist Andreia Duarte in dialogue and co-curatorship with indigenous leader Ailton Krenak, this exhibition proposed “thinking above the clouds and another sky full of stars”. A notion that seeks to enrich subjectivities so that we can create with as much freedom as we are capable of. Therefore, we suggest the crossing of cosmologies from different regions of Brazil and the world, strengthening the plurality of poetic visions.
The exhibition has already brought together several guests, considering representatives of more than 30 ethnicities, including: Baniwa, Terena, Mapuche, Shipibo, Guajajara, Krenak, Tariano, Tukano, Potiguara, Pataxó, Pankararu, Guarani, Maxacali, Desana, Kamayurá, Tupinambá, Makuxi, Kadiwéu, Kubeo, Tentehar, Corezomaé and Wapichana.
Check out the retrospective of the third edition of TePI:
