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Taita Hernando Chindoy, a governor of the Inga nation in Colombia and a participant of Culturescapes 2023 Amazonia, is back in Switzerland. Years ago, Chindoy set the stage for the emergence of Wuasikamas—Guardians of the Earth 🌎. Wuasikamas is a practice centered on a profound respect for human and nonhuman life, which allowed Inga to initiate a process of territorial defense, conservation practices, and autonomous governance. The principles of Wuasikamas helped to reestablish traditional Inga chagras, or Indigenous gardens filled with medicinal and edible plants, in which conservation, learning, and spirituality are practiced within each family. 🌱 Chindoy is a great advocate and enabler for “pluriversities”—educational initiatives that question Western ideas of the world and promote multi-perspective Indigenous and other knowledge systems. He is a representative of the international pluriversity initiative Ëconeêrã. Last weekend at the Engadin Art Talks, he spoke about the harmonization of knowledge, biospirituality, and the Indigenous work to heal the damages done to Earth in the last 500 years. Next week, February 7 at 18:00, he will discuss pluriversities at the Museum der Kulturen Basel (in Spanish with German translation). You can always listen to him speaking with an artist, Felipe Castelblanco, and a cultural promoter, filmmaker, and musician of the Kamënstá nation, Ayênan Quinchoa Juajibioy, during Culturescapes 2021 Amazonia on our website. Link in bio ☝️ And our amazing book “Amazonia. Anthology as Cosmology” which contains his interview is still available at Sternberg Press. @hernandochindoyinga @museumderkulturenbasel @engadinarttalks @felipecastel #culturescapes #culturescapes2021amazonia #amazonia #amazonas #colombia🇨🇴 #inga #biodiversity #indigenous
Culturescapes 2023 Sahara, a volcano of artistic works and experiences, is over after eight weeks of diverse exhibitions, performances, concerts, readings, and conversations. We still cannot quite get our heads around it ourselves! In this festival, we looked together into the topics of borders, resilience, and possible sustainable futures. Thank you for being with us in Basel, Bern, Zug, Bellinzona, Chur, Lausanne, Zürich, Baden, Dornach, as well as Bielefeld, Mulhouse, Dresden, Kortrijk, Valenciennes, and Roubaix! We had the honor to work with 129 artists, who created 127 events at 39 partner institutions and brought together some 42,000 visitors. Take a look at some highlights! And stay tuned for more stories about the upcoming Culturescapes 2025! 1 Serge Aimé Coulibaly & Faso Danse Théâtre, C La Vie, Culturescapes 2023 Sahara Opening, Theater Basel. Photo: Matthew Lee / Roche 2 Nolan Oswald Dennis, a recurse 4 [3] worlds, Kunsthalle Basel back wall. Photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel 3 Temitayo Ogunbiyi. You will follow the Rhein and compose play, performance with Sonic Space Basel, Museum Tinguely. Photo: Culturescapes 4 Mohamed Sleiman Labat, Saharawi Tea Ceremony, Atelier Mondial. Photo: Culturescapes 5 Culturescapes 20 Years. Flags on Mittlere Brücke, Basel, by Hauser, Schwarz. Photo: Culturescapes 6 Basel Kolonial City Tour. Photo: Culturescapes 7 Book launch of “Sahara: A Thousand Paths into the Future,” Master Symposium “Shores of Sahara-Sahel: Waves, Forms, Futures,” Yarri Kamara, Kateryna Botanova, Quinn Latimer, Institute Art Gender Nature HGK Basel FHNW. Photo: Gerta Xhaferaj 8 Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi [crazinisT artisT], The Dust in Bed, Institute Art Gender Nature HGK Basel FHNW. Photo: Gerta Xhaferaj 9 Keziah Jones, Kaserne Basel. Photo: Culturescapes 10 Nadia Beugré, Prophétique, Kaserne Basel. Photo: Werner Strouven @data_body @kunsthallebasel @theaterbasel @temitayostudio @museumtinguely @mohamed.sleiman.labat @ateliermondialart @hauser_schwarz @hgkbasel_institutkunst @ql_ql_ql_ql @crazinist_artist @keziahjonesofficiel @kasernebasel #culturescapes2023sahara #culturescapes #culturescapes20years #sahara
As the United Nations Climate Change Conference – COP 28 @COP28_UAE opens tomorrow, read our interview with the tireless environmental activist from Chad, Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim @hindououmar. She is a president of the Indigenous Women & Peoples Association of Chad and a co-chair of the International Indigenous Peoples Forum On Climate Change. In the conversation with Yarri Kamara, she said: “Climate change is everyone’s business: you can be young, or old, living in a developed or in a developing country, you can be white, Black, or any color of the rainbow, climate change does not discriminate. I’m on the frontline of the climate fight because I was born an activist. And because I come from a community that lives and depends on nature, and today we experience climate change in our daily lives—with extreme weather events, from drought to floods, that impact our food security, create conflict between communities who used to live in harmony and now are turned into enemies. I grew up seeing a lot of challenges, and I’m seeing my people growing up with more challenges. We are standing up because those living in the Global South are realizing how much their communities are directly affected, and those living in developed countries are realizing how their governments and companies are not acting for the rights of the planet or of the people.” A few months ago, she took part in the pre-COP 28 talks when the COP28 Presidency announced new measures to enhance the effective participation of Indigenous Peoples and authentic visibility of Indigenous People-led solutions. You can read the full interview via the link in bio and in our anthology “Sahara: A Thousand Paths Into the Future.” @katya_botanova @ql_ql_ql_ql 📸 Salma Khalil & Terre indigene #culturescapes2023sahara #culturescapes #culturescapes20years #cop28 #environment #climatechange #climateaction #cop28uae #indigenous #IndigenousPeoples #chad
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