{"id":12448,"date":"2026-07-06T14:28:41","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T17:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/selvagemciclo.org.br\/?p=12448"},"modified":"2026-07-06T21:11:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T00:11:38","slug":"viva-viva-escola-viva-uma-nova-exposicao-de-pensamentos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selvagemciclo.org.br\/en\/viva-viva-escola-viva-uma-nova-exposicao-de-pensamentos\/","title":{"rendered":"\"LONG LIVE THE LIVING SCHOOL\",\na new exhibition of thought"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"LONG LIVE THE LIVING SCHOOL\",
\na new exhibition of thought<\/h5>\n

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\u201cYou're probably used to visiting art exhibitions, but what we create are exhibitions of thought, a thought that comes from a very ancient memory, from what the grandmother of the grandmother of the grandmothers of us all has always dreamt of and practiced: living in peace.\" - Cristine Taku\u00e1, curator of the exhibition and coordinator of the Living Schools<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cLong Live the Living School\u201d is the new exhibition by the <\/span>Living Schools<\/span><\/a>, on view until August 9 at the Tomie Ohtake Institute in S\u00e3o Paulo, curated by Cristine Taku\u00e1. The exhibition is the continuation of a dream that began with the <\/span>first edition<\/span><\/a> of \u201cLong Live the Living School\u201d at Casa Brasil and is the result of many years of care, collaboration, and collective creation with the five Living Schools. <\/span><\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div> \n<\/div><\/div>\n\t\t

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Guarani, Tukano-Desana Tuyuka, Baniwa, Maxakali and Huni Kuin sections.
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\u201cThis exhibition is the greatest dream of ours as the Living Schools. It is our science, our wisdom, our languages, our narratives, our memory, our oral traditions. Today we are sharing with you this deep dive into cosmology, this deep dive into other worlds that we are presenting to you, this is living knowledge from our territories.\" <\/strong>- Francy Baniwa, coordinator of the Baniwa Living School<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Coordinated by educator, mother, midwife, and thinker Cristine Taku\u00e1, of the Maxakali people, the Living Schools are a movement dedicated to strengthening and transmitting knowledge across five Indigenous territories belonging to the Baniwa, Guarani, Huni Kuin, Maxakali, Tukano, Desana, and Tuyuka peoples. The name \"Living Schools\" originated in Hatxa Ku\u0129, the language of the Huni Kuin people, as \"Shubu Hiwea\", through Huni Kuin shaman Dua Bus\u00eb, coordinator of the Huni Kuin Living School and the first to conceive the drawing that gave form to this concept. The Living Schools are woven into every aspect of the Selvagem Association through an ongoing flow of exchanges, collaborative partnerships, and financial support for the territories.<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Shaman and coordinator of the Huni Kuin Living School Dua Bus\u00eb on the preview of \u201cLong Live the Living School\u201d.
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\"The support that Selvagem offers the Living Schools is entirely reciprocal, because it is built on trust, friendship, and on a continuity of work. It does not have an end date, like a work project. It is something we hope will be like a forest, something that lasts forever.\" - Anna Dantes, director of the Selvagem Association<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Since 2024, a wide range of works have been created in the Living School territories in workshops held for the exhibition, bringing together children, young people, elders, and knowledge keepers to develop artistic creations rooted in the interests and traditional practices of each community. Alongside these workshops, organised in partnership with the Tomie Ohtake Institute, the <\/span>Living School House artistic residency<\/span><\/a>took place in October 2025 at the Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro (MAM Rio), giving rise to many of the works now featured in the exhibition. The residency also gave birth to the film<\/span>Our hand is a flower<\/span><\/a>, which offers a glimpse into the gestures, chants, and creative processes behind the works that now make up the new exhibition.<\/span><\/p>\n

Visitors to the exhibition can also get to know the resident artists through five <\/span>video-testimonials<\/span><\/a> recorded at the end of the residency, in which each participant reflects on their path, inspirations, and impressions of the days of collective exchange. These recordings also unfolded into five new Selvagem notebooks, one dedicated to each Living School, which will be published throughout July, along with the notebook \"Is Art a Commodity?\", bringing together the conversations from the roundtable on Indigenous arts, the art market, and cultural and museum institutions that took place at the close of the residency.<\/span><\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\t\t<\/div> \n\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div> \n<\/div><\/div>

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Artists\u2019 testimonials recorded during the Living School House residency, on view in the exhibition.
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Sueli and Isael Maxakali, coordinators of the Maxakali Living School, together with Mamei and Isabelinha Maxakali on the exhibition preview.
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\"This isn't just an exhibition, we are bringing all of our knowledge, all the strength of nature, all the spirits that walk with us, the people who came before us and left this knowledge in our care, our living memory.\" - Sueli Maxakali, coordinator of the Maxakali Living School<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n

In addition to the sections dedicated to the knowledge of each Living School, the exhibition includes a space honoring the \u201cgrandparents\u201d - the elders understood as essential references in preserving and transmitting knowledge. Through stories, chants, and everyday practices, they sustain a living memory that stretches across time and connects different levels of existence. By bringing these presences into the exhibition through works by Ailton Krenak, Ehuana Yanomami, T\u00f5r\u00e3mu K\u1ebdh\u00edri (Luiz Lana), and Mois\u00e9s Piy\u00e3ko, the exhibition invites visitors to engage with ways of knowing grounded in listening, lived experience, and continuity across generations.<\/p>\n

The exhibition also features large-scale murals painted by 25 Living School artists at the Tomie Ohtake Institute during the installation period. During the installation, five flags bearing the graphic traditions of the Living School peoples were also created and raised. Visitors can access a newspaper produced especially for the exhibition, bringing together the exhibition texts, photographs of the artworks, and additional materials that deepen the understanding of the Living Schools, including information about each of the participating peoples. The publication is available both at the exhibition or in a digital version <\/span>here<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\t

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