KO'EYENE

Ko’eyene brings together Indigenous artists from diverse South American peoples and regions to Braunschweig to encourage intercultural dialogue that will be shaped by themselves. In the Theatre Park, this gathering will serve as a site of solidarity and collective action to address shared challenges of our time and to advocate for Indigenous rights and sovereignty on a transnational stage.

Rooted in the variety of tree species that soround the State Theatre Braunschweig in the Theatre and Museum Park, Festival Theaterformen 2024 invites you on a journey through the tapestry of time. Inspired by the Terena Indigenous people's term "Ko'eyene", meaning "today,"we want to think together about time beyond a chronology. The linear conception of time prevalent in Western thought will be disrupted and alternative temporalities that encompass the past, present, and future simultaneously, will unfold. Ko'eyene celebrates this interconnectedness, and encompasses all beings who traverse the park both human and non-human. How can we pose the question of the past and the future while things and beings exist in the here and now? What unique perspectives do the individual trees in these parks open up for us?

The curators of the Ko'eyene program are Denilson Baniwa, Naine Terena, Gustavo Caboco, and Jamille Pinheiro Dias. The Indigenous artists and collectives they have invited not only show interdisciplinary artistic works that reflect ancestral knowledge and ongoing struggles against colonial legacies, but also allow us to practice this knowledge. The interdisciplinarity is manifested in the diverse facets of their practices, which range from performance, installations, ceramics, photography, video projection, and basketry ­– they encompass the material culture and technology of different indigenous communities. The artists come from the Baniwa, Terena, Wapichana, Macuxi, Shipibo-Konibo, Kadiwel, Karapotó, and Qom peoples. Their perspectives may stem from diverse cultural contexts, but they still resonate through their respective cosmologies, their shared struggles against extractivism, and the defense of traditional knowledge, practices, and territories.

The complete curatorial statement on Ko'eyene can be found via following link: Curatorial statement

By and with Denilson Baniwa, Fran Baniwa, Francisco Baniwa, Lilly Baniwa, Gustavo Caboco, Roseane Cadete, Wihtner FaGo & Chana Dávila, Idjahure Kadiwel, Ziel Karapotó, Eskina Qom & Ema Cuañeri, Georgina Sarmento, Dhoze Terena Kali Sini, Irineu Nje'a Terena, Naine Terena, Niara Terena, Jamille Pinheiro Dias and many more.

The complete programme will be available from June on www.theaterformen.de

Information on the Ko'eyene-curators Gustavo Caboco, Naine Terena, Denilson Baniwa and Jamille Pinheiro Dias will be provided shortly.