Sapara Memory with Political and Spiritual Leader Mukutsawa Santi

November 27th 2021
Video
Region
Ecuador
Researcher
Context
Taller Sapara was a listening/recording workshop that was carried out in Llanchama Cocha, Sapara Nation, Amazonia, in May 2021 which focused on young people. All activities are linked to knowledge and experiences of the Sapara Nation about education and cultural exchange. Taller Sapara is not based on “teaching” but sharing. The work is based on deep listening exercises, soundwalks, soundscaping and filming experiments to produce collectively a collection of audiovisual materials like an ecological and cultural document and also a base for future research and creation on a global scale.
Formats
Archive of the future
Field research
Talk
Transdisciplinary research
Vocalities
Workshop
Disciplines
Anthropology
Deep listening practices
Ecology
Field recording
Politics
Spirituality
Themes
Climate crisis
Healing
Human footprint
Listening as activism
More-than-humans
Taking turns with Earth
Wisdom Keepers
Worlding
Climate change
Environmental justice

Mukutsawa Santi, political and spiritual leader of the Sapara nation, in dialogue with her son Shimanu Ushigua, tells us many oral stories about the memory, myth and vision of the Sapara communities

A small but profound approach to the Amazonian perspectives of life based on the relationship between the forest and its multiple beings and dimensions.