Despertando orixalidades: ética, poética e política na criação artística de crianças do Ilê Axé Mãe Nice D’Xangô, Jaguarão/RS

Abstract

The Ìyàwó in this Ilê ties the point of reflection about cognitive and social colonization into an action research. I develop the research with the children of Ilê Axé Nice D'Xangô, Terreiro settled at the foot of the quarry in Jaguarão/RS. Crossed by the experiences in this territory through the Cultural Group Abi Axé and my rooting in this space by becoming Ìyàwó – daughter of a saint –, the desire to foster the intersection between art and Candomblé through art workshops was born. These workshops were conceived from the perspective of broadening the understanding of Terreiro as an artistic/educational space of reference, that is, thinking about this territory beyond worship. In this process, I see drawing manifesting itself as the point that evokes the intersection of the sacred and the poetic dimensions from the Afro-Brazilian cosmo-perception. This is the guiding understanding of this research. In short, there are two elements that trigger this study: a) The aesthetic experiences to which I was exposed from the moment I moved to the south of the South and started to experience the culture of Terreiro. b) The drawings, the poetics, the representation of the imaginary of the child of Terreiro as a vindication of ancestry. Methodologically guided by the Pedagogy of Circularity (FERREIRA, 2021), the Em-sinagens of Terreiro (MACHADO, 2017), Pedagoginga (ROSA, 2019), Pedagogy of the Crossroads (RUFINO, 2019). I propose the discussion based on a Conceptual Xirê (PIEDADE, 2017), opposing the hierarchy of knowledge. The research proposes the intersection of ethical, aesthetic and political fields. The reflection was built on the exercise of circulating about the memories, in a return to the experiences imprinted in the memory, that is, in the reverberation and effect of the field focusing on my own body. I am interested in stimulating the emergence of a subjectivity that authorizes the insurgency movement (increasingly urgent), so I seek to resume and boost the creative power, opening up to other becomings: against hegemonic, unfinished, plural, unpredictable, circular, spiral.