Analysis and community experience: dialogues between amerindian arts and tembiapó guarani

Abstract

We seek to share an analysis and experience in a Guarani community, building meanings from extension and research activities in community psychology and education, linked to the Peabiru Research Group: Amerindian Education and Interculturality, within the Language, Intercultural Experience and Education Research Line from the University of Santa Cruz do Sul. From this context, we make connections with American geocultures, which may come to interconnect ways of being in Amerindian Art. The community, from which it takes place, is territory of the Mbya Guarani ethnic group, in Tekoá Yvy Poty (Flor da Terra), in Barra do Ribeiro, in Rio Grande do Sul. Through dialogues, observations, conversations, reports and coexistence with these people, in an approach of community insertion referenced in participatory research of an ethnographic-collaborative nature, it was possible to perceive some aspects that guide artistic practice - while tembiapó - in Guarani education. So, we ask: what is tembiapó for the Guarani? What is the pedagogical meaning of artistic making as ways of being, living and coexisting in a sensitive-spiritual experience with the sociocultural, ecological, cosmological and collaborative? Articulations were made between meanings constructed by the indigenous people of this village and Rodolfo Kusch's theoretical framework on Gran Arte and the aesthetic act in América Profunda to think about possibilities of psychological practices of analysis and community experience in Aldeia Guarani. The results of the collaborative actions were described, including in the writing of this article, which involves the authorship of the intellectual Gerônimo Franco - Verá Tupã, the researchers and extensionists.