Conexão Pindorama: winding conversations on research, art, and education from the backcountries of Paranãmbuko

Abstract

This present report is a result of emerging reflections from the research process named Conexão Pindorama, realized by the “Macondo Studies and Research Group: arts, contemporary cultures and other epistemologies” (Grupo de Estudos e Pesquisas Macondo: artes, culturas contemporâneas e outras epistemologias), from the Federal Rural University of Pernambuco (UFRPE) campus in Serra Talhada. The first notes presented here, which are referred to in the title as “winding conversations,” are essayistic exercises that intend to articulate the indigenous ways of narrating, the challenges in the classroom imposed by law n° 11.645/2008, and our experiences as teachers in various levels of education in the backcountries of Pernambuco. The proposed idea aims to meditate on a praxis of anti-colonial and confluent research (Bispo, 2015) that crosses over the elaboration of other methodologies, taking into consideration intersections such as the management of orality, poetics, and memory, as well as an accurate look into possible transits and overflows between the canonical boundaries of science and art.