Paper
"Projeto Curas" Platform: co-creation, territory, spirituality, and the construction of memory archives.
presenters
Gabriela Acerbi Pereira
Nationality: Brasil
Residence: MG
UFSCAR - PPGAS
Presence:Online
Ana Maria de Paula Cruz
Nationality: Brasil
Residence: Brasil
Projeto Curas www.projetocuras.com.br
Presence:Online
Robson Américo
Nationality: Brasil
Residence: Brasil
Projeto Curas (www.projetocuras.com.br)
Presence:Online
Keywords:
territory, healing, spirituality, whitening policies; counter-narratives
Abstract:
The "Projeto Curas" (http://www.projetocuras.com.br) is an ongoing co-creative research initiative that records and shares sacred experiences and dimensions of life and community health management. It is an audiovisual archiving project of spiritual journeys and relationships of affection and care in the forms of prayer in the southern region of Minas Gerais, serving as a community platform for recording that involves research processes, documentation, and the construction of emotional, familial, and artistic archives. It is situated at the Umbanda Terreiro of Caboclo Pedra Branca in the city of Poços de Caldas, Minas Gerais (BRAZIL), under the guidance of Mother Ana de Iansã. We work from a perspective of reconstruction and circulation, exposing experiences and social compositions that are often not represented in the institutional archives of the southern Minas region and are directly affected by whitening policies that do not recognize the expression of Afro-Indigenous presences in the territory. The platform was awarded by IPHAN (Prêmio Rodrigo Melo Franco) in 2023 and is structured around artistic productions, collective gatherings, and shared documentary archives, along with the memories, knowledge, and personal perspectives of those involved in the conception of each initiative. Based on spiritual experiences, we build archives intertwining health, faith, devotion, and knowledge passed down from generation to generation.