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The LABORATORY is framed in what the Misak and Yanakuna peoples understand as the spiral unfolding of time, which implies setting out to walk in other geographies and times the ways in which the creative act and the languages of sensibility have been accompanied from the ancestral beginnings of our territory.

Our ancestral command is to share a fraternal word as Children of the Water who are critical of the metaphysical and physical dissemination of coloniality in our bodies/territories; individual challenges are always collective, from our point of view. Thus, the 'minga,' which is one of our principles, operates by redistributing the responsibility for decolonizing the territory and liberating the Elder Spirit of each place—city—that is held captive.

Over the last two centuries, the modern project has reduced our subjectivity—in political terms—to the Nation-State, economically to the market, epistemologically to the legitimization and circulation of Eurocentric knowledge, and spiritually, it has molded our perception to the mere objectivism of the world. In this scenario, the validity of the infinite ancestral outlooks is not only unquestionable, but also necessary.

Thus, we walk this collective word towards the healing of these wounds through the notions of Major Duty/Rights and Law of Origin/Natural Law of the native peoples that we are.

All those who feel Nupiré-MotherEarth are invited to the Bonfire: individuals and processes related to the native peoples, caretakers of water; hearts of all cultures, genders, capacities, and disciplines that deem it necessary/possible to harmonize modernity/coloniality through the arts and creativity.