The Living Camera in The Ritual Landscape: The Teachers of the Tatuutsi Maxakwaxi School, the Wixarika Ancestors, and the Teiwari Negotiate Videography
The Living Camera in The Ritual Landscape: The Teachers of the Tatuutsi Maxakwaxi School, the Wixarika Ancestors, and the Teiwari Negotiate Videography

Summary/Abstract: In this article, we outline the meanings modern Wixárika institutions, such as the school and the museum, may receive as parts of ritual landscape and how the community-based videos shot in the context of these institutions may increase our understanding of ritual landscapes in general. We discuss how ritual landscape can be researched using community-based documentary video art in a way that takes the ontological conceptions of the human and non-human relations of the community seriously. In this case, we understand community-based video art as artistic research in which the work is produced with the community for the community. The making of art, discussed in this article, is a bodily activity as it includes walking with a camera in the Wixárika ritual landscape, interviewing people for the camera, and documenting the work and rituals of the pupils, teachers, and the mara’akate (shaman-priests) planning the community-based museum.

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