Ñamiajapú dajãrãsa: The Work as a Promise of Reunion

Abstract

Ñamiajapú dajãrãsa is a collaborative and interdisciplinary artistic creation process that emerged in 2018, addressing the phenomenon of Indigenous youth migration in the department of Vaupés in the Colombian Amazon. Through an exercise of emotional and reflective memory that combines writing with audiovisual archives, this article presents contextual and methodological aspects of the creative process, as well as the questions and emotions generated throughout four years of work. As a result, the reader is brought closer to an initiative whose main interest is to facilitate encounters and relationships among Indigenous and non-Indigenous creators from Mitú, Villavicencio, and Bogotá in a shared territory where the confrontation and dialogue between cultural and generational narratives, languages, and knowledge constitute the creative material and give meaning to action through art.