Milieu(X), Wayam (working title)

Avec Damien Davy, Anthropologist - Research Engineer, CNRS - and Agnès Clerc-Renaud, Professor - University of Guiana -

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Thomas Tilly: Sound recording and creation
Damien Davy et Agnès Clerc Renaud: Scientific advice and interviews

Third part of the series, conducted with the inhabitants of the village of Favard, around the history of the people of Palikur and their relationship with the environment.

Socio-historical context (excerpt)
... The village of Favard is home to Native Americans of Creole-speaking Karipuna origin, Native Americans descended from the Aruã people of the lower Oyapock and Trois Palétuviers, and the Palikur of the Uaça River. Isolated from the town of Roura and accessible only by canoe, the inhabitants of this village, the Walyku association, and their chief, Z. Lucas, are spearheading a genuine project to preserve their history and way of life...

*About Milieu(X)

Conceived in 2021 by sound artist Thomas Tilly and ethnobotanist Marc-Alexandre Tareau, Milieu(X) is a long-term project addressing the relationship between the peoples of French Guiana and their territory.
Each instalment of the project explores the particular characteristics of a cultural group through the prism of its interdependent relationships with the various entities (places, animals, plants, spirits) that populate its environment. The exclusively sound-based pieces in the collection – which thus echoes the main mode of transmission of Amazonian knowledge – are all informed by the knowledgeable members of a community, working in collaboration with an anthropologist who has already been involved with the given community. Initially destined for French Guiana, the Milieu(X) project is conceived as a body of work with multiple finalities. Concerts and public debates, conservation of the intangible heritage, resources for younger people – each component of the series is intended as a “useful” object, situated at the crossroads of interpretations and ways of representing worlds.