ite developed for the project On the glittering screen of the eyelids, by Josely Vianna Baptista, selected by Programa Rumos Itaú Cultural 2013-2014.

 

On the glittering screen of the eyelids is the first site of the digital trilogy Caminhos da América Meridional / Paths of Meridional América.

 

Project originator, iconographic researcher and editor: Josely Vianna Baptista

Webmaster, art director and graphic designer: Guilherme Zamoner

Photographer: Pedro Jerônimo Vianna de Faria

Historical researcher: Vera Regina Biscaia Vianna Baptista

Consultant: Miguel Gaissler

Producer: Maria Baptista

Cartographer: Guilherme Vianna Baptista

Visual palimpsests / collages: Guilherme Zamoner e Josely

English version: Chris Daniels

 

The photos used in the “visual palimpsests” belong to the archives of the Vianna Baptista and Rego Barros Biscaia families. Two photos by Martín Chambi were used in Itororó.

 

All rights reserved.

 

Thanks

To José Kozer, for his poetry; to Francisco Faria, for the introduction to Pedro Jerônimo’s portfolio, and for helping me to keep the project in focus; to Alexandre Mazzo, for his kind loan of photographic equipment; to Maria Angela Biscaia Vianna Baptista, for bringing the family’s iconographic archives; to Leonel Lienlaf, for giving us the ancestral voice of his people, the Mapuche; to Mono Andes for his kind permission to publish his photo “Cerro Nahuel”; to Maria Baptista, for her creative contribution, and her reading of my poetry (produced with the help of Fredy Kowertz, Estrela Leminski, Téo Ruiz and Whois Records); to Chris Daniels, my "other voice" in English; and to all my invaluable collaborators.

For support and encouragement: Vera Maria Biscaia Vianna Baptista, Lygia Azeredo, Cecília Vicuña, Margarita Alvarado, Thomas Gaissler, Julia Biscaia Zamoner, Jasmim, Mário Sérgio de Melo, Dante Mendonça, Claudia Inês Parellada, Maria Lucia Vianna Baptista, Celi Anizelli Mazzo, Célia Maria Gomes, Márcia e Manoel (Fazenda Santa Rita) and Roland Weingartner; also: Bianca Selofite, Samara Ferreira, Fernanda Ferreira Santos, Tayná Menezes, Valéria Barzaghi Toloi and Claudiney Ferreira (Itaú Cultural).

For guiding us on our itineraries: Tia Júlia (Fazenda São Damásio); Alexandre Betim (Parque Estadual do Guartelá); Lucia Pereira Wolf and Gabriel Coutinho (Caminhada Noturna no Parque Estadual de Vila Velha); seu Sued (Canyon das Laranjeiras).

And last, but by no means least: Arnoldo Monteiro Bach (Museu Sítio Minguinho, in Palmeira), and the technical teams at the Museu do Tropeiro and the Casa de Sinhara, in Castro, at the Museu Histórico Des. Edmundo Mercer Jr. – Museu do Diamante, in Tibagi, at the Museu Campos Gerais (Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa), and at the Museu Paranaense (Curitiba), and Biblioteca Nacional de Chile.