Atvar (excerpts)

The bridge people project: In indian-native Brazil “Pahi” (from the language of the people Krahô: “been bridge”) is a name - or rather a verb- the guarany indian gets when he or she decides to leave their own tribe and travel further living in other tribes as a means to exchange technology and culture.

After an initiation as “been bridge”, this person belongs to a nation that has no physical representation or territory called Bridge People. There is not much information about these people since guarany culture is oral and rarely translated to any written (european) language. Amongst other indigenous populations around the world people are familar with living in more than one culture.
Living in one culture limits people’s ability to see different possible responses within any situation and therefore they accept their own monocultural view as natural and normal. Anything outside the norm is reacted to from a position of power. In an attempt to investigate this phenomenon Bridge PeopleProject produced a little adventure where Renato, an 8 year old boy goes back to the place his mother was raised and sees himself in a place he cannot communicate normally because the other children dont speak the same language as him or have the same cultural background. The idea behind this story is to have it translated by an internet translation, Internet translations are not in any way accurate. You can only guess the story line and details. In this manner each language make its own version.