Back to top

Bakish Rao: Plants in Struggle (2024)

Ko’eyene Kino Show at Theaterformen Festival      Museumspark, Braunschweig, Berlin      June 17,  2024      Participation: Denilson Baniwa, Jamille Pinheiro Dias, Roxana Davila,     Wihtner FaGo Anozero Ágora – Bienal de Coimbra      Casa Rua Visconde da Luz, Coimbra      May 16, 2024      Participation: Patrícia Vieira Month of […]

Ler MAis

The Environment in Nego Bispo’s Countercolonial Thought

Antônio Bispo dos Santos, a quilombola leader based in the Brazilian state of Piauí, is one of the most important thinkers in contemporary Brazil, known for his countercolonial ideas. Notions such as confluence, transfluence, biointeraction and involvement are founding concepts in an Afropindoramic, polytheistic grammar. His epistemology is structured around the organic circularity of beginning, […]

Ler MAis

Shaman Poetics: Daydreaming, Cosmic Politics, Performagic

The formulation of a shaman poetics aims to dynamize relations between extra-Western and Western imaginary powers, focusing on mythopoetic productive webs that operate within the geopolitical space-time that is now called Brazil. It seeks, at the same time, to strengthen “the encounter between different knowledges and the knowledge of the encounter,” by moving pieces of […]

Ler MAis

Beyond the Surface: Exploring Mercury Contamination in the Amazon through Art and Literature

How does Amazonian art visually and verbally narrate the contamination of the human andnon-human landscape by heavy metals? How can the creative process and the artistic effectof image and word convey poetry by exploring symbols, images and narratives that link thepolitical force of art with the promotion of environmental awareness? Considering traditionalknowledge, spirituality, and connections […]

Ler MAis

Trips, vortexes and banzeiros: Immersion in the Amazon rainforest and the nature of the media

In numerous travel accounts about immersion in the Amazon rainforest, the metropolitan subject faces an oppressive experience due to the intense heat, dense vegetation, fauna noises, and persistent insects, resulting in disorientation, torn clothes, and fever. Some are even swallowed by the jungle, as exemplified in the novel “La vorágine” by José Eustasio Rivera. Despite […]

Ler MAis

Amazon Month

Series of events about the Amazon, including an exhibition by Denilson Baniwa (ongoing) and a talk by Patrícia Vieira on April 5 at 6pm. March-April 2024 Galveias Palace, Lisbon In collaboration with the Lisbon City Hall. Program

Ler MAis

Screening of the film A Flor do Buriti

Screening of the film A Flor do Buriti, followed by a discussion with the film directors João Salaviza and Renée Nader Messora, moderated by Patrícia Vieira. March 23, 2024 9:30 pm Casa do Cinema de Coimbra In collaboration with the Caminhos do Cinema Português film festival.

Ler MAis

Lecture Series 2024

Linguistic heritage in private hands: comparing materials from the Arawak languages (Peru) with the case of California In recent years the California Language Archive at the University of California, Berkeley (CLA; cla.berkeley.edu) has been acquiring archival materials — recordings, dcouments, photographs — on the Arawak peoples of Peru from a group of anthropologists, linguists, and ethnomusicologists […]

Ler MAis