Artistic residency and meetings with the artists Olinda Tupinambá, Lilly Baniwa and Ziel Karapotó, in dialogue with the museum collections of the National Museum of Ethnology, the National Museum of Natural History and Science and the Science Museum of the University of Coimbra, as well as the Torre do Tombo Portuguese National Archive, among others. […]
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The idea that much of the Amazonian forests have remained untouched throughout human history has long fascinated naturalists, policymakers, journalists, and natural and social scientists worldwide. For many centuries, Western science overlooked the contributions of Indigenous peoples to the shaping of Amazonian ecosystems, and conservation efforts have largely ignored the vital role these populations play […]
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The 1st TRIEI – Triennial of Invisible Spaces, the winning project of the 6th Cycle of Theatre and Performing Arts – MIMESIS, will take place through performances, urban interventions and videos, in invisible urban spaces located in downtown Coimbra, such as abandoned shop windows and facades of vacant buildings. Curated by Nelson Ricardo Martins, TRIEI […]
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Oralitures are a form of writing that exists alongside oral tradition, following proposals pioneered in Haiti, Senegal, Chile, and Colombia a few decades ago. Through reflections on the works of Amazonian creators such as Candre and Muruy, as well as a dialogue with the poetry of Juan Carlos Galeano, a Colombian poet based in the United […]
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Amazonia was originally described as a land without Law, Creed, or King—essentially a social tabula rasa upon which the virtues or economies of European societies could be inscribed, their deficiencies corrected, or sovereignty implemented through the creation of new kinds of polities. While not widely recognized, Amazonia has been a fertile ground for social and planning experiments […]
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Presentation of the book Amazónia: antologia e novos poemas by Juan Carlos Galeano, edited by Patrícia Vieira and Lukasz Kraj.In partnership with Mariposa Azual.
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Presentation of the book Amazónia: antologia e novos poemas by Juan Carlos Galeano, edited by Patrícia Vieira and Lukasz Kraj. In partnership with Mariposa Azual.
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Yasuní is one of the most diverse territories on the planet, both biologically and culturally. It is home to Indigenous peoples such as the Waorani and Kichwa, as well as peoples in voluntary isolation. This territory has become a symbol of the struggle for ethical energy transition in Ecuador. This event is the second in […]
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This photography exhibition examines the ruins of extractive cities in the Amazon from both human and more-than-human perspectives. Photographs: Christian Braga Curatorship: Christian Braga, Danielle Heberle Viegas and Patrícia Vieira In partnership with the Resilient Forest Cities project and Campus Anthropocene Goethe Institute, Rio de Janeiro December 2024 More information about the event
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In this presentation, I will refer to some of the enunciative, linguistic and aesthetic complexities of two main genres of ritual song by the Krahô, an Indigenous people speaking a Jê language who live in the northwest of the state of Tocantins, in Brazil. The talk will highlight the constitutive diversity of Amerindian vocal poetics (in this […]
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