Floresta de marés – Forest of the Tides
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| Admission: Free Admission |
| Which languages: English, German, Portuguese |
| Venue: Ground Floor, Hall 2 |
| Belongs to: Opening Mine. Yours. Ours!?, Agua. The Art and Cosmologies of Water, Nhé’ẽ – Circle Conversations |
Curator Walmeri Ribeiro and choreographer Marcela Cavallini take audiences to Guanabara Bay, where Caiçara communities live and fish between mangrove forests and industrial sites. They reflect on the gestures of fishing as carriers of a knowledge that moves through and is sustained by an entire community.
Nhé’ẽ are circular conversations where knowledge, experiences, and perspectives are shared. The term comes from the Guarani language and can mean the word, the voice, and language, but also the spirit.
Participants
Marcela Cavallini is an artist, researcher, and professor with a PhD in Visual Arts from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Her artistic practice moves across dance, performance, and different media, investigating the interrelations between the body, collectivity, and territory. She develops collaborative projects of social engagement that take collective embodied experience as a field for creating bonds and activating potentials to act, transform, and imagine other possible worlds. She is a member of the Territórios Sensíveis Platform, with aesthetic-political projects alongside caiçara communities in Guanabara Bay, and of Ponto de Cultura Carimbó dos Altos-RJ, with initiatives aimed at valuing and disseminating northern Brazilian culture in different cultural spaces.
Walmeri Ribeiro is an artist-researcher, curator, and Professor in the Department of Cultural Studies and Media and the Graduate Program in Contemporary Arts at the Federal Fluminense University (Niterói, Brazil) and a FAPERJ scientist fellow. Director of the Sensitive Territories platform, her research-creation focuses on the intersections between the arts and social-environmental issues, particularly climate change and colonial legacies. Investigating ethical-political and performativity approaches to artistic practice, she creates connections across cultural, ecological, and geopolitical dimensions with traditional communities: Indigenous, caiçara, and quilombola. Her artistic work spans performances, films, immersive and performative installations, and media art.
Gabriela Bandeira, born in a fishing community in São Gonçalo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is an artist, researcher, educator, and producer. The daughter of an artisanal fisherman, she works across drawing, audiovisual media, and ceramics. She holds a BA in Art and an MA in Artistic Process Studies from the Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF) and is currently pursuing a PhD in Interdisciplinary Poetics at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Her research focuses on site-specific artistic practices. This connection to her territory is reflected in Agradim, a project she created to preserve the memory of artisanal fishing, and in her work as an art educator with the NGO Guardiões do Mar.
Ana Emerich is a sound and visual artist working with image, listening, field recordings, archival practices and composition, in the territory of contemporary art and ecologies. www.anapaulaemerich.com