Altamira 2042 is a call to attention for Xingu, a wildly flowing clear river dotted with waterfalls. Its banks, ripples and depths are home to several indigenous and riverine communities and thousands of plant and animal species.
The performer Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha conducts an orchestra of speakers, hard drives and projectors that transmit the words of Araweté and Juruna people, the claims of the lawyer of the city of Altamira and of reporters, the voices of Raimunda Gomes da Silva, activist riverine woman from Xingu, ambient artists, rappers, and artists, as well as the city, the forest, animals, rain, and the Xingu river itself.
The polyphony forms a strong flow that pulls the spectator in to be included in the community of diverse voices and the fight against the Belo Monte dam.
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Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha is an actress, director and researcher. For the past seven years, she has directed the initiative Riverbank Project: about rivers, buiúnas and fireflies on Brazilian river beds, with an attempt to shed light on the impacts of industrial land use. The project is an art research dedicated to listening and amplifying the testimony of Brazilian rivers that are living an experience of catastrophe. The initiative comments on the Anthropocene, which in this context refers to the moment when people stop fearing a catastrophe and turn into one themselves. Altamira 2042 is the second performance in the project and it will be staged this autumn for the first time in Europe.
Conception, Direction: Gabriela Carneiro Da Cunha, Xingu River
Artistic Dialogues: Cibele Forjaz, Dinah De Oliveira, Sonia Sobral
Assistant Director: João Marcelo Iglesias
Second Assistant Director: Clara Mor, Jimmy Wong
With texts by: Raimunda Gomes Da Silva, João Pereira Da Silva, Povos Indígenas Araweté E Juruna, Bel Juruna, Eliane Brum, Antonia Mello, Mc Rodrigo / Poeta Marginal, Mc Fernando, Thais Santi, Thais Mantovanelli, Marcelo Salazar, Lariza
Video Editing: João Marcelo Iglesias, Rafael Frazão, Gabriela Carneiro Da Cunha
Text Editing: Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha, João Marcelo Iglesias
Sound Design: Felipe Storino, Bruno Carneiro
Costumes: Carla Ferraz
Lighting: Cibele Forjaz
Installation Design: Carla Ferraz, Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha
Installation Production: Carla Ferraz, Cabeção, Ciro Schou
Technology, Programming, Automation: Bruno Carneiro, Computadores Fazem Arte.
Multimedia design: Rafael Frazão, Bruno Carneiro
Visual Design: Rodrigo Barja
Body Work: Paulo Mantuano, Mafalda Pequenino
Images: Eryk Rocha, Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha, João Marcelo Iglesias, Clara Mor, Cibele Forjaz
Research: Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha, João Marcelo Iglesias, Cibele Forjaz, Clara Mor, Dinah De Oliveira, Eliane Brum, Sonia Sobral, Mafalda Pequenino, Eryk Rocha
Production management: Gabriela Gonçalves / Corpo Rastreado
International distribution: Judith Martin / Ligne directe