Workshop
‘If the Baltic Sea could talk, what would it say?’ asks Brazilian artist Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha together with Raimunda Gomes da Silva, activist riverine woman from Xingu, Amazon.
Based on de-colonial and ecological practices learned from Raimunda Gomes da Silva and carried out by Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha along the rivers of the Amazon, this workshop aims to establish a space of healing, joy, and fascination.
Inspired by the procedures and practices that guide the work of the Buiúnas network – a network for women, rivers and art, the artist Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha invites participants from different origins, nationalities, languages, bodies, ancestry, crafts, and ways of life, to listen to the sea’s testimony.
The procedures proposed by the artists for this collective experience are the same as those adopted for the research project Margens. On Rivers, Buiúnas and Fireflies, dedicated to listening to rivers experiencing catastrophe, from the perspective of the river. The encounter in a figurative sense between waters from Brazil’s Amazon region and in Europe is seen as a decolonial strategy and a space for healing, joy, and fascination.
The following procedures will guide the work:
Dream as a study method
Listening to ‘invisible non-human beings’: the dead, spirits, matter, natural phenomena
Singing as a translation language between worlds
Creation of mediating entities
Do not hierarchize the human presence on the scene
Only what belongs to the territory can belong to the work
Documentation of the invisible and the inaudible
Use of techno-shamanic instruments
Inversion of Thought
At a certain moment, an offering will be made to the river
The workshop happens partly outside at the sea, please be prepared with warm clothing.