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    Brazil Footprint returns in 2023 with new collaborations with extraordinary artists, filmmakers and researchers from Brazil. The programme starts on April 27 with a workshop at the University of Manchester with Daiara Tukano and Marilene Ribeiro facilitated by Francesca Laura Cavallo. It continues through June with a new collaboration with Wapichana Artist Gustavo Caboco, The Santo Domingo Centre of Excellence for Latin American Research at the British Museum and Holmleigh Primary School, and an Amazonian Film Programme Curated by Vanessa Gabriel Robinson at the Gulbenkian Art Centre in Canterbury on June 24. The programme is supported by the British Council Biennial Connect Grant, the University of Manchester, the University of Kent and the Gulbenkian Art Centre. The complete programme is coming soon...

  • Guardians and Forests:

    risk, art and local knowledge

    A workshop exploring ideas of guardianship and stewardship of borders within forests.

    Thu, 27 Apr 2023 11:00 - 16:00 BST

    University of Manchester

    Stephen Joseph Studio (Room 1.) Manchester M15 6EX United Kingdom  

    Exploring ideas of guardianship and stewardship of borders within forests, this workshop will focus on risk, art, and the agency of local knowledge in defence of rainforests. We will discuss Indigenous art practices that work across these three realms in the Amazon with Artist and Activist Daiara Tukano (via Zoom); we will consider the political agency of photography with Brazilian artist and ecologist Marilene Ribeiro; and we will directly explore tools and strategies for guarding our safe spaces, wherever they might be. This workshop is organised by CLACS, the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and is part of the Brazil Footprint 00 2023 public programme. The event is funded by CIDRAL, the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Arts and Languages, which facilitates cross-disciplinary activities and exchanges within the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures, University of Manchester.

    Speakers/Facilitators

    Daiara Tukano, Indigenous artist and activist (via Zoom)

    Francesca Laura Cavallo, Curator and Art Historian, Royal College of Art

    Marilene Ribeiro, Artist and Ecologist 

    An online-only option is available to listen only to the presentation by Daiara Tukano.

    Register HERE for the appropriate type of ticket. 

     

    Image: Above_ ©Daiara Tucano, The Redemption 2022. Below_ ©Marilene Ribeiro from the Open Fire Series 

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    Brazil Footprint 0.0 _2022

    Science and Industry Museum_6 July 2022, Manchester  

    For the second edition of our festival, we joined forces with Science and Industry Museum in Manchester for a curated programme to coincide with Sebastião Salgado's exhibition. The programme has invited artists and guests born in Amazonia to occupy spaces at the museum with video projections and show-and-tell displays, addressing the effects of colonialism, industrialisation and extractivism in the region by celebrating the power of its art, craft and spirituality as means of resistance.

    Amazonia Mapping Festival, Rafael BQueer, Luakam Anambé, Flavia Amedeu, Amitixathi, Vanessa Gabriel Robinson

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    Image Credits: Amazonia Late at the Science Museum, artworks by Amixathi, Festival Amazônia Mapping, 2020. Frame by Haux" Artwork by Carol Santana, Yaka Sales. 

  • Festival 2021

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    Barbican Centre

     

    A week-long online festival that explores Brazil's perspective on the global mobilisation against climate inequalities, in the context of the UN’s upcoming COP26 conference. Responding to the Barbican exhibition Claudia Andujar: The Yanomami Struggle, the programme brings together artists, curators and academics to discuss how art addresses questions that go beyond technocratic approaches to climate change: symbiosis, interdependence and the resilience of

    Indigenous knowledge.

     

    PROGRAMME and PRESS

     

    Image Credit: Mülambo, Mareé, Acrilic on Canvas, 2020

  • Studio Visit: Mulambö

    Lecture: Uýra Sodoma

    Panel discussion

    Talk with Naine Terena

    Have You Seen a River Stop?

    Have You Seen a River Stop?

    Poetics of Resilience

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  • about us

     

     

    Brazil Footprint is a Research and Engagement network and public programme for the support of ecologically minded, decolonial and intersectional discourses and art practices across Brazil and the UK. It was founded in 2021 by Dr Francesca Laura Cavallo as a part of 'Acting before the Emergency', a research project at the University of Kent supported by Research UK through the Global Challenges Research Framework.  

    In 2021 we partnered with the Barbican Centre for an online programme of films and conversations with Brazilian Indigenous and Afro-Brazilian Artists to coincide with Claudia Andujar's exhibition. Focusing on the Amazon region in 2022, we curated a public programme with artists from the region at the Science and Industry Museum in Manchester as part of their Amazônia late event for Salgado's exhibition.  

    Founder Dr Francesca Laura Cavallo. Cultural strategy advisor: Vanessa Gabriel Robinson. 2023 Curators: Francesca Cavallo, Jamille Pinhero Diaz. Show and tell coordination: Ana Didonet. Partners 2023: Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Art and Language and CLACS Centre for Latin American Studies, the University of Manchester, Centre for Indigenous and Settler Colonial Studies at the University of Kent, Holmleigh Primary School.

     

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