WATA (firewitch) Engaging with the forest as kin, collaborator, and witness to colonial trauma, WATA (firewitch) would consist of site-specific sculptural assemblages and stream-of-consciousness ritual performances of ‘embodied territorial ancestral healing’, mediated through Afro-Indigenous Cosmologies in the region of Cerrado of Pindorama (so-called Brazil). Khipucamayoc: weaver of arboreal entanglements (2025) site-specific ritual performance and sculptural…
Category: Broken Forests Brazil
Mathias Reis curator/artist for BF Fireweed/Flora do Fogo 2026
Mathias Reis is a visual artist and photographer. Over the past ten years, his poetic research has focused on creating works in which environment and landscape play a fundamental role in their conception, often assuming a central presence. His approach begins with the presentness of the body in direct sensory relation with other life forms…
Valéria Scornaienchi joins Broken Forests Fireweed Brazil
My practice investigates modes of coexistence in times marked by ecological and social crisis. I am interested in how encounters between human and more-than-human beings can generate sensitive and ethical shifts within contemporary landscapes of ruin. I approach living as a collective verb — to live with, to make with, to think with, to imagine…
Broken Forests Brazil – July 20 – August 10, 2023
Contingents of Broken Forests Artists from: Italy, Canada, Colombia and (of course) Brazil attending this AMAZING Eco-Cultural exchange event. We traveled from Campinas, São Paulo to Paranapiacaba in the Serro do Mar mountains to explore the indigenous rain forests there and to create site-specific installations and performances. The Group also visited the Jaguaraguava River area,…
