Concept, direction: Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha / With: Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha, Mafalda Pequenino / Process Creation: Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha, João Freddi, Vicente Otávio, Mafalda Pequenino, Sofia Tomic / Assistance direction: Sofia Tomic / Photography: Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha, João Freddi, Vicente Otávio / Photo technique: João Freddi, Vicente Otávio / Image editing: Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha, João Freddi, Vicente Otávio, Marina Schiesari, Sofia Tomic / Text editing: Manoela Cezar, Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha, João Marcelo Iglesias, Sofia Tomic / Dramaturgy: Ana Carolina Alfinito, Paulo Basta, Rosana Farias Mascarenhas, Julia Ferreira Corrêa, Eric Jennings, Alessandra Korap, Maria Leusa Munduruku, Ediene Munduruku, Cacica Isaura Munduruku, Dalva de Jesus Vieira, Osmar Vieira de Oliveira, Celiney Eulália de Oliveira Lobato, Rodrigo Oliveira, Mauricio Torres / Technical direction & lighting: Jimmy Wong / Lighting assistance: Matheus Espessoto / Sound design: Felipe Storino / Sound technique, Multimedia creation: Bruno Carneiro / Costumes: Sio Duhl / Set design: Ciro Schuh, Sofai Tomic, Jimmi Wong / Exhibition design: Marina Schiesari / Consultancy: Raimunda Gomes da Silva, Dinah de Oliveira, Tomás Ribas / Translation Munduruku-Portuguese: Honesio Dace Munduruku / Translation German: Marin Zuccarto
Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha
Tapajós
Part of “On Planetary Justice”
- Performance
with German and English surtitles /
Mundurukú /
Portuguese /
approx. 90 mins.
A polluted river, the Munduruku women and the power of resistance: in “Tapajós,” Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha combines art with activism and documentary research. Using analogue photography and a poetic sound collage, she makes the voices of a threatened habitat audible and visible – a ritual ceremony for the mothers of water, forest and future.
Interdisciplinary artist and activist Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha has been working for years with Brazilian rivers as witnesses to environmental disasters — with performances and films based on long-term artistic studies. To this end, she regularly travels to the Amazon regions and networks with resistance fighters throughout the country. “Tapajós” arose from such an encounter with mothers living on the Tapajós. This tributary of the Amazon is polluted by illegal gold mining using mercury, which was used in the development of photographs until the mid-19th century and which poisons the river water, affecting mothers and their unborn children in particular. On stage, Carneiro da Cunha develops large-format photographs that tell the story of the river, its pollution and the women fighting for healing: a performance ritual that calls for an alliance of all human and non-human mothers and immerses the audience in witnessing and resistance.
Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha is a Brazilian artist working at the intersection of performance, directing, research, and activism. In her interdisciplinary works, she explores the voices of endangered river systems in the Amazon, connecting questions of climate justice with indigenous perspectives.
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Supported by: Goethe-Institut.
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HAU3
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