Text:: Maria Cecilia Oliveira / Research:: Maria Cecilia Oliveira, Bernardo Jurema, Tau Samper, Gustavo Ortiz, Tin Wilke / Ambience:: Maria Cecilia Oliveira, Tau Samper, Gustavo Ortiz / Video, projections, production:: Tin Wilke / Music:: Gustavo Ortiz, Maria Cecilia Oliveira, Tau Samper
Maria Cecilia Oliveira
Amazongraphy – Sensing and Imagining a Cartography of Resistance
Lecture Performance
Part of “On Planetary Justice”
Ticket also valid for ”Beyond the Courtroom”
Day ticket “On Planetary Justice” 30.11. >> here
- Dialogue
- Performance
English /
45 mins.
We find ourselves standing on a peculiar threshold, amidst what many proclaim to be a legal awakening. The granting of rights to natural entities— such as the tenacious fish pirarucu, the flowing river, or the frantic river dolphin—is the gradual intrusion of wildness into the archive of human law. In this performed lecture Dr. Maria Cecilia Oliveira, head of the transdisciplinary research group “Ecopolitics and Just Transformations” (EcoPol) at RIFS Potsdam, explores the affective and sensory dimensions of this “rights of nature” processes in the Amazon basin following the flow of the amazon river from an eco-feminist and anti-authoritarian perspective. It focuses on the recent movement for the protection of nature flowing from the Andes to the Atlantic, but argues that a textual, rights-based analysis alone cannot capture the full significance of this movement. This lecture invites the audience to experience instead, a sensory outlaw jurisprudence that prioritizes how law is invented, challenged, and contested through everyday life reality.
Drawing on an audiovisual methodology acquired during the production of a documentary film, the performed lecture moves beyond traditional legal analysis to explore the atmospheres, rhythms, and emotional registers through which communities’ experiences and asserts the river's personhood beyond the human.
Cast
Dates
Past
Location
HAU1
Stresemannstr. 29, 10963 BerlinThere are two marked parking spots in front of the building. Access to the Parkett by means of a separate entrance with lift when necessary. Barrier-free restroom facilities are available.
