negotiate between urban peripheries and forest communities, building creative networks that destabilize dominant narratives. Here, landscape isn’ t just nature; it is also industry and tension, a stage for multiple sociopolitical dialogues.
There is also a zone marked by the presence of harbors and river markets, where Amazonia shows itself to be in constant motion. Cities grow by the riverbanks, between stilt houses and businesses, with their alternative cultural centers, their dance groups, their communications networks. Art here is noise and flow, the overlapping of sounds, smells, images, and voices coursing through one another. It is in this movement that an aesthetics of transit, improvisation, and urgency is sketched out.
In another territory the sky takes center stage. As the forest thins out, the horizon opens up. The landscape, less dense, unveils an Amazonia of open fields, savannahs and cerrados, where arts collectives act as bridges between ways of life. Artistic practices range from radio to
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