Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha’s Altamira 2042: Fostering Multispecies Survival through Performance, Ritual and Active Listening

Sánchez Celaya, Maria Georgina (2022). Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha’s Altamira 2042: Fostering Multispecies Survival through Performance, Ritual and Active Listening (Submitted). Synthesis. An Anglophone Journal of Comparative Literary Studies. Special(15), pp. 47-70. The National Documentation Centre

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Abstract

Performance can provide far-reaching and meaningful tools to re-think the ways humans construct knowledge to integrate more-than-human worlds. This is the case of the techno-shamanistic ritual performance Altamira 2042, directed by Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha. This performance is a starting point to address the critical situation of several endangered species in the Brazilian Amazon. Focusing on how the artist deconstructs the ‘metaphorization of nature’ (Chaudhuri, 1994) and the ‘modern constitution’ (Latour, 1993), this article argues that Da Cunha’s innovative performative work rests on a decolonised ethnographic practice and a non-anthropo-centered perspective where active listening and ritual become not only aesthetic but also political acts.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Further Contribution)

Division/Institute:

06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Art and Cultural Studies > Institute of Art History > Contemporary Art
06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Art and Cultural Studies > Institute of Art History

UniBE Contributor:

Sánchez Celaya, Maria Georgina

Subjects:

700 Arts

ISSN:

1791-5155

Publisher:

The National Documentation Centre

Language:

English

Submitter:

Maria Georgina Sánchez Celaya

Date Deposited:

31 Jan 2023 15:24

Last Modified:

17 Nov 2023 12:38

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BORIS DOI:

10.48350/177315

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/177315

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