PAU-BRASIL
2022-2023, Brazil/Germany. Video, color, sound, 23’18”.
2022-2023, Brazil/Germany. Video, color, sound, 23’18”.
Pau-Brasil: from colour to sound, takes as its starting point the tree that gives its name to the country Brazil, its first resource exploited by the Portuguese in the Americas. The wood has been used worldwide for the production of violin bows since the fifteenth-century Europe and due to its historical and current overexploitation, it is a highly endangered species. The project proposes a critical dialogue with the centenary of Brazilian modernism in 1922, understanding the anthropophagy as an early forms of resistance to the colonialities of knowing, imagining and being.
LETTERS FROM SPIRAL TIME
Project being developed by Barbara Marcel as a fellow of the DRESDEN_Zukünftigkeiten/Futurities Transcultural Academy 2023 Dresden.
Project being developed by Barbara Marcel as a fellow of the DRESDEN_Zukünftigkeiten/Futurities Transcultural Academy 2023 Dresden.
LETTERS FROM SPIRAL TIME is an artistic project that emerges from the correspondence between the Brazilian artist based in Berlin, Barbara Marcel, and Vândria Borari, Indigenous/Brazilian artist based in Alter do Chão, Pará - Brazilian Amazon. Based on fragments of pre-Columbian ceramics from the Amazon collected by German ethnologist Curt Nimuendajú and in his correspondence with European museum directors between 1913 and 1945, the project connects seemingly distant beings, such as the Elbe and the Tapajós River (Pará, Brazil). The letters gathered during the period of the artistic research will be transformed into a film, inviting us to the listening of a dialogue with the ethnographic collection of SKD and its possible animations.
The project is being developed within the Transcultural Academy 2023 "Futurities" grant.
