The Amazon rainforest is a cosmic lab for the invention of shapes of life and matter, a complex ecosystem that holds a collection of memories of life experience on Earth. But this great biodiversity is reaching its tipping point. The life extinction of the forest is affected by local and international dynamics. The new political conjuncture in Brazil is softening the protection against the environment end its people, scaling back the effort to combat illegal logging, ranching and mining. At the same time, global warming is deeply transforming the biophysical aspects of the Forest, killing hundreds of species every year.
How can culture help to develop new strategies for the expansion of environmental justice in the context of the Amazon?
LABVERDE: Art Immersion Program in the Amazon functions as a multidisciplinary platform for the development of nature and ecology critical thinking. Artists, scientists and other agents of knowledge come together to recognize and narrate nature, in an attempt to create new ways of existing and interacting with the natural environment, as well as speculate on possible futures.
ART + NATURE + SCIENCE
PRESENTATION
10 DAYS SHARING KNOWLEDGE AND PRACTICES IN AN INTENSIVE JOURNEY OF EXPEDITIONS, LECTURES AND ARTISTIC INTERVENTIONS
The program’s main focus is to promote artistic creation through a constructive debate about environmental issues generated by theory, data and life experiences in the Amazon rainforest. Transdisciplinary content will foster an analytical and critical perspective of issues such as landscape interpretation, nature representation, and the role of art in engaging social-ecological behavior.
Because of global instability due to covid-19, LABVERDE’s program is on hold. When we can better understand the pandemic situation in Brazil, we will be able to define a safe date to labverde next edition.
LOCATION
The journey will take place in different locations enabling different scales and perspectives of the Amazon rainforest. Program will be developed near the city of Manaus, exploring ecological reserves and visiting forest zones impacted by the Anthropocene.
RAINFOREST IMMERSION
REGIONAL BOAT
Walking trails to forest reserves under the administration of LABVERDE partners.
A regional Boat providing access to coastal communities and aquatic ecosystems.
Participants will be lodged at the boat and at the research rainforest headquarters
PROGRAM
IN THE EXPANDED FIELD OF THE FOREST, ONE MUST COMPREHEND THE LANDSCAPE AS A PRODUCT OF INTERACTIONS AND EXCHANGES OF ENERGY BETWEEN BEINGS AND PHENOMENA
EXPEDITIONS
Adolpho Ducke Reserve Trails
ZF2 - Observation Tower
Balbina Eletric Dam
PDBFF Fragment Forest Project
Presidente Figueiredo Waterfall
Igapó River and Water Lilies Lake
* Phenomenological Oriented Research
TALKS
Understanding Amazon biome, landscape and political issues with specialists.
ARTISTIC INTERVENTIONS
Development and presentation of the artistic projects, performances and workshops.
MEDIATION CORE TEAM
Lilian Fraiji, Curator Coordinator
Flavia Santana, Curator of Content
Maria Claudia Aleixo, Producer
SCIENTIFIC CORE TEAM
Charles Clement, historical ecology and genetic resources Main article here
Jochen Schongart, dendroecology
Mario Cohn-Haft, ornithologist
Philip Fearnside, global warming
All article and researches here
* Program schedule will be created according to scientific core availability.
All activities will be held in english, with simultaneous translations when necessary.
METODOLOGY
FROM A WAY OF SEEING TO A WAY OF LIVING AND COEXISTING IN THE LAND
To be immerse, to interact, and to exchange energy with the nonhuman life forms can be an important part of the artistic process. We perceive the experience as the artistic production summit and the works, publications and exhibitions as process surplus.
We hope the network and training process will serve as the basis for artistic research that may be developed and shared after the program. Although the program does not carry on to a physical production, there will be project presentations and group discussion, in which the specificities of each artist will be contextualized.
Anne Jezini
Anne-Katrin Spiess
Bárbara Sánchez Barroso
Benjamin Muzzin
Edith Derdyk
Elisabetta Zavoli
Jens Raunkjaer Christensen
Luisa Lemgruber
Sara Michieletto
Seiha Kurosawa
Shohei Katayama
Simone and Carolina Moraes
Stijn Jansen
Thomas and Renée Rapedius
Valentina Soto
Vera Mantero
PAST PARTICIPANTS
APPLICATIONS
LABVERDE aims to foster the hybridity of expressions.
Program is targeted toward adventurous individuals and nature activists:
visual artists, musicians, writers, dancers and other cultural makers.
2020 PROGRAM IS POSTPONED TO 2021.
More info soon.
Alexandra Lerman
Aleksandra Borys
Alina Duchrow
Allison McElroy
Amber Marsh
Ana Brotas
Ana Carvalho
Ananda Bi
Andrzej Tarasiuk
Ashley Cecil
Barbara Marcel
Bia Monteiro
Bianca Lee Vasquez
Blanca Botero
Carla Mercedes Hihn
Carolina Oltra
Catherine Sarah Young
Claudia Tavares
Daniel Kukla
Debbie Symons
Debora Mazloum
Elin Glærum Haugland
Emmy Mikelson
Erica van Loon
Fabian Albertini
Fernanda Rappa
Felipe Cidade
Gustavo Torrezan
Guto Nóbrega
Helen Cawley
Hugo Fortes
Juliana Curvellano
Kati Roover
Kyle Tryhorn
Laura Landau
Laurane Le Goff
Laura Gorski
Lauren Shapiro
Leela Schauble
Leonardo Pimentel
Liana Nigri
Lorena Ribeiro
Lorenzo Moya
Luciana Rabinovich
Luisa Puterman
Marte Kiessling
Miki Yui
Lisa Schonberg
Lívia Pasqual
Lucy Helton
Luzia Simons
Marcelo Moscheta
Markus von Platen
Michael Clemow
Milda Lembertaite
Naomi Bailey-Cooper
Nathália Favaro
Olivia Tartaglia
Patricia Gouvêa
Paul Cupido
Pedro Vaz
Peter Adams
Raquel Mavecq
Renata Cruz
Renata Padovan
Rihards Vitols
Rodrigo Braga
Sabina Sallis
Sandra Buehler
ARTISTS
2019 ARTISTS
CATALOGUES
CONTACT
The development of the programme is a colaboration between Manifesta Arte e Cultura
and The National Institute of Amazonian Research (INPA).
Manifesta Arte and Cultura is a cultural producer aiming for new ways to create and disseminate knowledge about the Amazon and the environment. It focuses on exploring the limits of art through a broad array of experiences, which involves a dynamic body of multidisciplinary knowledge and different cultural perspectives.
