Exception, expulsion, extraction: cartographies of violence in the Americas

 

 

 

 

 

 

Speaker: Paulo Tavares (autonoma)
Mediators: Fernanda Bruno (MediaLab.UFRJ) and Adriano Belisário (MediaLab.UFRJ)
The military intervention in Rio; the forced displacement of indigenous communities in southern Ecuador for the opening of a mega-copper mine; the violence of the various colonialisms and extractivisms perpetuated in the Americas. In Exception, Expulsion, Extraction: cartographies of violence in the Americas, the architect and urbanist Paulo Tavares articulates these themes by exploring the tools of architecture, investigative journalism, mapping and data analysis, in their aesthetic and political dimensions, as as instruments in the struggle of human and non-human rights.
Tavares explores space and its forms of representation as fields of relations of power and conflict, mobilizing the architecture as an instrument of knowledge and civic agency. If the city is a right, he argues, “architecture is a form of advocacy.” Projects include Memory of the Earth, Archeology of Violence, Tierra Arrasada (Guatemala: Operacion Sofia), and his latest project, Expulsión: cartografias del desplazamiento. Held in partnership with MediaLab.UFRJ, Expulsion investigates the process of forced displacement of indigenous and peasant communities in Cordillera del Condor, located in the south of Ecuador, through the presentation of a series of cartographic, documentary, photographic and archaeological evidences.


REALIZAÇÃO
MediaLab.UFRJ
Capacete

PARCERIA
Rede LAVITS

APOIO
Fundação Ford

http://www.autonoma.xyz/

More about Expulsión:
medialabufrj.net/2018/01/expulsion-cartografias-del-desplazamiento/


Blackout: The Necropolitics of Extraction

 

 

This presentation addresses extraction—a key logic of global capitalism—as well as the politics and aesthetics of emergent forms of resistance today. In view of spreading sacrifice zones given over to resource mining, abetted by exploitative international trade agreements and the finance of debt servitude, what forms do the cultural politics of resistance take, and how are artists—including Angela Melitopoulos, Allora & Calzadilla, and Ursula Biemann—materializing images and sounds of emancipation and decolonization?

Capacete – Rua Benjamin Constant, 131 – Glória, RJ
Friday (23/02) – 19 horas

Production:
Capacete
Risco Cinema