Amazônia EcoQueer is an academic research project focusing on the global circulation of films and videos by LGBTQIAPN+ artists from the Brazilian Amazon. It aims to understand how these artists have been imagining queer ecological futures for the region through moving image works that foreground local knowledge amidst the current environmental crisis. Drawing on (and challenging) the fields of Queer Ecology and Artists' Moving Image (AMI), the project is inspired by other research-based curatorial initiatives such as the Amazonart Project.

Amazônia EcoQueer is also a creative community of artists, researchers, students, curators and cultural institutions that proposes broad discussions about gender and sexualities in relation to climate justice, climate change, environmental racism in the Amazon and climate adaptation. The research approaches the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 13 - Climate Action, more specifically the Target 13.3: 'Improve education, awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning'. Therefore, adaptation is a key concept to be explored in relation to the potential of queer culture to create new and more affective modes of imagination that can lead to meaningful actions towards societal and environmental changes. This project also unfolds in conversation with UNESCO's International Decade of Culture for Sustainable Development (2027-2036). 

This research highlights the significant role of moving images in facilitating discussions about queer ecological issues, employing public-engagement strategies crucial to the field, such as organising artists' moving image screenings and post-screening debates. All these aims will also be achieved through academic and non-academic outputs including articles, a book, an art catalogue, an exhibition, and a series of interviews with artists. These outputs will be made publicly available on this website.  

The project is currently based at the School of Modern Languages, Newcastle University. 

Funded by the British Academy (2025-2027) 

(International Fellowship IF24\100830).