border ecologies

ECOLOGIAS DA BEIRA

NEWCASTLE CONTEMPORARY ART, Newcastle upon Tyne - England, 6 November 2025, 4pm

This special screening will present moving image works by LGBTQIAPN+ visual artists from the Brazilian Amazon. It explores how the selected works create a network of affects that interfere with the process of creating a decolonial intimacy with the Amazon through queer performances that unfold along the waterside. The films use the borders and limits between water and land as a metaphor to examine local forms of labour and extractivism, as well as their entanglement with human and non-human lives, queer and trans autobiographies by the water, and the affective and symbolic historical encounters between Black and Indigenous populations at the riverside. They also address gender-based violence in the Amazon, queer love stories in the Amazonian islands and shores, and the connections between literary content and video art traditions.

Curated by Danilo Baraúna

PROGRAMME (60 mins)

• Viriandeua Virianduba | Mangrove (2023), 10’, by Ramon Reis

• The Island of Self-contemplation (2020), 2’36”, by Allyster Fagundes

• Idyllic Enchantments (2022), 3’20”, by Rafael Matheus Moreira

• Fever (2022), 6’, by Rafa Bqueer, Manaus (AM)

• The Head of Gourds (2024), 6’, by Keila Sankofa

• The Brega as Amazonian empowerment (2019), 4’36”, by Nay Jinknss

• When the Encantarias embrace Orum (2025), 5’, by Mauricio Igor

• Caipora (2019), 7’49”, by Rafaela Correia

• Resounds of an Island (2013), 4’22”, by Breno Filo

• To the Lighthouse (2009), 9’30”, by Danielle Fonseca

This event is part of a wider public programme for the exhibition

LISTENING TO THE VOICES OF THE RIVERS at Newcastle Contemporary Art

curated by Giuliana Borea, Jamille Pinheiro Dias and Harriet Sutcliffe.

Graphic design by Hosana Celeste

Partners:

Newcastle Contemporary Art; Newcastle University (School of Modern Languages);

School of Advanced Studies, University of London

Esta mostra exibirá obras de audiovisual experimental realizadas por artistas visuais LGBTQIAPN+ da Amazônia brasileira. As obras criam uma rede de afetividades que interferem na criação de uma intimidade decolonial com as diferentes Amazônias por meio de performances cuir|queer que se desenvolvem à beira da água. Os filmes usam a beira, as bordas e os limites entre terra e água como uma metáfora para discutir formas de trabalho e extrativismo e suas relações com vidas humanas e não-humanas, autobiografias queer|cuir e trans na beira da água e os encontros históricos, simbólicos e afetivos entre populações negras e indígenas na beira do rio. Além disso, também abordam a violência de gênero nas Amazônias, histórias de amor queer/cuir nas ilhas e praias amazônidas e as conexões entre conteúdo literário e as tradições da videoarte.

Curadoria de Danilo Baraúna

PROGRAMA (60 min)

• Viriandeua Virianduba | Mangue (2023), 10’, de Ramon Reis

• Ilha da Autocontemplação (2020), 2’36”, de Allyster Fagundes

• Encantarias Idílicas (2022), 3’20”, de Rafael Matheus Moreira

• Febre (2022), 6’, de Rafa Bqueer, produzido durante residência do projeto ‘Casa Comum’

• Cabeça de Cabaças (2024), 6’, de Keila Sankofa

• O brega como empoderamento do paraense (2019), 4’36”, de Nay Jinknss

• Quando as Encantarias abraçam Orum (2025), 5’, de Mauricio Igor

• Caipora (2019), 7’49”, de Rafaela Correia

• Ressonar Insular (2013), 4’22”, de Breno Filo

• Rumo ao Farol (2009), 9’30”, de Danielle Fonseca