SCORE #2: How do you make a forest?
The forest, the house of protection, and in it the quilombos and the villages, a community of people and plants, animals and spirits.
The Amazon, under genocidal attack, the garden of humanity’s backyard, sown in the black land of Indigenous by the human hand before the colonization of America.
Against monoculture, many cultures-natures. The forest is always made.
In a world that needs regeneration, how do you make a forest?
Seeds The investigation is so deep and complex that it took me to find out about how we plant love, how we understand each other, how to unite ancestral knowledge with climate change, how to sew these relationships, I still don’t know: there are so many questions, but what I observe is a window on the horizon with various signs and challenges of initiatives that need to be planted now. The land needs to recover its roots, its climatic cycles, we owe this encounter and its origins to the Indigenous people: in indigenous traditions, women are the ones who take care of the seeds, so this is where I want to talk about the forest. Together women carry in their wombs knowledge of the land, contact with water and life springs up. We are all mammals, from that common place that the path of love is revealed to… Read more »
How do I make a forest? The question of making a forest makes me think about how far away my everyday life now is from forests, from deforestation and from reforestation. I am thinking about the forest next to my house where I grew up, which is now partly gone, it has been cut down to make room for more houses. And once again I sit and mourn the loss of basic connection to nature, the loss of intuitive knowledge. I then think about how easy it is, for me, to make a collage about forests. I could search for something poetic in the meanings and origins of the words forest and plant. Forest in Norwegian is skog which comes from the word skaga, meaning to stick up, rise high up in the air. The word plant comes from the sole of the foot, the foot which we use to… Read more »
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FOREST #2 by Nina Guzzo
Forest # 2 is part of the experiments with plants, carried out during the quarantine imposed by the pandemic of COVID-19. Starting from the body, fiction, plants and objects, the experience recovers forms of action present both in the pluralism of original knowledge and in the practices of reforestation. In an attempt to make a cross, what is presented is a movement towards the capacity of enchantment of the world as a strategy of redesigning the real and the present. The dream of regeneration, healing, celebration and abundance as a way out of the monoculture desert. Inspired by Henri Rousseau’s paintings and his dreams of an imaginary, distant, unreal forest.
Conception, choreography and performance: Marina Guzzo
Soundtrack: João Simão and Bruno Buarque
Edition: Mat Guzzo
CAIPORA by Andrey Haag e Calu Narcizo
FILM : ANDREY HAAG
POETRY : CALÚ
PERFORMER : ARAC ANITA
SCORE 2. Kristin & Kjersti
At the center of a forest there is knowledge.
Guardiões da Amazônia Azul Eu planto florestas jogando flores no mar para Iemanjá. Porque as florestas do sul foram plantadas por homens e mulheres de fé. Irmãos dos gêmeos Sol e Lua; parentes dos que conquistaram o dia, das mulheres sem seio direito, do destino dos mortos; primos dos que construíram a canoa encantada, que tomaram a água que rejuvenesce, que descansaram na árvore que faz dormir, olhando a anta e as estrelas, ouvindo a linguagem dos pássaros e que testemunharam a origem do arco; filhos e filhas de todas as histórias do mundo. Criando um lugar que é tão floresta que não tem esse nome. É uma coisa só. E se os homens sem fé acham que vão matar os espíritos das florestas e suas lendas e curas com fogo. Se esqueceram que o mar também é floresta. _______ Guardians of the Blue… Read more »