PERFORMANCES - RITUALS
The Brazilian government wants to pass a new law to open up the heart of Amazon to devastating industrial projects, and legalize the expulsion of indigenous peoples from their ancestral lands. The Brazilian government is pushing draft bill PL490 that will essentially legalize genocide.
But there is hope: if the people from all over the world are against the genocide of indigenous people, and destruction of Amazonia Forest, our pressure could tip the balance.
We expected $75.000 but we got $320.000 — $150.000 went to APIB (Brazil’s Indigenous People Articulation) and $170.000 went to Kuñangue Aty Guasu – Assembly of Guarani and Kaiowa Indigenous Women.
Take responsibility, this fight is also yours.
The Indigenous from Brazil are in the front line of this fight and we are with them.
You can be with us posting your art at @int.art.solidarity
Think about it…. and act
“SANGUE INDIGENA NENHUMA GOTA A MAIS / INDIGENOUS BLOOD NO MORE ANY DROP“
August 25, 2021 - Brasilia / Brazil
This is a site-specific performance ritual social sculpture by our group Anarkoartlab on August 25, 2021 in front of the supreme court in Brasília, together with 6,000 indigenous people from all over Brazil. Our intention with this ritual is to stop the destruction of the Forests and stop killing indigenous people. This Ritual was done through the cleansing of the blood energies of our indigenous ancestors, animals and forests that were abused, tortured and brutally murdered by Imperialism from the corporations and Brazilian Government.
We hope that with this cleansing we raise awareness to what is happening now in Brasil.
If we want to stay alive on this planet, it is our responsibility to leave the indigenous people and the forests in PEACE. At this moment, was created the international artistic solidarity [IAS] between artists and indigenous peoples.
COLLAPSE OF CONSCIOUSNESS
[2021]
ANARKOARTLAB [Adriana Varella and Amy Gillian Wilson] in collaboration with MACC
Site specific to ICE building - Manhattan NYC / Brooklyn Brigid
cameras: Lee Favorite / Benjamin Ferguson / Marisa Homes
Ritual performers: ANARKOARTLAB [Adriana Varella / Amy Gillian Wilson] in collaboration with MACC members
also against our wishes with [the participation of NYPD - they followed us in Brooklyn ]
DESCOLONIZANDO A AMAZONIA
Amazonia decolonization ritual in front of the NYC STOCK EXCHANGE BUILDING.
April 23, 2021
performed in front of the NYC Stock Exchange building, a site specific ritual;
[Where corporations from many parts of the world are actively stolen indigenous territories and also they are responsible for the process of destroying the forest and murdering the indigenous peoples. ]
The NY Stock Exchange is an extremely guarded, policed, armed place.
So we decided to do the ritual in silence and with the people who were there, and we did everything in 7 minutes for security reasons. In front of the stock exchange building is the sculpture of the girl that appears to defy the monetary and political system of American imperialism;
We rolled out in front of her a red carpet with the names of some of the corporations that are in the Amazonia and Mato Grosso do Sul. At the end of the carpet, facing the stock exchange building, AMAZONIA was written that was abstracted in blood.
A ritual of cleaning the blood of indigenous people was performed in front of the stock exchange building.
Cameras: Benjamin Ferguson / Marisa Homes
Ritual performers: ANARKOARTLAB [Adriana Varella / Amy Gillian Wilson]