DOSSIE

For critical cartography of the Amazon

PROCESS ON ART, POLITICS, AND ACCESSIBLE TECHNOLOGIES

in your north is your face
in your center, your navel
in your south, all my taste

Bye Bye Brazil, by Carlos Diegues

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The dossie addresses political issues, debates, and actions in a historically complex territory - the Brazilian Amazon. This documentation is the result of a process that brought together a network of thinkers, activists, artists, and organizations to discuss art and techno-politics related to this territory. The series consists of a print and digital publication, remixed videos (RMXTXturas), and a map (MapAzônia) that shows us important facts about the 60 years of the National Development Plan for the Brazilian Amazon.

The videos are part of the work process that resulted in a mapping interested in recognizing a local and spatial reality, sharing global visions and perspectives, from mobile, digital and, mainly, possible/accessible technologies. Each chapter of the publication has a corresponding video remix, the "Remixtexturas" comes out of our childhood media memories:

1. Prologue: Dangerous and Fun - deals with our work process in the 2011 immersive meetings, including research and collaborative editing; 2. Will vs Power - it's about maps, cartography and territories of power; 3. We're on strike - discusses the state and nature of the art, poking open wounds in the region; 4. Local Networks and Autonomy - presents the social and digital technologies that transmit knowledge and guarantee empowerment; 5. Epilogue: between rivers, streets and streams of the Amazon - a poetic tour of ancestry and traditions of how to live under the hot and humid point of view.

The production was powerful in stimulating critical and creative thinking in groups, learning together processes of local radical cartographies and pedagogies, in Brazil and Latin America, revealing other possible ways of acting against hegemonic discourses. We had the opportunity to review the romanticized imagery vision of the forest and rivers, remembered in the films and documentary files about the region, among so many references present in our memory. By telling and listening to group experiences, we put together a web of situations and facts that tell our story. In the end, we edited a collection of documents, such as a dossie proposed to be read and watched, a hacker laboratory, decoding references of what high technology means to us. Low tech is high tech.

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The canoe brings the man / the canoe brings the fish / the canoe has a name / in the market it leaves the fish / in the market it finds hunger / the scales the fish / the scale weighs the man / the scale weighs hunger / the scale sells the man / sells the fish / sells the hunger / sells and eats / the hunger comes from afar / in the canoes / to see the weight / the fish comes / the fish comes / the man? / sells the name / sells the weight / iron weight / clay man / weigh the fish / weigh the man / the fish is caught / the man is trapped / the prey of hunger / see the fish / see the man / see death / see the weight.

Ver-O-Peso, by Max Martins