Underwater we float amongst the moss

artists’ moving image from the Brazilian Amazon

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.51359/2763-8693.2025.261766

Keywords:

artists’ moving image, Pará, flux, affection, memory

Abstract

This review explores the festival ‘Underwater we float amongst the moss: artists’ moving image from the Brazilian Amazon’, held at the Moving Image Museum from Pará, in the city of Belém, between 25 and 27 October 2023. We mapped and screened a total of forty one artworks created between 1978 and 2022, in Belém – Pará, as well as other territories from the Brazilian Amazon, employing a curatorial rationale based on the concept of ‘diving’. Furthermore, we explore the key concepts flux, affect, and memory as elements of resistance and survival while diving in the Amazonian territories. This festival became an important occasion for the circulation of these artworks, opening up space for the understanding of them as decisive for the writing of different histories of artists’ moving image in Brazil.

Author Biography

Danilo Baraúna, Newcastle University; The British Academy

Professor, pesquisador, curador independente e artista visual. Doutor em Belas Artes pela Glasgow School of Art (Reino Unido), com bolsa de Doutorado Pleno no Exterior (DPE) da Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES). Atualmente trabalho como British Academy International Fellow na Universidade de Newcastle, na Inglaterra.

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2025-07-23

How to Cite

Baraúna, D. (2025). Underwater we float amongst the moss: artists’ moving image from the Brazilian Amazon. Cartema, 15(15), 1–7. https://doi.org/10.51359/2763-8693.2025.261766

Issue

Vol. 15 No. 15 (2025): Revista Cartema 15 - ISSN: 2763-8693

Section

Dossier: Moving Image – Commented Art Exhibitions

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