On Thursday, July 30, at 2:30 pm, the MamíFERAS Vulcânicas Collective, in partnership with Pivô and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Bahia (MAC-BA), will present the closing event for the installation MamíFERAS Vulcânicas: Fabulations with the Earth, on view at the museum throughout July.

The installation is the outcome of Module #4 – Artistic and Audiovisual Installations of the Creative Laboratory: Art and Technology in the Museum, an initiative developed by Pivô in partnership with MAC-BA. Led by visual artist and researcher Virginia de Medeiros, with the participation of Claudia Chávez and Yuli Andrea Martínez Gaitán, the module was designed exclusively for women and proposed a creative process grounded in fabulation as a relational, situated, and collective artistic practice.

The installation brings together figures such as the volcano, the horse, and the Headless Mule, articulated through multiple media and materials—including video projections, a soundscape, earth, red clay, plants, and performance—creating an immersive environment shaped by practices of listening, care, and fabulation. Organized around the thematic axes of Eroticism, Nourishment, and Transmutation, the work reflects on interdependence, transformation, and resistance, imagining alternative ways of relating to bodies, territories, and the Earth.

First presented in June as the culmination of the laboratory, the installation gave rise to the MamíFERAS Vulcânicas Collective, formed by the participants of the module, who chose to continue their research collaboratively. Throughout July, the collective’s occupation of MAC-BA expanded the project, transforming the installation into a living space for encounter, artistic creation, exchange, and experimentation.

At the closing event on July 30, visitors will have the opportunity to learn about the process behind the project during an open conversation with members of the collective. The program also features Headless Mule, a lecture-performance by performer, playwright, writer, and researcher Sofia Boito, who was invited by the collective especially for this moment of celebration and conclusion.

Headless Mule is the result of Boito’s postdoctoral research on the lecture-performance as a strategy for producing insubordinate knowledge. Drawing on an investigation into modern epistemology and the historical split between body and mind, writing and orality, the artist develops an embodied mode of thinking that questions the place historically assigned to women and their voices within Eurocentric modern culture. The first version of the work was presented at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria, in April 2026. The research is being conducted at the Institute of Arts of the University of Campinas (Unicamp) with funding from CNPq.