arquivo mangue is an invention cell of multimedia ritual works and cosmic f(r)ications formed by actress, director and visual artist camila mota and poet and multilingual artist cafira zoé.
was created as a tool to act against the massacre of imagination and for the establishment of new cosmogonies, having as a starting point the crossroads as epistemology and speculative fiction as compass.
acts as small short-circuits in the heterocentric, phallocentric, binary, extractivist, predatory, colonial, patriarchal and supremacist systems of world-making by compulsion,
through multimedia creation, using video, works in fabric, graphic arts, painting, photography, collage, ruins, the body itself and urban action and tactical media as languages of plastic performance: one only exists in act.
the duo's work is marked by the desire for symbiosis and confluence as practice and thought, for this it is important to make worlds connected to the cosmopolitics of the earth, to the creation of new circuits,
in relation to different territories, with what happens between y with respect to the time of fermentation of everything. science, technology y trance.
recently, the duo started the study group "multi-species poetry for fused epochs", with online meetings in a circuit of participants that crosses territories of são paulo, florianópolis, rio de janeiro, manaus, germany and sweden. they also conducted the teat(r)o de encruzilhada project, directing a transmedia nucleus of work at the 5th dentition of the universidade antropófaga, a project for the exchange and transmission of knowledge of teat(r)o oficina, which culminated in the opening of the process for the activation "cacilda cósmica: odisséia onírica", an original dramaturgy created from the odyssey about cacilda becker, from teat(r)o oficina, worked from a video-theater-graphic installation (2022). avá - the ovani (unidentified audiovisual object) film was shown at the 10th Mostra Tiradentes SP at cinesesc this year, 2022. avá has also been shown at the 25th tiradentes film festival, at the xv edition of the goiás arts festival, and at the amparo sp festival so far. in the first semester, they talked a bit about the creation processes in brazil 2022 in an article in frieze entitled "the interspecies mindset guiding brazilian protestors". they participated in the radio broadcast of the episode "do luto à luta", monologue in 4 voices, invited by the architect and multi-artist paulo tavares, as an audio performance, part of the work "artists-in-presidents: transmissions to power" galeria blackwood (2021). they were selected for the program pivô pesquisa - ciclo II, curated by catarina duncan (2021), where they presented the process of the multimedia installation / visual poem "para rios que correm subterrâneos no reverso do céu". they are in the dossier "contemporary poets from brazil" published by unicamp, along with renowned names such as alice ruiz, conceição evaristo, ana martins marques, among others. they had their short film "as gaivotas que nasem dos tremores da terra", a 15' sci-fi selected for the festival arte como respiro, itaú cultural (2020). won the antonio bivar prize with the screenplay "o olho do galo", by cafira zoé (2020). published the artist book "quando sonham os cães" by fera miúda edições (2020). were part of the collective exhibition "o que não é floresta é prisão política", galeria reocupada, ocupação 9 de julho in são paulo, with the installation "feitiço de espada, ruína y terra contra terraplana" [site-specific] (2018-2019). video-installation "tudo que gira é makumba" [site specific] for the exhibition "manjar re-conhecimento", along with the works "ruínas vitais" y "piano para ogun", at solar dos abacaxis, rio de janeiro, brazil (2019) y from the group show "⦿", with participation of camila mota with the works "makumba gráphyka preta e makumba gráphyka vermelha" at galeria leme, são paulo, sp (2018). acted in performative reading at the table "anthropocene", at the XII international architecture biennale of são paulo, alongside jerá guarani, renzo taddei y thiago benucci. participated in the group exhibition "uns" at espaço breu, with the photographic installation "rio: sequence plane on broken city" (2018). composed the creation processes of "autoescola insular", at the 33rd biennale.
some publications:
magazine of waiting godot (2022)
essay "under the stage there is a river" in sala preta magazine of ppgac-usp (2021)
essay "memórias de uma atriz" in sala preta magazine of ppgac-usp (2021)
public letter for culture "don't allow septic shock in the collective body of the artistic class" in ilustríssima / folha de são paulo (2020)
cosmic fiction short story "news from the center of the earth" in "a céu aberto", a space dedicated to the short story collection of n-1 edições alongside writers such as joão adolfo hansen, palmina sebastião, hilton lacerda, marilene felinto, júlia de carvalho hansen, among others
poems manifesto noise magazine
essay "auscultar um rio - pequeno ensaio para uma cosmopolítica dos povos" in the 20th edition of cadernos de subjetividade, from núcleo de estudos da subjetividade puc-sp (2019)
magazine "a anvila", from the university antropófaga/ teat(r)o oficina with print and digital version (2018)
interview "the witchcraft of the theater"
Resident artists of cycle 3 of Pivô Research in 2022
Participated in the exhibition 'de montañas submarinas el fuego hace islas [from underwater mountains fire makes islands]', curated by Yina Jiménez Suriel, in 2022