Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha
Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha is an actress, director and researcher. For the past 8 years, she has developed the ”Riverbank Project: about rivers, buiúnas and fireflies, an art research dedicated to listening and amplifying the testimony of Brazilian rivers that are living an experience of catastrophe. The outcomes are the play “Guerrillas or for the land there are no missing persons”(2015), the performance "Altamira 2042”, premiered in 2019 at the International Theatre Festival – MITsp, besides workshops, article and films.
The artist has been awarded by the Faperj Scholarship to Encourage Artistic Creation, Experimentation and Research, as well as the Funarte Artistic Training Scholarship, the Oi Futuro Artsônica Residency and Prince Claus Foundation and Goethe Institute Cultural and Artistic Responses to Environmental Change.
Gabriela has worked with directors such as Ariane Mnouchkine, Georgette Fadel, Cibele Forjaz, Grace Passô, Eryk Rocha and Heitor Dhalia.
Altamira 2042
Altamira 2042 is a performative instauration created from the testimony of the Xingu River about the Belo Monte dam. Here everyone speaks through the same techno-xamanic device: sound boxes and pen drives. Each sound box carries a voice, human and non-human, heard on the banks of the Xingu River. A polyphony of beings, languages, sounds, and perspectives take over the space to open the audience's ears to the voices that so many try to silence. It is from these sounds, songs and also images that the performer Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha articulates, together with the audience, the different moments of the work: the opening Rio y Rua, followed by Dona Herondina, Seu Quebra Barragem and Aliendígena, where the performer dresses and presents the different perspectives of these three machinic-spiritual beings that protect the waters and the forests and that take the word to mythologize History. Thus the Belo Monte Dam goes from being simply a construction site to becoming the myth of the enemy.
Altamira 2042’s debut was at MITsp in 2019. Since that performed in many important festivals, such as Wiener Festwochen, Festival D’Automne, Kampnagel, Baltic Circle, POA Em Cena, FTA, Holland Festival, PAFFF, Santarcangelo and many others.
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Artistic Team
Conception and Creation: Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha
Director: Gabriela Carneiro Da Cunha and Xingu River
Direction Advisor: Cibele Forjaz
Assistant Director: João Marcelo Iglesias
Second Assistant Director: Clara Mor and Jimmy Wong
Research Orientation And Artistic Interaction: Dinah De Oliveira and Sonia Sobral
Writing Credits: Raimunda Gomes Da Silva, João Pereira Da Silva, Povos Indígenas Araweté E Juruna, Bel Juruna, Eliane Brum, Antonia Mello, Mc Rodrigo – Poeta Marginal, Mc Fernando, Thais Santi, Thais Mantovanelli, Marcelo Salazar And Lariza
Technology/ Programming/ Automation: Bruno Carneiro and Computadores Fazem Arte.
Multimedia Creation: Bruno Carneiro and Rafael Frazão.
Images: Eryk Rocha, Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha, João Marcelo Iglesias, Clara Mor and Cibele Forjaz
Video Editing: João Marcelo Iglesias, Rafael Frazão and Gabriela Carneiro Da Cunha
Text Editing: Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha and João Marcelo Iglesias
Sound Design: Felipe Storino and Bruno Carneiro
Costumes: Carla Ferraz
Lighting: Cibele Forjaz
Installation Design: Carla Ferraz and Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha
Installation Production: Carla Ferraz, Cabeção And Ciro Schou
Visual Design: Rodrigo Barja
Body Work: Paulo Mantuano and Mafalda Pequenino
Research: Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha, João Marcelo Iglesias, Cibele Forjaz, Clara Mor, Dinah De Oliveira, Eliane Brum, Sonia Sobral, Mafalda Pequenino and Eryk Rocha
Production Director: Gabriela Gonçalves
Co-production: Mitsp – São Paulo International Theater Festival and FarOFFa Festival
Production: Corpo Rastreado and Aruac Filmes
International distribution: Corpo a Fora
Photography: Nereu Jr., Clara Mor and Rafael Frazão
Teaser: Renato Vallone and Rafael Frazão
CV - Show
2022
CANADA
FESTIVAL TRANSÁMERIQUE - Montreal
NETHERLANDS
HOLLAND FESTIVAL - Amsterdam
7-8/06
PAFFF - Leeuwarden
FRANCE
IN EXTREMIS, THÉÂTRE GARONNE - Toulouse
Contemporary Latitudes - Lille
ITALY
Campania Theater Festival - Napoli
Santarcangelo Festival - Santarcangelo di Romagna
2021
GERMANY
Kampnagel - Hamburg
AUSTRIA
Wiener Festwochen
FRANCE
Portrait Lia Rodrigues, Festival d'Automne à Paris at Théâtre de la Ville
Tickets - Metz
Actoral Festival - Marseille
PORTUGAL
Mexe Meeting - Porto
Alkantara Festival - Lisbon
FINLAND
Baltic Circle - Helsinki
SWITZERLAND
Culturescapes - Bellinzona
Kaserne Glôbale - in collaboration with Festival Culturescapes - Basel
TAPAJÓS
Tapajós is a performance born from listening to the testimony of the Tapajós River about the contamination of its waters by mercury from illegal gold mining. This is the third part of the Margins Project on rivers, buiúnas, and fireflies, which has been led for over 10 years by artist Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha.
The performance emerges from a multi-species alliance among mothers — mothers from the Tapajós region, Munduruku mothers, Sairé mothers, the fish mother, the forest mother, and, finally, the River Mother — proposing that any body can be inhabited by a mother. It is not only about conceiving, but about creating and sustaining life.
Gabriela continues to develop her artistic language, nourished by the deep listening to Amazonian rivers, by the exploration of the boundaries between ritual and performance, by the active engagement of the audience, and by the symbolic connection between the mercury that reveals gold in water and the photographic process — with theater transformed into a laboratory.
Credits
Conception and Direction
Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha and the Tapajós River
With
Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha and Mafalda Pequenino
Creation in Process
Sofia Tomic, João Freddi, Vicente Otávio, Mafalda Pequenino, Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha
Assistant Director
Sofia Tomic
Photography
Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha, Vicente Otávio, João Freddi
Photographic Technique
João Freddi, Vicente Otávio
Image Editing
Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha, João Freddi, Marina Schiesari, Sofia Tomic, Vicente Otávio
Text Editing
Manoela Cezar, Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha, João Marcelo Iglesias, Sofia Tomic
Dramaturgy
Alessandra Korap, Maria Leusa Munduruku, Ediene Munduruku, Chief Isaura Munduruku, Ana Carolina Alfinito, Paulo Basta, Julia Ferreira Corrêa, Rosana Farias Mascarenhas, Dalva de Jesus Vieira, Osmar Vieira de Oliveira, Celiney Eulália de Oliveira Lobato, Rodrigo Oliveira, Mauricio Torres, Eric Jennings
Munduruku–Portuguese Translation
Honesio Dace Munduruku
Technical Direction
Jimmy Wong
Lighting
Jimmy Wong
Lighting Assistant
Matheus Espessoto
Sound
Felipe Storino
Sound Technique and Multimedia Creation
Bruno Carneiro
Costumes
Sio Duhi
Scenography
Sofia Tomic, Ciro Schu, Jimmy Wong
Exhibition Scenography
Marina Schiesari
Consulting
Raimunda Gomes da Silva, Dinah de Oliveira, Tomás Ribas
Support and Partnerships
Fotoativa Association, Clube do Analógico
Associated Production
Pariri Munduruku Women’s Association, Sairé Association
Territorial Production
Carolina Ribas
Production
Ariane Cuminale, Yara Ktaish
General Production
Gabi Gonçalves
Production Companies
Corpo Rastreado, Aruac Filmes, Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne, Projeto Margens
Distribution in Europe
Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Co-production
Wiener Festwochen | Free Republic of Vienna, Festival d’Automne in Paris, Les Spectacles vivants – Centre Pompidou (Paris), Halles de Schaerbeek, Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels), La rose des vents – national stage Lille Métropole – Villeneuve d’Ascq / Next festival, Théâtre Garonne (Toulouse), International Summer Festival Kampnagel
Support for Research and Development
Manchester International Festival
