forest-land | Laymert Garcia dos Santos

AMAZONAS – A theater-music in three parts

This page is a record of the opera Amazon - Music Theatre in Three Parts production process and presents my reflection on such cross-cultural experiment. The project had Artist's conception of Peter Ruzicka, Peter Weibel, Laymert Garcia dos Santos; Consulting Bruce Albert, David Kopenawa, Siegfried Mauser; Initiative Joachim Bernauer, José Wagner Garcia. By SESC São Paulo, Goethe Institute, Munich Biennale (Ale), ZKM | Center for Art…

Projections of the Forest-Land: The Yanomami Image-Drawing

The Yanomami drawings are, literally, extraordinary. For aesthetic criteria, but also, and mainly, for their intriguing and mysterious character, when we stop to think about how and by whom they are made. The images that the reader-viewer can appreciate in the preceding and following pages constitute a small sampling from the collections of Carlo Zacquini and Claudia Andujar, two tireless defenders of the Yanomami territory and…