BBC: The Cultural Frontline Brazil's small utopias
Podcast Episode | Documentary, News, Talk-Show

BBC: The Cultural Frontline

Brazil's small utopias

Podcast Episode | Documentary, News, Talk-Show

As Brazil enters a challenging and uncertain era under the new president, British-Brazilian writer Yara Rodrigues Fowler talks to its artists about the small utopias they are creating. Writer Natalia Borges Polesso centres the non-romantic...See moreAs Brazil enters a challenging and uncertain era under the new president, British-Brazilian writer Yara Rodrigues Fowler talks to its artists about the small utopias they are creating. Writer Natalia Borges Polesso centres the non-romantic relationships of queer characters to forge precious connections in a country that is increasingly polarised. In her short story collection, Amora, she wanted readers to feel understood, while her latest novel The Extinction of Bees, urges readers to see the collapse happening all around them, and reimagine their present in order to create a better future. In 2018, the sacred Indigenous cave of Kamakuwaká was vandalised. Photographer Piratá Waujá is helping his community to create a virtual reality experience in order to preserve their culture for future generations, and challenge fake news about Indigenous people. Keyna Eleison, the co-artistic director of the Modern Art Museum in Rio de Janeiro, takes us around Nakoada, the centenary exhibition of the birth of Brazilian Modernism. She discusses how humour can slowly shift the Eurocentric definition of art, and the importance of diverse collaborations in leaving an 'intelligent' legacy. Elisa Larkin Nascimento, activist and collaborator of the late polymath Abdias Nascimento, is thrilled to have a two-year exhibition of the Black Art Museum in rural Brazil. She opens it with an ancient Afro-Brazilian procession in order to strengthen links with the surrounding quilombos, or communities of runaway enslaved people. As the new president, Lula, makes ambitious commitments to diverse communities and the arts, what do they hope might change for them and their work? Written by BBC/Overcoat Media See less

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Name	Known for
Keyna Eleison Self / Self - Artist Self / Self - Artist See fewer	Eldorado - Lituanos no Brasil (2002)
Yara Rodrigues Fowler Self / Self - Reporter Self / Self - Reporter See fewer	BBC: The Cultural Frontline (2016)
Elisa Larkin Nascimento Self / Self - Activist Self / Self - Activist See fewer	Abdias: Raça e Luta (2012)
Natália Borges Polesso Self / Self - Writer Self / Self - Writer See fewer	King Kong en Asunción (2020)
Piratá Waujá Self / Self - Photographer Self / Self - Photographer See fewer	Kamukuwaká VR (2025)

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