Name: Film Screening - Amazonia EcoQueer / Border Ecologies
Start: 2025-11-06T16:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-11-06T17:00:00+00:00
Location: Newcastle Contemporary Art

$Film Screening - Amazonia EcoQueer \/ Border Ecologies$

This screening event, curated by Danilo Barauna, will present moving image works by LGBTQIAPN+ visual artists from the Brazilian Amazon.
About this Event

This special screening event, curated by Danilo Barauna, will present moving image works by LGBTQIAPN+ visual artists from the Brazilian Amazon. Explore how the selected works create a network of affects that interfere with the process of creating a decolonial intimacy with the Amazonian rivers and their relationship with people and the cities.

The event is free to attend.

The event has been sponsored by The British Academy International Fellowship.

Dr Danilo Baraúna is a British Academy International Fellow at Newcastle University. His research lies at the intersection of Queer Studies (ecological, decolonial and affective approaches), Artists' Moving Image Theory and Criticism and Latin American Studies, with a particular interest in LGBTQIAPN+ art and cultural production from the Brazilian Amazon.

This event is part of a wider public programme for . More information about the exhibition and other events can be found here.

All events are free to attend. You are welcome to make a donation or pay as you feel. All money will go to fund the programme.

The project is a collaboration between Newcastle Contemporary Art (NCA), Newcastle University, University of London’s School of Advanced Study, and the Amazonart Project. It has received support from Community Foundation North East, Embassy of Peru in the United Kingdom, Newcastle University - NUCORE Water, HaSS Global, School of Modern Languages - and University of London’s School of Advanced Study. It includes partnerships with Newcastle University Centre for Water and Centre for Latin America and the Caribbean, University of London, SAS’s Environmental Humanities Research Hub, Tyne Rivers Trust and UK Environment Agency.

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