Altamira 2042 is a performative installation created by listening to the testimony of the Xingu River on the Belo Monte dam. Here, everyone speaks through the same techno-shamanic device: speakers and flash drives. Each speaker carries a voice, both human and non-human, heard on the banks of the Xingu River. A polyphony of beings, languages, sounds and perspectives takes over the space to open up the audience’s attention to voices that so many try to silence.
It is starting with these sounds, songs and images that performer Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha coordinates the different moments in the work, together with the audience: the opening Rio y Rua, followed Dona Herondina, Seu Quebra Barragem and Aliendígena, where the performer wears and presents the different perspectives of these three machinic-spiritual beings who protect the waters and the forests, and who take the stage in order to mythologize History. Thus, the Belo Monte Dam is no longer simply a construction, but becomes the myth of the enemy.