Landscape, Geography and Refugee Birds
The performance-reading "The Landscape, Geography, and Refugee Birds" begins with the destruction of the Brazilian Cerrado and the memory of the Green Revolution to reflect on the relationship between landscape, war, and agriculture. The Cerrado, one of the planet's most biodiverse biomes, is also one of the most affected by the advance of agribusiness, monocultures, and the intensive exploitation of natural resources. The performance connects this process to the logics of control and surveillance inherited from military technologies, revealing how war reinvents itself in the territory through modern agriculture.
Inspired by Edward Said's reflections in Invention, Memory, and Place, the work examines how narratives, memories, and geographical inventions are mobilized to erase ecosystems, ways of life, and collective histories, establishing a selective memory that favors power. In this context, the birds that leave the Cerrado in ruins and seek refuge in cities appear as living metaphors of forced displacement, becoming witnesses to a socio-environmental collapse.
Between fragments of text, images, and voice, the performance maps out the migrations—of animals, memories, and people—that emerge from a territory undergoing transformation and disappearance. The work invites the audience to consider the landscape not only as a setting, but as a field of political and symbolic dispute, where the violence of war, the invention of memory, and the urgency of rethinking the geographies of the present intersect.
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