On May 21st, you are invited to celebrate the visit of our indigenous collaborators from the Sateré Mawe community, who came all the way from the Amazon Rainforest to meet us here in Amsterdam. We will exhibit photography and paintings as well as community materials co-produced during two months of field research.

The research took place in what we came to describe as the Amazon Assemblage–a symphonic composition of living and non-living entities woven together in nets of mutual dependencies. Contesting prevailing narratives that limit the Amazon rainforest to its ecological significance, seeking to make its lands and waters legible and controllable through datafication and romanticizing its inhabitants through stereotypical notions of indigenous life, our research sets out to forge new narratives. It creates an imaginarium that contemplates the intricate relations between digital development, language revitalization and ecological preservation through the lens of original peoples and their needs. 

This research was part of a research project funded by the Global Digital Cultures Research Priority Area.