Diaspora Aesthetics
Happy Tree Friends Kiki Ball 2.0 Exhibition, 5–20 May 2025. Monday–Friday, 17h–20h. Photography by Geraldo Ferreira
Commissioned by AUFSTANDTEAM. Presented by Starfire 007, Ira 007 & Neo Coperni.
1A+ Dispatch
Context Is A Luxury.
Diaspora Aesthetics
Brazil Swept Berlinale. Nobody Made It Sound This Inevitable.
Silver Bear, Crystal Bear, and a film about corrupted memory: Brazilian cinema didn't just show up at Berlinale 2025 — it redefined what engaged cinema actually looks like.
Random Urgencies
The River Isn't a Road: Lula's Betrayal on the Tapajós
Brazil's federal police are guarding grain barges. The people who guard the river are getting tear gas.
System Hacks
The Can That Swallowed Brazilian Politics
A tin of corn. Family portrait inside. Bible in the corner. Família Conservadora — com princípios cristãos firmados na Bíblia. LOL.
Ancestral Echoes
The Island Where Coca-Cola Turns Blue: Parintins and the Invisible Artisans of Brazilian Carnival
How an Amazonian rivalry became Brazil's most radical cultural spectacle.
Sonic Cartographies
The Taxonomy of Brazilian Funk: From Proibidão to Rally, Twelve Ways to Map Power Through Sound
What happens when one favela rhythm fragments across 8.5 million square kilometers of territory.
Street Syntax
Separating Samba from Crime is the Lie That Keeps Both Alive
How Brazil's beloved carnival built the blueprint for militia violence—and why nostalgia is the weapon.
Coded Dreams
When the Forest Reclaims the City: Inside Brazil's Amazonian Futurism Lab
MIT researcher and Pará designer build Amazonian futurism where cities learn how forests think.
Sonic Cartographies
From Barracks to Block Party: How Martinho da Vila Made Samba Sound Like Real Life
Before samba was branding, Martinho da Vila turned everyday Black life into the message.
Diaspora Aesthetics
Brazil Didn’t Borrow the Avant-Garde — It Rewired It
Between geometry and dictatorship, Brazil’s postwar avant-garde rewired modernism into a tool for resistance.
Sonic Cartographies
From Territory to Turntable: Indigenous MCs vs. the Myth of Modern Brazil
In the Guarani-Kaiowá territories of Mato Grosso do Sul, young MCs are turning hip-hop into a weapon against erasure and forcing Brazil to confront the dispossession at its roots.
Ancestral Echoes
Améryca Isn't Latin. It's Colonial. All of It.
Bad Bunny's Super Bowl moment revealed how "Latinidad" itself remains a colonial category, rebranding conquest as culture.