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xingu entangled

an interactive data installation documenting material practices of indigenous xingu communities

RESEARCH PROJECT AT UCLAB
PROTOTYPE PAPER PROJECT WEBSITE

xingu entangled

an interactive data installation documenting material practices of indigenous xingu communities

The indigenous communities of the Upper Xingu south of the Amazon River recognise objects, places, plants, myths, rites, and spiritual owners as intertwined entities that form entangled lifeworlds. However, western museal practices centre on artefacts and divide them along disciplinary boundaries into separate institutions such as ethnological museums, botanical collections, and libraries.

The interactive video installation Xingu Entangled recontextualises Xingu artefacts by weaving objects, actors, events, and places into non-linear narratives that surface their complex interrelationships. The data installation comprises a video and an interactive information visualisation.

Xingu entangled is the first case study of the Amazonia Future Lab project run by an interdisciplinary team of designers, ethnologists, curators, botanists and indigenous researchers. The installation is part of a larger framework – the Wanderer – that allows data production and coupling it to film media.

Xingu entangled has been exhibited at several international venues:
re:publica 24 Berlin
Humboldt Forum Berlin
Info+ Conference 23 Edinburgh
Existência Numérica 24 Rio de Janeiro