Conjugations – LISTEN! · ESCUTEM! – Más Arte Más Acción
This Sunday, 26th of October in São Paulo:
Around a Tree continues to invite people to listen, share and imagine new ways of relating to plants and the world we inhabit. Produced by Más Arte Más Acción with many collaborators including myself and composed by sound artist Miguel Navas, the piece interweaves the voices of scientists, conservationists, forest guardians and the sounds of forests captured during diverse events in 2024–25: the Annual Meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation in Kigali, Rwanda; the International Botanical Congress in Madrid; the Edinburgh Art Festival at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Scotland; COP16 in Cali, Colombia; and Guainía in the Colombian Amazon.
Más Arte Más Acción (MAMA)
Presented within Conjugations at the 36th Bienal de São Paulo, Around a Tree invites visitors to listen deeply to the messages of nature and science and to attune to the resonances that emerge when humans become more aware of plants. For this event, the soundscape is presented in its simplest form, letting sound itself take centre stage – an homage to nature in Ibirapuera Park.
Conjugations – LISTEN! · ESCUTEM! – Más Arte Más Acción
36th Bienal de São Paulo – Not All Travellers Walk Roads – Of Humanity as Practice
October 26, 2025
Sunday, 1:30 pm
Varanda Bienal
Pavilhão Ciccillo Matarazzo
Ibirapuera Park, Gate 3
Av. Pedro Álvares Cabral, s/n
São Paulo, Brazil
free admission
Más Arte Más Acción (MAMA): a Colombian foundation founded by Jonathan Colin and Fernando Arias that brings art, ecology and social challenges together through collaborative place-based projects
Miguel Navas is a Colombian composer and sound designer whose work explores listening as a bridge between nature, science and ancestral knowledge.