Peru

Walkers in Amazonia have been reconfiguring their territories by hand for at least ten thousand years. The maintenance of this networked knowledge and its care depended upon the collective cooperation between humans and non-humans. This has made it possible to regenerate the diversity and variations of tropical rainforests. Waman Wasi, through The Calendar Project, conserves and renews them. The installation allows the visitor to explore, through a dynamic audio-visual experience, the obverse and reverse of a reality at once near and far, articulated by the collective act of walking. Engaging with an Amazonia inhabited by people, with their own cultural history, enables us to shift our usual ways of seeing, understanding, communicating, and doing. It helps us to imagine an active future.