Amilcar Packer
What we wrote when Amilcar took part in Episode 11, 2024:
Amilcar Packer was born in Santiago de Chile, 1974, and lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil, since 1982. Packer unfolds an experimental and non-disciplinary art and collaborative research-based practice, informed by curatorial and editorial operations, in view of transformative social justice. His work seeks to intervene in artistic, political and social imaginaries by the means of mid and long-term public programs, presentations and debates, workshops, study groups, online platforms and archives, research trips, and editing, translation and free distribution of texts and publications (printed and online). He graduated in Philosophy at USP (1999), has a MA in Clinical Psychology at PUC-SP (2015), and is currently enrolled in a PhD at the Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice, at the University of British Columbia.
As a curator, he organized exhibitions in institutions such as the Centre Rhénan d’Art Contemporain (Altkirch, France, 2022/2023), Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia (Salvador 2018), Centro de Arte Hélio Oiticica (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2017/ 18), Ludlow 38, New York, USA; He co-organized artistic-curatorial initiatives and platforms such as Ventres da Mata Atlántica (2018) and EhChO (2020/2022), and was co-director of the artistic residency program CAPACETE, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil between 2012/2013.
As an artist, he has participated in group shosw such as: “Abduction” (Oslo, Norway, 2020), “Incerteza Viva – 32nd São Paulo Biennial (2016); “Modifiy as Needed”, MOCA, Miami, USA. (2011); “Práxis: Art in Times of Uncertainty – 2nd Thessaloniki Biennale of Art” (Thessaloniki, Grécia, 2009); “Farewell Postcolonialism – 3rdGuangzhou Triennial, China (2008); “On Reason and Emotion”, 14th Sydney Biennale, Australia (2004).
Part of his practice takes place in educational and art mediation programs at institutions such as The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, Denmark (2024; 2023; 2022; 20217); ENSBA, Paris, France (2013); “History Matter” (2012), CCA-Lagos, Nigeria; Hobart and Launceston Schools of Arts, Tasmania, Australia; “1st Pernambucan Week of the Arts” (2001), Recife, Brazil.
Artist Events
If there is a future to imagine, it is ancestral
Amilcar Packer Arissana Pataxó Geni Núñez
A Study Session focused on the thinking of Ailton Krenak – one of the great leaders of the Brazilian indigenous movement – led by curators and artists Amilcar Packer Arissana Pataxó.
Against a monoculture of thought
Geni Núñez Amilcar Packer
Thinking against the monoculturalism of Western thought—of faith, affection, sexuality and gender—which completely lacks any utility to, or descriptive value of Indigenous worldviews.
To Give Up This World, To Have Many Others – In Conversation with Ailton Krenak
Ailton Krenak (by video) Denise Ferreira da Silva Amilcar Packer
A recorded a conversation that grounds the Episode, exploring Ailton Krenak’s thinking and distinct poetics of life; as it work against capitalism and fascism, as a denunciation of political alliances, and maybe even of ‘politics’.