Confluences between arts, health, environment, listening and communications: the experience of the Ilha dos Abraços Project in the quilombola territory of Ilha de Maré in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

Abstract

This article proposed to build collectively with the community of Ilha de Maré, located in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil; a text-territory-denouncement about environmental necropolitics and community resistance. The Ilha dos Abraços project, part of the Planet&Ar umbrella project, proposed working on popular surveillance through an artistic residency with a transdisciplinary group of artists, health professionals and urban planners to create a map of memories with the stories of the community and panels of graffiti that communicated in a “navigable book”. The artistic residency took place between 11-20/11/2022 with workshops on comics, graffiti, planetary health; seven graffiti panels and interviews to compose the memory map. There is a need to know how to step into the territory to enter a traditional quilombola community and the perception not only of the oral tradition of Ilha de Maré, but also of listening, so the term “listenaction” is proposed. It also reflects on the island's invisibility in the face of pollution and public authorities, so art transgresses this silencing. Thus, planetary health can be an ally for the community's struggle, but the universalizing concept is questioned, proposing the idea of planetary(s) health(s).