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Podcast: EMPIRE LINES
Episode: Ancestral Future, Ailton Krenak (2022) (EMPIRE LINES x Arika, Tramway)
Description: Artist and curator Amilcar Packer unpacks ideas of decolonisation and anti-colonialism in education, thinking through the works of Ailton Krenak, a leading activist in the Brazilian indigenous movement.
Born in Santiago de Chile, and based in SΓ£o Paulo, Brazil since the 1980s, artist and curator Amilcar Packer locates his life and work βbetweenβ the Pacific and Atlantic. An organiser and participant in Episode 11: To End The World As We Know It, five days of revolutionary art, discussions and performances at Tramway in Glasgow, run by Edinburgh-based collective, Arika, he shares some personal connections between South America and S...