Thiago Jesus - People's Palace Projects

It’s been a while since we last took an in-depth look into an
international project in this podcast. Our guest today, Thiago
Jesus, will help us change that. Thiago is based at an arts
research centre in London, but spends a lot of his time working
with Indigenous communities in the Amazon region. In a way, he
connects two fragile zones – Britain, which is among the
hardest hit European countries, and the Amazon region, where
indigenous communities are among the groups most vulnerable to the
virus. How has the work of international cultural relations changed
in times where there seems to be virtue in (at least physical)
distancing and isolation rather than in interconnectedness? How is
arts based research changing, when the problems at hand are as
down-to-earth as how to get supplies into distant communities
without exposing them to the virus? These are some of the questions
we will be talking about today.