Wametisé: Ideas for an Amazofuturism
Wametisé: Ideas for an Amazofuturism brings together texts, voices, and visual material developed within the framework of the Wametisé section at ARCOmadrid 2025, curated by María Wills Londoño and Denilson Baniwa in collaboration with the Institute for Postnatural Studies and edited by Cthulhu Books.
Rooted in Amazonian cosmologies, origin myths, and contemporary artistic practices, this publication explores futurism from Indigenous and situated perspectives. Serpent-canoes, malocas of transformation, river technologies, vegetal bodies, ancestral archives, and multispecies imaginaries weave through its pages, proposing futures grounded in care, continuity, and collective knowledge.
Rather than projecting technological utopias, Wametisé articulates Amazofuturism as a living practice—where art, spirituality, memory, and resistance converge to reimagine the relationship between humans, territories, and more-than-human worlds.