“Culture in a Time of Crises” - Episode #8: Shwetal A. Patel in conversation with Ernesto Neto

In this episode, Ernesto Neto, a visual artist based in Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil, talks to Shwetal A. Patel. Neto talks about his
early years in Rio before discovering his passion for art, his
spiritual journey after visiting the Huni Kuin tribe in the
Amazonian state of Acre and his vision of arts role in society.
Neto also talks passionately about Brazil’s musical and cultural
traditions, its pre-colonial history and how to integrate
indigenous knowledge systems into modern ways of living. The
globally acclaimed sculptor also shares his experience with
tribal expressions through music, dance, song, and oral history.
Now with the pandemic devastating his country, Neto ruminates on
mother earth and nature, and what the future holds for the next
generation.