By focusing on dialogues between the arts and environmental issues, especially the Anthropocene, climate change, and its impacts on contemporary society, Walmeri’s work is developed in the fields of performance, cinema, and media art.

In 2024, she created a platform of research in arts and environmental issues called Territorios Sensiveis, proposing the strengthening of ethical-political and participatory forms of making art, building actions, workshops, and immersive research in collaboration with other artists, scientists and, above all, with traditional communities (Indigenous, fishing and quilombolas) from local and site-specific perspectives.

Bio

Walmeri Ribeiro is an artist-researcher and professor at the Fluminense Federal University, where she coordinates the Research Laboratory on Performance, Media Art and Environmental Issues – BrisaLAB.  Between 2010-2016 she was a professor in the Film and Audiovisual course at the Federal University of Ceará.  A post-doctoral fellow at Concordia University (2016-2017), currently she is a FAPERJ research fellow and professor at the Graduate Program in Contemporary Arts at the Fluminense Federal University (PPGCA|UFF) and the Graduate Program in Visual Arts at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (PPGVA|EBA|UFRJ). Since 2014 her work has investigated the relationship between the arts and environmental issues, with a focus on Anthropocene and Climate Change.  Director of the Sensitive Territories platform, she has participated in exhibitions in Brazil, Latin America, Europe and the United States, and her work has been commissioned by Brazilian and foreign institutions.   She is the author of the book “Poetics of the Actor in Contemporary Cinema” (Intermeios, 2014), Territórios Sensíveis: Práticas artísticas no Antropoceno (Circuito, 2023). Sensitive Territories| Guanabara Bay (Circuito, 2020) and co-author of the books “Art and its Sensitive Territories” (Intermeios, 2014) and “Art and its Sensitive Pathways” (Intermeios, 2016) and Arts: New Ways of Living|Living (Intermeios, 2019).