Confluences between arts, healths, environment, listening and communications: the experience of the Ilha dos Abraços Project in the quilombola territory of Ilha de Maré

This experience report proposed to build collectively with the quilombola community of Ilha de Maré, Brazil; a text-territory-denouncement about environmental necropolitics and community resistance. The Ilha dos Abraços project, part of the Planett&Ar umbrella project, worked on popular surveillance through an artistic residency with a transdisciplinary group to create a memory map and graffiti panels that culminated in the creation of a research group with the community that is also the author of this article. The residency took place in 2022 with workshops on comics, graffiti, and planetary health. There is a need to know how to tread into the territory, to enter a community and the local oral tradition, which is done also through listening and, as proposed here, “listen-action”. It also reflects on the island’s invisibility in face of pollution and public authorities, and how art transgresses this silencing.