Temos uma Questão!

Category

Others

Year

2015

Institution

Multicidade, Rio de Janeiro

Comment

In preparation for hosting the 2016 Olympic Games, Brazilian officials promised to clean up Guanabara Bay, where sailing, rowing and windsurfing competitions will be held. The water is heavily polluted, with nearly 70% of Rio de Janeiro’s untreated sewage going directly into the bay. The impending international attention of the Olympics has highlighted the massive ongoing problem of water pollution but authorities seem to be doing very little about.What can we as individuals do in response to this serious environmental crisis? In this “situation”, we researched the topic and created a live online cyberformance as a provocation for a networked global discussion seeking solutions for Rio’s water pollution problem.