NASTASSJA MARTIN ON SELVAGEM
– See also the playlist "Nastassja Martin on Selvagem“.
• 2025-2026 – Waters Cycle
Ailton Krenak and Nastassja Martin talk about listening to the reactions of the elements as a way of undoing the extractivist experiences imposed by the world of commodities and of imagining futures with different forms of relationship, care and coexistence on the planet.
The talk by Nastassja Martin that gave rise to this chapter has also unfolded in the Selvagem notebook OVERFLOWS, available in Portuguese, French, English and Spanish.
Reflecting on the severing of ties between worlds and proposing ways to resume interrupted dialogues with elemental forces, Nastassja Martin explores how to rebuild relationships in which overflows – such as floods, ruptures and excesses – are not viewed merely as disasters, but as responses that require an attentive ear to the forms of knowledge that have never ceased to recognise and heed their voices.
• 2025 – Visit to the Guarani Living School
Following the Living School House artistic residency and the Motherwater event, in October 2025, the artists and coordinators of the Living Schools indigenous movement travelled to the territory of the Guarani Living School for an immersion experience, where they spent days living together, engaging in dialogue, deepening their spiritual connection, and exchanging knowledge among the different peoples. Nastassja Martin was also present at that time, meeting the coordinators of the Living Schools and speaking further with the Selvagem team.
Nastassja Martin, Cristine Takuá (coordinator of the Living Schools movement) and Netë Huni Kuï (coordinator of the Huni Kuï Living School) at Arandu Porã, the Guarani Living School
• 2023 – Hammock Talk
In this second episode of the ‘Hammock Talk’ series, Ailton Krenak and Nastassja Martin meet at the home of Denise Milfont in Rio de Janeiro. Weaving threads of words, they discuss topics such as the separation between nature and culture, the power of orality, and the diversity of understandings regarding the boundaries of the living world.
• 2022 – Dreams Cycle
Night and day. The continuous journey of intertwining worlds. The first conversation held as part of the ‘Dreams’ study cycle, which in 2022 brought together the knowledge of people, cultures and communities who place their trust in language and in the transformative power of dreams. The conversation is available with the original audio (Portuguese-French) or translated into Portuguese.
Between 2015 and 2020, Nastassja Martin lived on and off with Daria and her family, members of the Even people, near the River Icha on the Kamchatka Peninsula in the far east of Russia. The text in this section was provided to Selvagem in unpublished form for publication as part of the Dreams Cycle, in which Nastassja also took part, and was later published in her book À l’Est des rêves – réponses Even aux crises écosystémiques [East of Dreams – Even responses to ecosystem crises].