May 30 First meeting Perambulaçao Rotterdam

This Blog is open for all participants of the project Perambulação. You can simply place a comment and others can react on your comment. So feel free to use it.

How to: click on comments - a pop-up window - Read Comment - go to the bottom - here you will see Leave a message - Write your comment - Choose Other and fill in your name! THAT'S IT!!!

The idea of this blog is to articulate and give a specific definition of the idea of Art in the Public Domain in relation to Rotterdam and São Paulo/Rio. This Blog can function as a platform to exchange ideas and observations, to pose questions, to qoute and copy ideas from the internet etc... It will be an Archive of ideas, dreams, concepts...

In the end the information published on this weblog will or can be used for the publication that will be made by Nienke and Rob, editors of Fucking Good Art. (www.fuckinggoodart.nl)
Every two days we hope to formulate a new question.

First Question:
At the meeting somebody said: Public Space doesn't excist in São Paulo and Rio. What does this mean?

May 31 / Objectives

OBJECTIVES
Perambulação (Wandering) is a unique collaborative art project that brings together 14 Dutch and Brazilian artists in Rotterdam and São Paulo, to express, by means of various urban installations, their opinion on social commitments and political platforms.

By juxtaposing actions and urban conditions, Perambulação considers our own role and responsibility in sustaining the complex environment of which we are part and at the same time regards the powerful influence of urban surroundings in our own lives. It is a cross-cultural research that will evolve organically in actions constructed from a complex series of spiritual, intellectual, emotional and physical relationships: in a city, as in nature, we feel part of something larger than ourselves, but we are also aware of our separateness.

The work addresses issues of our time and our various, overlapping two cultural different experiences. For over 1 month, the 14 Perambulação artists, living and working together, will articulate socio-economic and political contents, particularly when perceived in relation to the countries from which they come.

By means of collaborations and interventions young artists present themselves on different platforms, to establish one’s identity and determine collective positions. The content may vary from highly serious activism to artistic interventions, but always focused on the urge to reveal politics of space, ideology of architecture, social claiming of architectural redundancy, rhetoric of functionality of objects and spaces, depiction of public property.

As collaborative work with artists in their own and other community, Perambulação offers a contribution to the crossing of borders and lead us to the exchange of creative multicultural dialogues as a response to a shared need around and about contemporary urban culture concepts.
Daniela Labra

May 31 / Perambulação

Introduction

Perambulação is an immersion experience that discusses urban and architectural issues beyond contemporary art. Considering Brazil a country plenty of contradictions, this project foreseeing an artistic research in city’s structures. Perambulação is an opportunity for Brazilian and Dutch people to exchange life and professional experiences not only between the group but also with community. In this aspect, the project is extremely fresh and democratic, understanding art not just for a special public, but for any student, professional and neighbors interested in achieving knowledge about interventions in foreign public spaces.

The matter of happen in two extremely different cities as Rotterdam and São Paulo, promotes a possibility to discuss totally different realities even for locals: in one hand Rotterdam, the biggest port in the world, but a medium size, new planned city of 600.000 inhabitants with a high percentage of immigrants and social complexities; in the other hand, the megalopolis São Paulo (16 million inhabitants), one of largest cities in world, with serious nature damage problems (with just 4% of green area), but the most important financial center of Brazil.

Perambulação, as an interdisciplinary project, provides a possibility to discuss deeply the cities differences in Holland and Brazil through poetical projects that mixes real aspects and fiction about architecture, urbanism, cultural lifestyle and contemporary art.

It will be the first time to receive such a important project in a Brazilian city. A likely publication after about Perambulação experience is also something never published in Brazil, and is a important material to straight the relationship between involved countries.

Daniela Labra

Improvised List of participants
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Alexandre Vogler
Daniel Lima
Daniela Labra
Erik Hombrink
Felipe Barbosa
Jeroen Jongeleen
Marcelo Cidade
Mirta Demare
Nienke Terpsma
Renata de Andrade
Rob Hamelijnck
Roberto Rocco
Rosana Ricalde
Sonia Cillari
Tatiana Ferraz
Thomas Körtvélyessy
Wendelien van Oldenburgh