Fields of Prepositions Sesc Ipiranga

Major writers, actors, musicians, dancers, directors, poets, artists, filmmakers, thinkers and makers of contemporary art, as well as guests from different fields of knowledge are invited to an unusual and, if not unique, definitive meeting. The meeting will focus on words and guests will surprise the audience by presenting a text, piece or manifest, in the form of prose or poetry, which they, or a writer they would like to share, have written. Going against the grain of the spectacularization of the arts and culture, the names of the evening’s guest will not be announced and, in these performances, readings or interventions, in addition to a surprise meeting, participants will find a definitive place to share and a permanent incentive to reflection and aesthetic fruition. All ages. Free.

This meeting/workshop is part of the cultural-academic exchange between SESC São Paulo, Central Saint Martins – University of the Arts London and O grupo inteiro, as an element of the Fields of Prepositions Project by SESC Ipiranga. Artist Elizabeth Wright and writer Anthony Davies will act as critical respondents in this project through their relationship with O grupo inteiro, which developed over a continuous dialogue process during 2016. This public meeting will see the unfolding of a part of this process/chat that relates to countercartography and its possibilities for mapping the institution and its spaces, relationships, images and objects.  All ages. Free. Simultaneous translation will be available for this meeting.

The circuit starts with performers Jerônimo Bittencourt and Danielli Mendes, who, along with the audience, will try out furniture designed by O grupo inteiro for the Parkour at the Professora Maria do Carmo César Bevilaqua Communal Living Centre for Seniors. They will continue through SESC’s outdoor areas and conclude the circuit by trying out different ways to use their bodies by The Rig, one of the pieces in the exhibition. At this point, there will be a chat about notions of communal living with O grupo inteiro, Elizabeth Wright, Anthony Davies, Bruno Moreschi, the SESC team and the audience. Communal Area. All ages. Free. Simultaneous translation will be available for this session.

For this performance, the artist will be in the communal area at SESC Ipiranga using a mobile phone to take notes on how the audience moves around the space. Her notes will be typed in real time and can be read on a word document projection. The act encourages the audience to perform and relate to the piece, creating new movements in space – which, in this instance, are seen as a choreography. Each of her notes will relate to, against, from, before, without, between, with the communal area. All ages. Free.

For this performance, the artist will be in the communal area at SESC Ipiranga using a mobile phone to take notes on how the audience moves around the space. Her notes will be typed in real time and can be read on a word document projection. The act encourages the audience to perform and relate to the piece, creating new movements in space – which, in this instance, are seen as a choreography. Each of her notes will relate to, against, from, before, without, between, with the communal area. All ages. Free.

Is it possible to fine-tune the desires of the body with the desires of a space? Based on this question, this exercise will investigate body awareness as it relates to architecture. To that end, the artist invites participants to dance with their surrounding space. All ages. On-site registration. Free.

These acts of mediation are carried out with audiences and SESC employees and propose settings for observation, communal living, games and collective creation that overlap with layers of the Fields of Prepositions project. Activities include Listening and Compiling communal living experiences, Games, Conversation and Word Labs. All ages. Limited spaces available. On-site registration.

These acts of mediation are carried out with audiences and SESC employees and propose settings for observation, communal living, games and collective creation that overlap with layers of the Fields of Prepositions project. Activities include Listening and Compiling communal living experiences, Games, Conversation and Word Labs. All ages. Limited spaces available. On-site registration.

These acts of mediation are carried out with audiences and SESC employees and propose settings for observation, communal living, games and collective creation that overlap with layers of the Fields of Prepositions project. Activities include Listening and Compiling communal living experiences, Games, Conversation and Word Labs. All ages. Limited spaces available. On-site registration.

These acts of mediation are carried out with audiences and SESC employees and propose settings for observation, communal living, games and collective creation that overlap with layers of the Fields of Prepositions project. Activities include Listening and Compiling communal living experiences, Games, Conversation and Word Labs. All ages. Limited spaces available. On-site registration.

Before the opening of the Project, O grupo inteiro invited the audience at SESC Ipiranga to rearrange the communal area furniture in preparation for Dom Pedro I’s arrival. On August 14, 1822, Dom Pedro I started his journey from Rio de Janeiro to São Paulo, via Santos, which culminated in the cry of Independence on September 7, on Ipiranga hill. All ages. Free.

This piece will be under construction by artist Bruno Moreschi and a group of painters from República square and Trianon MASP between September 7, Brazil’s Independence Day, and November 15, the day of the Proclamation of the Republic of Brazil. These will be meetings around the possibilities for the reproduction of the Independence or Death painting from 1888, by Pedro Américo, on SESC Ipiranga’s deck wall. All ages. Free.

This is a visual performance coupled with storytelling. Aretha Saddick asks questions about the rules for the occupation of city spaces and the alleged freedom for their use and communal living. She presents and questions the possibilities of representation, presentation, resistance and existence of different human and urban bodies, especially peripheral, in current society. All ages. Free.

This activity aims to maximize senior citizens’ body awareness and state and provide them with greater independence when moving. The idea is not to make their bodies more vigorous or nimble, based on a younger body as reference, but to reveal, by investigating the anatomic structure, skin sensation, bone and muscles, the latent expressiveness of the body and its possibilities to inhabit spaces in a more expanded time. The workshop proposes to explore the poetics of movement and sensitization of the body as possibilities for presence activation. Specific furniture, designed by O grupo inteiro, will be used in this activity. Ages 60 or older. On-site registration. Free.

From the perspective of her practice of observing commonplace objects in everyday locations, and creating a three-dimensional and archaeological inventory of SESC Ipiranga’s, as well as its surroundings’, objects, locations and surfaces, the artist will invite participants to capture images using cameras and mobile phones, and turn them into 3D models. These images will be posted on the Fields of Prepositions website and included in The Rig piece, located in the communal area, thereby conceiving Ipiranga as a sculptural process. Age: 16 or older. Free. Limited spaces available. To register, please write to oficinas@ipiranga. sescsp.org.br

Major writers, actors, musicians, dancers, directors, poets, artists, filmmakers, thinkers and makers of contemporary art, as well as guests from different fields of knowledge are invited to an unusual and, if not unique, definitive meeting. The meeting will focus on words and guests will surprise the audience by presenting a text, piece or manifest, in the form of prose or poetry, which they, or a writer they would like to share, have written. Going against the grain of the spectacularization of the arts and culture, the names of the evening’s guest will not be announced and, in these performances, readings or interventions, in addition to a surprise meeting, participants will find a definitive place to share and a permanent incentive to reflection and aesthetic fruition. All ages. Free.

For this performance, the artist will be in the communal area at SESC Ipiranga using a mobile phone to take notes on how the audience moves around the space. Her notes will be typed in real time and can be read on a word document projection. The act encourages the audience to perform and relate to the piece, creating new movements in space – which, in this instance, are seen as a choreography. Each of her notes will relate to, against, from, before, without, between, with the communal area. All ages. Free.

Is it possible to fine-tune the desires of the body with the desires of a space? Based on this question, this exercise will investigate body awareness as it relates to architecture. To that end, the artist invites participants to dance with their surrounding space. All ages. On-site registration. Free.

These acts of mediation are carried out with audiences and SESC employees and propose settings for observation, communal living, games and collective creation that overlap with layers of the Fields of Prepositions project. Activities include Listening and Compiling communal living experiences, Games, Conversation and Word Labs. All ages. Limited spaces available. On-site registration.

These acts of mediation are carried out with audiences and SESC employees and propose settings for observation, communal living, games and collective creation that overlap with layers of the Fields of Prepositions project. Activities include Listening and Compiling communal living experiences, Games, Conversation and Word Labs. All ages. Limited spaces available. On-site registration.

These acts of mediation are carried out with audiences and SESC employees and propose settings for observation, communal living, games and collective creation that overlap with layers of the Fields of Prepositions project. Activities include Listening and Compiling communal living experiences, Games, Conversation and Word Labs. All ages. Limited spaces available. On-site registration.

A debate on the history of graffiti with practical and collective activities that will result in the creation of an artistic mural. 14 or older. 15 spaces available. Docks. Registration starts on October 4 at Customer Services.

This piece will be under construction by artist Bruno Moreschi and a group of painters from República square and Trianon MASP between September 7, Brazil’s Independence Day, and November 15, the day of the Proclamation of the Republic of Brazil. These will be meetings around the possibilities for the reproduction of the Independence or Death painting from 1888, by Pedro Américo, on SESC Ipiranga’s deck wall. All ages. Free.

A reflection on orality and writing skills in verse creation and songwriting through the composition of rap lyrics and rhyming techniques. 14 or older. 15 spaces available. Registration starts on October 4 at Customer Services.

This activity aims to maximize senior citizens’ body awareness and state and provide them with greater independence when moving. The idea is not to make their bodies more vigorous or nimble, based on a younger body as reference, but to reveal, by investigating the anatomic structure, skin sensation, bone and muscles, the latent expressiveness of the body and its possibilities to inhabit spaces in a more expanded time. The workshop proposes to explore the poetics of movement and sensitization of the body as possibilities for presence activation. Specific furniture, designed by O grupo inteiro, will be used in this activity. Ages 60 or older. On-site registration. Free.

The artists will cross-read excerpts from texts written by women, such as: Anais Nin, Virginia Woolf, Clarice Lispector, Hilda Hilst, Stela do Patrocínio, Carolina Maria de Jesus, and others, outloud and using a microphone. The reading will interrelate with a projection of images inspired by the texts. Images are by either the artist or the result of research and appropriations from social networks and the internet. Duration: 50 minutes. All ages. Free

The artists will cross-read excerpts from texts written by women, such as: Anais Nin, Virginia Woolf, Clarice Lispector, Hilda Hilst, Stela do Patrocínio, Carolina Maria de Jesus, and others, outloud and using a microphone. The reading will interrelate with a projection of images inspired by the texts. Images are by either the artist or the result of research and appropriations from social networks and the internet. Duration: 50 minutes. All ages. Free

Major writers, actors, musicians, dancers, directors, poets, artists, filmmakers, thinkers and makers of contemporary art, as well as guests from different fields of knowledge are invited to an unusual and, if not unique, definitive meeting. The meeting will focus on words and guests will surprise the audience by presenting a text, piece or manifest, in the form of prose or poetry, which they, or a writer they would like to share, have written. Going against the grain of the spectacularization of the arts and culture, the names of the evening’s guest will not be announced and, in these performances, readings or interventions, in addition to a surprise meeting, participants will find a definitive place to share and a permanent incentive to reflection and aesthetic fruition. All ages. Free.

A combination of documentary and science fiction, the plot revolves around a violent police blitz during a famous black music party at the Quarentão, in Ceilândia, on the outskirts of Brasília. “White Out. Black In” was the command given by the police as it entered the venue in 1986. Two characters were inspired by the testimonials given by actual attendees: one is wheelchair-bound and the other has a prosthetic leg. Year: 2015. Length: 95 minutes Free. Tickets available one hour before screening– 200 seats.

Is it possible to fine-tune the desires of the body with the desires of a space? Based on this question, this exercise will investigate body awareness as it relates to architecture. To that end, the artist invites participants to dance with their surrounding space. All ages. On-site registration. Free.

These acts of mediation are carried out with audiences and SESC employees and propose settings for observation, communal living, games and collective creation that overlap with layers of the Fields of Prepositions project. Activities include Listening and Compiling communal living experiences, Games, Conversation and Word Labs. All ages. Limited spaces available. On-site registration.

These acts of mediation are carried out with audiences and SESC employees and propose settings for observation, communal living, games and collective creation that overlap with layers of the Fields of Prepositions project. Activities include Listening and Compiling communal living experiences, Games, Conversation and Word Labs. All ages. Limited spaces available. On-site registration.

These acts of mediation are carried out with audiences and SESC employees and propose settings for observation, communal living, games and collective creation that overlap with layers of the Fields of Prepositions project. Activities include Listening and Compiling communal living experiences, Games, Conversation and Word Labs. All ages. Limited spaces available. On-site registration.

A debate on the history of graffiti with practical and collective activities that will result in the creation of an artistic mural. 14 or older. 15 spaces available. Docks. Registration starts on October 4 at Customer Services.

This piece will be under construction by artist Bruno Moreschi and a group of painters from República square and Trianon MASP between September 7, Brazil’s Independence Day, and November 15, the day of the Proclamation of the Republic of Brazil. These will be meetings around the possibilities for the reproduction of the Independence or Death painting from 1888, by Pedro Américo, on SESC Ipiranga’s deck wall. All ages. Free.

In this activity, participants will touch and feel plants as a means to prompt a reflection on the relationship between the senses of smell, sight and hearing. The concepts of “pruning” and “florestity” will also be discussed from a perspective of learning. “Pruning” as a mediation strategy. “Florestity” as a means for socialization. All Ages. Free

A reflection on orality and writing skills in verse creation and songwriting through the composition of rap lyrics and rhyming techniques. 14 or older. 15 spaces available. Registration starts on October 4 at Customer Services.

This activity aims to maximize senior citizens’ body awareness and state and provide them with greater independence when moving. The idea is not to make their bodies more vigorous or nimble, based on a younger body as reference, but to reveal, by investigating the anatomic structure, skin sensation, bone and muscles, the latent expressiveness of the body and its possibilities to inhabit spaces in a more expanded time. The workshop proposes to explore the poetics of movement and sensitization of the body as possibilities for presence activation. Specific furniture, designed by O grupo inteiro, will be used in this activity. Ages 60 or older. On-site registration. Free.

The documentary discusses racial prejudice in Brazil based on a classic amateur football match between residents of two neighbourhoods in the outskirts of São Paulo – São João Clímaco and the Heliópolis favela. In a highly mixed-race community where most of the population is made up of mulattoes, the peculiarity of the match is that players decide on their own race: each one states whether he is black or white and ‘picks his team’. Year: 2004. Length: 55 minutes. There will be a chat with Rappin Hood after the screening on both nights. Free. Tickets available one hour before screening– 200 seats.

The MU.DE.I project aims to create an environment where local musicians can exchange experiences and information so as to strengthen local cultural production and empower local youth. Suitable for people aged 12 or older. Free. Tickets available one hour before screening– 200 seats.

Accompanied by a band, rapper, radio and TV presenter, music producer and social activist Rappin’Hood, a well-known Heliópolis artist presents the Rappin’Hood concert - Sujeito Homem ao Vivo (Subject Man Live), where he plays his greatest 90s hits from the “Sujeito Homem 1” and “Sujeito Homem 2” (Subject Man 1 and Subject Man 2) CDs, in addition to brand new tracks. 10 musicians will join the artists onstage: the 11 Rappin’Hood Football Club players. Length: 90 minutes. Tickets for sale at the box office.

The documentary was produced based on interviews with young Brazilian students attending public schools in Rio de Janeiro conducted by Eduardo Coutinho before he passed away (in February 2014). The feature film was edited by Jordana Berg, who collaborated with Coutinho on many other projects, and finished by filmmaker João Moreira Salles, who produced every film by the director since the year 2000. This posthumous film is a reflection on Coutinho’s creative process. Year: 2014. Length: 85 minutes. Suitable for people aged 12 or older Free. Tickets available one hour before screening– 200 seats.

Major writers, actors, musicians, dancers, directors, poets, artists, filmmakers, thinkers and makers of contemporary art, as well as guests from different fields of knowledge are invited to an unusual and, if not unique, definitive meeting. The meeting will focus on words and guests will surprise the audience by presenting a text, piece or manifest, in the form of prose or poetry, which they, or a writer they would like to share, have written. Going against the grain of the spectacularization of the arts and culture, the names of the evening’s guest will not be announced and, in these performances, readings or interventions, in addition to a surprise meeting, participants will find a definitive place to share and a permanent incentive to reflection and aesthetic fruition. All ages. Free.

A conversation/reflection on the process and experiences triggered by the Fields of Prepositions by Sesc Ipiranga project, its potential ramifications and the launch of a publication-fanzine. All ages. Free

Is it possible to fine-tune the desires of the body with the desires of a space? Based on this question, this exercise will investigate body awareness as it relates to architecture. To that end, the artist invites participants to dance with their surrounding space. All ages. On-site registration. Free.

These acts of mediation are carried out with audiences and SESC employees and propose settings for observation, communal living, games and collective creation that overlap with layers of the Fields of Prepositions project. Activities include Listening and Compiling communal living experiences, Games, Conversation and Word Labs. All ages. Limited spaces available. On-site registration.

These acts of mediation are carried out with audiences and SESC employees and propose settings for observation, communal living, games and collective creation that overlap with layers of the Fields of Prepositions project. Activities include Listening and Compiling communal living experiences, Games, Conversation and Word Labs. All ages. Limited spaces available. On-site registration.

These acts of mediation are carried out with audiences and SESC employees and propose settings for observation, communal living, games and collective creation that overlap with layers of the Fields of Prepositions project. Activities include Listening and Compiling communal living experiences, Games, Conversation and Word Labs. All ages. Limited spaces available. On-site registration.

This activity aims to maximize senior citizens’ body awareness and state and provide them with greater independence when moving. The idea is not to make their bodies more vigorous or nimble, based on a younger body as reference, but to reveal, by investigating the anatomic structure, skin sensation, bone and muscles, the latent expressiveness of the body and its possibilities to inhabit spaces in a more expanded time. The workshop proposes to explore the poetics of movement and sensitization of the body as possibilities for presence activation. Specific furniture, designed by O grupo inteiro, will be used in this activity. Ages 60 or older. On-site registration. Free.