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Fields of Prepositions - Sesc Ipiranga, conceived BY O grupo inteiro, is a reflection ON forms of communal living – both as coming together and clashing – considered FROM the perspective of Sesc Ipiranga’s communal areas. The project multiplies different fields OF relations BETWEEN things, people, places and narratives. It connects events BETWEEN current local dimensions of the Ipiranga neighbourhood, the monument at the site of Brazil’s proclamation of Independence, in 1822, and across-the-board policies in Brazil over the last few years. Fields of Prepositions takes place over time and space through installations, performances, meetings, diagrams, publications and an online platform. Artist-academics FROM Central Saint Martins University of the Arts, London, as well as other guest artists, will take part in the project, in tune with the modus operandi Sesc has been developing for over 30 years: its histories, its outlook on the plural, its ability to reinvent itself and fit so completely, and yet so distinctly, into the city. from Sept. 15th to Dec. 4th 2016

BEFORE

Disposition

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Opening Sept.15th 2016

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[DISPOSITION / PREPOSIÇÕES]

Aparelhagem (The Rig)

When considering a communal area for a diversified audience within the Ipiranga district, one can hardly ignore the neighbourhood, given the historical relevance of the site. On the other hand, while visiting the Ipiranga monument, it is surprising to see the different ways in which skaterboarders, young people, senior citizens and passers-by use and appropriate the space. As a result, the question arises: what could be developed based on these relationships between bodies, spaces, objects, sounds, policies, histories and narratives. The Rig is a proposition, a setting, a construction, an installation mobilized by these questions. It is informed by a juxtaposition of different infrastructural forms: plenary, monument, furniture, exhibition, playground, square, reading room or lounge. It also plays host to many talks, including audience conversations, performances and voices – with com Areth Sadick, Daniella Mattos, Enrico Rocha, Kabila Aruanda, Laymert Garcia dos Santos, Solange Lima – that listen to one another throughout the structure.

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Foto: Antônio Cruz/Agência Brasil
[DIALOGUES / COMPETITION]

The National Congress Palace

The National Congress Palace is one of Brasilia’s postcard images and is located at the eastern end of the Eixo Monumental (Monument Axis). It sits at one of the vertices that outlines the Três Poderes (Three Branches) triangle. At the bottom vertices of the triangle are the Palácio do Planalto (Presidential Palace) and the Supreme Court. Designed by architect Oscar Niemeyer, the National Congress is made up of a main, horizontal building, which acts as a platform for the Senate and the House of Representatives’ domes. Source: National Congress website.

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Barthes: Idiorrhythm

"Let us think again about the negative relationship between power and pace. Power imposes, before anything else, the pace (of all things: life, time, thoughts, discourse). The idiorrhythmic demand always goes against power. Idiorrhythmy: the production of rhythmós, in other words, of flexible, available, mobile rhythm; a temporary form, but still, a form".

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Coreography WITH Clarice Lima

SINCE

Definitive Meetings WITH Shanawara

BEFORE

Prepositions

“Contradictions in themselves, mixtures and time reveal themselves to be, like my soul, hazy, variable, undulating, hued, Aquitaine. My soul, mixtures and time can’t express themselves through nouns, too stable, nor adjectives, too juxtaposed, but describe themselves more precisely through the assortment of their prepositions: before and after building the viscous fluidity, with and without the hesitant divisions, on and under the true and false subject, for and against the violent passions, behind and before the lax hypocrisies and the brave loyalties, in and out the bodily and theoretical, social and professional claustrophobias, between and beyond the metaphysical vocation of the herald archangel, to and from my travelling furore, a fine topology that best expresses places and proximities, ruptures and continuances, accumulations and rarities, positions and sites, flows and evolutions, the liquidity of solvents and solutes.” Source: Michel Serres. Le Tiers-Instruit (The Instructed Third), Instituto Piaget Publishing, Lisbon, 1991.p.140

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N.U (NA.UNHA) / (IN.THE.NAIL) WITH Aretha Sadick

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[DISPOSITION / PREPOSIÇÕES]

Audiences between Monuments

Invitation to imagine and build relationships through the neighbourhood and by bringing together and associating, often unlikely, people, things and objects. These are sentences that combine prepositions and nouns gathered during visits to Ipiranga, which also strike a chord in SESC’s backyard, through a sound that is triggered by the presence of people at the site.

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'Involuntary works' from Sesc Ipiranga, Central St. Martins Museum and Study Collection WITH Elizabeth Wright



This workpiece was done from a proposition-workshop BY Elizabeth Wright - artist and teacher from Central Saint Martins (Londres), WITH O grupo inteiro, Zebra 5 and publics from Sesc. Here you can find out more about her process and also watch other videos created by the artist.

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Nonretinal garden BY Jorge Menna Barreto WITH José Carlos the gardener at SESC Ipiranga.



During this workshop plants were manipulated, reflecting on the relationship between the olfactory, visual and sound senses presents in the garden.

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Independence or death – the people BY Bruno Moreschi WITH guest painters*



*Antonio de Castro, Carlos Silverio, Marco Andrade Jr., Moises do Santo, Silvio Jr. e Vanderley Marinho

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Photo: Eric Gaba – Wikimedia Commons user: Sting
[DIALOGUES / BODY / MONUMENT]

Diana

Diana was the goddess of the hunt and the moon in Roman mythology. She was very strong and powerful, and better known as the pure goddess, daughter of Jupiter and Latona, and twin sister of Phoebus. Indifferent to love and a tireless huntress, Diana was worshipped in rustic temples in the forests, where hunters would offer her sacrifices. In Roman mythology, Diana was the goddess of wild animals and the hunt, as well as domestic animals. In Roman art, she was usually depicted as a huntress, with a bow and quiver, and either a dog or a deer. Source: Wikipedia.

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Semântica deslizante (Semantic Slippage)

John Graz’ sculpture, Diana, used to belong to the house
that formerly occupied the site where Sesc Ipiranga was built. The piece, which belongs to Sesc’s Collection of Brazilian Art, is currently being restored and will be placed in Sesc’s backyard. During Fields of Prepositions, Diana will temporarily reside in the communal area, on a plinth built with the colours found in internet searches using the keyword Ipiranga. The operation recognises the semantic slips that occur when narratives are being built and competing for imaginations and stories, both public and private.

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Photo: Ariadne Barroso/Acervo do MUD
[DIALOGUES / CONVIVIALITY / BODY]

Parkour

Parkour is a practice where people aim to transpose obstacles in their way in either urban or rural settings: tree trunks, rocks, fences, walls, etc. Male practitioners of parkour are known as traceurs, with the feminine form being traceuse, owing to the sport’s French origin.
Source: Wikipedia.

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Parkour for Seniors BY Jerônimo Bittencourt and Danielli Mendes, WITH O grupo inteiro.



Through a partnership with the performer pieces of furniture have been designed for an area of the Professora Maria do Carmo César Belviláqua Communal Living Centre for Seniors where Parkour workshops led by Bittencourt and Danielli Mendes will be held for senior citizens. Both the furniture and the workshops seek to acti- vate the presence and body per- ception of senior citizens, taking their specific characteristics into account. The furniture will also be available for different public uses.

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[DISPOSITION / PREPOSIÇÕES]

Small Wall

The Project’s first preposition-act, undertaken at the beginning of its creative process and the experience at SESC Ipiranga, between June and August, was a bench/small wall [preposition AGAINST] in the communal area. How do visitors react to a bench/small wall that cuts across the space? What can a collective bench promote? This activation sought to interrogate the dynamics that takes place in the space and point to unpredicted uses and other meeting possibilities, triggering changes in the piece, the place and the ways of being there.

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Exercising Presence BY Zebra5 collective [Acts of mediation]

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[DIALOGUES / CONVIVIALITY / BODY / COMPETITION / MONUMENT]

Countercartography WITH Anthony Davies

BELOW

Conversation WITH Rappin' Hood and O grupo inteiro, after the screening of Black Against White



A conversation with Rappin' Hood, posing as the opening question: How the idea of dispute [strongly related to soccer and the film 'Black Against White'] can contribute to reflect about the black narrative?

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The voices of words, edges of images BY Daniela Mattos



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.