Participating Artists Press Agency
Thursday 25th of April 2024 – page 1
PAPA-Lab Sao Paulo Brazil did take place from 7th till 29 th of November 2009. The hosting organisation is freeDimensional. Director: Lino Hellings PAPA Lab Sao Paulo correspondents: Zé Carlos Barretta, Giovana Pasquini (Jô), Ines Correa, Marcelo Ferrelli, Sylvia Sanchez, Felipe Denuzzo, Ferver at the IX International Human Rights Colloquium. Researching the possibilty of art to develop actions for human rightlávio Sampaio, Luciana Camargo (Luh). All members of Fotomix. PAPA was an obss issues. PAPA gave a lecture about errorism (the new human right to make mistakes) at Human Rights Colloquium on November the13th 2009.
Saturday 7th of November 2009
Sao Paulo -
Classic pair of shoes on the electric wires: the joy among neighborhood boys.…
Giovana Pasquini –
Sao Paulo Lab
Sao Paulo -
Sao Paulo forbade advertisements in public space so I have heard. I expected empty walls. On the contrary there are murals everywhere. Art, advertisement? I do not know. It does…
Lino Hellings –
Sao Paulo Lab
Sao Paulo -
Knowing Sao Paulo forbid all advertisement in public space you would expect an ‘empty city’. On the contrary not one piece of wall unpainted. Murals all over. The people do…
Lino Hellings –
Sao Paulo Lab
Sao Paulo -
In the entrance of the private university where the Human Rights Colloquiem is held you can deposit your waste in five different categories: Paper, plastic, glass, metal and non recycable…
Lino Hellings –
Sao Paulo Lab
Sao Paulo -
You find these stickers in virtually every phone booth in São Paulo: a telephone book for contacting ladies, some of whom might be transvestites. …
Lino Hellings –
Sao Paulo Lab
Sao Paulo -
In virtually every Big Ear you find these stickers. A public Telephone book to contact ladies, who can be transvestites.…
Lino Hellings –
Sao Paulo Lab
Sao Paulo -
Neighborhood with high concentration of artists and poets. In Vila Madalena, you can find nature and art in the poetry of street names such as Harmony, Glitter and Sunflower and…
Ines Correa –
Sao Paulo Lab
Sao Paulo -
Lots of traffic signs, street name signs, wires and buildings in Av. Brigadeiro Luis Antonio. Drivers who get confused with all that information can get some help from the poster:…
Sylvia Sanchez –
Sao Paulo Lab
Sao Paulo -
There are a lot of different styles of murals, grafitti and here pixas. The pixadores use a unique style of lettering. Their messages have political connotations. Not for me to…
Lino Hellings –
Sao Paulo Lab
Sao Paulo -
Most people cook on bottled gas. Specially made carts and bicycles transport the gas to your doorstep. Mobile energy.
Sao Paulo, the 9th of November 2009…
Lino Hellings –
Sao Paulo Lab
Sao Paulo -
Again a different kind of pixas. Or is this considered to be graffiti? The official street sweepers on the top of the stairs wear prize winning uniforms …
Lino Hellings –
Sao Paulo Lab
Sao Paulo -
Orelhão is the name given to these public telephones. Nice word: Big Ear.…
Lino Hellings –
Sao Paulo Lab
Sao Paulo -
Interaction of graffiti and nature brings messages and appeals.…
Giovana Pasquini –
Sao Paulo Lab
Sao Paulo -
Just saw a lady carefully spreading the crusts of bread after she dropped her waste in the basket. All along the streets you find these baskets. Sometimes the size of…
Lino Hellings –
Sao Paulo Lab
Sao Paulo -
In the concrete corridors leading to the platforms of the metro it feels like being in an artwork for me. The shape of the tubes. The modernist seats. On the…
Lino Hellings –
Sao Paulo Lab
Sao Paulo -
A note above the blue chair says it is reserved for obese people. Try to avoid blue chairs. In the metro carriages there is a run on the brown chairs…
Lino Hellings –
Sao Paulo Lab
Sao Paulo -
Two boys are deep asleep at the doorstep of the cash dispensers hall of the Bradesko bank.
Sao Paulo Liberdade 10th November 2009…
Lino Hellings –
Sao Paulo Lab
Sao Paulo -
Car wash places are semi public. Four or five man cleaning one car at rapid speed. Getting the pieces of cloth of the line wipe the car a few times…
Lino Hellings –
Sao Paulo Lab
Sao Paulo -
No advertisement in public space. Advertisement at unexpected places like in the bars which you have to push to enter the metro platforms. I have seen this at petrol stations…
Lino Hellings –
Sao Paulo Lab
Sao Paulo -
The office wall of the Movimento Nacional Dos Catadores (MCNR). is covered with photos of the last congress. Every photo features Lula, the president of Brazil. He hands out…
Lino Hellings –
Sao Paulo Lab
Sao Paulo -
Lina Bo Bardi’s SESC Pompéia, a community centre for sports and culture in Sao Paulo facilitates a good sleep through robust and at the same time soft couches. A after…
Lino Hellings –
Sao Paulo Lab
Sao Paulo -
In rich neighbourhoods in São Paulo, we can see some very old houses occupied by poor families that live and work there. We call them “cortiçosâ€. In this house the…
Ines Correa –
Sao Paulo Lab