Posts on Lanchonete

Paim, final touch (pt. 2)

Tue, 27 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000

*Mural designs by Thiago Gonçalves depicting the Demoiselle and 14 Bis airplanes invented by Alberto Santos Dumont.

We were just gearing up to propose the permanent LED installation on the Centro-facing lateral facade of 14 Bis, the tallest of the three buildings that make up Conjunto Santos Dumont on Rua Paim when COVID struck. Picking up from the post-planning cycle, Lanchonete.org had the local will to proceed with a public space project in the back corner of the compound. For a short period we shared an open call with past participants and residents of Lanchonete.org to help us finetune an incremental proposal to Conjunto Santos Dumont. During the long-term charrette process undertaken by Lanchonete.org, we learned that the back corner patio of the Caravelle Building is used by residents of all three buildings for leisure, even if at night the end of the internal roadway that abuts the Caravelle patio is still a drug traffic point. There is a gate that roughly demarcates the family space from the drug sales point or ‘boca’. Former participant, Edgar Calel suggested a mural for one-half of the L-shaped patio wall. He invited another artist, Fernando Pereira dos Santos to participate given that they’d been working together on a film for the five years that Calel has been visiting Brazil from Guatemala. For a few years now, Lanchonete.org has worked with the technical assistance collective, Margem to help shape the charrette and ‘hold’ the community’s feedback. One particular strand dating from a visit by the KTH Royal Institute of Technology of Stockholm is the evolving discussion on a community garden. Margem helped out with Calel’s mural as well. This gave its members time and access to revisit the garden discussion with Caravelle building leadership, maintenance staff and residents. Residents were invited to help paint the mural across four weekends.

Lavi Kasongo

Mon, 25 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Lavi Kasongo is a talented plastic artist of Congolese origin who has been painting since he was 5 years old. Expelled from the Congo by the brutal civil war that rages the country, he has been a refugee in Brazil since 2015, where he continued his career internationally. Inspired by his African past and his South American present, he creates paintings where African colors are in abstract harmony. Lavi has participated in several individual and group exhibitions in prestigious galleries such as the Maison de France, State of São Paulo Pinacoteca, SESC, Michigan Art Space, and the Inn Gallery, among others. He was invited to participate in the “Latitudes” project by SESC Vila Mariana where he painted a wall that tells a bit about his story and of other refugees.

Abdoulaye Guibila

Wed, 07 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Abdoulaye is 28 years old and from Burkina Faso. He arrived in Brazil with the dream of working and learning more about cooking and culinary techniques. He initially worked in construction sites in order to sustain himself, until he was able to do the job that he truly likes, to cook. He got to know Gastromotiva, where he learned kitchen techniques and, at the same time, the Brazilian culinary system. He was winner of the dessert competition KENZO DO BEM, evaluated by Brasil Fogaça’s Master Chef. It was a huge experience for him, and he began to think of taking Gastromotiva to Burkina Faso. He joined the group Lanchonete.org, where he carried out several events with the collective, and put to practice much of what he had learned during his time at Gastromotiva.

Fernando Pereira dos Santos

Tue, 06 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Fernando Pereira dos Santos is a producer, educator, and documentary-maker. He directed the medium length film “Mapuche: Gente da Terra” (2012). He also directed the short films “Admiração de João Garganta” (2016) and “Sonho de Obsidiana” (2020), which premiered at the 11th Berlin Biennale. He produced “Fabiana” (2019) and currently produces the documentaries “Babylon” and “Samuel e a luz”, as well as his first feature film as a director, “¡Seremos ancestrales!”.

Edgar Calel

Sat, 12 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Edgar Calel was born in 1987 in San Juan Comalapa, Guatemala, where he lives and works. His artistic work is a continuous search for the translation of the Maya-Kaqchiquel (culture to which he belongs) cosmovision into other contemporary languages. He works mainly with themes related to his community’s indigenous practices, Maya spirituality, rituals, identity, and migration.

Margem

Sat, 12 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Margem is a multidisciplinary architecture technical consulting group. It has worked for six years understanding the concept of habitat as a common good and a right to all. It addresses precarious conditions of extreme urban social inequalities in the self-produced city, and the serious problems of insalubrity and spatial quality, as well as property conflicts, especially urban, and the recognition of community territory, defending the compliance of the constitutional rights to housing and the city. It is of consensus in the group, which acts in São Paulo, Brazil, and in Padova, Italy, the importance and value of multidisciplinarity in all of its proposed actions.

Paim, final touch (pt. 1)

Sat, 12 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000

*Watercolor by Thiago Gonçalves depicting side views of Demoiselle and 14 Bis as well as ‘imagined’ airplanes on the 14 Bis lateral façade.

*See Paim, final touch (pt. 2).

From 2013-2017, Lanchonete.org was an artist-led, research platform focused on the right to the city—how people live and work in, navigate and share the contemporary metropolis—with the Center of São Paulo as its outlook. The name comes from the ubiquitous lunch counters—convivial, fluorescent-lit, open-walled, laborious, points of commerce—that populate almost every street corner. In 2016 the collective purchased a small lunch counter (Tarcisio’s Bar, Loja 3) at the base of 14 Bis, one of three buildings—including Demoiselle & Caravelle—that comprise Conjunto Santos Dumont. This began the present phase of the project , which is to develop a special relationship with the 4000+ inhabitants of Conjunto Santos Dumont and better understand the historic neighborhood of Bixiga in which it is located … by becoming a lanchonete owner.

Thiago Correia Gonçalves

Sat, 12 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Thiago Correia Gonçalves is a Brazilian artist and architect currently based in Brooklyn, NY. He studied Cinema at FAAP and Architecture at AEAUSP-Escola da Cidade, both in São Paulo, and at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London.

His oeuvre faces visible and invisible relationships existing in the vertigo of colonization, particularly in the context of South America and the Africa Diaspora. With various procedures and techniques, the centrality of his investigations often arise from the influence received from anthropological topics and the urban environment and how they relates to the food system.

'Rádio Lanchonete' - by artist in residency Andrew O'Connor

Fri, 29 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Final event of Andrew O’Connor’s collaborative residency between Lanchonete.org and Residência São João, as part of Festival SOMSOCOSMOS.

photos by Verónica Daniela Cerotta

audio by Andrew O’Connor

Andrew O'Connor in residency with Lanchonete.org and São João Residency

Sun, 29 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Andrew is an independent radio producer and sound artist based in Toronto Canada. His work reflects an interest in sound, storytelling, and transmission, and explores these ideas through formal broadcast radio as well as installation art, sound design, and pirate radio. Andrew’s work for the radio has been featured across the CBC Radio network, syndicated internationally on Australian public radio ABC, Radio Zero in Lisbon, and by Austrian public broadcaster ORF. Most recently his work has been featured in the Radiophrenia Festival put on by the Glasgow Centre for Contemporary Art, and at the Deep Wireless festival of Radio Art. Andrew currently hosts and produces a weekly pirate radio show called DISCO 3000 on his very own low watt FM station Parkdale Pirate Radio.

Vertical Studio (Escola da Cidade) students do project on Santos Dumont Complex

Sun, 07 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000

This year, after Anat Litwin conducted a class during the International Seminar at the Escola da Cidade, the collaboration with Escola continued through a Vertical Studio student group. The Vertical Studio is a collective project studio at the Escola da Cidade, with broad-ranging themes, marked by current urban matters. During the first semester of 2019, the group consisting of the students Artur Correa, João Pedro Catalano, Letícia Porto and Maria Clara Van Deursen, after having participated in Anat Litwin’s class, decided to focus their research and work on the Santos Dumont Complex. The group focused on pedagogical activities with the children of the complex. The work culminated on a final event, with an intervention developed around drawing activities, aiming at having the children identify themselves and understand their participation in the construction of the city.

Anat Litwin participates in Escola da Cidade's International Seminar

Tue, 14 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000

On February of 2019, researcher and artist Anat Litwin, founder of the HomeBase Project, was invited, through a partnership between Lanchonete.org and Escola da Cidade, to participate in Escola’s Annual International Seminar. She led a week-long seminar with the students of Escola, assisted by Marcio Kogan, a team of professor assistants (Julia Park and Thiago Benutti), and by the help of Paula Van Erven and Pablo Morais, who is an Architecture and Urbanism student at the Ouro Preto Federal University and who took part in the Seminar. The seminar counted with the help of the Lanchonete.org team, and explored various sites in the city and the potential of creatively inhabiting them. The Seminar was devoted to the theme of Artistic Hosting in the City, between public and private spheres, the subject of Litwin’s Phd research at the Technion, in the department of Urban Planning, and part of a life-long creative exploration she is pursuing and an ongoing exploratory dialogue taking place with Todd Lester. The seminar included a trilogy of creative assignments, from the macro of the city, experienced through sites which serve as thresholds, to the micro tier of the neighborhood, with a focus on private homes and narratives of inhabitants in the site of Rua Paim’s Santos Dumont Complex, where students conducted interviews, to an intimate tier of the domestic setting taking place in the private homes of the students for a one-night art residency / home exchange. During the seminar, Anat’s class thought about matters of domesticity and the way in which space is inhabited, as well as a critical-creative decoding of the city and a new embodied right to the city, through an interpersonal sensual presence. At the end of the week, the students produced a final visual installation that was exposed at the Seminar’s closing event at Escola.

Leaving Open

Tue, 25 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000

For the purposes of this site, terms like ‘Leaving Open’ and ‘Final Touch’ are figurative.

Through a Post-Planning Cycle, Lanchonete.org conducted a year-long public programme (2018) in order to allow ongoing processes to come to natural ends, and to receive feedback on the overall work. ‘Paim, final touch’ (part 1 and part 2) describes how some Lanchonete.org participants have continued working from Tarcísio’s Bar (lunch counter) and with the residents of Conjunto Santos Dumont, and indeed in this way we are ‘Leaving Open’ the new network forged by the five-year project, Lanchonete.org (2013-17).

Post-Planning Cycle

Tue, 25 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Vídeo: Coletivo Coletores

By the time Lanchonete.org reached its five-year mark, we had a momentum that could not easily stop on December 31, 2017. Indeed at this point we had some activities–the Neighborhood Museum, Monday Lunches, an open course on Local Power with Escola da Cidade and a community space to redesign with partners inside and outside the community–that deserved completion. There were also some additional artists and makers who we wanted to host while also ‘disassembling’ the platform. Basically we had a few more things we wanted to do as a group. One might even argue that the ‘post-planning cycle’ was an important time to have a final cohort of residents in as much our guests–international and local–helped us to compound ideas and avoid groupthink on consistent basis over the duration of the project.

Adler Murada em residência na Paim

Thu, 22 Jun 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Cultura e comida - uma experiência sobre o entendimento da migração, habitação e trabalho

Por Carina Paoletti

Trabalhar com comida combina diferentes interesses do artista Adler Murada dentro de seu processo artístico. Em 2014, em residência em Bogotá (CO), junto com a vídeo artista canadense Nisha Planeteer, começou a utilizar um retroprojetor como suporte para experimentos com projeções de imagem. Os encontros diários no horário das refeições passaram a tomar lugar importante para discussão de pesquisas, mais até do que as rotinas de ateliê. Foi a partir daí que as performances com alimento iniciaram em seu percurso, se formalizando como jantares públicos pensados como trabalho expositivo.

Conversa com: Umlilo & Stash Crew

Mon, 24 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0000

No contexto da vinda de Umlilo & Stash Crew (África do Sul) para o Sesc-SP, o programa Cidade Queer promoveu uma conversa sobre performatividade queer/kuir e ativismo LGBTQ+.

A partir da ideia de como usar a música e a performance como forma de articular um ativismo local e transnacional entre artistas kuir de diferentes lugares, foi apresentado o projeto Rainbow Riots, desenvolvido pelxs performers sul-africanxs Umlilo, Joni Barnard e Kyle Dylan De Boer.

O encontro abriu a semana de atividades que xs artistas tiveram em São Paulo. Uma colaboração entre Lanchonete.org e a plataforma Explode Residency!

Developing identities to improve collectivity

Mon, 28 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Faced with chaotic and uneven processes of gentrification, today São Paulo has a serious housing deficit: the city lacks 200,000 accommodation spaces for its citizens and has a chronic lack of access to social housing facilities. Ocupação São João is an example of this reality, the occupation of an abandoned hotel being carried out in 2011 by families under the FLM - Frente de Luta por Moradia (Front for the struggle for housing) banner. The São João occupation is about more than housing however. For example, on the first floor there is a self-managed cultural center, the Centro Cultural São João, which aims to strengthen political participation through arts and culture.

Residency Unlimited blog: Cidade Queer culmination

Thu, 01 Sep 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Lanchonete.org is an artist-led progressive cultural platform focused on how people live and work in, share and survive the contemporary city with the Center of São Paulo as our outlook. It gets its name from the ubiquitous lunch counters—convivial, fluorescent-lit, open-walled, laborious, points of commerce—that populate almost every street corner. One of its members, Todd Lanier Lester blogged regularly for Residency Unlimited DIALOGUES over the course of the five-year project. See more about the ATAQUE! Ball on the Cidade Queer site.

Residency Unlimited blog: 2016 Cidade Queer cycle

Wed, 01 Jun 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Lanchonete.org is an artist-led progressive cultural platform focused on how people live and work in, share and survive the contemporary city with the Center of São Paulo as our outlook. It gets its name from the ubiquitous lunch counters—convivial, fluorescent-lit, open-walled, laborious, points of commerce—that populate almost every street corner. One of its members, Todd Lanier Lester blogged regularly for Residency Unlimited DIALOGUES over the course of the five-year project. The following article first appeared in Borda journal in Portuguese and more recently on the ArtsEverywhere platform of Musagetes.

Residency Unlimited blog: Cidade Queer begins at 2015 MIX Brasil

Fri, 29 Apr 2016 00:00:00 +0000

View video interviews here.

Residency Unlimited blog: Food Audit @ Poly/Graphic Triennial (San Juan)

Fri, 29 Apr 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Lanchonete.org is an artist-led progressive cultural platform focused on how people live and work in, share and survive the contemporary city with the Center of São Paulo as our outlook. It gets its name from the ubiquitous lunch counters—convivial, fluorescent-lit, open-walled, laborious, points of commerce—that populate almost every street corner. One of its members, Todd Lanier Lester blogged regularly for Residency Unlimited DIALOGUES over the course of the five-year project. In 2015 founding member, Isabel Gandia led a project for the San Juan (Puerto Rico) Poly/Graphic Triennial working with Tara Rodriguez of El Departamento de la Comida. It was called ‘Food Audit’.

Residency Unlimited blog: Drought Politics

Fri, 01 Apr 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Lanchonete.org is an artist-led progressive cultural platform focused on how people live and work in, share and survive the contemporary city with the Center of São Paulo as our outlook. It gets its name from the ubiquitous lunch counters—convivial, fluorescent-lit, open-walled, laborious, points of commerce—that populate almost every street corner. One of its members, Todd Lanier Lester blogged regularly for Residency Unlimited DIALOGUES over the course of the five-year project. Originally appearing in the World Policy Journal’s Arts-Policy Nexus, HYDROTROPISM: LESSONS FROM FICUS ELASTICA by Thiago Gonçalves considers the politics of water given Brazil’s 2014-2017 drought.

Residency Unlimited blog: African migration + Housing movement

Tue, 15 Mar 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Lanchonete.org is an artist-led progressive cultural platform focused on how people live and work in, share and survive the contemporary city with the Center of São Paulo as our outlook. It gets its name from the ubiquitous lunch counters—convivial, fluorescent-lit, open-walled, laborious, points of commerce—that populate almost every street corner. One of its members, Todd Lanier Lester blogged regularly for Residency Unlimited DIALOGUES over the course of the five-year project. Originally appearing in the World Policy Journal’s Arts-Policy Nexus, ENCLAVES OF STRUGGLE by Raphael Daibert considers the politics of African migration to São Paulo as it intersects the local housing movement.

Residency Unlimited blog: Cultural Centers in Occupations (3 of 3)

Sat, 05 Dec 2015 00:00:00 +0000

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Residency Unlimited blog: Housing movement + Urban gardening (2 of 3)

Sun, 25 Oct 2015 00:00:00 +0000

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Residency Unlimited blog: Embedded Residencies (1 of 3)

Mon, 05 Oct 2015 00:00:00 +0000

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Residency Unlimited blog on Nuance

Tue, 26 May 2015 00:00:00 +0000

View video interviews here.