P.A.P.A.Lab Sao Paulo Brazil did take place from 7th of November till the 6th of December 2009. See the results on the shared photoblog: http://www.papaplatform.com.
The hosting organisation is freeDimensional. www.freedimensional.org
P.A.P.A. Lab Sao Paulo correspondents: Zé Carlos Barretta, Giovana Pasquini (Jô), Ines Correa, Marcelo Ferrelli, Sylvia Sanchez, Felipe Denuzzo, Flávio Sampaio, Luciana Camargo (Luh). All members of Fotomix.
PAPA was an observer at the IX International Human Rights Colloquium. Researching the possibilty of art to develop actions for human rights issues. P.A.P.A. gave a lecture about errorism (the new human right to make mistakes) at Human Rights Colloquium on November the13th 2009 . http://www.conectas.org/en/
The team running P.A.P.A.Lab Sao Paulo is apart from Lino Hellings, Ângela Destro, assistent.
Patterns we found:
Pattern 1 City as canvas see pic 1
The very first thing you notice as a foreigner are the murals and other expressions in paint and/or sculpture everywhere in the city. As large scale ads are forbidden in this city it looks like the people took over and painted every single empty wall.
Pattern 2 the Brazilian way to make things easier. Collective of freelance garbagemen/women see pic 2
Jeitinho is an important notion. It is not only negative (corruption, to take advantage, etc) but also has a positive side, indicating three caracteristics of jeitinho: ingenuity/creativity, solidarity and the conciliator role of it. ‘The Brazilian individual would have developed a historical predisposition to informality’.Sérgio Buarque de Hollanda. In the book “Raizes do Brasil” (”Brazilian Roots”) See the catadores.Men and women with dustcars collecting recycable waste from the street.
Pattern 3 Public territories Sesci Pompei Lina Bo Bardi pic 3
There are great public spaces designed by architects that work really well like lina Bo Bardi’s sports and culture building and Centre Cultural. There is a lot of sleeping in public spaces here as in Lagos Nigeria. In a wide variety between heavenly surrendering in siesta sleep in well designed public spaces and the comatose sleep of homeless children on the doorstep of a citybank.
Pattern 4 Street economics Hidden ad in metro pic 4
Maybe not so much as in Lagos Nigeria, but there is still quite some mobile business going on. Mobile business men: the key chain holder and a scissors-grinder have their bicycle as the mechanism to get the knifes sharpened of the restaurant in the area. As advertisement in public space is forbidden, we see a lot of 'sandwichmen' carrying mobile ads in the streets. Here the ads are hidden in the push bars of the metro exit.
All photo's by Lino Hellings
