Open House 2024 - Onironautas

"(...)

Gather many seeds in one place,  

to look at and love the seeds.  

Only a collective gesture of love could stop the destruction,  

the felling, the burning of the woods.  

The seed has waited all this time to be sown.  

Some wait minutes, others wait millennia.  

Guardians of an inner time, they know when to sprout.  

Some have weight, others are like parachutes.  

Geometric vulva,  

every seed is a spaceship waiting for its moment to leave."

Cecilia Vicuna

 

 

The Open House is a big open-door meeting to share our corners and our work with the public. A day to walk around Condô and discover the different worlds behind the doors and walls. Small big universes of the studios and creative actions of the people who are part of the Condô Cultural network.

 

 

It all started with a lucid dream,  

a woman's body that flies low over the field, but flies close, 

because he's afraid he won't return to his physical body lying in bed. 

A dream that emerged at the Condô and was told to everyone around the lunch table.  

In the everyday simplicity of home,  

we cultivate moments of meeting and sharing,  

where the dream world and the concrete universe touch, intertwine.

 

Dreaming, being lucid, aware of what you're dreaming, experiencing dreams, navigating them  

like the Argonauts in uncharted waters.  

We are Onironauts, dangerous dreamers,

embarked together on a ship,

exploring the beauty of shared dreams.

A dream that makes new realities come true,

just like the spaceship-seed, it just waits for the right moment to sprout.  

 

Check out the full program!

 

 

9am-2pm

Caipira coffee

Just like every Sunday, the open house will be no different! You can enjoy the delights of Café Caipira and enjoy our program, which is not to be missed!

 

11am - 3pm

Open Workshops

The workshops will be open to those who have always wanted to know what goes on behind Condô's doors! The day has come to visit the open studios and discover the universes that inhabit Condô. It's an opportunity to get to know the workspace of some of the people who make up this house: Anderson Santos, Beatriz Nogueira, Beth Sousa, Cleiri Cardoso with guests Gabriela Toledo and Giovana Grigolin, Cris Panariello, Daniela Avelar, Eneida Sanches, Gabriela Sacchetto, Itamar Dutra, Luiza Freire, Nadira Yanez, Laura Lolli, Kelvin Koubik and Silvia Nogueira.

 

9am-7pm

FENDA - group exhibition

FENDA is a group exhibition project by Condô.

GAP is an opening, a gap through which light and air infiltrate and expand.

In this proposal, we think of the cracks as places where artists establish dialogues between their productions and the spaces they occupy.

Participating Artists: with Anderson Santos, Beatriz Nogueira, Beth Sousa, Carol Lefevre, Cleiri Cardoso, Cris Panariello, Daniela Avelar, Eneida Sanches, Gabriela Sacchetto, Itamar Dutra and Nadira Yanez.

 

9am-7pm

Indigenous Art Point

The Indigenous Art Point will be open all day for you to immerse yourself in the richness and beauty of the handcrafted pieces produced by various indigenous communities, each carrying stories and knowledge. At Condô Cultural we opened this support point for the work of various indigenous artists in 2022.

 

11h-14h

Community composting

Everyone already knows that on Sundays, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., our community composting point is open to receive organic waste from the neighborhood. And the Open House will be no different! Bring your bucket, your shells, leaves and organic waste and come and be part of this sustainable cycle. In addition to all the incredible attractions at the event, community composting will be in full swing. Since April 2021, Condô's composting point has turned more than 11 TONS of waste into fertilizer!

 

9am-7pm

Garden of Delights

During the Open House, we invite you to get to know, observe and appreciate our little darling, the Garden of Delights! In the edible part of the Condô, vegetables, legumes, herbs, spices, medicinal plants, fruits and PANC flourish, grown under the principles of agroforestry. Our organic garden was established in 2020 and serves as the basis for the production of the inputs used in the house! At Casa Aberta, come and be enchanted by the colors, shapes and aromas of our garden.

 

9am-7pm

Condô's shop

At Casa Aberta 2024, Lojinha do Condô will be ready to welcome you, from 9am to 7pm, with exclusive work by the house's artists. It's an unmissable chance to meet the artists and support their production.

 

9am-11am

Construction site 

with Beatriz Nogueira 

Interactive installation for children of all ages - digging up images - emotional constructions with sand and other elements that offer and activate the imagination.

(in the back room)

 

9h30-10h30

Practical experience of a healthy body 

with Isis Marks

A practice for caring for and integrating the body based on principles and techniques that include breathing exercises, mobility, perception, body awareness, motor coordination, alignment, flexibility and strengthening. 

(in the pigeon room)

 

10am-11pm

Memories of nature 

with Anderson Santos 

Memories of nature is an experience of contact with elements from the natural world that allow for different creative expressions. On a table full of flowers, fruit, seeds and other materials, it will be possible to create cards, small pictures and other objects, in interactions that provoke the emotional memories we have with plants and nature.

(in studio 01)

 

10am-1pm

Reading Curatorship 

with Joana dos Arcos and Ana Paula Tósca

Environments with children's books creating links between spaces. In the Garden, an exploration of the microcosm, in Fundão, opening up the imagination to be beings in a mysterious Universe.

(in the back room and in the backyard)

 

11h-12h30

Zen deZenho 

with Carol Lefevre 

Have you ever thought that drawing could be a form of meditation?

In this workshop, we will intersperse moments of Zen meditation with observation drawing exercises. When we draw, we focus on the present moment: we perceive what our eyes see, our heart feels and our hand translates onto paper. And it is precisely in this mindfulness that Zen and drawing meet.

We will learn to observe and draw what is really in front of us, without the interpretations of thought, while meditation helps us to perceive reality more clearly.

No previous experience of drawing or meditation is necessary. On the contrary, if you think you can't draw, or that it's too difficult to meditate, this workshop is specially designed for you!

(linoleum room and yard)

 

11am-12pm/14pm-15pm Guided Tour: Condô Cultural - Open Workshops - FENDA

with Daise Cerqueira and Vany Alves
Guided tour of the house telling its history and memory, passing by the artists' studios and the FENDA project.

 

13h30-15h

A manifesto of love: Shiva and the hummingbird 

with Bia Tadema (Schumacher Brasil School) and Anderson Santos (Botany School)

Screening of the web talk: Ailton Krenak and Satish Kumar + round table discussion. 

In April this year, Indian activist and founder of Schumacher College Satish Kumar met with thinker, environmentalist and leader of indigenous movements Ailton Krenak. 

A meeting of great masters, a conversation about life and its transmutation.

The meeting was held by the Selvagem Ciclo de Estudos, in the Botanical Garden in Rio de Janeiro. 

As part of the open house program at Condô Cultural, we'll be showing the talk on the web, followed by a round table discussion with Bia Tadema (Schumacher Brasil School) and Anderson Santos (Botany School).

Thanks to @selvagem_ciclodeestudos for providing the movie for this meeting.

AILTON KRENAK is a thinker, environmentalist and an important voice in indigenous movements. Together with Dantes Editora, he created Selvagem, a cycle of studies on life. He lives in the Krenak village on the banks of the Doce River in Minas Gerais. He is the author of several books, including "Um rio um pássaro" (A River and a Bird) (Dantes Editora), "Ideias para adiar o fim do mundo" (Ideas for Postponing the End of the World) and "Futuro Ancestral" (Ancestral Future) (Companhia das Letras). In 2022, he was elected immortal by the Brazilian Academy of Letters.

SATISH KUMAR is a peace and environmental activist. Born in India in 1936, he was a Jain monk and followed Gandhi in campaigning for land reform in India. At the age of twenty, he began a long pilgrimage around the world for peace. He was one of the founders of Schumacher College in England, an international center for ecological studies, which has also been in Brazil since 2014 through the Schumacher Brasil School.

Photos: Miguel Casanova

(in the peroba room)

 

14h-15h

Modern Dance Class: Movement & Expression

with Paula D'Ajello

Improving awareness of movement through perception and investigation of the design of gestures in time and space, awakening the potential for expression through dance. The work is based on the principles of Modern Dance, such as breathing associated with the flow of movement; the center of the body as a source of energy and expression of gestures; and the use of one's own weight as an impulse, in different movement dynamics. No previous dance experience is necessary. 

(in the linoleum room)

 

15h -16h30

Observe, Plant and Draw 

with Floresta Ateliê - Maisa Sobelman and Gabriela Sacchetto

A workshop for producing seedlings, which involves observing how different plants reproduce and drawing as tools for cultivating an attentive and sensitive view of nature. Participants will be able to take home the seedlings produced and will be encouraged to record the development of their crops. 

The materials will be supplied. 

No previous experience with planting or design is necessary. Open to all audiences.

(in the open kitchen)

 

3-4pm

Hair by the hair 

with Raíssa Spada 

Cantora, composer, multi-instrumentalist and music producer, born in São Paulo, presents some of the songs that make up her first solo and authorial work in an intimate version, exploring the different layers of sound created live on the loop pedal. 

(in the pigeon room)

 

16h-17h

Roots of Japan 

with Tânia Murakami, Luis Haruna and Isis Akagi 

Show by the duo Luis Haruna (trumpet and guitar) and Tânia Murakami (piano and flute), who bring a repertoire inspired by their ancestry. 

Descendants of the third generation of Japanese immigrants, the duo brings songs from their memories that provide a reunion with their origins.

With a special appearance by singer Isis Akagi. 

(in the pigeon room)

 

17h-17h30 Reading in the yard 

with Awassury Fulkaxó and Silvia Nogueira 

Oneiric experiences in the fulkaxó way: when my spirit heard Êedjadwá.

This conversation in the backyard will begin with a beautiful toré, after which, in a conversation with those present mediated by Silvia, Awassury will share - first hand - some experiences of dreaming from the point of view of his culture and traditions, which are included in the book Kariri Xocó: Lips of an Ox, which brings together autobiographical and historical memories as experienced by the author Awassury Fulkaxó and transmitted orally by the elders of his people, of Kariri Xocó and Fulni'ô origin.

(in the yard)

 

17h30-18h30

Drama in Crisis - Ruins of a burning land 

with Guilherme Araújo (flute), Sérgio Jomori (bass), Leonardo Dorea (percussion) and Gabriel Guimarães (vocals and guitar).

An improvisational show and a selection of compositions by the Mogian psychedelic experimental quartet, which for the last five years has been engaging with the apocalyptic landscape of Brazilian music, melting styles.

(in the yard)

 

18h30-19h30

Marielas 

A musical group from São Paulo, made up of five members, all LGBT women. Their compositions range from Brazilian rhythms to reggae and blues. As well as their own work, the band performs versions of songs by artists such as Rita Lee, Caetano Veloso and Novos Baianos. 

(in the yard)