[oberlist] Oficina de Autonomia, Curitiba

[Brandon LaBelle]

Proposal to the Mayor III: Oficina de Autonomia
January 9 - 16, 2017, Curitiba
Octavio Camargo / Brandon LaBelle

With the abrupt cancellation of the Oficina de Música de Curitiba, a music school and international platform active for 34 years, questions about culture and politics are brought forward, and how citizens may enact forms of resistance and autonomous projects. From various public actions, collective meetings, and creative manifestations, we’re interested to counter the cancellation through a spirit of festivity and critical celebration. This will take the form of an alternative workshop, under the heading Oficina de Autonomia. The Oficina is posed as an open and free situation, without a strict center or form of authorship, and from which to demonstrate an autonomous sensibility in support of imagining beyond established structures. How might musical knowledges be directed toward questions of social composition? Are there new understandings of public life to be found in experiences of the musical ensemble? If public life, and relations with others, are deeply shaped by listening, education in music is equally an education in tuning the ear toward those around us. 

The Oficina de Autonomia is being held at the house of Octavio Camargo, which over the years operates as a zone of free thought and social gathering. A kind of social body takes shape within the house, catering and nurturing a range of discourses and public formations over the years, from free media to symbolic rituals designed to inscribe alternative public circuits. The house will become a stage for the Oficina de Autonomia, bringing rough ideas and interested people into dialogue.

https://oficinadeautonomia.wordpress.com <https://oficinadeautonomia.wordpress.com/>

In conjunction with the public meetings and activities, a presentation of documents and objects, as well as subsequent materials will be presented at Ybakatu Gallery. Focusing on autonomous struggles and emancipatory movements, the presentation will act as a point of reflection onto issues related to cultural politics.

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