{"id":13204,"date":"2015-07-12T21:36:44","date_gmt":"2015-07-12T21:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.binauralmedia.org\/news\/arquivo\/13204"},"modified":"2021-09-10T14:35:50","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T14:35:50","slug":"ocupai-iberian-festival-of-art-and-action-jul-31st-aug-2nd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.binauralmedia.org\/news\/en\/arquivo\/13204","title":{"rendered":"Ocupai! \u2013 Iberian Festival of Art and Action (Jul 31st – Aug 2nd)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ocupai! \u2013 Iberian Festival of Art and Action <\/strong><\/p>\n

S\u00e3o Pedro do Sul (Portugal), July 31st to August 2nd, 2015
\nArtistic direction: Binaural\/Nodar
\nCo-organization: Binaural\/Nodar, Municipality of S\u00e3o Pedro do Sul and Esp\u00edritos Inquietos \u2013 Cultural Intervention Group
\nArtistic Partnership: Alg-a (Galicia, Spain)<\/p>\n

Artistic and Programming Director: Lu\u00eds Costa (Binaural\/Nodar)
\nProgramming Team: Nuno Almeida (Esp\u00edritos Inquietos) and Susana Rocha (Binaural\/Nodar)
\nProduction Coordinator: Susana Rocha (Binaural\/Nodar)
\nCoordination of Municipal Production Team: Carlos Almeida and Pedro Xavier (Municipality of S\u00e3o Pedro do Sul)
\nGraphic Image: Manuela Barile (photographs) and Lu\u00eds Costa (graphic design) (Binaural\/Nodar)
\nRelationship with Children and Youth Communities: Susana Rocha (Binaural\/Nodar), Susana Almeida (Municipality of S\u00e3o Pedro do Sul) and Catarina Cabral (Municipality of S\u00e3o Pedro do Sul)<\/p>\n

Binaural\/Nodar is a cultural organization co-funded by the Government of Portugal \u2013 General Directorate for the Arts<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.lafoesterradecultura.org<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/www.facebook.com\/festivalocupai<\/a>
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\na) The Ocupai! Festival:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ocupai! \u2013 Iberian Festival of Art and Action<\/strong> is a contemporary and urban event co-organized by Binaural\/Nodar, municipality of S\u00e3o Pedro do Sul and Esp\u00edritos Inquietos, happening in S\u00e3o Pedro do Sul (Portugal) between 31 July and 2 August 2015 and seeking to bring freedom of expression to the urban public space of S\u00e3o Pedro do Sul. The event brings together an ensemble of actions and performances that were specifically selected for its mobilizing potential of local youth communities and for its ability to question the being-in-time-and-in-space of a peripheral region in the twenty-first century.<\/p>\n

The festival programme includes a series of premieres in Portugal, resulting from partnerships with Spanish cultural organization and art groups: the somospeces\u2260 collective from the city of Le\u00f3n proposes \u201cT\u00e9l\u00e9pathie\u201d, a meeting-performance where the public is put in the spotlight and the artists propose a place for active consciousness in which one can imagine in common from individual personalities and realities. Nilo Gallego and Amalia Fernandez, propose \u201cPerrita China\u201d (\u201cThe Chinese puppy\u201d), which is, in the artists\u2019 own words, the time, or rather the action in time, of two artists who seek a common place. This common place, after much searching, proved to be music. Music is evoked through the vision of the musical instrument. The music that one could imagine seeing at a concert while being deaf or dumb. The Galician collective Alg-a, with which Binaural\/Nodar collaborates since 2007, brings four performances: the poetic and lyrical cabaret of Aldaolado; a sound art, music and poetry concert with Estibaliz Espinosa, Patxi Valera and Madamme Cell; another concert with IGMG, a group of Vigo defined by the press as practicing free, explosive and humorous rock, and finally the public art of Isaac Cordal, who will disseminate in public spaces of S\u00e3o Pedro do Sul small sculptures of apathetic men and women.<\/p>\n

Another programming section consists of a set of actions in public space, specifically conceived to actively involve the youth of S\u00e3o Pedro do Sul through the formulation of free expression contexts: \u201cSpeaker\u2019s Corner\u201d (an open mic session for any kind \u2013 doubt, anger or love \u2013 statements), \u201cCome and play what you know\u201d (jam session), Sampedrense Ringtone Orchestra (the smartphone as a musical instrument), \u201cSampedrense Campanology\u201d (the sound activation of bells from local churches and chapels) and UWAGA,! a project proposed by DEMO collective of activation of a collective reflection about the city, its desires and needs, and its graphic representation and further dissemination in public space.<\/p>\n

Ocupai! Festival<\/strong> results from local partnerships, notably between Binaural\/Nodar and Esp\u00edritos Inquietos (a cultural intervention group from S\u00e3o Pedro do Sul, which has been active for nearly 10 years) and articulates a diverse musical program, in which the power of speech is the gluing element: the increasingly famous indie rock band Peixe:Avi\u00e3o, the authentic and energetic punk of Gazua, the new-folk of a recently formed group from the Viseu region, Tranglomango and Teatro do Frio with an innovative and serene Concert for the Stars.<\/p>\n

Ocupai! Festival<\/strong> also presents a set of three sound and audiovisual installations curated by Binaural\/Nodar (\u201cMac\u00e1rio\u201d, \u201cNew Rural Listenings\u201d and \u201cFrom the Mountain to Chinatown\u201d) and proposes several leisure activities, including a market for regional products and a flea market.
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\nb) The Ocupai! Manifesto:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ocupar: Portuguese. transitive verb. Filling a place of space and time.
\nOcupai. Portuguese. Second person plural imperative of the verb ocupar (\u201cto occupy\u201d).<\/p>\n

S\u00e3o Pedro do Sul. Welcome to a happy land. A rural territory in transformation. Mountains and river landscapes, new urbanities, resulting from activities related to the great global wheel. A sense of familiarity still resists (hello neighbour) but, at the same time, there is so much space to fill and so many actions to be started; actions that could join, intersect, provoke contact and the desire and the affirmation of being-in-time-and-in-space.<\/p>\n

Ocupai! \u2013 Iberian Festival of Art and Action<\/strong> is a contemporary and urban event held in S\u00e3o Pedro do Sul between July 31st and August 2nd, 2015 aimed at bringing freedom of expression to the urban public space as a productive and creative weapon to make the life of a peripheral city more open. In everyday life one can see that there are people who escape contact, the simple eye contact, as there are so many hidden desires that never come to light, entangled in the automatic distance of a \u201clike\u201d that is as quickly clicked as forgotten. The festival seeks to reflect how the population of S\u00e3o Pedro do Sul, particularly its youth, can occupy the public space in the light of the new communication challenges. Why do you say that \u201cnothing happens here\u201d and you don\u2019t assume your collective power in transformation processes?<\/p>\n

Ocupai!<\/strong> is a festival that is inspired by the emergency of public space occupation movements, but applying an old-fashioned courtesy factor, by using, in Portuguese, the true form of the second person plural of the \u201cocupar\u201d verb: Ocupai!, thus transforming the slogan into a peaceful and positive proposal, not in a chaotic and violent one.<\/p>\n

Ocupai!<\/strong> brings an unpredictable coexistence between the strength of the communities of a city and the existential contingencies that disrupt, that provoke a sense of crisis, that generate movement and thought, reminding us that change is just around the corner: one just has to intuit the breaking point with intelligence, irony and perseverance.<\/p>\n

Ocupai!<\/strong> is a contemporary social and urban festival, where social really means real people, not any kind of advertising buzzword that is trendy to use in the promotion of a 21st Century festival.<\/p>\n

Ocupai!<\/strong> is an Iberian festival that assumes its geographical position in the Portuguese Beira Interior, a region located at the junction of two Spanish regions, Galicia and Castilla y Le\u00f3n, which have so many historical, linguistic and cultural links with it, thus promoting a spontaneous interaction with good people who come from comparable backgrounds to S\u00e3o Pedro do Sul, and have been working for decades to shake the consciences in provincial lands, taking risks for a living and, because of that, being more real and closer to the people.<\/p>\n

Ocupai!<\/strong> is a festival without fear of treading risky paths.
\nIt is a festival in the summer but is not a summer festival.
\nIt is a festival that believes that not only large-scale festivals have the right to exist, also the dissemination of meaningful micro actions.
\nIt is a festival that promotes a new everyday life relationship in a small town.
\nIt is a non-ephemeral and non-self-celebratory festival.
\nIt is a festival that combines local ancient manual creativity, unlikely and unclassifiable music, spoken, sung and shouted words, thus invoking the power of the voice in the disruption of sensory and psychological barriers.<\/p>\n

Ocupai!<\/strong>: we can only issue the challenge. This is our commitment to the city and to those who live it.
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\nc) Ocupai! Festival schedule<\/strong><\/p>\n

Friday, July 31st<\/p>\n

14h00-20h00: Flea market | Location: Former Guedes Garage
\n14h00-20h00: Gastronomy and local crafts | Location: Courtyard of Former Guedes Garage and Rua Direita
\n16h00-20h00: Sound installation: S\u00e3o Pedro do Sul: New Rural Listenings, Luis Costa | Location: Rua Direita
\n16h00-20h00: Audiovisual installation: The Spouse, Manuela Barile |Location: Rua Direita
\n16h00-20h00: Audiovisual installation: From the Mountain to Chinatown, Luis Costa, with Susana Rocha and Nely Ferreira | Location: Rua Direita
\n16h00-20h00: Participatory performance: Speaker\u2019s Corner | Location: Rua Direita
\n16h00-20h00: Performance: Drum Solo, with Rui Tavares | Location: Rua Direita
\n16h00-20h00: Music, come and play what you know (Jam Session) | Location: Rua Direita
\n18h00-19h00: Lyrical-poetic cabaret: Aldaolado (Galicia, Spain) | Location: Hall of the Humanitarian Association of Voluntary Firemen of Sao Pedro do Sul
\n19h00-20h00: Collective improvisation action: Sampedrense Ringtone Orchestra | Location: S\u00e3o Pedro do Sul\u2019s historical center
\n21h30-22h20: Live Music: Tranglomango (New Folk) | Location: Lenteiro do Rio
\n22h40-23h30: Live Music: IGMIG (Dada Free Rock), (Galicia, Spain) | Location: Lenteiro do Rio
\n23h50-01h00: Live Sound Art | Concert for the Stars (aka Space Sound Shelter), Teatro do Frio | Location: Lenteiro do Rio<\/p>\n

Saturday, August 1st<\/strong><\/p>\n

14h00-20h00: Flea market | Location: Former Guedes Garage
\n14h00-20h00: Gastronomy and local crafts | Location: Courtyard of Former Guedes Garage and Rua Direita
\n16h00-20h00: Sound installation: S\u00e3o Pedro do Sul: New Rural Listenings, Luis Costa | Location: Rua Direita
\n16h00-20h00: Audiovisual installation: The Spouse, Manuela Barile |Location: Rua Direita
\n16h00-20h00: Audiovisual installation: From the Mountain to Chinatown, Luis Costa, with Susana Rocha and Nely Ferreira | Location: Rua Direita
\n16h00-20h00: Participatory performance: Speaker\u2019s Corner | Location: Rua Direita
\n16h00-20h00: Performance: Drum Solo, with Rui Tavares | Location: Rua Direita
\n16h00-20h00: Music, come and play what you know (Jam Session) | Location: Rua Direita
\n18h00-19h00: Musical Theatre: Perrita China, Nilo Gallego and Amalia Fernandez (Spain) | Place: Hall of the Humanitarian Association of Voluntary Firemen of Sao Pedro do Sul
\n19h00-20h00: Public space action: UWAGA !, Collective DEMO | Location: S\u00e3o Pedro do Sul\u2019s historical center
\n21h30-22h20: Live Music: Gazua (Punk Rock) | Location: Rio Lenteiro
\n22h40-23h30: Live Music: Peixe : Avi\u00e3o |Location: Lenteiro do Rio
\n23h50-01h00: Poetry and sound art recital, with Estibaliz Espinosa, Patxi Valera and Madamme Cell (Galicia, Spain) | Location: Lenteiro do Rio<\/p>\n

Sunday, August 2nd<\/strong><\/p>\n

14h00-20h00: Flea market | Location: Former Guedes Garage
\n14h00-20h00: Gastronomy and local crafts | Location: Courtyard of Former Guedes Garage and Rua Direita
\n16h00-20h00: Sound installation: S\u00e3o Pedro do Sul: New Rural Listenings, Luis Costa | Location: Rua Direita
\n16h00-20h00: Audiovisual installation: The Spouse, Manuela Barile |Location: Rua Direita
\n16h00-20h00: Audiovisual installation: From the Mountain to Chinatown, Luis Costa, with Susana Rocha and Nely Ferreira | Location: Rua Direita
\n17h00-18h00: Street Art: Cement Eclipses (Guided Tour), Isaac Cordal (Galicia, Spain) | Location: S\u00e3o Pedro do Sul\u2019s historical center
\n18h00-19h00: Theatre \/ Collective Performance: T\u00e9l\u00e9pathie by somospeces\u2260 (Le\u00f3n, Spain) | Location: Palace of the Marquis de Reriz
\n19h00-20h00: Music \/ Sound Art: Sampedrense Campanology, Lu\u00eds Costa with youths from S\u00e3o Pedro do Sul | Location: Historical center\u2019s church bells<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14557,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.binauralmedia.org\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.binauralmedia.org\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.binauralmedia.org\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.binauralmedia.org\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.binauralmedia.org\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.binauralmedia.org\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15462,"href":"https:\/\/www.binauralmedia.org\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13204\/revisions\/15462"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.binauralmedia.org\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.binauralmedia.org\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.binauralmedia.org\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.binauralmedia.org\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}