{"id":1304,"date":"2021-04-27T13:21:08","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T16:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lanchonete.org\/?p=1304"},"modified":"2021-04-28T13:38:53","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T16:38:53","slug":"paim-toque-final-pt-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lanchonete.org\/en\/2021\/04\/paim-toque-final-pt-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Paim, final touch (pt. 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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*Mural designs by\u00a0Thiago Gonc\u0327alves<\/a>\u00a0depicting the Demoiselle and 14 Bis airplanes invented by Alberto Santos Dumont.\u00a0<\/em><\/div>\n
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*See\u00a0Paim, final touch (pt. 1)<\/a>.<\/i><\/div>\n
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We were just gearing up to\u00a0propose the permanent LED installation<\/a>\u00a0on the Centro-facing lateral facade of 14 Bis, the tallest of the three buildings that make up Conjunto Santos Dumont on Rua Paim\u00a0when COVID struck<\/a>. Picking up from the\u00a0post-planning cycle<\/a>, 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\u00a0Building is used by residents of all three buildings for leisure, even if at night the end of the internal roadway that abuts the Caravelle\u00a0patio 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,\u00a0Edgar Calel\u00a0<\/a>suggested a mural for one-half of the L-shaped patio wall. He invited another artist,\u00a0Fernando Pereira dos Santos<\/a>\u00a0to 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\u00a0technical assistance collective, Margem<\/a>\u00a0to help shape the charrette and ‘hold’ the community’s feedback. One particular strand dating from a\u00a0visit by the\u00a0KTH Royal Institute of Technology of Stockholm<\/a>\u00a0is 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.<\/p>\n

At some point\u00a0Thiago Correia Gon\u00e7alves<\/a>\u00a0proposed the LED installation depicting two of Santos Dumont’s airplanes–14 Bis and\u00a0Demoizelle–and using the process of Calel’s mural we learned that the original naming of the buildings as airplanes isn’t widely considered by residents. As we came to learn with\u00a0the side of the wall painted by Edgar Calel et al<\/a>, we would receive input on the design, aesthetic, color and font from the public. This meant that we could perhaps use a mural process for the second section of L-shaped wall to explore the history of the airplanes. The only problem was that Thiago is in NYC. Another member of Lanchonete.org,\u00a0Abdoulaye Guibila<\/a>\u00a0suggested a\u00a0Congolese artist,\u00a0Lavi Kasongo<\/a>\u00a0who he’d met when he first arrived in S\u00e3o Paulo from Burkina Faso. Thiago and Lavi met online and a joint-design for the second wall was produced, something Lavi painted (alone, due to COVID) between December 2020 and January 2021. The completion of the mural was cross-subsidized by Tarcisio’s bar (lanchonete in 14 Bis) and sorta like a Xmas gift to the Conjunto from Lanchonete.org. COVID has been particularly hard on CSD. Many of the northeasterners living there work in restaurant and service jobs, many of which closed due to the pandemic. This affected Tarcisio’s bar as well. It is not clear yet how many residents moved back to the Northeast under pandemia conditions.<\/p>\n

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