Juridical Art

Felipe Ribeiro Juridical Artworks

Developed Juridical Artworks

2000.07. Opera Workers Rights Carta Magna Proera: This electroacoustic coreography takes classical musicians dressed in all sort of professional clothes from a factory where labor force died to the nearest abandoned opera house or theater so presenting the struggles of working movements and questioning the very processes that produced the technologies they are using until they write a manifesto promoting the humorous idea that artists are workers. The coreographer's nickname "operário" means "opera creator", "opera building worker", and "development operator (DevOps). Presentation: Electronic Language International Festival (FILE) and Cultural Center of São Paulo (CCSP).

2001.01. Bureaucritic Machine Proera: Bureaucrats formally walk to a crowded part of town with microphones and sound speakers in their heads which are connected to each other through various filtering pedals. They respectfully invite the population to express their critics against bureaucracy using respectful language, which sounds are turned into noise music by the machines handled by everyone. Meanwhile they eat more and more fictional poetic laws until they end up writing of a constitution of civic participation with a list of free services that they share. Presentations: Homeless Workers Movement (MTST), São Paulo Streets, Eye of The Street Exhibit.

2004.04. Welfare State Queue Proera: In a sound installation with recordings from public offices and civil servants expressing their best wishes for those they attend. It ends up with formal technical explanations of the reasons for the delays. On the way out, the audience is invited to get another useless queue for free. Presentations: Valparaiso Public Service Center for the sonami Sound-Art Festival and Republic Public Service Center for the Roosevelt Square Theater Festival.

2018.05. United Arts Ecomuseology: Remixing United Nations (UN) System organizations creative commons logos parts with one another to promote the public international law (PIL) non-governmental organization (INGO) social works. Presentations: Ipiranga Space Eight, Ecumenic Times, and Commerce Social Service (SESC) Center of Formation and Research (CPF).

2019.04. Civil Proera: Civil servants tell how the civil rights movements touched their bureaucratic lives throughout the centuries. This builds more and more complex sounds of office supplies until the stationery flies in a videomapping. Presentations: Commerce Social Service (SESC) and National Arts Foundation (FUNARTE).

2019.10. Secular Proera: Minimalist excerpts of local laws are sung in a additive iteration of epic calls until they unison chant "Rule of Law (RoL)". The musicality is also minimal, raw, and heartfelt to the point of taking the singers to tears and exhaustion. Presentations: University of São Paulo (USP) St. Francis Law School.

In Progress Juridical Artworks

2023.07. Constitution Cyberphony: