Solidarity Art

Felipe Ribeiro Solidarity Artworks

Developed Solidarity Artworks

1998.08. The Dream is Over Harm-Reduction Proera: The separated daily lives of a poor interethnic interfaith young couple is told in parallel. They go through waking up unemployed and hopeless, getting an informal job, going out to party, find each other, have sex, fight, sleep on the streets, and repeating this cycle evermore in different musical styles stations where actors wearing animal masks interact with them. The stations of the premiere at the Catholic Pontifex University (PUC) Theater (TUCA) were: 1. 'Cultural Industry and Industry Culture' Mashup Remix Overture. 2. 'Insomniacs and Sleepwalkers' Post-Rock. 3. 'Tempest Flood and Crowded Bus' Samba. 4. 'Unemployment and Slavery' Blues. 5. 'Bills and Governments' Jazz. 6. 'Lonelinesses and No Dialogues' Aria. 7. 'Machines and Hunger' Eletronic Body Music (EBM) Techno. 8. 'Robots and Zombies' Musical Box. 9. 'Crosswords and Newspapers' Medieval Counterpoint. 10. 'Drugs and Medicines' Psychedelic Trance. 11. 'Peace and Solidarity' Choir. 12. 'Rebellion and Security' Grind Punk. 13. 'Immigrants and Refugees' Schlager Tarantela. 14. 'Skid Rows are Deserts' Arabic Forró. 15. 'Mask Balls and Hospital Night Shifts' Doom Metal. 16. 'Missing Life in Shelters' Drone Illbient. 17. 'Mirror Labyrinth and Meat Factory' Deep House. 18. 'Delliriums and Medias' Chanson. 19. 'Passion and Desperation' Polyrithmic Drumming. 20. 'Chords and Accords' Hymn. 21. 'Laziness and Abandonment' Pop. 22. 'Again and Again' Ritournelle. 23. 'Survivors and Funerals' Symphonic Requiem. 24. 'The Dream is Never Over' Psychedelic Rock. Presentations: Catholic Pontifex University (PUC) Theater (TUCA), Tucarena Theater, and Viga Dance Hall.

1999.04. Artist Doctor Services Exchange Ecomuseology: Write a rule of law (RoL) statement of poverty and a contract to produce symphonies for the healthcare service needed and document the process. This procedure created works such as 'Dear Dentist Doctor (DDDr)' and 'Elders Retirement. Presentations: Temp Experimental Music Festivals.

2000.10. The Last Oneiric Chant Blind Proera: The public receives a printed copy of the parnassian symphonic poem score named 'The Last Oneiric Chant' that synthesizes the story of 'The Dream is Over' opera. When they are seated in the the theater they are requested to read it and all the lights go off. Then, singers and musicians among the audience chant and play an epic symphonic version of the text. Presentations: Catholic Pontifex University (PUC) Theater (TUCA) and Popular Culture Center (CCP).

2002.08. DNActure Papercut Proera: Developed using the 'Oper Aria Papercut Puppet Opera' Machine, it presents a community of hunger forest, rural, and urban papercut puppets that are trying to understand how their Digital Nature Aesthetics (DNA) work meanwhile trying to avoid a world ecological catastrophe until they all end up having to save lives after a fire. Presentations: United Nations International Children Education Fund (UNICEF) Apprentice School Neighborhood, Manaus Opera Festival Fringe, Submidialogy Festivals, and Ministry of Culture (MinC) Points of Culture.

2005.12. Stocks and Houses Cyberphony: Sociophonies gather sounds, conversations, and found objects to build collaborative operatic immersive installations. In this enactment it is lead by local poor artists wearing masks of the most respected artists from the region and explain how the local market works, where to buy what, and how to help the homeless and those in need. Presentations: Amsterdam Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music (STEIM), Istanbul Biennial, Limerick University Performance Festival.

2006.10. Welfare Cyberphony: A secular interfaith musical prayer supper for all goodwill people and institutions that allow for the privilege of art. It is composed only of local musicality, food, scents, modest clothes, and lyrics changes according to location and ensemble. When it was developed in the Amazon jungle World Social Forum (FSM) it told the story of the welfare movement through praying for: 1. Home Prayer Groups. 2. State Officers. 3. Labor Unions. 4. Restorative Justice Commissions. 5. Peasant Leagues. 6. Orphanages and Asylums. 7. Beggars Caterings. 8. Hospital Wards. 9. Home Construction Task Forces. 10. Schools and Universities. 11. Organizations and Corporations. 12. Multiethnic Neighborhoods. 13. Indigenous Peoples Assemblies. 14. Agroforest Reformations. 15. Addiction Harm Reductions. 16. Peace Culture Centers. 17. Independent Journalists. 18. The World Social Forum (FSM) Summits. 19. Justice Equity Diversity Inclusion (JEDI) Movements. 20. Interfaith Movements. 21. Natural Reserves. 22. Organic Markets. Presentations: Museum of Image and Sound (MIS), Rio Art Museum (MAR), and several others.

2008.01. Urbanism Cyberphony: Sociophonies gather sounds, conversations, and found objects to build collaborative operatic immersive installations. In this enactment it is lead by urbanists and architects that explain the city plan of where it is happening by presenting how it influenced local artworks. They end up building a diorama model of a dream town with the audience where they reenact the whole opera again really fast. Presentations: Alvorada Dumpyard School, Brasilia Federal Museum of the Republic, Meet Factory Prague, and Madrid Matadero Arts Center.

2009.09. Homelessness Cyberphony: Sociophonies collaborative methods differ from time to time due to site specificities. In this enactment it is lead by street living populations voices and concrete sound-art creations with garbage and other stuff out there. The presence of a lot of car noises and street hassle makes its aesthetics closer to noise music, although we were trying to sing all along. Presentations: Eye of the Street Exhibit, Olido Gallery, Homeless Workers Movement (MTST), Nonprofit Relif Institutions, and Arts and Homeless International (AHI).

2010.07. Scinecycling Science Cinema Recycling Cyberphony: This development expanded the usual weeks of workshops to a month and half and a more thorough cooperation with public agents to gather all the garbage produced by the city in that day to be the scenography of a public supper with orchestra, choir, and performers telling about the local recycling procedures. The maestro washes all dishes which are to be donated to a nonprofit relief. In its first performance, due to the Catholic majority, the piece included an oratorio to Saint Charles, who cooked and washed the dishes of the Last Supper. Presentations: Contato Music Festival, Fora do Eixo Art Festivals, and Museum of the Republic.

2021.11. Hospitality Proera: A collaborative choreography on the movements of mental health psyche-social support (MHPSS) workers that seeks to promote the work of caretakers, doctors, nurses, servants, managers, and public agents in humanitarian relief and touristic lodging and catering alike. It then presents the text of the International Humanitarian Law (IHL) flowing out of war noises until the bodies are free from all trauma and can show how standards of care protect also our artistic culture. Presentations: Integrated Center for Health and Assistance for the Homeless Population (CISARTE) and Crackland Skid Row University.

2023.07. Candle in the Windows Cyberphony: From sounds of candles and musical scores that resemble them, this piece honors the countless pacifist heroes and heroines that left this symbolic gesture in the war times nights to tell refugees they could shelter there. It encompasses a long musical search of the artist to "compose silences" and was used in many interfaith meditations. Presentations: Carandirú Jail Interfaith Democracy Art Summit.

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