[-empyre-] a poem in the wall

[sergio basbaum]

Hello Lucas,

As I've written previously, the house belonged to the grandmother of a
friend of us. In fact, it was a set of five or six small houses, built
by her father, a portuguese imigrant.The houses were 70 to 80 years
old, and belonged to a part of Vila Madalena which is quickly
disapearing, since the value of this area is increasing in crazy
levels. So, those headquarters in which one could find a mix of
classes, intelectuals and artists,is being transformed in a
high-middle class neighbourhood, and there's no comeback..

The houses were sold some months ago, then, for some company which
will raise a building there. When we were informed about the
demolition, we still had three weeks,in which an occupation by artists
was planned and done, before they (the new owners) had the keys.

There were some performance groups and other artists. I'm colaborating
with a performance group named "Nucleo de Garagem".

The owners authorized the occupation, but decided (at least as I
understood it) to start the demolition immediately after our action.
The son of the previous owner is a historian, and he made an agreement
to photograph the whole demolition, since he lived in one of these
houses when he was a kid, and they were built by his grandfather with
his own hands.Also, he's been documenting the changes in Vila Madalena
in the last decade, since it became obvious that the area was
changing.

The picture was taken by him. It seems that the workers do not want to
put down the wall with poem.

best
s

On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 8:26 PM, Lucas Bambozzi <lbambozzi at comum.com> wrote:
> Great Sergio! whose house is that?
> Abzo
> l.
>
> On 1 Nov 2011, at 22:29, Gordana Novakovic wrote:
>
>> amazing...together people can make changes...
>>
>> let's dream
>>
>> g-
>>
>>
>> On 2 November 2011 00:20, sergio basbaum <sbasbaum at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Thanks Gordana.
>>>
>>> That picture was shot buy the grandson of the imigrant who raised
>>> those houses. He made an agreement with the buyers to picture the
>>> entire demolition.
>>>
>>> That the workers wanted to keep the poem´s wall as much as possible
>>> was meaningfull.
>>>
>>> The group involved in the occupation will go on, and we´re looking for
>>> other places to work on.
>>>
>>> best vibes
>>> s
>>>
>>> On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 6:59 PM, Gordana Novakovic
>>> <gordana.novakovic at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> very exciting, Sérgio!
>>>>
>>>> Will pass it to an anti-gentrification group of young Londoners - I'm
>>>> sure they'd love it too
>>>>
>>>> best vibs to you
>>>>
>>>> g-
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 1 November 2011 19:14, Johannes Birringer
>>>> <Johannes.Birringer at brunel.ac.uk> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> bravo Sérgio,   this is great,
>>>>>
>>>>> [why not start an OCCUPY SAO PAULO movement occupying the poem ("No Balcão das Almas (o fetiche da mercadoria)",
>>>>> is this worker solidarity with the former inhabitants, the protest? ]
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> << Sérgio schreibst>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Dear friends,
>>>>>
>>>>> This is the poem I've put in the wall, in the house to be demolished,
>>>>> in São Paulo.
>>>>>
>>>>> As you will see, the house is already being put down -- however,
>>>>> workers doesn't seem to be interested in demolishing the poem!
>>>>>
>>>>> I hope some of you understand Portuguese -- or, at least, Spanish,
>>>>> that is close in some level.
>>>>> Good vibes for you all
>>>>> s
>>>>>
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-- Vice-coord. Tecnologia e Mídias Digitais
-- Pós-Graduação Tec.da Inteligência e Design Digital - TIDD (PUC-SP)