Lanchonete(.)org

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While freeDimensional was a 10 year project that engaged residencies around the world in the service of artist mobility and safety, the Lanchonete(.)org investigation–and five-year project–was site-specific; asking if a specific bar, apartment compound, street and neighborhood might interact with (and even change because of) guest artists and urbanists focused on common issues in the city. While a Sarai Reader photo essay, BOMB interview and the Anatomy of a Durational Project (ch) were made when the project started as a concept, São Paulo, a mosaic as viewed from Paim Street was written together with a collective member during the occupation of the street that now continues with new artists as Arraiá da Paim. In a new PhD research on our work, the author includes Lanchonete(.)org among the city’s emergent cultural structures .

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For five years Lanchonete.org (2013-18) occupies a small bar on a denigrated yet swiftly gentrifying street in the center of São Paulo as nucleus for artist and urbanist residencies, community meals, open courses, concerts, murals, public health campaigns and a radio station.

Lefebvre stepped away from The Situationists International–a group who somewhat influenced my making of freeDimensional. He coined the phrase The Right to the City (1968) with his eponymous book. I was also influenced by Benjamin and De Certeau, Umberto Eco and José Esteban Muñoz. I studied food-related works as well, e.g. FOOD by Gordon Matta-Clark, Lanchonarte by Equipe 3, Homebaked by Jeanne van Heeswijk.

The lunch counter (aka Bar do Tarcísio) lives on. Tarcísio has been its manager for forty years now. The public space and anti-stigma project now overflows to the internal roadway where trash used to fall regularly. The address is Rua Paim 235 (Loja 3); please come visit.