On Porous Institutions: Casa do Povo, São Paulo 

Casa do Povo is a cultural center that revisits notions of culture, community, and memory. Founded in 1953 by the progressive Jewish community, the institution was built from a double desire: to honor the Jews who died in concentration camps while creating a space where associations in Brazil could unite in the global fight against fascism. The founders envisioned Casa do Povo as a living monument: to remember is to act in the present. In the past decade, the legacy of Casa do Povo has been updated to align with contemporary demands and the transformations of its surroundings. Its flexible and porous program is based on hosting practices that prioritizes processes over results: from a boxing academy to public psychoanalysis sessions, independent publishing making, rehearsals, food activism are some examples of kinds of collectivities that turns memory into everyday action. In this presentation, we propose to share some of the Casa do Povo‘ modes of doing, highlighting projects that operate within a logic of porosity where the present construction of the institution is a co-creation with the communities that use the space.

www.casadopovo.org.br 
www.instagram.com/_casadopovo/ 

Ana Druwe works as an editor, communicator and researcher. She is interested in collaborative processes, audience engagement, cultural mediation and storytelling. Since 2015 she has been the Head of Communications at Casa do Povo, a cultural center in São Paulo, where she also edits Nossa Voz newspaper, a regular and free of charge publication based in the territory of Bom Retiro. She holds a Master’s degree in Communication Sciences from the University of São Paulo and BA in Visual Arts from Unesp Institute of Arts.

Concept, organization, moderation: Anita Moser (W&K) in cooperation with Anja Gebauer Negri (MdMS)

A cooperation between the focus area Society & Sustainability | Contemporary Arts and Cultural Production (Knowledges & Arts) and the Museum der Moderne Salzburg (MdMS).

Registration: roswitha.gabriel@plus.ac.at  
The event will take place both on site and online. The link to the online event will be sent to you after registration. 

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Cover image: Coletiva Ocupação at Casa do Povo © Camila Svenson