Digital Call - Prince Claus Fund

Labmovel
Who: Gisela Domschke
What: LABMOVEL, a mobile lab platform
Where: São Paulo, Brazil
When: From January 2013 to April 2013
Amount attributed: 13,000 Euro
Labmovel is a mobile lab platform based in São Paulo with the main objective of promoting social change
through art and knowledge sharing. The project will be particularly focused on youth aged 12 to 18
years old of critical areas in city of São Paulo, and will gradually spread to various locations in the city
outlying regions. The project offers a series of activities and workshops involving the use of digital media
in public spaces. Eight female artists from Brazil are invited to monitor the workshops, which will mainly
discuss the themes of “Playing” and “Identity”. From building an electronic music instrument to playing
with mirrors and video cameras or discussing the role of women within new media, workshops will be
diverse and heterogeneous.
Through its mobility, the project will be able to reach areas of the city as well as communities that are
outside the hit of the main cultural hubs in Brazil. This will thus offer a unique opportunity to explore
the creative and empowering use of media (arts) and technology. Through the Labmovel it is the
temporary cultural infrastructure that literally goes to the heart of these communities.
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