RIO OCCUPATION LONDON

Festival Finale 

1, 2 & 3 August 2012

V22 Summer Club at the Biscuit Factory 

30 Rio artist are occupying London for 30 days as part of the London 2012 Festival. For three extraordinary days they come together to present and preform at the Rio Occupation Festival Finale. 

The Festival Finale offers a unique chance to experience over thirty original art work, with opportunities to view, interact with, appreciate, experience and digest a bonanza of video installations, live performance, cinema, theatre, dance and music. 

Along with Prof ED Berman MBE Founder of  Inter-Action Fun Art Bus will be carrying the Olympic Torch for the Festival Finale interacting with the public and to show the new makeover of the Fun Art Bus.

Lift Prof ED Berman, Right Ramon Mello Poet, writer, journalist and actor

 Breno Pineschi a graphic artist 

Breno works with different types of media and material from more artistic graphic design projects to set design of installations Drawing a territorial conquest of London, Breno will literally fill the Olympic capital with banana bunches in installations and surreal flash mobs that convey the joy and magnetic radiation of Brazilian culture through vibrant colors. The bananas were especially designed to be recognised as part of the same work, and they shall be seen in from giant installations on boats sailing in the Thames, to iconic landmarks of the city smaller sizes. When placed on metal structures (bus, pay phones, bridges), they group up in clusters because of their lightweight paper structure, equipped with super powerful mini-magnets. A tropical pennant that springs up in unlikely places, inviting the viewer to laugh, think and reflect and admire the Brazilian bananas.

Lift Visual Artist João Penoni and Prof ED Berman 

Through his camera, João shall capture the relationship between bodies and their environments, focusing on the construction of movement and light in the urban landscape. João creates light paintings that show the bodies reacting to architectural (and ecological) structures in which they live, through various photography techniques. The bodies are seen as beams of light that draw their trajectory (and emotional way of life) in a trail of light captured by João’s lenses. João will also create experiments in events in the Occupation, such as handing out light sticks to guests at the opening party and capturing the sticks’ trajectories through slow exposure photography and stop motion animation.

Pedro Rivera Architect 

Pedro Rivera is interested in exploring the globalised cities and how they can be re-signified.