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URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/tate-liverpool-opavivara-utupya/
SUMMARY:Tate Liverpool: Tate Liverpool: OPAVIVARÁ!: Utupya
DESCRIPTION:OPAVIVARÁ!: Utupya\n\nTate Liverpool\n\n27 April – 24 June 2
 018\n\nFREE\n\nSponsored by Birmingham School of Art\, Birmingham City Uni
 versity\n\nSupported by Tate Liverpool Commissioning Circle and the Opaviv
 ara! Supporters Group\n\nThis spring Tate Liverpool’s top floor gallery 
 will be transformed by Brazilian collective OPAVIVARÁ! into an immersive 
 environment featuring physical and audio-visual installations. The free ex
 hibition is part of the ‘We Have Your Art Gallery’ series which seeks 
 to challenge conventional behaviours in public and gallery spaces by encou
 raging the visitor to complete the artwork by becoming an active part of i
 ts animation and interpretation. For over a decade OPAVIVARÁ!’s work ha
 s blurred the lines between public and private space\, encouraging people 
 to share ideas\, cultures and experiences. This will be their first solo e
 xhibition in the UK.\n\nThe exhibition features three playful and interact
 ive installations. In Rede Social the group will create a ‘social netw
 ork’ in a giant hammock\, made by stitching together several individual 
 hammocks.   The unstable nature of the giant hammock encourages negotiat
 ion and collaboration between visitors as they get in to\, and move around
  within it.  Traditional chocalho rattles hanging from the hammock provid
 e a soundtrack. In Pajémirim\, the artists invite visitors to come toget
 her and share their experiences at a communal tea station.  Infusions usi
 ng medicinal herbs will be freely available encouraging visitors to relax 
 in the gallery space. In the central gallery space OPAVIVARÁ! will fuse a
 ncient Brazilian dance rituals with contemporary sound scapes. Visitors wi
 ll be invited to create their own compositions by choosing which sounds to
  play\, creating different party atmospheres in an environment of lights\,
  props\, sounds and movement.\n\nThe exhibition has been created by OPAVIV
 ARÁ!  in response to Liverpool’s history of migration and contemporary
  debates around borders. It was conceived following conversations and cons
 ultation between OPAVIVARÁ! and Tate Liverpool’s youth and community gr
 oups as well as other community groups in the city. The exhibition expands
  on the collective’s ongoing project Utupya (a combination of ‘utopi
 a’ and the generic term for the native Brazilian ‘Tupi’ tribes)\, wh
 ich conceives environments and situations to reflect positively on the hyb
 rid\, mixed nature of contemporary culture.\n\nFounded in Rio de Janeiro i
 n 2005\, OPAVIVARÁ! is a collective of artists that responds to urban pub
 lic spaces\, galleries and cultural institutions. They trigger interaction
 s between people by transforming everyday objects into something new and e
 ngaging to stimulate more relaxed behaviours and cultural exchange in publ
 ic spaces. Recent projects include performances at the Guggenheim Museum a
 nd Hunter College (New York)\, Casaplan (Chile)\, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)\
 , HAU2 Berlin (Germany)\, the European Center for the Arts\, Dresden (Germ
 any) and Art Basel (Switzerland). Their work is part of private and public
  collections\, including those of the Guggenheim Museum of New York\, the 
 Museum of Modern Art in São Paulo and the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de 
 Janeiro.\n\nOPAVIVARÁ! are the latest ‘We Have Your Art Gallery’ proj
 ect\, an annual commission at the gallery centred around socially engaged 
 practice that programmes activities with the public and reimagines what a 
 museum can be. The first commission was Art Gym\, devised and delivered b
 y young people\, in spring 2016 with Assemble. In 2017 artist Christopher 
 Kline turned the gallery into a community theatre with O.K. – The Music
 al\, reflecting Tate Liverpool’s commitment to having collaborative prac
 tice at the core of its programme.
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