The Parque de Produções is a project incubator, a center for collaborative teamwork. It is a space dedicated to fostering art and culture, ecological awareness and creative economy from a multicultural and transdisciplinary perspective, both nationally and internationally.
MINHA MISSÃO
CARTA AO PAI
Um dia meu pai me disse: Filha, você está se especializando em coisas inúteis! Isto me fez refletir sobre a missão de fazer “inutilidades”, numa sociedade onde o ser humano ilude-se de sua “utilidade” material. Abrindo a porta da casa, convidando as crianças e os adultos para brincarem com arte, abri uma fenda – fresta na estrutura material familiar – na qual as inutilidades puderam entrar com seus pequeninos e preciosos momentos de acontecimentos imateriais, onde produzimos nossas “quinquilharias” materiais. Concordaria com a frase de meu pai, se estivesse do outro lado do espelho… Se este conceito de utilidade pode ser aplicado na arte, a arte é útil para quem a faz, invisível para o espectador ocioso (como dito por André Comte-Sponville) que, não sabendo do trabalho da arte, acredita na ideia de que a obra é resultado do acaso e não do esforço do artista, “obra-milagre em oposição a obra-trabalho”. Somente o fazer artístico é esclarecedor e interessante. As várias partes da criação que demandam infinitas tomadas de decisões, que geram expectativas e decepções, descobertas, nos proporcionam encantamentos, criam nosso conhecimento multidirecional, causam satisfações e enormes decepções, as anotações, os mapeamentos diários. Isto tudo é o que interessa e que somente o artista tem acesso. Então, o que é a obra que se compra? É o produto do processo, o final, a compactação dos acontecimentos. Ela, a obra, se desprega do leque de acontecimentos que estão repletos de significados (para o artista) conectados e inter-relacionados e é instalado em um local público ou privado. Torna-se, então, outra coisa: reflexo de quem a vê. São os acontecimentos pessoais que serão projetados na obra. A ilusão das Ilusões. Sônia Paiva, Brasília, 8 de fevereiro de 2008.
Multiple Actions
Grito Cultural (Cultural Scream)
The Grito Cultural (Cultural Scream) is a regular weekend event, open to the community, in the middle of the Alto Urubu savannah, in the environmental preservation area of Serrinha do Lago Paranoá.
Rota da Serrinha (Serrinha Route)
The Rotas Serrinha do Paranoá (Serrinha do Paranoá Routes) are a surprising way to explore this special region of Brasília, considered a refuge for nature lovers.
Confraria do Parque
The Confrarias do Parque de Produções take place in person every month on weekends for over 20 years.
Creative Journeys
Creative Journeys are the combinations of guided experiences led by Sônia Paiva, LTC researchers and guest artists. They bring together culture, methodology and technique to form learning journeys.
Percursos Errantes na Cidade de Goiás (Wandering Paths in the City of Goiás)
Percursos Errantes is a four-day creative immersion, an artistic, touristic and cultural experience. Get to know the cities through their backyard gardens, find your talisman and create a doll using collected pieces.
Support for Directing Classes at UnB
Parque de Produções carries out audiovisual and performance activities with UnB students, voluntarily supporting it with its equipment, spaces and consulting its team.
Support for Staging Classes at UnB
Whenever necessary, Parque de Produções voluntarily organizes immersions to support students at UnB in creating and crafting sets, props, costumes and lighting.
Rota da Serrinha (Serrinha Route)
The Rotas Serrinha do Paranoá (Serrinha do Paranoá Routes) are a surprising way to explore this special region of Brasília, considered a refuge for nature lovers. The unique journey to Sônia Paiva’s fantastic art studio belongs to Route 1 – Surprises of Córrego do Urubu.
The hostess carefully chose the experience “Cerrado: motivo para estampar” (Cerrado: a motif to print), which dialogues with the landscape and local vegetation. It starts with a moment of meditation to calm the mind. Then, the artist guides the participants on a path of reconnecting with nature and helps awaken their gaze to the forms of the cerrado. During the tour, you will collect leaves and flowers from the property.
Back at the studio, arrange your collection in the most interesting way on a tray lined with cotton-based paper and soaked in a cyanotype emulsion. From there, the process of printing monochromatic negatives begins, resulting in an incredible stamp in blue shades. Besides the artist, this route also includes a biologist – Karina Cury; a visual artist – Joana Prudente, and Caio Sato, who leads the cyanotype process.
Grito cultural
O Grito Cultural! (The Cultural Scream) s a movement promoted by the Parque de Produções Sônia Paiva in collaboration with the Stage Design Transdisciplinary Laboratory (LTC) to remind us of the importance of Art, Culture and the Environment. It is a periodic weekend event full of leisure and culture, featuring music, exhibitions, workshops, poetry recitals, picnic with delicious food and refreshing drinks amidst the cerrado of Alto Urubu, in the environmental preservation area of Serrinha do Lago Paranoá.
Percursos Errantes na Cidade de Goiás (Wandering Paths in the City of Goiás)
Percursos Errantes is a four-day creative immersion, an artistic, touristic and cultural experience. Get to know the cities through their backyard gardens, find your talisman and create a doll using collected pieces. It offers a menu of experiences aimed at engaging people with history, local culture and learning, playing and creating through practices led by Sônia Paiva and her wanderers.
Confraria do Parque
Sônia Paiva has created and established supportive paths to assist participants in a free and playful manner, making her artistic, intellectual, and material resources available to them. With a captive audience, made up of people of all ages and backgrounds, in
seeking to express himself, get to know the art and methods of the artists and experience an environment
creative and inspiring.
Se cair o último pé de árvore, levanta? (If the last tree falls, does it rise?)
Directing Class of 01/2022
is a performative short film with an environmental theme aimed at reflecting on the impacts caused by society on nature. It reveals our personal deaths, our connection with the surrounding environment and the recognition that we are the trunks of the trees. We carry the exhaustion of something unnamed, but that is evident. We have a lust for nature and life, which we are constantly destroying. We are the ones obstructing our own paths, undervaluing and failing to recognize our own nature and memories. For some time now, the Earth has been expressing the impossibility of sustaining human exploitation without any care for environmental preservation. This has also manifested subjectively in our desires, expectations, and cycles. It is about something burning within us as we burn on the outside.
Creative Journeys
Creative Journeys emerged from the meetings of the Confrarias do Parque de Produções, which took place in person for over 15 years. In the Confrarias, Sônia Paiva created and established pathways of support and guidance for individuals, aiming to assist in the development of their artistic expressions in a free and playful manner, making their artistic, intellectual and material resources available to participants. They are combinations of experiences coordinated by Sônia Paiva, guided by LTC researchers or invited artists/educators, bringing together cultures, methods and techniques to form learning journeys.
Dorotéia
For the production of Dorotéia: an irresponsible farce, the Introduction to Theater Techniques and Scenography classes of the second semester of 2007 participated in immersions at Parque de Produções, where sets and props were designed and constructed.
A large central panel of Our Lady of Guadalupe transforms into a boot with a change in lighting to illustrate the character’s obsession. Dorotéia’s costume resembles that of Carmen Miranda to contrast with the ugliness of her aunts, marked by their lugubrious attire.
The deceased character, Das Dores, was inspired by Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride.
Our teachers and collaborators
Augusto Vasconcellos
Augusto Vasconcellos, a Brasília native with a degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Brasília, has been a collaborator of the Parque de Produções since its establishment in 2000.
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Caco Tomazzoli
Bachelor in Theatrical Interpretation from the University of Brasília, scenic lighting designer, cultural producer and professor of Backstage areas. Member of LTC since 2014 and of Parque de Produções since 2004, where he is the current administrator.
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Matheus Macginity
Master’s student in the Postgraduate Program in Design at the University of Brasília. Member of Parque de Produções since 2014, working in the areas of graphic design and audiovisual production.
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Júlia Horta
She is an actress, screenwriter, and director She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Theater Performance from the University of Brasília.
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João Andriotti
He is an undergraduate student in Electrical Engineering at the University of Brasília,
a Phonographic and Audiovisual Producer, Automation and Robotics Developer.
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Caio Sato
Is a Master’s student in Visual Arts at the University of Brasília – PPGAV/UnB. He has been a member of the Stage Design Transdisciplinary Laboratory and Parque de Produções since 2014, working in the area of Photography and Documentation.
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Eric Costa
Eric Costa, architect, actor, scenographer, visual and plastic artist, producer, researcher, and educator – Bachelor’s degree in Architecture and Urbanism (2005 – Centro Universitário de Brasília / Brazil) and in Performing Arts (2013 – University of Brasília / Brazil); Master’s degree in Contemporary Artistic Creation (2022 – University of Aveiro / Portugal).
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Karina Cury
Karina Machado Cury owns a Master’s degree in Multidisciplinarity from the University at Buffalo, New York. She also has a specialization in Bilingual Education from Unidombosco, a Bachelor’s degree in Performing Arts from the University of Brasília, and a
Bachelor’s degree in Biology from the Catholic University of Brasília.
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Karina Cury
With twenty-eight years of teaching experience and starting as an actress at the age of eight, Karina also works as a theater director for youth groups.
Throughout her career, she has participated in various festivals and research groups. Since her undergraduate studies, she has been studying the interdisciplinarity of the arts with the aim of making theater and the arts bridges and axes for other areas of knowledge. She was a student of Sônia Paiva at the University of Brasília and had her as her advisor for her research on Environmental Education through Art. The Parque de Produções is a vibrant place that functions as an ecosystem, where various roles connect in the study of art, knowledge, experimentation and the development of diverse skills. Different areas of knowledge come together and complement each other through different proposed workshops. Karina is involved in the project “Cerrado: motivo para estampar” (Cerrado: a motif to print), contributing with her perspective as a biologist and artist. Her fieldwork emphasizes the importance of the cerrado biome and provides guidance for the proper identification and collection of flora for cyanotype work.
Eric Costa
Associated with the Stage Design Transdisciplinary Laboratory – LTC and Parque de Produções since 2010. Worked on the conception, development, production, and assembly of the Brazilian students’ space at the Prague Quadrennial 2015. Master’s degree in Contemporary Artistic Creation (University of Aveiro – Portugal / 2022) Bachelor’s degree in Architecture and Urbanism (Centro Universitário de Brasília – Brazil / 2005), Bachelor’s degree in Performing Arts (University of Brasília – Brazil / 2013).
Serves as a front-of-house coordinator and producer at Teatro Aveirense – Portugal. And continues to work as an architect, performer, scenographer, visual and plastic artist, researcher and educator.
Augusto Vasconcellos
He is also a 3D Character Animator trained at the Canada’s Vancouver Film School. He worked on the 3D project for the exhibition A louca e a boneca apresentam Sônia Paiva (The Doll and The Mad Woman presents Sônia Paiva) for Galeria Debrét in Paris.
He worked with Sônia Paiva on the execution of 3D scenarios and editing scenes for the film Nada como o Firmamento (Nothing like the Firmament).
He worked for 20 years in the Civil Police of the Distrito Federal in Brasília, serving as the head of the Computer Graphics Section of the Institute of Forensic Science, where he worked on Crime Reconstruction and 3D Crime Scene Simulation.
Júlia Horta
She works on project development and textual developments for Parque de Produções. he also participated in the project “The Narrative Drawing Experience” and was one of the creators of the project Percursos Errantes na Cidade de Goiás (Wandering Paths in the City of Goiás). She has also been a producer and participant in the Parque de Produções 2023 film and worked with Sônia in adapting the direction classes of the undergraduate course at UnB from in-person to online, published on the Entretemas website.
Matheus Macginity
Master’s student in the Postgraduate Program in Design at the University of Brasília. Member of Parque de Produções since 2014, working in the areas of graphic design and audiovisual production.
Participant in two PQ editions (15 and 19); in 2015 as part of the assembly team for the exhibition Brasil: LABirintos Compartilhados (Brazil: Shared LAByrinths) and in 2019 as a workshop instructor for Desenhos Narrativos: Da Areia à Luz (Narrative Drawings: From Sand to Light) in collaboration with Parque de Produções and the Laboratório Transdisciplinar de Cenografia
As an audiovisual producer and editor, I find in Parque de Produções an inspiring space where different fields of knowledge intersect. It is through the intertwining of different practices that we understand the value of individuals within the collective, and the prominence of the collective within individuality.
Carlos Eduardo Peukert
He works as a producer and technical coordinator for our events. He was the assistant director of the workshop Drawing Narratives at PQ19. He is recognized in the artistic market as a scenic lighting designer.
He specializes in lighting projects for art exhibitions promoted by Sesc/SP, Inst. Tomie Ohtake, Museu Casa do Pontal, Fund. Museu do Homem Americano (Serra da Capivara), Museu Cidade de Manaus, Fund. Athos Bulcão, Fund. Iberê Camargo, CCBB, Caixa Cultural, Farol Santander, among others.
He has been the lighting designer for numerous traveling exhibitions throughout Brazil, having the opportunity to work directly with renowned artists such as Ai Weiwei, Antony Gormley, Cai Guo Qiang, Patricia Piccinini, Pablo Atchugarry, Christian Boltanski, Marianne Peretti, Carmela Gross, Os Gêmeos, Sebastião Salgado and others.
João Andriotti
He is a Robotics, Automation, and Lighting Technician at Parque de Produções Sônia Paiva, with the support of the University of Brasília (UnB), Department of Performing Arts (CEN/UnB), and the Extension Dean’s Office (DEX/UnB). Entre Temas – Collaborative exhibitions of stage design promoted and produced semi-annually by Sônia Paiva and the LTC. He participated in the production as a collaborator of LTC in robotics, automation, and programming of lighting operation using Arduino. From April 2020 until now.
Caio Sato
Caio Sato is a Master’s student in Visual Arts at the University of Brasília – PPGAV/UnB and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts (2019). He has been a member of the Stage Design Transdisciplinary Laboratory and Parque de Produções since 2014, working in the area of Photography and Documentation. He continuously researches and studies various areas of knowledge, believing in the importance of interdisciplinary exchanges for personal growth. He is fluent in Portuguese and English and has basic comprehension/communication skills in Spanish, French and Libras (Brazilian Sign Language).
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Testimonials
Patricia Meshick
24/04/2022
“”I had an experience at the Parque that I carry with me to this day in my work as Art Director at TV Câmara dos Deputados Federais. I share this with my team, promote collaborative work and everyone participates, interacts and understands the processes. It’s beautiful to see how this reverberates and opens doors in other means and places. It’s an exponential work, necessary for our community. At the Parque, everything fits together very well and enhances the creative space. It’s rare because the word that defines Sônia is generosity.”
Viviane Tavares,
10/04/2022
“What is it like to have Sônia Paiva in your life?!?!
– the opportunity for my tormented mind to breathe..
– the certainty of the always unpredictable encounter…
– access to possibilities and references that come in the form of an explosion…
– tireless stimulation and motivation…
– loving knowledge…
– caring support…”
Julia Gonzales
25/04/2022
“The Parque is a special moment for me, it’s a treasure… a space for freedom of expression, research and experimentation. A place where I always replenish my motivations as an artist and creator. The rarest thing here is this space where we have free expression, without judgment, without restrictions.”
Virgínia
10/02/2021
“Sônia, this plant reminds me of you! First she calls herself the mother of thousands, because of how she reproduces and you are a very generous teacher. Second because she is a scandal of beauty, a thousand ways in one. Each point like that becomes an adult plant.”
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