Nuvem (The cloud)
Casa Nuvem is an autonomous agitation space resulting of the convergence between art, activism, sound, audio-visual and new technologies experimentation.
Nuvem is a place of work, research and production of a contemporary thinking. A place for encounters, experiences and affectivity. Casa Nuvem was born out of this confluence of different independent creative projects guided by a festive occupation of the city and the dialogue and between art and politics (and other junctions). It is now a space open to different groups and actors that have in common the desire to think and built collectively new ways to relate between themselves, with the city and its common spaces. Nowadays Nuvem hosts several collaborative projects focused on the creation of new exchanges between people and the public space, in a network of interactions that values above all the respect towards differences, respect for freedom of expression, freedom of the body, multiplicity of gender, the right to the city and alternative mobility.
We keep our doors and hearts open.
Casa (The house)
In Casa Nuvem there are different spaces for working and gathering, plus a kitchen and a bar. There is a workshop for bike maintenance and repair, a studio of electro-acoustics and a photography lab. The house also hosts another studio for production, mixing and finalisation of sound and it is the headquarters for a bike messengers express delivery start up company.
What happens in the house?
In Casa Nuvem public events take place regularly. Every Wednesday Triciclo is held, a bike DIY maintenance workshop, where people organize around knowledge exchange and activism on two wells. On Thursdays is time for the Atelier Dissidências Criativas (Creative Dissidents Atelier), a meeting ground for art and politic action, focused on the exchange of information and the collective development and construction of urban interventions and planning of alternative ways of protesting. There are also the monthly meetings of Nuvem Hub, a laboratory for creation of prototypes related to light integration, sound systems and recyclable objects incorporated in to bikes.
Besides all these, we promote various and differentiated one-off events, such as lectures, discussions, workshops, film screenings and collective shows of music and performing arts.
Sometimes we do parties.
Who we are?
We are a cloud of people who inhabits different areas os Rio de Janeiro, joint together by the same desire to invent new forms, codes and rhythms of living and conviviality. The Casa nuvem prizes the diversity and its configuration is a reflex of that. At the moment we are 30 people dedicated to art and culture, always keeping doors opened to those interested in joining forces with us.
What connects us?
In Nuvem we believe in the recovery of communitarian bonds of solidarity, justice and a common sense that were taken away from us by the dictatorship of capital.
Here there are no truths or straight lines. We are network, flux and luxury. Our only certainty is the urgency to create autonomous resilience spaces that confront the common sequestration in this city without mercy (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil).
We want to share techniques, knowledge and fluids. We are alive network and open source. Our economy is the abundance because there are tits for all. We are practitioners of affectivism and believe int the power of indiscriminate affection as a political tool of contamination. In this disorientation of ours, all devigayted is welcome. Sexist, racist, sectarian or elitist attitudes have no place under our roof. Here VIP’s are
the ones who Visit to Invest in the Parade. And there is no greater investment than the exchange.
We want to share techniques, knowledge and fluids. We are alive network and open source. Our economy is the abundance because there are tits for all. We are practitioners of affectivism and believe int the power of indiscriminate affection as a political tool of contamination. In this disorientation of ours, all devigayted is welcome. Sexist, racist, sectarian or elitist attitudes have no place under our roof. Here VIP's are the ones who Visit to Invest in the Parade. And there is no greater investment than the exchange.