Se Conselho Fosse Bom...
If advice was good...
digital intervention on Sesc Pompeia's instagram feed and stories with
reels oracle, proverbs
research by @suelencalonga, visuals by @biarritzzz, music by @kamaifreire
in the frame of FestA! - Festival de Aprender, Sesc SP
Online - July 2024
@sescpompeia, Brazil
Proverbs are truths that live in people's hearts, travel through the air, and enter our ears, resonating like a tuning fork in harmony with the voices that are within us and in everything that came before... They are sounds that come out of our grandmothers' mouths like the sound of wind in the woods, the taste of leaf tea, the smell of water falling on the earth. Words that are ancestral breaths, rustling the blinds of our consciousness, making us understand things with senses beyond our own. This knowledge is ancient: it comes from much observation, much experience, learning and teaching, much intuition and much dreaming... and it is documented in the inspiring saliva of the living and the non-living, of humans and more-than-humans, in the verses of the corridos and litanies of Capoeira Angola, in the points of the traditions of Jurema and Encantaria, of Catimbós and Candomblés, in the literature of the Odu de Ifá, in the popular sayings of our land, Africa-Pindorama.
#SeConselhoFosseBom casts little spells with words, sounds, and images, a meme, a rainbow in a waterfall, a noise of interference, a leaf for this bath, another bead for this necklace, and a game of advice at the crossroads of social media to deliver the right key to the right person at the right time.