No)(Place)(Like)(Home)
Octávio Camargo / Brandon LaBelle

Tuesday, August 29, at 1:30pm UK time
Resonance FM, 104.4 (on the web at: www.resonancefm.com)

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Where does a home begin and end? What does it contain, in both its name and borders, and what does it leave out?

Working in the city of Curitiba, Brasil our work documents the culture and movements of barrio communities that subsist on an elaborated system of recycling: wielding home-made carts through the city, these unofficial collectors sift through the city’s trash seeking a metal can, a plastic bottle, or other item, which they collect and bring home, to organize according to various criteria, and condense through the use of crushing machines, to deliver to “managers” who in return provide shelter. Visiting their homes, and communities, we spoke, shared, and collected information – sounds, images, information, etc. with the intention to engage the degree to which the city and bodies come to meet, in formal and informal patterns, often producing uneven exchanges in the form of pirate economies, make-shift vehicles, informal architectures, and the language of minor culture. (No)(Place)(Like)(Home) is both a document and a narrative following the movements of collectors during an ordinary day: from morning through to the evening, accentuating the textures and rhythms and actions that come to express their sense of relation to the city.

This forms the first part in the collaboration between Octávio Camargo and Brandon LaBelle, which will continue in the form of investigations of informal spaces and minor culture in other cities.

Thanks to all those who assisted in the collecting of materials, and in our meetings.