COMMON HOME
MANIFESTO
“COMMON HOME” is a collaborative artistic project dedicated to imagining and creating together what we collectively see and want for our COMMON HOME — Planet Earth and all living species, an utopia to work for. The work takes us on a collaborative journey where with our hands and bodies we create this giant piece of a paper-collage-tent. Symbolically seen as a COMMON HOME, a place that grows with time and with the participation of all who want to be part of this gesture.
This work is a desire of co-creating and inviting everyone to participate, saying: “Let’s go together, let’s enjoy together, let’s build together and live in a peaceful and creative way with each other! Everyone is welcome”.
COMMON HOME is a right for all as well as a duty for the participation of us all, with our unique qualities, characteristics, backgrounds and limitations.
The term – COMMON HOME – was first proposed by the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in the drafting of the ‘Earth Charter’ [1] and also used up by Pope Francis at ‘Laudato Sí: On the care of our common home’ [2] to describe the interconnections of all living species on the Planet Earth, proposing conscious actings towards “a more just, sustainable, and peaceful global society in the 21st century”. [3]
[1] https://earthcharter.org/read-the-earth-charter/preamble/
[2] https://www.humandevelopment.va/content/dam/sviluppoumano/news/2021-news/laudatosireader/Laudato-si-Reader.pdf
[3] https://earthcharter.org/about-the-earth-charter/
WORKSHOPS:
In order to create this unique collaborative piece I’m developing Visual Composition Workshops based on Cadavre exquis exercices — with individuals, institutions, companies and everyone who would like to be part of it regardless of their age and condition.
These workshops aim towards the creation of a collaborative installation to be presented in Paris in 2025.
For more information write to me at rita@rita-ra.com
WORKSHOPS:
FEŸTOPIA — Burgundy, France: 15.03.2025
CLASES DE HILANDO — Madrid, Spain: 22.02.2025
CASA DO COMUM — Lisboa, Portugal: 15.02.2025
RESTAURANTE 1º DIREITO — Lisboa, Portugal: 02.01.2025
RESIDÊNCIA R.A. — Oeiras, Portugal: 24.08.2024
PARTICIPANTES:
Alice Walker,
Ana Carina Jerónimo,
Ana Margarida Rodrigues,
Anna Chiara Palermo,
Antoniete Ascenso da Cunha,
Apolinário Passos,
Assunção Sampayo,
Carmo Sousa Rego,
Catarina Guerra,
Catarina Oliveira,
Catarina Pinto Leite,
Cátia Fernandes,
Corey Breier,
Daniela Rodrigues,
Dara Morgana,
Elena Vertegel,
Éric Queiroz,
Ana Carina Jerónimo,
Ana Margarida Rodrigues,
Anna Chiara Palermo,
Antoniete Ascenso da Cunha,
Apolinário Passos,
Assunção Sampayo,
Carmo Sousa Rego,
Catarina Guerra,
Catarina Oliveira,
Catarina Pinto Leite,
Cátia Fernandes,
Corey Breier,
Daniela Rodrigues,
Dara Morgana,
Elena Vertegel,
Éric Queiroz,
Félicia Dotsé,
Filipa Baptista,
Firmino Duarte,
Fleur Scholten,
Ghita Aa,
Hannah wijmenga,
Inês Cunha Carvalho,
Inês Dias,
José Cortez,
José Sottomayor,
Juliana Sabogal,
Leal Pereira,
Lobke Peeters,
Louise Renaudin,
Luciene Gomes da Silva,
Luísa Romeiras,
Luna Isaias,
Filipa Baptista,
Firmino Duarte,
Fleur Scholten,
Ghita Aa,
Hannah wijmenga,
Inês Cunha Carvalho,
Inês Dias,
José Cortez,
José Sottomayor,
Juliana Sabogal,
Leal Pereira,
Lobke Peeters,
Louise Renaudin,
Luciene Gomes da Silva,
Luísa Romeiras,
Luna Isaias,
Madalena Meneses,
Maria Carvalho,
Maria Norton,
Margarida Moreira,
Martha Tavares,
Mercedes Castro Corbat,
Noémie Kempf,
Olga Mironenko,
Patrícia Mégre Potes,
Paula Velhinho,
Pedro Rebelo de Andrade,
Pilar Duarte Silva,
Prosenjit Gihosh,
Maria Carvalho,
Maria Norton,
Margarida Moreira,
Martha Tavares,
Mercedes Castro Corbat,
Noémie Kempf,
Olga Mironenko,
Patrícia Mégre Potes,
Paula Velhinho,
Pedro Rebelo de Andrade,
Pilar Duarte Silva,
Prosenjit Gihosh,
Rita Ansone,
Rita Pierre,
Rodrigo Barreiros Ferreira,
Rodrigo Vaz Pinto,
Ruth de Peroy,
Saurabh Narang,
Sabine Santana,
Sebnem Erener,
Sílvia dos Santos,
Sue-Li Tasker Yeo,
Teresa Blanco,
Tinka van trier,
Tomás Rebelo de Andrade,
Tuuli Utriainen,
Venina Ascenso da Cunha
Rita Pierre,
Rodrigo Barreiros Ferreira,
Rodrigo Vaz Pinto,
Ruth de Peroy,
Saurabh Narang,
Sabine Santana,
Sebnem Erener,
Sílvia dos Santos,
Sue-Li Tasker Yeo,
Teresa Blanco,
Tinka van trier,
Tomás Rebelo de Andrade,
Tuuli Utriainen,
Venina Ascenso da Cunha
photos by iphone of Tuuli Utriainen and Rita RA
︎︎︎ FEŸTOPIA — Burgundy, France: 15.03.2025 ︎︎︎
photos by iphone of Assunção Sampayo, Carmo Sousa Rego and Rita RA
︎︎︎ CLASES DE HILANDO — Madrid, Spain: 22.02.2025 ︎︎︎
photos by JSP_fotografia
︎︎︎ CASA DO COMUM — Lisboa, Portugal: 15.02.2025 ︎︎︎
︎︎︎ RESTAURANTE 1º DIREITO — Lisboa, Portugal: 02.01.2025 ︎︎︎
photos by iphone de Rita
︎︎︎ RESIDÊNCIA R.A. — Oeiras, Portugal: 24.08.2024 ︎︎︎
RESULTS:
each of these measures approximately 1x1m(some results are still missing)
WORKSHOPS IN TRAVEL
Two tubes are traveling around the world:
1. Collage in travel with Fleur Scholten.
Participants:
Mercedes Castro Corbat (Buenos Aires)
more to come…
2. GCRP 2023 GROUP — Travel collage:
Participants:
Olga Mironenko (Russia), Saurabh Narang (from India living in Germany),
Sabine Santana (from Mexico living in Germany)
more to come…
PREVIOUS WORKSHOPS
(before this specific project)w/ Hilando (Mariana Paloma) :: www.hilandoatelier.com
APRIL 2017 — Underdogs Art Store
IG video
MARCH 2016 — Arquivo 237 (Anexo)
© Vinícius Ladeira
Visual Composition — Creating Together — workshops with Hilando
“Learning may be viewed as a process, rather than a collection of factual and procedural knowledge. Learning produces changes in the organism and the changes produced are relatively permanent.” Inspired by this quote of American psychologist Daniel L. Schacter, as well as the idea that it's increasingly important for us to learn to be permeable to influences external to ourselves, the workshop intends to follow this motto, developing as an interaction of an experimental and conceptual nature, where the important thing is the very ludic dynamics of construction, creativity and visual composition.
“Learning may be viewed as a process, rather than a collection of factual and procedural knowledge. Learning produces changes in the organism and the changes produced are relatively permanent.” Inspired by this quote of American psychologist Daniel L. Schacter, as well as the idea that it's increasingly important for us to learn to be permeable to influences external to ourselves, the workshop intends to follow this motto, developing as an interaction of an experimental and conceptual nature, where the important thing is the very ludic dynamics of construction, creativity and visual composition.
The workshops were developed from ideas common to the practices of Mariana and I — the collection and reuse of materials; order and disorder — which have guided us, respectively, in the creation of unique articles of clothing, and illustrated daily records.