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FAROFA DO PROCESSO || 2024
Farofa (formerly FarOFFa) has taken on new forms, which is why the festival's name no longer includes the two "Fs." Farofa do Processo took over the city of São Paulo, presenting works in progress that explore connections, discoveries, and provocations in the field of performing arts, alongside recent productions.
Farofa do Processo defines itself as a deep dive into questions about perception and creation in the performing arts, seeking to develop a new language for production. This also happens through various engagement activities: discussion circles, talks, meetings with curators, exhibitions, video screenings, and more.
The idea is to use this opportunity to discuss with society the issues surrounding artistic creation, while also reflecting on the distribution, circulation, and mediation of live arts. For this reason, the event's program is dynamic, adapting as needed. "Movement" has been an integral concept in Farofa's structure of thought since its first edition in 2020.
FAROFFA ZONA || 2023
After experimenting with various formats, farOFFa claps its hands and politely asks for permission.
In this edition, we aim to align our desire to connect with collectives, artists, producers, spaces, and initiatives across different areas of the city.
This edition is about opening the door of our Kombi, Joyce Sunshine, with a bottle of coffee, a cake, and being together, engaging in dialogue with these contexts.
It’s about exchange and collective creation: we share, offering what we’ve learned over the years while learning about these bodies, practices, and diversity.
South, North, East, West—we are together!
FAROFFA DO PROCESSO || 2022
FarOFFa do Processo brings together research projects at different stages, from early rehearsals to works on the verge of premiering. Sharing the various moments of a creation requires very different perspectives—after all, these are artists coming from distinct schools and paths.
What truly matters to our FarOFFa do Processo is that experimentation takes center stage in this encounter.
In this sense, we are putting everything on the table—everything that makes up an event, a festival, a gathering. But always questioning how to subvert traditional formulas, in other words, the ways we have already tested.
How do you promote a gathering of creative processes? There are no photos, no synopsis, no technical sheet—so how do we do it? If what matters is the final product and we barely acknowledge the processes, how do we give value to this “almost”?
Since FarOFFa is conceived by producers, we are constantly questioning the current modes of production. Our main interest is to highlight the elements that make up the production chain—investigating, deepening, and reflecting on them.
FarOFFa do Processo seeks to value time and process: to create, step back, evaluate, rethink, discard, question, create again, and so on—embracing the complex movement that is artistic creation, without being bound by causes, effects, and determinism.
DISPOSITIVO FAROFFA || 2022
The FarOFFa Device was the 5th edition of FarOFFa. This time, we asked ourselves: how do we reunite? How do we reestablish the connection between artist and audience?
With these questions in mind, we imagined that we should return to something very simple, and we decided to simply tell a story. We chose The Camille Stories from the book Staying with the Trouble by the American writer Donna Haraway. In this text, Haraway speculates on how evolution might unfold if humans and non-humans coexisted more closely. We used this possibility of new connections to reconnect artists with their audiences.
In a one-on-one format—in backyards, on the streets, in gardens, or in public squares—an artist and an audience member met to tell and listen to what Camille proposes for the future.
Another experiment in this edition of FarOFFa was inviting each artist and audience member to choose the next artists and audiences to receive the box containing The Camille Stories. In this way, 25 artists and 25 audience members were selected by the participants themselves, breaking the idea of a single, absolute curator!
FAROFFA OCUPAÇÃO || 2021
FarOFFa is a collective of producers that, since 2020, has been creating initiatives to bring people, desires, and ideas closer together.
In this third edition—FarOFFa Occupation—around 100 producers gathered over four days to bring forth and circulate (un)common concepts, ideas, and proposals. Since we were still in the pandemic, these meetings took place online in two virtual cultural spaces: Portal MUD and Plataforma Teatro.
In the online reflection rooms, the structure of this FarOFFa edition included not only the participating producers but also provocateurs. Christine Greiner, Denise Ferreira da Silva, José Fernando Peixoto de Azevedo, Jota Mombaça, Leda Maria Martins, and Valentina Desideri launched thought-provoking questions that explored themes such as creep epistemology, mistakes, failures, enchantment, and improvisation (gambiarra).
Each room also had a dramaturgist, who deepened the discussions, engaging with the proposed themes and the intersections brought by the producers. Artists and scholars such as Cynthia Margareth, Elisa Band, Fernanda Raquel, Ierê Papa, and Rodrigo Monteiro were invited to take on this role at FarOFFa Occupation.
This edition was entirely dedicated to producers. The main idea was to create space and time for us to think and create.
FAROFFA A MIL || 2021
FarOFFa crosses borders, crosses the Andes and arrives in Santiago to take part in Platea 21, an international meeting of programmers and performing arts professionals that is part of the Santiago à mil Festival program.
FarOFFa was Brazil's representative and presented the work of 8 creative artists: ColetivA Ocupação (São Paulo), Flávia Pinheiro, (Pernambuco) Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha (Rio de Janeiro), Jussara Belchior (Santa Catarina), Karin Serafim (Santa Catarina), Renata Carvalho (São Paulo), ultravioleta_s (São Paulo) and Vanessa Nunes (Piauí).
FAROFFA NO SOFÁ || 2020
In this second edition of Faroffa, already in the midst of a pandemic, we focused on thinking about memory, since it was not yet possible to imagine what the future of the performing arts would be. In this way, rather than maintaining the logic of incessant premieres - the way the art market has been operating for a long time - FarOFFa focused on trajectories, memory, the context in which shows were created, artists, research and intense involvement with the work and those who created it. From this way of working with the arts, a concept emerged: caregiving. Two fields justify this view: programming and production. Those who work on both sides of the same coin know that accompaniment, welcoming, care and attention to the delicacies of the process make all the difference to the end result.
In these sessions, around 40 recent and not-so-recent works were mixed together in an amalgam of trajectory and furor. The initiative was called Kombi - Fragmentos de um imaginário tropical (Kombi - Fragments of a tropical imaginary), and can be defined as a program to bring professionals in the performing arts closer together in order to promote encounters and open doors to new partnerships, collaborations and ways of working.
FAROFFA || 2020
PARALLEL ARTS CIRCUIT
FarOFFa is a proposal that seeks to broaden public access to the capital's artistic productions, in their diversity of languages, themes and discourses, taking advantage of the presence of MITsp - São Paulo International Theater Festival.
The aim was to bring visibility to the countless collectives that tirelessly produce a vibrant and provocative cultural scene. And to create new modes of production that strengthen the resistance of art in Brazil. FarOFFa seeks to constitute itself as a management experience and a collective space of possibilities for the dissemination and circulation of creations, ideas and artistic encounters
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It is the sharing of aesthetic experiences; the search for different models of managing productions; the search for a collective format to make creations viable. The shows spread across various venues in the city created a circuit where the public could see different artists in multiple spaces. FarOFFa is a political scene. It's not just about presenting shows, but about creating possibilities to bring together diverse artistic experiences from the perspective of production.
