Kura Urbana

The Kura Urbana intervention is part of the Interferências show, held annually by the art and technology school Oi Kabum! LAB, through the Laboratory of Urban Interventions (LabIU). LabIU brings together diverse groups of young people to think and create new proposals to look at the city, fomenting the new popular urban artistic scene of Rio de Janeiro. Based on the assumption that we are sick, the group performs a performance that invites people to a ritual of relaxation and meditation in busy city environments. From an environment created around a preselected tree, the group of six artists, each representing an element of nature (fire, air, earth, water, ether and wood), creates a trail that leads passersby to inside the environment around the tree, called uterus-greenhouse, where people can lie down on mats and dip their feet in buckets with water, while projections of nature images are displayed in the environment