As part of OIR – Outras Ideas para o Rio, a unique art project intervention located in the diverse landscape of Rio de Janeiro originated in 2012 and culminating with the 2016 Olympics, Argentine artist Leandro Erlich will feature his installation Run for the music at the city's Madureira Park. Curated by Marcello Dantas and coinciding with the opening of the Olympic Games, the work is a roughly 1 km wall composed of metal tubes, a music box that remains silent until activated by the public from July 16th thru September 18th. When visitors run along its entire length while at the same time pressing a drum stick against the tubes, they will hear the sounds of Beethoven's 9th Symphony. OIR—Other Ideas for Rio, begun on September 7, 2012, will come to an end with the 2016 Olympics, promoting original interventions in picture-postcard locations around the city. Internationally prestigious artists who had never before created for the city were invited to propose major works for Rio de Janeiro's urban landscape. Six works were first installed by British artists Andy Goldsworthy (Cais do Porto) and Brian Eno (Arcos da Lapa), Spanish artist Jaume Plensa (Enseada de Botafogo), North American Robert Morris (Cinelândia), Japanese Ryoji Ikeda (Arpoador), and Brazilian Henrique Oliveira (Parque Madureira). For more information visit online:
http://www.oir.art.br