Pivô Research welcomes everyone interested in gaining an inside look at the artists’ ateliers. As part of Pivô’s Campo Aberto artist-in-residence Eunjin Yoo opens her workspace to the public, where visitors have the opportunity to talk to the her and explore the ongoing projects she has been developing during her residency at Pivô. Her practice moves across installation, sound, sculpture, video, and performance, exploring how cultural memory and identity are shaped through migration, labor, and shared histories. Her works often emerge through fieldwork and collaboration, weaving together sonic fragments, material traces, and lived experience. As part of the Open Studio at, Yoo will present an interactive sound and rhythm performance Emptying Silence (Ressonâncias da Chuva) in collaboration with Arquétipo Rafa. The 30 min long performance is a living sketch that offers insight into her process and invites the audience to take part and engage throughout.

During her residency at Pivô she is focusing on the volatile and material qualities of sound and collaborating with local artisans to create hybrid percussive instrumental objects. She is immersing herself in São Paulo’s percussion ecosystem, combining pandeiro practice, field recording and modular sculpture. Her focus is on how rhythm is transmitted beyond notation—through gesture, voice and collective memory. She is experimenting with contact microphones and hybrid percussion objects, developing drawings and scores based on listening sessions in rodas de samba, and testing the first elements for small percussion-based sculptures.

As part of her residency at Pivô, Eunjin Yoo traveled from São Paulo to Rio de Janeiro, the birthplace and heart of samba’s musical ecosystem, to continue her research on the material and performative qualities of sound and traditional percussion instruments. There, she engaged with musicians, instrument makers, and archives to study how samba’s rhythms are transmitted and embodied through gesture, voice, and collective memory, rather than written notation.

Highlights of the trip included sessions with leading percussionists Marcos Suzano and Sérgio Krakowski, hands-on study of pandeiro techniques, and participation in a Candomblé percussion class, offering insight into the rhythmic, gestural, and spiritual foundations that have deeply influenced samba. Yoo also explored second-hand markets and instrument workshops to source materials for future sculptures and installations, documenting rhythm practices as part of her ongoing project.

Her research emphasizes the unwritten score of samba, revealing how rhythm circulates across bodies, social spaces, and generations.

Opening times:

Saturday, 18 October 2025, 1-9 PM, Performance at 2 PM
Sunday, 19 October 2025 1-9 PM, Performance at 3:30 PM

Pivô, Av. Ipiranga 200, São Paulo

The entrance is free.