Hello Everyone!
We are Ouriço and we would like to [finally] take a moment to introduce ourselves to all of you here in the creatives DAO.
Ouriço is a community art creation and performance space established at the beginning of 2021 with the aim of providing an inclusive, safe place for artists of all disciplines to come together and share moments of artistic exploration and creation. The primary focus of Ouriço is to provide a calm environment for artists to reflect, research and explore their practice, for their own personal development and growth. Our goal is to create a shifting and diverse space for artists who are eager to collaborate and we aim to be an open space available for those who have an idea and need a safe place to explore and bring projects to life.
We currently occupy a century old town house in Parede (just outside of Lisbon) adorned with traditional Azulejos and a treasured view of the Ocean. Our space offers a dark room for analogue photography development, a dedicated music room which houses a full size Electronic Organ and our treasured courtyard and Garden where we host regular music & spoken word open mic events along with intimate concerts for emerging musicians. Ouriço also serves as an exhibition venue for multidisciplinary mediums of art/expression and during the past year we have run four artistic residencies, providing a collection of artists from multiple disciplines, with free work space and exhibitions for their work.
We were first introduced to the NEAR Ecosystem in January 2022 by our friends at muti when they approached us to host an Artist Residency in collaboration and since this introduction we have spent time over this year becoming more familiar with NEAR Protocol, NFTs and Web3 in general. At the beginning of Summer, we gratefully worked with our DAOstructor @tabear to create the Ouriço DAO and delve deeper into the growing community for creatives working here.
As we move into the final months of 2022 we are embarking on a new phase and will be opening up our space even further to provide more creatives in the Lisbon region with affordable working spaces. Our most recent residents are our friends at Garden Collective who now have a dedicated space at Ouriço and during their residency so far, they have hosted events such as the release of Poetry Book ‘trying’ and a Live stream DJ set from our garden to the Metaverse.
There is a lot for us still to learn as we continue to find our feet in the world of Web3 but we are now looking towards future projects, which focus on introducing and onboarding the growing community of artists and guests that visit us, to the NEAR Ecosystem. Our next Artist Residency will be an invitation for Artists that can create and share work as NFTs which we can mint in our very own Mintbase store.
Council Members
Currently Ouriço DAO is made up of a Council of 3 core members working in the disciplines of Music, Dance and Photography. We continue to grow and across the next few months there will be the addition of further members to our Council.
@Jossup1 - Accounts and Garden Maintenance (jossup.near)
@davinmadeit - Organiser (davinking.near)
@mosdefo - Website development and A/V management (mosdefo.near)
Astrodao: https://app.astrodao.com/dao/ourico.sputnik-dao.near
Socials and Website
Instagram is our primary platform to communicate and archive all of our events, projects and important news, you can go over there to follow us and see what we are getting up to.
https://www.instagram.com/ourico/
We’re also in the process of building our website and we are happy to share it with everyone for the moment whilst we continue to refine the design and add further to the content.
http://www.ourico.art
Our telegram group is Ourico Dao and we welcome you to join us there.
ROADMAP
October - December 2022
- Complete the building of our website
- Develop a calendar of events and residencies for the coming 6 months
- Addition of further members to our DAO
- Defining clear roles within the DAO and breaking up tasks/responsibilities to enhance day-to-day running and development of future projects
- Assist our network of artists/collaborators/visitors integration into the ecosystem
First half of 2023
- Developing and establishing our visual identity
- Run an Artist Residency with a focus on creating NFTs
- Develop & curate an Ouriço mintbase store and NFT gallery
- Test out ticketing for events using NFTs
- Expanding the community of collaborators and encourage further cross-collaboration within the community
We are always happy for passionate and dedicated individuals to join us in our endeavours so If you would like to collaborate, please reach out and let us know your ideas.
