TROPICAL PUNK - WHITECHAPEL GALLERY : An evening of radical tropical manifestations curated by Tetine (2007)

Tetine are proud to invite you for an evening of radical TROPICAL PUNK manifestations at  Whitechapel Gallery! Expect a cannibalistic hot evening of mixed media mayhem covering sound, film, art videos, performance, drawings and T Shirts.

Tetine themselves will be a playing an experimental punk funk carioca set to mark the night which also features a RARE screening of the ONLY unbiased RIO BAILE FUNK music doc 'I'M UGLY BUT TRENDY (2004) by DENISE GARCIA at the cinema gallery – think RIO female FUNK CARIOCA MC's and the whole structure of BAILE FUNK beat production and party politics.

Programme:

7:30 pm - I'm Ugly but I'm Trendy (60min) - Q&A with the director after the film session
Dir: Denise Garcia (Toscographics)

Rio's Funk is filled with MCs and bands formed by women. In the dance hall market, female performances are essential to the night's success. Tati Quebra-Barraco (Tati Shack Breaker) draws the crowd that sings along every dirty word. There are the Tchutchucas, Danadinhas, Bonde Faz Gostoso and many other "bondes" (dance and vocal ensembles) that make the audience go crazy with their wiggling. There's a bit of everything for every taste and the result is a party where thousands of youths repeat gestures, choreographs, lyrics and have fun! Rio de Janeiro is the stage for funk culture. According to its DJs the number of dance halls reaches 1000 on weekends. Involved in the production of those parties, there are sound crews, agents, DJs, owners and club employees, lighting crews, vendors selling food and drinks and a large audience. Finally, this is an economy being supported by the desire and talent of an enormous population that lives in the slums and suburbs of Rio. This film attempts to map the Rio de Janeiro funk universe from the point of view of female funkers, who are also mothers, wives, students, workers.

Tropical Punk also presents a specially video programme curated by TETINE  featuring rare artist films/music videos & performances by avaf, OBJETO AMARELO, TETINE, PAUL B. DAVIS, AS MERCENARIAS, SOLANGE TO ABERTA, SEXO EXPLICITO, PIPA, MAURICIO IANES, RICK CASTRO, MICHAEL ARMS RODRIGO GARCIA DUTRA – including a limited edition of our TROPICAL PUNK FANZINE with texts by BRUNO VERNER, RICARDO DOMENECK PABLO LEON DE LA BARRA,  SARA QUIN, and collages by FABIO GURJAO, CASSIA TABATINI, TIAGO BORGES DA SILVA, GUILHERME ALTMAYER and ADRIANO COSTA.

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