Silencio. Ponto (for Mark Fisher)

Underpass
Na mesma cidade.
Com a mesma idade
Kamikaze coração.
Futuros perdidos.
De vivências erráticas.
De tempos passados.
Em estados futuros.
Minados.
Telepáticos
Comunicação silenciosa,
Poderosa.
Telepatia transcendental
Culminados.
Diletantismos
Socia-lismos
Comun-ismos.
Post-punker
Then, Now, in between
Em camisa
Em calça
Em sapato
Em estado
Born never asked?
Romanticos a go-go
Digitalias e
Despondências
Libidinalias
Vocalismos
Marginálias
Des-tropicalias
In defence of Discos
Of Marcuses
Going overground
for the ghost dance
Ago
Agosto
A-gô-gô
E nessa fala silenciosa, não-dita
Audita, des-escutada 
Auto-didata
Trêmula
Telepática.
Supervisionada
Sequenciada, sampleada
Redigida
Magnetizada
Acoplada
Afinal
Ao final
Sabíamos sobre o mesmo parque temático nao-concretizado de Laurie Anderson & Peter Gabriel
Como um reporter de
Radio
Turn the radio on
Kissing the pink
Dangerous
Portal
Gates
In New Cross
Gate.
Train.
Tracks of
Thought.
Tracks of trans-feeling
em meio / amid
cancellations of
anger
the ontology of
Oh the grain
Portal of possibilities
Desire
Desired Desiring

E na velocidade
q a gente vive na cidade
q a gente vive nessa idade
o nome disso é....

For Mark Fisher (1968-2017) who was my PhD supervisor.
Rest in Power.

Mark, obrigado por toda a inspiração. E por todo o impacto!
I have no words to describe how important you are to me. 
Thank you for everything. I felt incredibly special & privileged to be around you. 
With all my love and gratitude - Bruno.

    >> brilliant mural by Mark's students at Goldsmiths. 

Post Punk Then And Now

This is really good news! We're happy to announce the release of "Post Punk Then and Now" edited by Gavin Butt, Mark Fisher & Kodwo Eshun out now on Repeater Books.

Me and Eli contributed with a chapter "40 Degrees in Black" - TETINE in conversation with Gavin Butt. We talk Brazilian post punk, DIY tropical politics then and now, Tetine's trajectory, Slum Dunk radio, Funk Carioca & other stories! Look out for it - the book also feat. superb reflections by Gavin Butt, Sue Clayton, Kdowo Eshun, Mark Fisher, Green Gartside, Dominc Johnson, Lydia Lunch, Laura Oldfield-Ford, Tom Vague, Gee Vaucher and more...

This comes as a special present for us now... if we think Brazil's experiencing real DEEP shit at the moment & one of its worse nightmares since 1964... if we may put it in symbolical terms...
We just had an impeachment of a FEMALE president which is extremely telling (in all senses) ... all part of a dirty coup fomented by the SAME white neoliberal elite, corporate media, evangelical forces & right wing groups in conjunction with the SAME TV Globo tactics ... Some of the 'time and space' we allude to in "40 Degrees in Black" may not even exist anymore. We dedicate this to you and you and you... (you know who you are....) pardon if I missed someone. FUCK THE PAIN AWAY and fora Temer.

POST PUNK THEN & NOW

We’re happy to announce the release of "Post Punk Then And Now” edited by Gavin Butt, Mark Fisher & Kodwo Eshum on Sept 15th on Repeater Books!

Post Punk Then And Now features contemporary reflections on post punk from leading commentators. Contributions include: Lydia Lunch, Tetine (Bruno Verner & Eliete Mejorado), Green Gartside, Mark Fisher, Gavin Butt, Kodwo Eshun, Sue Clayton, Tom Vague, Gee Vaucher, Dominc Johnson and others. More than 300 pages on post punk politics, history, aesthetics and practice.

What were the conditions of possibility for art and music-making before the era of neoliberal capitalism? What role did punk play in turning artists to experiment with popular music in the late 1970s and early 1980s? And why does the art and music of these times seem so newly pertinent to our political present, despite the seeming remoteness of its historical moment? Focusing upon the production of post-punk art, film, music, and publishing, this book offers new perspectives on an overlooked period of cultural activity, and probes the lessons that might be learnt from history for artists and musicians working under 21st century conditions of austerity.

Contemporary reflections by those who shaped avant-garde and contestatory culture in the UK, US, Brazil and Poland in the 1970s and 1980s. Alongside these are contributions by contemporary artists, curators and scholars that provide critical perspectives on post-punk then, and its generative relation to the aesthetics and politics of cultural production today.

Available from all good shops from Sept 15th.

40 Degrees in Black - Bruno Verner & Eliete Mejorado in conversation with Gavin Butt

Here are some pictures from "40 Degrees In Black" - Tetine in conversation with Gavin Butt yesterday at Goldsmiths University.

Issues discussed included 1980s post-punk scene in Southern Brasil, Tetine, gambiarra, sexual politics, club culture, Tropicália, funk carioca, early electronica & Brazilian post punk and the potential of post-punk performance in the globalised contemporary art world.

The event was part "Post-Punk Then and Now" - a series of talks & film screenings exploring post-punk’s popular modernist search for the new from the 1970s.

Series chairs: Gavin Butt, Kodwo Eshun & Mark Fisher