55SP launches Tetine's new vinyl " NO MEIO DESSAS BANANAS / GOD or DOG?

We're happy to announce the unleash of Tetine's new vinyl-coin "No Meio Dessas Bananas / God or Dog? " via 55SP. "No Meio Dessas Bananas / God or Dog? " is a audio-sculpture conceived as a sonic monetary coin. A limited edition of 15 vinyls has been produced with a series of 5 inserts-poems specially created by Tetine to accompany the vinyl.

55SP will launch the piece this Wednesday 28th of April on its new project space in Sao Paulo. On the occasion Tetine will present a sonic action in the form of a live transmission, involving tape manipulation, voices, found sounds and electronics. 

Where: R. Barao de Tatui, 377

Santa Cecilia, Sao Paulo

From 7 pm - (free entrance) 

Further info in Portuguese.

São Paulo, março de 2018 - A 55SP lança no próximo dia 28 de março, quarta-feira, às 19 horas, o novo projeto sonoro da dupla Tetine, chamado “O Bandido” em seu novo espaço expositivo no bairro de Santa Cecília. O evento é gratuito. 

O vinil, em edição limitada de 15 unidades será apresentado ao público durante uma inédita ação sonora e de transmissão diretamente de Londres, onde os artistas vivem, envolvendo a manipulação de tapes, vozes, found sounds e instrumentos eletrônicos em forma de uma listening party. 

Mais do que um disco, mas sim um objeto sonoro, o picture disc de 12 polegadas “O Bandido” foi feito manualmente em um torno jamaicano dos anos 50 e gravado com agulha de diamante e vem acompanhado de quatro gravuras dos artistas. 

O lançamento na 55SP faz parte da programação paralela da Feira Plana. A curadoria é de Julia Morelli.

Tetine 

Formada em 1995 em São Paulo, pelos artistas Eliete Mejorado e Bruno Verner e infundida com um radicalismo brasileiro contemporâneo que empurra os limites de um vocabulário híbrido, Tetine criou uma infinidade de álbuns, obras sonoras e performances Spoken Word para a música eletrônica, incluindo filmes e vídeos. 

Bruno Verner e Eliete Mejorado também dirigem o programa de rádio Slum Dunk na Resonance Fm 104.4 - (www.resonancefm.com) praticamente desde o início da estação em Londres no ano de 2002. Em Slum Dunk, eles seguem tocando todo tipo obscuro e inesperado da música brasileira.

Sobre a 55SP
Criada para difundir a arte contemporânea, a 55SP vem fomentando o novo colecionismo e a relação do comprador com arte e a produção artística. Além de trabalhar divulgando novos artistas, aposta em nomes consolidados do mercado, produzindo, com o suporte de curadores, edições limitadas e exclusivas de obras. Também é responsável por exposições, performances e ocupações que podem acontecer exclusivamente online, em galerias ou até mesmo em espaços comuns. 

Lançamento do vinil “O Bandido” da dupla Tetine na 55SP

28 de março, quarta-feira, às 19 horas
Local: Rua Barão de Tatuí, nº 377, Santa Cecília
Mais informações em  www.55sp.art e http://www.feiraplana.org/programacao-lineup 

Amiri Baraka's Black Dada Nihilismus

Black Dada Nihilismus



Against what light

is false what breath
sucked, for deadness.
Murder, the cleansed

purpose, frail, against
God, if they bring him
bleeding, I would not

forgive, or even call him
black dada nihilismus.

The protestant love, wide windows,
color blocked to Mondrian, and the
ugly silent deaths of jews under

the surgeons knife. (To awake on
69th street with money and a hip
nose. Black dada nihilismus, for

the umbrellad jesus. Trillby intrigue
movie house presidents sticky on the floor.
B.D.N., for the secret men, Hermes, the

blacker art. Thievery (ahh, they return
those secret gold killers. Inquisitors
of the cocktail hour. Trismegistus, have

them, in their transmutation, from stone
to bleeding pearl, from lead to burning
looting, dead Moctezuma, find the West

a grey hideous space.

2.

From Sartre, a white man, it gave
the last breath. And we beg him die,
before he is killed. Plastique, we

do not have, only thin heroic blades.
The razor. Our flail against them, why
you carry knives? Or brutaled lumps of

heart? Why you stay, where they can
reach? Why you sit, or stand, or walk
in this place, a window on a dark

warehouse. Where the minds packed in
straw. New homes, these towers, for those
lacking money or art. A cult of death

need of the simple striking arm under
the streetlamp. The cutters, from under
their rented earth. Come up, black dada

nihilismus. Rape the white girls. Rape
their fathers. Cut the mothers throats.

Black dada nihilismus, choke my friends

in their bedrooms with their drinks spilling
and restless for tilting hips or dark liver
lips sucking splinters from the masters thigh.

Black scream
and chant, scream,
and dull, un
earthly
hollering. Dada, bilious
what ugliness, learned in the dome, colored holy
shit (i call them sinned

or lost
burned masters
of the lost
nihil German killers
all our learned

art, member
what you said
money, God, power,
a moral code, so cruel
it destroyed Byzantium, Tenochtitlan, Commanch
(got it, Baby!

For tambo, willie best, dubois, patrice, mantan, the
bronze buckaroos.

For Jack Johnson, asbestos, tonto, buckwheat,
billie holiday.

For tom russ, loverture, vesey, beau jack,

(may a lost god damballah, rest or save us
against the murders we intend
against his lost white children
black
dada
nihilismus

53 DIAMONDS (OUT NOW on WET DANCE)

TETINE: 53 DIAMONDS: A COLLECTION OF BLIND SHORT STORIES, CRIMES,   FALSO-BRILHANTES AND OTHER POEMS

We are happy to announce the release of Tetine’s spoken word album 53 DIAMONDS on Wet Dance Recordings. Composed, recorded and produced by Bruno Verner & Eliete Mejorado – and initially presented as a sound installation in São Paulo at Galeria Jaqueline Martins’ Glory Hole space curated by Bruno Mendonça - the record features a collection of eerie and electronic sonically uncompressed landscapes and tales.

Comprised of 10 spacious, slow and atmospheric pieces for electronics, piano, fx and voices, these tracks can be listened both as separate independent tales or as an expanded narrative in the form of a soup opera. 53 DIAMONDS is a dark-queer post-Marxist / post-internet fictional sonic critique on the vacuous world of art dealers, hegemonic cultural entrepreneurs, media moguls and other new colonialists. 

The album acidly satirizes a series of superficial neoliberal clichés by vocally dramatizing forms of mindless consumerism, competitive behaviour, betrayal, submission, domination, the colonization of ‘capitalistic dreams’ and private property. It works as a satire of the old white elite with their self-important men and women and their relationship with questions of self-indulgence, expectation, use-value/exchange-value and panic. 

On another note, the record investigates the economy of being ‘given a present’ and confronts it with narratives of buying & selling diamonds. These tracks are also 'cut-up tales' which fictionalise situations of abundance and were written by using cheap advertising late night TV selling-of-products language, eBay messages, internet crime stories and melodramatic interjections & talk as their source.

53 DIAMONDS is a hallucinatory collection of blind short stories, crimes and falso brilhantes. It explores ideas of 'boredom’, ‘property’, ‘selfishness’ and ‘freedom’ in our current contemporary cultural condition and the collective fictions it produces in the realm of a self-perpetuating technological regime of control. It plays with notions of compressed culture, power and powerlessness, repression, rejection, betrayal, sexualized children, nationalism, race, Brazil, Latin America and the death of myths.

Through the combination of modified voices, dystopian basslines, beat-less wet soundscapes and harmonic tensions, 53 Diamonds was written as a poetically caustic and sexually-charged commentary on contemporary superficiality and forms of controlled de-sublimation.

53 Diamonds

Eliete Mejorado – vocals, fx, keys

Bruno Verner - programming, keys, samples, piano, occasional vocals

Tracklisting:

1. 53 Diamonds    

2. Prelude 2    

3. If (Are You Still With Me?)    

4. Painted Baby        

5. Joy N2            

6. From Now On            

7. Faites Moi Dormir    

8. G.O.D. or D.O.G.

9. Three Bullets      

10. Learning to Relax