TETINE AT WHITE CUBICLE 'THEY WANT TO GET RID OF THE STREET VENDORS (ACTION N3)'

Tetine inside the White Cubicle Toilet Gallery!

Tetine's Black Semiotics diagrams

visitors lining up to steal Tetine's records

George and Dragon's customers taking their Tetine CD's and vynil's from the White Cubicle. When all the CDs have disappeared from the wall, the exhibition will disappear.

Tetine, bigger than life


Eliete + Bruno = Tetine behind the decks at George and Dragon



Eliete signing Tetine's take away records


Monsieur Copeland with his Tetine vinyl

and James Jeanette with her Tetine CDs


special impromptu performance by James Jeanette being Mariane Unfaithful

and Tetine inside the White Cubicle Toilet Gallery


White Cubicle Toilet Gallery is honoured to present a special exhibition as part of the celebration of George and Dragon's 10th anniversary:

TETINE
THEY WANT TO GET RID OF THE STREET VENDORS (Action N3)
Tuesday December 18, 2012
8:00 PM to Midnight
Exhibition by Tetine, and Tetine on the dj decks!
The George and Dragon Public House, 2 Hackney Road, London E2

They Want To Get Rid of The Street Vendors is part of Tetine's ongoing series of informal DIY guerilla street/video actions on the semantics of self-piracy, sound object disfunctionality, reconfiguration of goods & auto sampling tactics. An improvised ‘camelo’ (informal street selling point) with banners, selected items and manufactured CDs will be set up at the glorious White Cubicle toilette. They will be there to emanate a sexually charged anti-industry "wall of sound”. Pop and anti-pop eating themselves. The death of the record. The record of the time. Visitors are encouraged to unglue Tetine's cds from the wall and take them home!

FILE UNDER:
SALE / DAMAGED GOODS / FOR FREE / FOR LIFE / MADE IN BRAZIL / MADE-MADE-MADE / DO IT YOURSELF BEFORE ITS DONE TO YOU /

MADE IN CHINA / PRINTED IN THE UK / THE ANTI-BARCODE THEORY

CASH CONVERTERS / ILLEGALITY / TROPICAL PUNK / LICK MY FAVELA

FROM A FOREST NEAR YOU / FUNK CARIOCA / TWISTED SONICS

THE SEXUAL LIFE OF THE SAVAGES / DISPLEACEMENT OF SEXUAL IMPULSES / FOURTH WORLD

BANNER _ TESCO BONDE DO TETAO (not for sale)

BANNER _ TATI (not for sale)

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TETINE:
Tetine are artists/musicians Bruno Verner and Eliete Mejorado. The pair met in 1995 in Brazil while taking part in the local underground art punk scene of São Paulo. Since then they have created a multitude of works from baile funk performances to electronica, spoken word & atonal orchestral music incursions for plays, from experimental radio shows to ritualistic street actions, artist films, installations and independent curatorial projects. Bruno and Eliete have carved an unusual artistic path constantly exploring the boundaries between music, art, video and performance. They have made a series of ritualistic performances and have extensively exhibited art films and video throughout Europe and South America. The duo’s live events range from rock gigs to gallery installations; from opening ‘Tropicalia – A Revolution in Brazilian Culture’ exhibition at the Barbican Centre in London to numerous art performances for galleries, museums, art spaces, cinemas and festivals around the world. Actions were shown from Paris (Palais de Tokyo), to Chicago (The Wire’s Adventures in Modern Music Festival) and Sonar including live performances at Museu Serralves in Porto, A Foundation, Liverpool Biennal, Hebbel Am Ufer in Berlin, Whitechapel Gallery, Frankfurter Kunstverein, National Museum of Contemporary Art of Norway, Sternessen Museum amongst many others.

A wild mix-up of Punk-Funk/NewWave/Post-Punk/Baile-Bass, Tetine’s music is frequently described as an unconventional mixture of raw punky energy and attitude with musical influences that range from artists such as Throbbing Gristle, Tuxedomoon to Kraftwerk & Can, but also incorporating heavily the more experimental side of Brazilian pop experimentalists such as Rogerio Sganzerla, Helena Ignes, Os Mutantes, Novos Baianos and the Rio Baile Funk scene. Tetine have also been instrumental in bringing the Brazilian underground music scene to the attention of the UK for a number of years. They compiled, presented and mixed the first ever album of Baile Funk outside of Brazil (Slum Dunk Presents Funk Carioca Mixed by Tetine, 2004 released on Mr Bongo Records) as well as an essential primer to early-80s Post-Punk from Sao Paulo, the acclaimed album The Sexual Life of The Savages, released on Soul Jazz Records in 2006). Both these albums have influenced an entire new generation of DJs, beat-makers and music writers around the world. Tetine have also run the Slum Dunk radio show on Resonance Fm 104.4 - pretty much since the station's inception in 2003. On Slum Dunk they broadcast a multitude of obscure and unexpected music from Brazil and beyond – including live interviews with hundreds of special guests, live and improvised sets of other artists and experimental broadcasting.

For complete biography, selected performances, projects and discography please go to: www.tetine.net

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The White Cubicle Toilet Gallery measures 1.40 by 1.40 metres, is located within the Ladies Toilet of the George and Dragon, and works with no budget, staff or boundaries. Since 2005 White Cubicle has been presenting a discerning programme of local and international manifestations as an antidote to London’s sometimes extremely commodified art scene. Past exhibitions have included Deborah Castillo, Gregorio Magnani, Butt Magazine, Federico Herrero, Terence Koh, i-Cabin, Steven Gontarski, Pixis Fanzine/Princess Julia and Hanah, General Idea and avaf, Basso Magazin, Carl Hopgood, Giles Round, Tim Noble and Sue Webster, Superm, (Brian Kenny and Slava Mogutin), Elkin Calderon, Wolfgang Tillmans, Calvin Holbrook/Hate Magazine, Husam el Odeh, Simon Popper, Fur, Dik Fagazine, Rick Castro/Abravanation, Jean Michel Wicker, Noki, Ellen Cantor, Karl Holmqvist, Julie Verhoeven, Aldo Chaparro, Esther Planas, Nikos Pantazopoulos, Luis Venegas, Twinklife, Rocky Alvarez, Benedetto Chirco, STH Magazine, Elmgreen & Dragset, Francesc Ruiz, Sico Carlier, Stefan Benchoam, Thomas Dozol, Marco Rountree, Aleksandra Mir, Cameron Irving, the Hundley twins…

In words of artist Aleksandra Mir "White Cubicle has become the stamp of approval for any self respecting artist of our generation."

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'TUDO E' AN EVENT/EXHIBITION OF BRAZILIAN ART, IMAGE AND MUSIC PROPOSITIONS IN FLORENCE, CURATED BY ANDREA LISSONI AND ALBERTO SALVADORI

Jarbas Lopes, 'Deegraca', 1998, penetrable made of sewn raffia banners used to advertise the 'Bailes Funk'


labyrinthic entrance to Jarbas Lopes' penetrable
 

window cuts in Jarbas' penetrable allow exterior and interior to connect



and raffia strips hang from the ceiling...


Runo Lagomarsino, 'Contratiempos', 2000/10, slideshow of pavement cracks photographed at Oscar Niemeyer's Marquise at Ibirapuera Park in Sao Paulo, the form of the cracks resembles the shape of Brazil or of the South American continent.
http://www.runolagomarsino.com


Paulo Nenflidio, 'Berimbaue Eletrico', 2010, sound sculpture


Cinthia Marcelle and Tiago Maia Machado, 'Buracao Negro', video projection on the floor where air exhalations blow white dust through the surface creating patterns and drawings.
See the video on Vimeo here.


empty room between exhibition rooms, giving pauses and rhythm to the exhibition




Jarbas Lopes, 'Cinema Parado', 2001-2011, two slide projections of drawings made on slides




Tamar Guimaraes, 'Canoas' film, 2010, on the relationship between architecture, power, class, ethnicity, desire and segregation in Brasil


Chelpa Ferro, '100 metros rasos', 2003, 6 video projections of different sound situations, their simultaneous projection creating a concert
http://www.chelpaferro.com.br


non work: peeled painting on the stairs of the exhibition space



Pablo Leon de la Barra, 'Diagrama Bananeiro Tropical', 2010, poster pinned anonymously on bulletin board in the lobby of the exhibition building


I was invited  to the 'Tudo E' event/exhibition to give a talk. I decided to invite a tropical palm I found in the lobby of the motel where we were staying to participate within the talk. In order to arrive to the exhibition, I took the palm for a walk from the motel to the exhibition place. The walk, which was not documented, was an homage to Steve McQueen's film 'Exodus', 1992-97 where McQueen follows two Caribbean men carrying two palms in London; and to Wilfredo Prieto's 'Walk', 2000 where Prieto in his first trip outside Cuba takes a plant on a wheelbarrow for a 5 kms walk.

During the talk, I presented the ideas behind the 'Diagrama Bananeiro Tropical' and the 'Novo Museo Tropical'. I like the idea that I was invited as the only non-brazilian to participate in a Brazilian event, maybe the idea of Brazilianess goes beyond national identity and representation, as an expanded idea of belonging....


As part of the talk I screened a fragment of 'Burden of Dreams' from youtube where Werner Herzog talks about the obscenity of the jungle in the documentary shot by Les Blank during the filming of Fitzcarraldo in the Peruvian Amazons in the early seventies.

As this was a 10pm talk, which was going to be followed by a documentary on funk carioca and then by a performance by Tetine, I thought it would be a good idea to introduce also some music videos between the talk, in order to make the talk less boring for the people that were waiting for the concert, and as a way of pausing between thoughts and ideas, in what curator of the event Andrea Lissoni called a Disco Conference. Here I showed Carmen Miranda's banana fantasia 'The Lady In The Tutti Frutti Hat'.

'Tudo E' curators Alberto Salvadori and Dr. Andrea Lissoni. The 'Tudo E' name of the event/exhibition comes from the song composed by Arto Lindsay for the parade he did in the Venice Biennale 2009 which was organized by Lissoni.


Chelpa Ferro giving a sounds concert


Tetine's Eliete Mejorado, a diva possessed by tropical funk


Tetine's Bruno Mejorado inside Jarbas penetrable where they played live, the performance a recreation of a collaborative work that Tetine and Jarbas had done together at Gasworks, in London in 2003 within the exhibition Gambiarra. You can see documentation of that performance here and here. That time in 2003 was the first time I saw Tetine perform, since then we have collaborated in different occasions, like the time I invited them to perform at Palais de Tokyo for the launch of an issue of Pablo Magazine, where they first played the song Lick my Favela which was inspired by conversations we had at the time.
http://www.chelpaferro.com.br


curator Francesco Bonami after entering Jarbas penetrable


Tetine played inside Jarbas penetrable, which was transformed into a breathing cube that sings, a penetrable that becomes alive,  a malleable giant speaker...



the boys from Chelpa Ferro taking the palm for a dance...


and then bringing the palm inside the penetrable!




Tetine and Jarbas playing live inside the penetrable


Press Release:
Guest Nation Brazil…Tudo è
Chelpa Ferro, Tamar Guimaraes, Jarbas Lopes, Runo Lagomarsino, Cinthia Marcelle & Tiago Mata Machado, Paulo Nenflidio, Distruktur, Maga Bo, Siri, Tetine & Jarbas Lopes, Nado Leal, Pablo Leon de la Barra, Wesley Pentz aka Diplo & Leandro HBL, Clarissa Campolina, Guto Parente, Thiago Rocha Pitta, Amilcar Packar
curated by Alberto Salvadori and Andrea Lissoni

From Tuesday 14 to Thursday 16 June the former Esattoria della Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze, will host the contemporary art project curated by Alberto Salvadori and Andrea Lissoni and produced by Fondazione Pitti Discovery together with the Osservatorio per le Arti Contemporanee dell’Ente Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze. Tudo è based on the visual arts, music, film and performances will present an ideal vision of a country—Brazil—that embodies the continuity of tradition and the roots of South American modernism, and the most contemporary forms of esthetic expression, and is capable of combining today’s new creativity. “It will be like a prè-sal (the sub-salt layer beneath the ocean that contains the huge oil and natural gas deposits that have been the symbol of Brazil’s growth over the past two years)”, say the curators Alberto Salvadori and Andrea Lissoni, “a place where there are multitudes of multiple talents; the wealth of a country which with speed, an awareness of its resources and faith in the present, is aiming towards a truly better future—a fantastic place that Italy still has to get to know fully.”

For four days, artists such as Runo Lagomarsino, Jarbas, Pablo Nenflidio, Cinthia Marcelle, the “unclassifiable” visual artists and musicians like Chelpa Ferro, musicians such as Siri and also DJs and producers like Nado Leal and the famous duo Tetine will unveil a growing world of thoughts and desires bringing Florence and Brazil together and generating an original mixture where freedom of thought, of expression, of imagination will be the fulcrum of the Guest Nation Brazil project.

Guest Nation Brazil…Tudo è
14–16 June 2011
every day from 7.00pm to 2.00am
Via del Castellaccio 12 – Firenze
www.pittimmagine.com