Re: <nettime> Eating Brasil

["Ronaldo Bressane" <texto@revistaa.com.br>]

Excuse me my brother h.d.mabuse, but, in spite of the Northeastearn
culture [Recife, Salvador, São Luís] be much more complex and "original"
than all the rest of Brazilian culture - specially the Rio de
Janeiro-São Paulo axis -, SP is very far of being a "dead cultural
city", as u said. 

It´s true that SP, the richest city of the South hemisphere, there are a
majority of cultural consumers. People that don´t produce art - just buy
it. But - and, as an artist, you know that - in the underground and in
the periphery is growing NOW a quite unusual, disorganized and
non-linear artistic movement - take a look at the hip hop bands,
graffitti action groups, litterary magazines and art fanzines, and many
many lonely artists that are using the Net as basis for their aesthetic
experiments. 

What I think that in SP is impossible to happen is an organized art
movement, like the São Paulo´s Modern Art Week in the 20´s, or like the
Recife´s Manguebeat in the 90´s, just because of the greatness and
richness of this city - surrounded by a extremely poor periphery -,
passionated by its own navel.

But me and George Orwell [and, of course, Chico Science and Mano Brown]
agree with you: "if there is hope, it rests on the periphery" [1984].

abraço,

Ronaldo Bressane
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    De: h.d.mabuse <mabuse@manguebit.org.br>
    Para: nettime-l@bbs.thing.net <nettime-l@bbs.thing.net>
    Data: Quarta-feira, 1 de Março de 2000 16:51
    Assunto: Re: <nettime> Eating Brasil
    
    
    Sao Paulo may be a curious city to think about, certainly is a
    terrible city to live in and anyway is a dead cultural
    city, with no culture of its own. Lending its cultural phenomenous
    from the other places of Brazil (take a look at the last 20 years of
    Brasilian music, for an example).
    
    Like Fred Zero Quatro said:
    
    "Don't expect nothing from the downtown /
    if the periphery is deceased /
    What was old in the north /
    becomes new in the South"
    
    > 1. São Paulo is a world city and Brazil is its hinterland.
    
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