Generation 2000 against total chaos (part 2)

- So how did it start?
- Five people were studying at Lage Park late in 2003: Ana Sarmento, Cristina Amiran, Gê Pinheiro, Khalil Charif, and Marcelo Moraes. They had already been in a group show there that year, called Cada Um Dois: original ou cópia. That means Each One Two: original or copy. Then they had this idea of doing a show that mapped the next generation of art. 2004 marked the 20th anniversary of Como Vai Você Geração 80 (How Are You Eighties Generation), and as soon as they took the idea to their teachers and the Director of the School, it switched into overdrive!
- How was that?
- I don't know, but they went around asking people to indicate artists, and it ended up with more than one hundred and forty, or something like that! In numbers, that is the biggest exhibiton ever to happen there! And the three thousand people showing up at the opening! Some works almost got crushed by the drunken mob! Jamming human traffic, man! The name of the thing was POSIÇÃO 2004 (2004 POSITION)! It eventually became a five-day colective action WITHOUT CURATORS! The artists were simply told to show whatever they wanted! No one was going to tell them what part of their work was "their best" or something! Within some space limitations, it was a total freak out! There was even this anonymous butt print directly applied on the wall of the basement, with black acrylic paint or wathever! Somewhere else, an old diminute graffitti read, pointing to a small X: There is no art here! It was all some kind of time warp climax between two rather non-linear moments in Rio history: before and after those Full Unfathomable Five Days! Here were some guys trying to surf the chaos of The War On Terror, like some Zen master changing the world by doing nothing to that effect!
- Waiter! I want a shot of the same drink this man is having! Make it a double one!