from a letter to my father

A vida é o presente encontrado no instante.
(Life is the present found in the instant)
(Or something like that)
Um dia tudo isso será sonho

pinel

inside

Generation 2000 against total chaos (part 25)

- Tell us about Cleantho Viana at Posição 2004.
- His work was fun like a terror movie. It was outside, under one of the open-air verandas. It was a greysh white carcass made of bamboo or something. It looked like a human-shaped phanthom lying on the floor, with snakes or giant worms coming out of it. As you came closer, you noticed the snakes were like vertebral columns made of light brown wood. Bamboo, I was told. He does this green-friendly bamboo stuff, aside from photos and videos and other things. Anyway, it was weird fun awaiting you as you approached the building to enter the art show. It was far enough to scare you for a split second. Then you realised it was not moving, so you felt safe enough to check it out. He used the perfect spot for it.

explained at last

The real reason is not money. People get jobs so they can tell their Mom and/or Dad that, even though they are loving the conversation, they must be off to work.

Baseball bat effect

- Some angry fans might come after you with baseball bats after that last post!
- But I love the Ramones! Their fans should be able to take a joke! If not, they'd better bring their firearms and know how to use them things! Just in case!

GABBA GABBA GAY

Cabrones: Their Big Hits
GLBTTFS Records
1. Dickfreak Bop
2. Eat on, You Brat
3. Judy Eat Me Spunk
4. I Wanna Kiss Your Boyfriend
5. Chain Fuck
6. Now I Wanna Sniff Some Smegma
7. I Don't Wanna Go Down In the Basement
8. Largemouth
9. Banana Affair
10. Listen to My Dick
11. 53rd Eat Turd
12. Let's Bend
13. I Don't Wanna Fuck Around With You
14. Today Your Glove, Tomorrow Your Wipe

Generation 2000 against total chaos (part 24)

- What about Aimberê Cesar at Posição 2004?
- He was the Master Without Ceremony of TV Zona, which translates as Chaos or Mess TV. That was one of the collective performances inside the empty pool that was occupied by bobN and his guests. I've read about his Zen-Nudism philosophy and thought it very progressive. And I've seen some of his works elsewhere, and liked them a lot. As for that specific day in the pool, all I can remember is mixed images. I believe they held a pic-nic breakfast, but maybe I'm just confused about the groups and days. People were selling art objects and doing poetry shows and performances. Maybe it's not new, but it certainly felt like they were being true to themselves. Like the performances were just a little exaggeration of their perceived true selves.

I swear I saw her underpants

- It was just a split second of this mad latina dancer show in the middle of DOWN ARGENTINE WAY, but I swear I saw her panties!
- I'm sure you did! Don't worry: it's just Hollywood's way of checking if you're really paying attention to the movie! Like a wake-up call!

Generation 2000 against total chaos (part 23)

- Tell us about Márcio Botner and Pedro Agilson at Posição 2004.
- That was another great one! As you went upstairs to enter the building and see the art show, you saw this naked female ass facing you. There was this naked woman on a short plain white round pedestal facing another pedestal with a computer monitor. The monitor, if I remember it well, showed a video loop of a camera doing a close-up of Botner, with the camera going around his head, so you could see him the same way you could face the model's face from various angles, for there was enough space between the pedestals for people to wander. She was a very brave lady, standing there naked in front of a huge crowd, staring mostly at her "twin" moving electronic image. I mean: some 3 thousand people passed through the entrance and saw her that night! Later, Botner draw a line around her feet, to sort of mark where she stood, and the pedestal was empty for the remaining days of the show. Now, I can't say I know what Botner and Agilson meant with this piece. But it was remarkable in its stark and simple arrangement. And I liked her brown hair and short haircut very much, and found her ass quite beautiful.

Grindhouse scandal

- Jeovah fuck! Look at this! This new movie, GRINDHOUSE, is supposed to be made of two films and four fake trailers, like a grindhouse double feature. Now I hear they are going to show the movies separately in most countries outside the United States! Let an army of day-glo pink well-hung Krishnas come down from Heaven and fuck their dead in the ass! People should have at least the chance to choose the version they want to see! But no, they won't give them any chance at choosing! And then they will get pissed when the young crackers steal their movie and show it for free all over the web, in its unadultered version! Nice business strategy, guys! This is surely gonna land you a box office hit!
- Maybe some of their dead actually like it in the ass! It's pretty nice, if the man or woman giving it to you really knows how to do it!

Generation 2000 against total chaos (part 22)

- And what did Claudio Montagna show at Posição 2004?
- This big collage picture of a headless naked man. Life-size, if I remember it well. It was all made of pieces of small color pictures of corresponding body parts. Small feet forming the feet, small legs forming the legs, and so on. And the crotch part was this beautiful chaotic round mandala of penises. I loved it!

Rio name game

- What were the names on the blisters you you saw lying on the side street?
- The morphine sulphate 30 mg was called Dimorf. The 5 mg laxative I could not read clearly, but I believe it was Lactopurga, or something like that.

Generation 2000 against total chaos (part 21)

- What did Bernardo Damasceno show at Posição 2004?
- A miniature green park bench, like the ones they have in Lage Park. Made of painted matches, standing on a plain white pedestal. He called it UM BOM LUGAR. That means A GOOD PLACE. I think he was trying to make us pay attention to the bigger picture. There was the art show happening in and around the bulding, and then there was the larger circle of the park itself, like a beautiful sensorial background engulfing it all.

bad junkie and good junkie

At the side street today, I saw this: an empty blister pack for 30 mg tablets. 10 tablets total. Morphine sulphate. And then I saw another one. This time a sixer blister for what looked like 5mg doses of a common laxative. I wrote it down while kneeled in broad daylight. It was early and deserted. Now they are gone. The rest of the litter remains. So maybe someone saw me. Maybe it was just someone with cancer. Maybe some nice junkie. If it was a bad junkie, I'm glad I got this written in here. I love Rio in the Fall.

This comment DEFINITELY contains SPOILERS

I liked CAIXA DOIS even more because, in the end, the guys that were not the ones who started the money laundering or whatever it was, the poor ones, they got the millions. It is a movie, so there's no need to make them absolutely honest heroes. And I liked MEET THE ROBINSONS even more, because i just love this freaky joyful sexless workaholic stuff that some american movies sell! If you are in a kinky mood, you can always tell yourself that they are all closet fetishists. You can even imagine they are out there having some deliciously weird sex in some alternative universe version of the movie! Just don't tell me anything unless I ask you! In fact, don't even talk, unless you're spoken to! Do you understand? Good!

KILL ALL DICTATORS

- You must remember that the right to life is a human right.
- OK, so lock up all dictators for the rest of their lives! If you think that's more humane than facing the firing squad, so be it!

Generation 2000 against total chaos (part 20)

- What about André Makarenko's work at Posição 2004?
- This one I watched quite a few times! I can't say I understand it, but I loved some of the images! And the colors! I don't care if it has been done before! And even if you prove it to me that his politics are clearly stated and highly questionable, it was a fun time watching his couple of strange collages of images! I mean: I hate nazism! But I can appreciate the genius of propaganda movies like Triumph of the Will and Olympia!
- You think Makarenko is a nazi?
- No, I don't think he's a nazi! I'm just saying that, if I ever find out some totalitarian inclinations in him, I still will remember those videos as fun!

Weirdos 98

Psychosoft: where do you want to grope today?

Asshole Computers Inc.

Stink Different

AFERCROMBIE

AND BITCH

Code boys check this please

Entrei num bonde e esporrei na manivela
O trocador filho da puta me jogou pela janela
Caí de lado com o caralho esborrachado
Uma neguinha bem nuinha me levou pro delegado
O delegado tinha cara de viado e um jeito de urubu
Mandei tomar no cu

Generation 2000 against total chaos (part 19)

- The complete list of artists at Posição 2004? Man, they have this at the EAV site! And it's gonna like totally suck to read!
- First of all, this is the ENGLISH translation of the list! And even the Bible has some boring parts, and it's been a best-seller for ages! So here it goes: Adriana Heemann, Adriano, Aimberê Cesar, Alberto Saraiva, Alexandre Ferreira, Alexandre Sá, Alexandre Vogler, Alice Miceli, Amália Giacomini, Ana Angélica, Ana Biolchini, Ana Holck, Ana Paula Andrade, Ana Sarmento, Ana Torres, André Alvim, André Makarenko, André Sheik, Andréa Facchini, Andreia Carvalho, Anik Meijer-Werner, Anna Braga, Arjan Martins, Baby Bittencourt, Bernardo Damasceno, Bernardo Pinheiro, Beatriz Petrus, Beth Ferrante, bobN, Bruno Castelo, Bruno de Carvalho, Carla Zaccagnini, Carlos Eduardo Cinelli, Chico Fernandes, Christian Caselli, Cinthia Marcelle, Clarisse Tarran, Claudia Hersz, Claudio Montagna, Cleantho Viana, Cleone Augusto, Cristina Amiran, Cristina de Pádula, Daisy Xavier, Dana, Daniela Fortes, Daniela Mattos, Daniel Biulchi, Daniel Lannes, Daniel Toledo, Deborah Engel, Deborah Levys Epstein, Diana Osward, Domingos Guimarães, Ducha, Edna Kauss, Eduardo Berliner, Eduardo Mariz, Eduardo Costa, Elisa de Magalhães, Felipe Barbosa, Fernando de La Rocque, Florence Belfort, Franz Manata, Gabriel Fonseca, Gabriela Noujaim, Gê Pinheiro, Geraldo Marcolini, Guga, Guido Lobato, Gustavo Oliveira, Gustavo Prado, Heleno Bernardi, Isabella Marinho, Isadora Bonder, Ivana Martinez Vollaro, Ivani Pedrosa, Jacqueline Siano, Jacqueline Vojta, Jaya Pravaz, Joana Traub Csekö, João Mansur Anache, Julia Limaverde, Julia Traub Csekö, Júlio Rodrigues, Khalil Charif, Laura Burnier, Laura Lima, Leila Amaral, Leodgard, Leonardo Videla, Lucas Weglinski, Lucia Laguna, Luciana Duque, Luis Andrade, Luiz Lopez, Mabel Spinola, Maíra Ribas, Marcelo Lins, Marcelo Moraes, Márcia Lisboa, Márcio Botner e Pedro Agilson, Marcio Ramalho, Marco Antonio Portela, Maria Nepomuceno, Mariana Leal, Mariana Manhães, Marilá Dardot, Marina Kosovski, Marta Santiago, Matheus Perpétuo, Mauro Espíndola, Maya Inbar, Miri Felix, Miriam Pech, Moana Mayall, Nadam Guerra, Natalia Warth, Ni da Costa, Nice França, Nicholas Martins, Paula Erber, PaulaGabriela, Pedro França, Pedro Meyer, Pedro Seiblitz, Rachel Castro, Raíssa, Regina Marconi, Renata Lucas, Rosa Oliveira, Rosana Ricalde, Roselane Pessoa, Ricardo Maia, Romano, Ronaldo Lyrio, Sami Khozam, Sandra Schechtman, Sara Ramo, Silvia D, Sonia Meilman, Sueli Araujo, Tânia Bonin, Tania Queiroz, Tatiana Blass, Tereza Costa, Thiago Rocha Pitta, Tiago Porto, Tissa Valverde, Tomás Ribas, Victor Haim, Willy Reuter, Zelia Villar, Zúñiga, and the Groups: Em que Posição você se encontrava em 1994? [What was your position in 1994?], TV Zona (colaboração Guga Ferraz, Yoav Passy, Maurição e outros) [with colaborations from Guga Ferraz, Yoav Passy, Maurição and others], Grupo Um, Círculo do Sol (org. Ane Vilete, Camila Soares e Lívia Diniz), and Edifício Galaxi.

Please have the code boys check this

[Educational Project]
Tomei um avião pra Santa Catarina
No meio da viagem acabou a gasolina
Pulei de pára-quedas, pára-quedas não abriu
Mandei o fabricante para fora do Brasil
No meio do caminho encontrei um urubu
Tomando Coca-cola e arrotando pelo
Coelhinho, se eu fosse como tu
Tirava a mão do bolso e botava a mão no
Colete de alfaiate é uma roupa de manga curta
Diga ao seu colega que ele é um grande filho da
Pudera eu ser casado com uma boa pra chuchu
Depois do casamento eu botava no seu
Coelhinho, se eu fosse como tu
Tirava a mão do bolso e botava no outro bolso

Generation 2000 against total chaos (part 18)

- What about Pedro França in Posição 2004?
- Well, I hope he has got some pictures of his installation, man! There was at least one that ended up in Jornal do Brasil the next friday. He got this room in the basement, with raw concrete serving as a floor, if I remember it well. What he did was building this shady ambient with an old and small round table, two chairs, and an old teapot, and two teacups. It was all empty, like some darkened stage or time warp you just stepped into without any warning. And then it felt funny, like you were backstage to the art show. Kind of puzzling and warm. Whatever it was, I liked the feeling.

KISSY

PHOUDA

Picture of one human about to

kiss another human in the anus. The caption reads as if he or she is singing: Por onde for quero te chupar!

eccentric funny coverage area

The coverage area of my cell phone is flaky, like sometimes it goes out simply because I went under an UMBRELLA!

Generation 2000 against total chaos (part 17)

- Tell us about what Tatiana Blass showed at the Posição 2004 art show!
- I remember the paintings looked very tasty! And I think one of them bled into the wall as colored adhesive plastic! We call it contact paper in Brazil, because of a brand called Con-tact. Anyway, I simply loved the colors and shapes! Like some dreamy abstractions. And they were small canvasses! That impressed me very much in a quite favorable way! I was very pleased!

dick-titted woman

She's a dick-titted woman: her nipples feel as good to her as the head of my cock when receiving a full wet kiss. And I love to kiss her tits!

Generation 2000 against total chaos (part 16)

- What about the Suzana Queiroga show, at the nearby Cavalariças, inside Lage Park? How do you relate it to the Posição 2004 art show?
- A beautiful counterpoint! In fact, it was so beautiful I wanted to eat her art! I like it when an art object does this to me, you know? Gives me this nonsensical hunger for beatifully processed minerals!

happy go lucky!

- Your book "Capitalist, YEAH!" ["Capitalista, sim!" in portuguese] looks pretty much like the work of a closet liberal, when it ends up saying that human lives are our most valuable capital.
- Well, I was dancing drunk inside this gay-friendly nightclub in Rio, when I saw this guy with a T-shirt that had that famous Che Guevara face, but with the red star replaced by those golden arches that fast-food lovers from all over the planet recognize instantly. I had to laugh and comment, and he said he liked the scandal it provoked on liberals, and I ended up saying something like: if not capitalist, forget it! Then I went home to get some absurd amount of coffee in my brain, and wrote the book in a few freaked out days of pure bliss! Anyway, my next book will be called ASSASSINATO SEGUIDO DE ESTUPRO, which means HOMICIDE FOLLOWED BY RAPE, and will be just as happy go lucky!

Generation 2000 against total chaos (part 15)

- What can you tell us about Heleno Bernardi's work at Posição 2004?
- I liked it a lot, this big photograph of a head that looked like it had lost its skin and eyes and was nothing more than pink and red chaos. I think he used bubblegum. Anyway, it had that mixed feeling of horror and fun to it!

beautiful red shoes

- I'm gonna kill myself!
- Before you do it, be sure to leave those beautiful bright red running shoes of yours outside your door, will ya? I'm picking them up on my way to the bear party! And say "hi" to Jesus for me on the other side!

Happy Hare

Well, I understand this guy John Locke said
That if the Government steals your bread
And tries to make you a slave to the Crown
You have the right to shoot it down

As for me, I'm a happy hare
In other words: I'm too drunk to care!
Yeah!

Generation 2000 against total chaos (part 14)

- Please try and tell us what you do remember about your éramos 3 group show inside the Posição 2004 group show!
- OK. Ana Sarmento did this picture of two or three wine glasses over a white tablecloth. I believe one of them was broken, and the red wine was spilled. It just hit my soul, man, the way she did it. Maybe it was too subtle for others, and even for herself to notice what she had accomplished. But it really did it for me! As for Cristina Amiran, that was lots of fun to help her by being the models for her photos, and the final wall objects with the photos were probably the most successful in doing the BRIDGE thing that was supposed to link our individual works. They were also yummy, and I love the chaos math analogy! Gê Pinheiro did this floor installation with these monochrome beige small children figures that are used by catholic believers to thank the saints for saving their children's lives. She made them flock up into this wall, except for one or two that looked the other way, like they were awakening from the collective conformity trance or something. I think her work was the best when you think about straight up communication with the general public, and that's a certain plus with me! And Khalil did this kind of manifesto that he ended up typing into this bakery paper that is used in Brazil to wrap that french bread, you know? Just go to any bakery and you will find it! it is also used to wrap ham, cheese, and stuff like that, once you slice them up and wrap 'em in plastic, so it is like the outer face of what is really basic survival inside. I think Khalil really hit the nail in the head, if you can open your mind to the war situation I've already mentioned, you know? It is really about the survival both of our collective and individual minds during a planet-wide war! I'm not being dramatic, just pointing it out! I am sure the next generations won't let us use this war thing as an excuse for anything, and that's fine with me!

What is this Róquenrêia aê, carái! thing

Dear Agent Orange,
Please have the code guys check this Róquenrêia aê, carái! thing.
Kind regards,
Agent Green

Generation 2000 against total chaos (part 13)

- So, tell us about the photo that Ana Sarmento showed at the Posição 2004 art show!
- Now, listen! I will give you the e-mails, so you can check with Ana, and Cristina Amiran, and Gê Pinheiro, and Khalil Charif, for I have given them texts I have written about their works. They didn't ask me to do it, and were pleasantly surprised, so I believe they still have them. All I have today is my memories of almost 3 years!

Check this sessão do escargot thing

Dear Agent Orange,
Please have the code guys check this:
IGREJA UNIVERSAL DO RANGO DE DEUS: Sessão do Escargot todo sábado 18h.
Kind regards,
Agent Green

Check this maioridade fodal thing

Dear Agent Orange,
Please have the code guys check this:
LULA QUER REDUZIR MAIORIDADE FODAL
Presidente afirma: Quem pode com a nossa paciência de pais e mães do brasil, pode com a Justiça, e tem que responder pelos seus atos obscuros e inconfessáveis. Lula disse ainda que vai lutar para reduzir a maioridade fodal para 2 anos.
Kind regards,
Agent Green

Check this dada-something

Dear Agent Orange,
Please have the code guys check this piece of info we tracked:
Dada é o que há! =) Tudo bem que ficou marcado como um movimento de reação ao horror da primeira guerra mundial. Mas, pra mim, o importante é a frase que um deles disse: NENHUM SISTEMA TAMBÉM É UM SISTEMA, MAS É O MELHOR QUE HÁ. Se hoje podemos fazer praticamente qualquer coisa na arte, devemos muito a este grupo de palhaços que brincaram de quebrar todas as regras.
Kind regards,
Agent Green

Groovy, baby!

Dear Agent Green,
I'm kind of concerned about my act. Doing coke traffic and sniffing with the guys is getting to be too much fun for me! Motherfuckwhore turned out to be a club that I was taken to while blindfolded, and it is way out fun! Like people are getting REALLY stoned and all! My secret GPS located it somewhere underground in Leblon. I will give you a full report about it, as soon as I manage to come down and get some proper sleep.
Kind regards,
Agent Orange

Generation 2000 against total chaos (part 12)

- Tell us some more about Silvia D and her Funk C drawing!
- No way! YOU go and find her online or something! Maybe I'm a deluded fool, but I don't think she wants that much publicity!
- What about Gustavo Prado?
- Man, I don't pretend that I know what he meant! I just enjoyed the environment he built! I just went there over and over to enjoy its pure sensorial impact on me! You just go to Rio's MAM and ask Franz Manata to give you his phone number! And, while you're at it, ask Franz about his piece at the show! It was right at the entrance of Posição 2004! It looked just like one of those airport metal detectors, but it had a blinking red-letter sign over the passage that looked like it spelled EXIT, but in fact it says EXST! Now, THAT'S some great stuff, man! Subtle and in-your-face at the same time! Just ask for a silent minute to look at the pictures of it, before he tells you all about it! Let the silence of the photos hit your mind!

Subject: Motherfuckwhore

Dear Agent Green,
Motherfuckwhore seems to be the name of an underground disco in Rio de Janeiro. We are investigating it carefully, for they only use word of mouth publicity. We are going to be deeply undercover here.
Kind regards,
Agent Orange

Generation 2000 against total chaos (part 11)

- Did you hear about people having sex while hidden inside the Posição 2004 art show?
- I guess they were using ball gags, for I didn't hear a single moan!

have a nice week

Dear Agent Green,
The following looks like a joke about spam:
QUEBRE esta corrente!
Se você passar adiante isto aqui, ou não, vai TER SORTE DO MESMO JEITO!
Não existem relatos confirmando ou desmentindo a frase anterior! Tenha uma boa semana!
We are still investigating.
Kind regards,
Agent Orange

Generation 2000 against total chaos (part 10)

- What about the rumours that some video equipment were stolen at the last day of Posição 2004, at an hour when there were fewer people visiting the show?
- There is no police record of this.

What MANOCROMO means

Dear Agent Green,
MANO means brother, and is used by black people in São Paulo and elsewhere, as black people in the United States use the words MAN, BROTHER, or NIGGA. MONOCROMO means monochrome. So, MANOCROMO is MANO+MONOCROMO. It is supposed to be an ironic protest against racist black people, as well as against the oppression that black people suffer. I believe the artist is just another harmless pacifist cry-baby drunkard. The idea is nice, but too subtle, in my opinion. Anyway, he seems to be on our side, favoring capitalism with a human face. Not a target.
Kind regards,
Agent Orange

Generation 2000 against total chaos (part 9)

- We understand that, during Posição 2004, a teacher was told by one of the artists to fuck off, when she complained about a man selling beer inside the empty pool.
- I've heard that one. Didn't see it happen, though. It was not bobN, but one of his guests. I'm not naming the guy, but I noticed how drunk he was, and I believe it did happen. That was not nice of him, but I understand wartime art can get pretty edgy. I am glad the teacher did not respond by punching his nose in.
- Aren't you taking too far this World Trade War thing? I mean, Brazilian troops are nowhere near Iraq! And there's been no terrorist attacks inside Brazilian territory!
- Well, this war is planet wide, man! Of course I know things are much hairier in Iraq and some other places! But I believe terrorist bombings could happen in Brazil! We have poor people with little hope for the future! And we have fundamentalism! Don't forget that some Brazilians really believed, back in the nineteen-sixties, that they could start a civil war, overthrow the Military Dictatorship, and build a Communist Dictatorship! Yeah, right! Like it was feasible, and would make a GREAT difference to change FROM ONE CRAP TO ANOTHER! Stupid ideas translate into stupid action here, in the Land of the Samba, too, you know? I just hope we are getting too smart for that kind of shit! But things COULD become much weirder in Brazil, believe me! I'm sorry to say that, but it really doesn't seem too far-fetched! I just pray that the over-optimistic are proven right!

miniature swamp

After a series of orgasms, I had to stop, because I felt a pressure from inside my ass. Even before I took the dildo out, I was farting out some huge amount of air that I had just put inside my bowels with my bobbing up and down. It didn't smell, and I don't know why. Then I went potty in my hand, as I took the dildo out while sitting on the toilet. It was some strange warm sticky feeling betweem my hand and ass. I looked at the stuff, which, sure enough, looked and felt like warm chocolate. But the smell would fool no one! So I put my hand down the toilet and flushed away. The water went brown like a miniature swamp.

Generation 2000 against total chaos (part 8)

- We understand that some people were on the verge of starting a fight during the Orquestra Galaxi show, at the last day of Posição 2004.
- Yeah, I guess some people were upset because they were too loud, and the music was quite chaotic! A girl I won't name said it was Zoo Jazz, you know? Playing like mindless animals! I think they were just banging away, like fuck-all, which is great fun, but can be very annoying for most people! I liked it, but, on the same style, I think the Velvet Underground did a better job with European Son. Anyway, bobN used the empty pool to show some of his art, and invited different artists to use the space each day, during Posição 2004. So I guess the whole thing was supposed to be some sort of fringe art invasion, and I am happy to say that no bones were broken, and no one died! And no one had to worry about the police, for it all happened at an earlier hour, and there was no breaking of silence laws, either!
- So, are you buying any of their albums?
- I don't know that they have any! But, if they do, I would try to listen to it!

still having

They complain of years to come
They are just like anyone
Everywhere around the sun
People are still having fun

Generation 2000 against total chaos (part 7)

- Well, Marcelo, this Posição 2004 art show looks like an attempt to ressurect Dadaism!
- Oh! I see. That would be fine with me, except for the fact that Dadaism is not dead! Art movements don't die! They simply change names and addresses, or fall asleep for some years! Even Dadaism was really Nonsense with a new name and some different intentions. We could say we were some sort of dadaists for the War on Terrorism, but I doubt some of the artists involved at Posição 2004 would buy that label. Then again, we could say that NOT BUYING the idea is BEING PART OF IT, TOO, just like some dadaist from 1916 would say! And also: I suppose we were also hoping to make some money! You see, we are very optimistic, most of us!
- I should think this self-mocking would not be bought by every artist that was there, either!
- Right! But Brazil is a free country, and they are free to hate my jokes, as long as they do it in a peaceful way!

Ice cream cum

I understand Rio is supposed to be very violent nowadays, but I am not about to give you an answer to that problem, and not having an answer makes me go out and drink an DANCE ME HEAD OFF!
I was drunk. Wasn't really hitting on her. Just talking away with anyone, really! OK, there was a couple of guys, and maybe one or two girls there that I would snog. I ended up with a quick kiss from this friend. By then, I think she understood and set off to get some other guy to nail her. My friend also danced while hugging me for a few minutes. I think I would have liked some more kissing, but the music was so good, I was feeling pretty fine later on at the nearest open bakery.
I fell asleep unwashed, then woke up in a hurry to go get some stuff done outside, without shades, A GREAT BIG SUNNY SATURDAY MORNING IN RIO, and I'm not complaining: I like the sun, as long as I can get some fresh air at the nearest shopping center. I had lunch with this couple I know, and fell asleep at their sofa, as they were getting dressed for some social occasion. They gave me a ride home on their way to a less lunatic party. May the Gods give you a long and happy life!

Generation 2000 against total chaos (part 6)

- How do you guys from éramos 3 group situate the Posição 2004 art show in terms of contemporary art theory?
- Once again: this here is Marcelo, and I can't pretend to represent I speak for the group! They might have a different opinion! I myself think it of it as a collective action started by us, that got way out of hand, but was protected by the gods or something! Some people were quite out of their minds at various moments, and we are lucky that no one was hurt!
- Can you be more specific?
- Not about the altered states! No names, please!
- About the collective action, then! Isn't this to much of an old and dead thing from the sixties or seventies?
- Sure! This is not 1965! But we have to deal with the ghosts of Warhol, Beuys, Oiticica and others! And the shadows of Bridget Riley, Gunther von Hagens, Romero Britto, Chris Burden, and Jeff Koons! I think we did a pretty good job of taking the opportunity we had, and used the space of Lage Park Art School to a very good effect! Then again: what will survive, except for some individual works, will be the memories of the event itself! For those who were open to it, I am sure it was a rush of fresh air! A dance of hearts and minds!
- What individual works?
- Well, my favorites were Gustavo Prado's fluorescent light installation downstairs, and this wildly humorous drawing called "Funk C", or something like that, by Silvia D, you know? The one with the masochistic viet cong! Talk about chutzpah!

for me to watch

- Have you seen the photos of Britney Spears with her head shaved?
- Yeah, but that's too hot for me to watch!

Generation 2000 against total chaos (part 5)

- Can you tell us why the art show was called POSIÇÃO 2004? Was this supposed to be some collective political stance?
- Well, I believe the original idea of us from éramos 3 was that the show should be as aesthetically varied as possible, like a map of all tendencies at the year 2004! So that's why we called it what would be translated as POSITION 2004! Like saying: this is where we are TODAY! As it evolved, it turned out to be a curator-free show, where the artists themselves chose what they were showing! I don't think there was any unified political view! We were just hoping that expressing ourselves would help the planet, I guess, but even that is not completely certain! I can't swear every single artist was optimistic! I'm sure I was and still am! The way I see it, we were trying to make some sense of a world gone mad! We can't ignore the fact that we were at the beginning of the World Trade War that started with the 9/11 terrorist attacks! It's almost 3 years later, and public opinion seems to have changed, specially in the United States! Back in 2004, it was like: WHAT'S GOING ON? WHAT CAN WE DO? Well, in my humble opinion, we did what Keith Richards once said was all the Rolling Stones could do: Keep on rockin' and hope for the best! I believe it was the Disco Era when he said that! Maybe we are still trying to get out of that crazy oil crisis, you know? I hope we don't destroy the human race in the process of trying to save the planet! Anyway, whatever happens next, I sure hope you are having some fun at least fifteen minutes every day, man! In the end, it might well be all you have, except for your inner core of hope!

time to have fun

death might come in a flash, my friend
it don't matter if you're old or young
you won't have any time to repent
for not taking any time to have fun

Generation 2000 against total chaos (part 4)

- Please state your name and your part in the art show POSIÇÃO 2004!
- My name is Marcelo Moraes, and I did the upside down casserole with a pink handle! It's called BRIDGE, because each one of us at éramos 3 group was supposed to do something called BRIDGE! That would be a bridge between our works, as we were the bridge between the artists and the Lage Park School! So yes, I was also one of the guys and girls organizing the thing! And also, I can't swear I know what I am talking about! You can go to Lage Park School's website and check the photo of my object! It is easy to find it, for the pink handle really pops at you! As for the explanation of our work, you better check with them others! Mine started with the pink handle against the silver of the casserole, and was meant to be unusual! Hope you have fun! I sure did! Those five days were some of the best in my life!

what pica jumencial means

Dear Agent Green,
My research on PICA JUMENCIAL indicates it could be translated as DONKEYISH DICK. That expression would mean a very big penis.
That's all for now,
Agent Orange

Generation 2000 against total chaos (part 3)

- OK, when was that Posição 2004?
- The freakening night was the 14th of july, 2004!
- Freakening night?
- Yeah, that was a FREAK OUT OPENING NIGHT, man! Not its official name or intention, but I hear the Director of Lage Park Art School had to scream to get heard when he was forced to intervene and tell the people to turn the damn sound way down or else the Military Club Hotel across the street would see it that the police would do it! I was already home, but I was told that it was turning into a mad drumming happening or something! People were on the verge of channeling spirits or whatever! Fucking crazy, man!

your bum

Had this dream that your tits were dripping red clay that perfectly matched your melting hairdo! I was extracting shit from inside your ass with my own hands, it felt so good! The turds were electric turquoise and bright as the sun! The universe was fat, and then slim as your bum!

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!

down the road apiece

I asked this girl what molecule was that on her tattoo, and she told me it was LSD. I said that was pretty cool. I vaguely thought about doing a vodka bottle in my arm, but that won't happen. The truth is I don't find tattoos sexy at all.

Exuding from the restroom, he kissed me lightly on the lips, as he floated by. I'm not sure I'm his kind of guy, but that was cute.

The black skinhead DJ was really enthused about this party that she was going to miss. She had to play in São Paulo that very same day. She was going to the airport as soon as the party was over. She was told it was OK, for she could catch the next edition of the party, two months down the road.

drug is the love

- Some sort of drawing with a hard liquor bottle and the words: drug is the love!
- Pronoid bliss!

cost in translation

It seems that Vamo CV antes que as melíssia passe fogo em todo mundo means:
Let's meet before the militia shoots us dead. With some playing with the sound of CV, that is the acronym for a drug traffic mafia. And MELÍSSIA is a mispelling of MILÍCIA that seems to have occurred in a note left by some mafia guys after a backlash shooting.
In making fun of a rather grim situation, there seems to be a fundamental belief that democracy will triumph over the menace of social convulsion. It seems advisable NOT to remove the subject.

only after the oscars

- Carnival? No, man! The year in Brazil begins only after the oscars this year! So happy 2007!
- Tongue my nostrils and live forever!

What?! O bloco do eu sorrindo...

- Yeah, it's the Bloco do Eu Sorrindo?
- You mean Sozinho?
- No! Sorrindo! Smiling! In the name of Sagatiba!
- What?
- I asked for a dose of this cachassa! This guy served me a TRIPLE ONE! So jet me God!

Borat goes to Bora Bora

- Really, man! There was this woman behind me in the line, telling someone the movie was called Bora Bora!
- Maybe you were on Candid Camera!
- Azamat Camera is more likely! Anyway, did you see the movie? Did you know the actor that plays Borat is actually jewish? You gotta see it, man! It's bizarre! I laughed so much! It reminded me of Pânico na TV at times! Maybe I'll see it again with you ! Great show, man!

Generation 2000 against total chaos

- Three THOUSAND people were in Lage Park that night, man! I've never seen anything like that!
- That was 2004! You're living in the past!
- No, man! It is here now! That was not some techno party renting the place! People were there for an ART SHOW OPENING! Three thousand people! I don't know if people are talking about it or not, but something changed! My life changed, that's for sure!
- OK, let's talk about it! Where do you want to start?
- With the secrets! Will we ever know whose ass was used as a living stamp to make that anonymous print on the wall downstairs? And how come no one took a death dive into the deeper side of the empty pool? People were so out of it, but no one ended up in the hospital! I really think someone should write a book about this bunch of artists in the middle of an international war, trying to make some sense of this crazy planet! Like trying to see how much chaos is still good for us! It should be called GENERATION 2000 AGAINST TOTAL CHAOS!

Dimple Plan

- I find that Dimple Plan T-shirt very offensive! This band is really trying to make people do something about all the trouble in this crazy planet that people want to ignore!
- But I really AM doing something! Getting drunk makes me mellow enough to stop me from buying a gun and killing all this boring people that love songs with social meanings! In fact it stops me from simply trying to shoot the whole lot of this stupid species that calls itself human! It sound like a pretty good plan, to me!

too much guaraná

- I didn't go to any blocos! Their samba is so uptempo it sounds like frevo, you know? That very agitated sound you get at Recife and Olinda during Carnival!
- You don't like frevo?
- I really LIKE frevo! But it's like fast-paced techno: you end up marching or jumping up and down! Either that, or you must have some pretty good aerobic class training! Which is all good for me, but I prefer slower samba, because then you can do that rebolado swing with your hips that feels so good! Anyway, I guess the drummers are drinking to much açaí, or guaraná, or strong coffee these days! Let them have their fun! But I guess I will start a Gray Power bloco, with some slower samba drumming for old geezers like me to take it to the streets!
- Let's call it Bloco do Centrum Silver!

now

- He took this little action figure of this blond hero standing with his arms folded across its chest and shoved it up his ass. I could see the little feet coming out of his ass as he masturbated himself against the sheets.
- I want to meet him right now!

over the counter sex change

- You've heard about this german boy that became a girl? She's 12!
- Great! Too bad people still need a prescription for sex change! But it will be an over the counter procedure soon enough!

say that you love me or fuck off

- This is really NOT a pick up line, OK? I really think I know you from some place I can't recall.
- Come back when it IS a pick up line!

hero tolerance

- Oh, we have Hero Tolerance in this planet! The people is only too happy to tolerate individuals that try to save the planet, as long as they don't mess to much with business as usual!

salva-divas

- You know Lifeguard? So, it's like Divaguard! Irrespective of what kind of diva you are!
- Well, that T-shirt idea could only come from a divine creature like you at a delightful city like Rio!

really neat

- It's OK! Go ahead and tell me the whole plot!
- Well, the movie starts with this guy hallucinating with bugs all over his body and house, and even his dog. Then we learn he knows these guys who are doing the same drug he abuses. We are in the near future, and there seems to be cameras and microphones hidden most everywhere. The other guys live in this house that belongs to one of them. He is an undercover narc, trying to find the big dealer behind the scene. But he is getting worried that maybe the drug is making him a bit too crazy. He ends up like a zombie, working on a farm, as part of a recovery treatment. There he finds out the same guys who sell treatment are the ones producing the drug. As the movie ends, we are not sure that he knows the meaning of what he found out, but it looks like the secret might end up being accidentally revealed by him to the population. I guess the movie director is against police states, and in favor of drug USE, but wants to point out to us that drug ABUSE can have some very bad effects to our health.
- That sounds nice! And I've heard the animation is really neat!

your nude body

- I saw her two years later, back in my hometown, and by then she was taller than me, which felt horrible. The funny thing is: eventually I married twice, and both of my ex-wives are taller than me. I just found them terrific, which goes to show that being an adolescent was a bit like being an idiot, in my case. On the other hand, I doubted communism and anarchism right from the start, so I guess I was politically wise from a very early age.
- Well, you are certainly the most beautiful reactionary that ever licked my balls and arse!
- Oh, but I believe we will eventually reach a peaceful state of fraternal anarchy, as soon as it is absolutely unneeded! Just don't ask me how to get there! I'm too busy enjoying my reactions to your nude body!

Hairy Krishna

- I was just walking from Ipanema to Copacabana along Avenida Rainha Elisabeth, near Rua Conselheiro Lafayete, when I noticed the sea at the end of the street, shining with the lights of the ending sunlight! I never knew this was possible, and I've lived in Rio for some twenty years, man! I looked back to see if I could also see Ipanema's waters, but the traffic was too heavy in that direction!
- Great! I've just smeared your boyfriend's face with my spunk! Let's find some transexual dominatrixes with tasty hairy balls to make our sunday complete!

All you need is crack

- The main reason for war is to make sure you are away risking your balls and/or tits, while you socially superiors can relax and fuck your kids in the ass, shit on your wife's mouth. Or something else, if the kids or your wife happen to like the above. So that your loved one's disgust will heighten their pleasure. Along with the knowledge that, if you ever come back from the war, you will never know what really took place. And that, if you do learn about it and get upset, they can always forge some proof of high treason, and lock you up where you can be conveniently raped an murdered without any punishment for the unknown murderer.
- Nah! You're just saying this because I swallowed you spunk! But I'll teach not to be so romantic! Just wait and see!

your sexual pleasure

- The socially conscious artist must make sure some of the rich look evil in his or her art. That should keep things as they are, that is: the poor and the middle class secretly hoping they will get away with revenge once they themselves become rich and powerful.
- That is the most original idea I've heard in my life, and I'm ready to tongue your asshole, or whatever you want me to do to make you feel like you are using me for your sexual pleasure.

Yes, my darling!

- How about this one? Art School Confidential.
- That's quite offbeat. It starts like you usual college comedy about the shy talented guy meeting all sorts of weirdos at this art institute. Then it gets a little darker. And then quite a lot darker. It's the kind of comedy that might make you feel very disgusted, if you take it seriously. Like A Clockwork Orange or Chicago.
- Shut up and kiss me! I must piss in you face now! Yes, my darling!

Eat my shit and open your heart

- It works like this: I probably won't stick my dick in any of your holes. You are here to lick my ass and eat my my shit. But only if you really love me.
- OK. I love you. But I would like to have a little taste of your shit before I can accept your engagement ring.

Fun in Rio

- It must be a joke! There is enough grub for every single human being to be fed. There's enough money to guarantee housing and some extra cash for condoms, and a movie, and dinner, for every single person alive and also the ones that are being born. So what do we do with all this cash? We keep it on the hands of 1% of humankind, and let the rest of us strive like mad just to have something to eat and not go insane! But some of us DO go insane, and start wars and join useless terrorist groups, and support dictators, so that we burn the few riches we have fighting like some stupid animals! This must be some cosmic joke that only God understands!
- Hey! God is everywhere! So I'm God, too, and so are you! And I don't quite get the joke, really! Maybe THAT is the joke? Think about it!
- Great! So God is a skinny brazilian with a t-shirt with a white smiley-like face, where you can read "Bleep!" written with some old red marker! This has got to be a joke inside the message, or a message inside the cosmic joke!
- Listen! Let's get naked, OK? Or maybe drunk. Or we can go out dancing! It's called FUN!

Democracy does not exist

- What we call Democracy is not real! Democracy is not ONLY the government of the majority, but also RESPECT for the RIGHTS of the MINORITIES. We need some constitutional guarantee that fringe lunatics will not be forced to conform to some other lifestyle, just because it is more common. If you're not killing people without any acceptable reason, and you're not stealing, who cares what you do?
- Well, some people will say what you do or say makes them sick! They will try to pass laws against you!
- You see? Spiritual or psychological harm to ADULTS should not count as arguments in a REAL Democracy! Jut get a shrink or padre, and fuck off! Let others be! But I know it will take some time until we get to a real Democracy. In fact, I will probably die without seeing it. So I guess I'll just get zonked out on vodka! Here's to our Relatively Democratic Democracy!
- Yeah, and be glad that at least SOME drugs are legal!

You love that kind of violence

- Can you translate it, please?
- Sure! "Lugar de violência é na piada" means: " Violence belongs only in jokes"!
- You mean practical jokes?
- No, I don't think he meant that! So let's say it means "Violence belongs only in verbal jokes"!
- And sado-masochism between consenting adults!
- That goes without saying!
- Only if you're gagged and bound!
- Oh, I love THAT kind of violence!

do gargalo means drinking great

- Well, "do gargalo" sounds a little bit like "do caralho"! And "do caralho" is how brazilians say that something or someone is "fucking great"! Literally, it means something like "from the prick"! And "do gargalo" means "from the botleneck"! So I guess you can translate it as "drinking great"!
- Hey, now THAT'S drinking great! Let me buy you a drink!
- OK, but only if we drink each other's spunk afterwards, in honor of the gods of translation!

That dawn in Rio

- Man, did you see "That Night in Rio" last night?
- You mean THIS MORNING, right? No, man! Like 4 a.m. was too late for me! I passed out during that brazilian movie, "O Flagrante"! Even with the hot babes and all!
- Yeah, that was pretty interesting, for a movie made during a dictatorship! They were even discussing the legalisation of divorce!
- Well, you know: the military rule in Brazil was rough enough, but nothing nearly as bad as the Vargas dictatorship! Anyway, that's what I understand from the books, if they are of any use! But what about Carmen Miranda? Is she really all that?
- Man, she looks like a delicious transvestite! I can totally understand those yankee soldiers going absolutely nuts! The ones who were not addicted to Betty Grable, anyway! And that reminds me of that other girl, Alice Faye! Man, if you don't care about Carmen Miranda, or Don Ameche, or Technicolor, even then you simply must see Alice Faye wrapped up in gold in this movie!

Avant-garde theory made easy

1. I notice this very young kid acting like a crazy man. He does not seem to care about you understanding what he's doing. Maybe he doesn't know it either. That won't stop him or his fun.
2. If you do something similar as an adult, and stay out of any serious trouble with the police, then I guess it's art. So, have fun!

Banco do Beneriovaldo

- I love Brazilian banks! All these black-haired people standing in line just give me the hots!
- Where have you been all my life? Here's my number!

1985: the teens look greener across the border

Nothing to do! Nowhere to go! I wanna be Canadian!

Fraction of the Neo-Pop Army

- You just use being an artist as an excuse for your ridiculous clothes and lack of social skills, do you understand!?
- I totally agree with you -- I think.

consider yourself an insider

- You must understand that the news are really an advertisement for shopping! The point of the media is to give you the impression that life is hell, and that the world is getting worse, and that you should be very worried! Being worried will get you shopping for drugs, clothes, self-help books, sex, whatever soothes your spirit and gets them a chunk of your income! Of couse, there is the risk of collateral damage: a free media could get you new ideas, even about the media itself! But, if they get you worried enough about the future, it doesn't matter what you think!
- So, it doesn't matter that I'm thinking of tonguing my way to the inside of your pussy!

wet fries

- It's easy to shock people in Rio! About two years ago, I started asking for a straw at McDonald's, and people were surprised and looked at me in disbelief from other tables! They are OK nowadays, but I still get the occasional weirded out look when I use the water to cool my french fries when they arrive too hot in a burger joint!
- Good idea! Let's eat some fries before I suck your dick! I promise I'll brush my teeth, if you want me to!

the experience

- Well, "consciência desculpada" means "not guilty conscience"! It's a joke about monotheism in western culture, I guess!
- Nice! I tell you what: this party is kinda slow. Let's go somewhere and start an open marriage!

freakylicious last words

Não existe Deus senão Laiá Laiá, e Matusaleme é seu profeta! Axé shalom! Hava naguila!

Skip-tic-all: the du-vídeo-dó experience

- OK. My studio, if you like. But maybe only the bathroom. There's some stuff I do in the toilet, and a permanent installation inside the box that I want you to put on video.
- I know the right guy to get this images on video. Gee, I love this way you have of using dialogues to explain new ideas in a simple way! It's pretty much brand new art!

Now

I wake up in the shadows. My tent feels warm and confusing. I hear music far way. I hear this woman calling me, but I don't understand my own name. It can't be my wife. I left her somewhere, many rivers ago. I want to go back to my hometown, but I know I have rebuilt it beyond recognition. And I don't know its name anymore, so I cannot ask my way back to it. My soldiers refuse to cross yet another river. They want to go home, but will not leave me here. Without wars to fight, we die from this strange fever. My very best friend died in his sleep yesterday. His eyes were open and he was smiling, and murmured the name of his house before a strange sound emptied the vessel of his spirit. I cried for an entire day. Now I understand the music I hear comes from the distant spheres that move above the house of the Gods. I am crossing the river, going home. A gentle voice thunders all over the sky:

- No more of you sucking my dick after midnight! You jump out of bed NOW, before you are late for work, mister! MOVE!

Bahamansa Yaguafreska

- Free yourself from your ego!
- No way! I love to be his sex slave, thank you very much!

Happy 2007!

- Did you see the news? Four youths were in a bus in downtown Rio yesterday morning, coming back from this New Year's Day party. People say they broke a window and one of them said they were going to set the bus on fire. This guy believed it and shot dead two of them! The other two idiots managed to escape! I bet they won't make stupid jokes like that one anytime soon!
- Oh, yeah! The best part is that the guy with the gun wished everybody a happy 2007 before jumping off the bus! Now, that's what I call being very polite!