Tropicália - A Revolution in Brazilian Culture

‘Stop, listen, walk, see. It costs you nothing. It just costs you your life’ Gilberto Gil
‘Why not?’ Caetano Veloso

It was 1968 and the people of Brazile responded to the shifts in thinking taking place around the world, and to their own military junta, with an incredible surge in creativity across all the arts. Some of the names who emerged from this period include Caetano Velloso, Gilberto Gil, Tom Ze, Helio Oiticica.

A major festival of art, music, film, theatre and dance celebrating Tropicalia - the cultural revolution that re-defined Brazilian art, music and fashion in the 1960s and beyond.

read Anna Dezeuze's article on Helio Oiticica - Tactile dematerialization, Sensory politics: Helio Oiticica's Parangoles - Art Journal Summer 2004