Join us for an online lecture by Brazilian writer and curator Leo Felipe. As part of a lecture series following R27: Party as Form, Felipe will present a reading of excerpts from his latest book, the novella a sex shop of drugs & food.

In a dystopia where partying is as much a form of protest as it is of imprisonment, revolution is aspired to as a huge aesthetic achievement. A writer in search of fame befriends the drug dealer Tea, who introduces him to Rama, a DJ and leader of a guerrilla gang. a sex shop of drugs & food was written by appropriation and combination, often at random, of pre-existing English language texts.

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About Leo Felipe

Leo Felipe is a Brazilian writer and curator living and working in São Paulo. Publishing since 2002, Leo explores subcultural themes through experimental writing. His book A história universal do after (nunc, 2019) was translated into Spanish and released by the Argentinian publisher Caja Negra, in 2022. One of the book's chapters appeared in “Black Rave", issue 132 of the e-flux journal.

Background Information

The Party as Form lecture series grew out of PRAKSIS Residency 27: Party as Form, convened this past May & June by Kelly Lloyd and Shannon Stratton.

Party as Form is Shannon Stratton, a curator and writer based in Chicago who taught the first session of Party as Form at Ox-Bow School of Art in 2012, and Kelly Lloyd, a transdisciplinary artist and educator working out of London who inherited the delivery of Party as Form at Ox-Bow. The participating residents are: Fergus Tibbs, an artist, DJ, and cultural producer originally from Scotland, now based in Bergen, Norway. 'Tope Ajayi, a Nigerian multi-disciplinary artist and a cultural curator. Banu Çiçek Tülü, a sound artist, music producer, DJ and researcher from Turkey based in Berlin. Tor Lukasik-Foss, an artist, songwriter and storyteller living in Hamilton, Ontario. Matilda Moors, a London-based artist and educator. Sara Clugage, an artist, writer and editor, living and working in the United States. Åste Amundsen, an artist and researcher creating live interactive experiences, born in Oslo currently working from Germany. Lexie Owen, an Oslo-based interdisciplinary artist from Canada.

Photo: Leo Felipe © Ivi Maiga Bugrimenko

Party as Form is supported by KORO (Public Art Norway)