EXHIBITION “Facadas na Noite” [Stabs at Night]

+ Listening music through Walkman (cassette)
+ DJ Set Matéria Prima
+ Drinks

Exhibition which aims to foster a deepening of multidisciplinary reflection on the processes of change in contemporary music marking the 25th anniversary of the iconic record store Matéria Prima and simultaneously the KISMIF Conference inside the doors of this store. At the same time, and through the approach to traditional production and dissemination modes – namely, in cassette format – offers an accurate reflection on the ‘retromania’ and nostalgia that, as several authors (Simon Reynolds, Gilles Lipovetsky, among others) have been emphasize, feature the contemporary and, in particular, the sphere of urban popular music and graphic design. In an innovative way, this event will have an impact object that despite the (national and international) cult around it, remains largely to study in an academic context – Facadas na Noite [Stabs At Night], a Portuguese cassettes publisher, located between Porto and Braga, dedicated to ‘radical’ sounds and whose activity mainly took place between late 1980 and mid-next decade. The mounting of this exhibition has the special collaboration of the Museu Nacional Soares dos Reis [National Museum Soares dos Reis].

URL: http://anos80.no.sapo.pt/fnn.htm; http://underrrreview.blogspot.pt/2009/08/facadas-na-noite.html; http://underrrreview.blogspot.pt/2011_08_28_archive

OPENING EXHIBITION: 14 July 2015, 17h30 – 18h30
+ DJ Set Matéria Prima
+ Drinks
Presentation: Paulo Vinhas, Matéria Prima, Portugal
Presentation: Pedro Quintela, Faculty of Economics, Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, KISMIF Project, Portugal
14–18 July 2015 | Matéria Prima, Porto | curated by Paula Guerra, Paulo Vinhas and Pedro Quintela