Last Party: Online Club Night
Hosted by Leonardo Ramadinha
Wednesday, February 16, 2022
Anight of dance and music as artist Leonardo Ramadinha hosts an online party live on Zoom featuring DJs from Houston, NYC, and Rio de Janeiro providing the club night atmosphere. This event is presented in conjunction with Ramadinha’s current exhibition, Last Party, which is presented by FotoFest online via our website through February 16. Last Party explores the technocultural space of online parties held over the course of the pandemic years. And like the exhibition, this program is a celebration of love, joy, and the perseverance of the spirit amidst a challenging global crisis.
To attend this event via Zoom, click the link below to register. Following registration, FotoFest will send private links to the party. You can also access the event without registering by visiting FotoFest’s YouTube channel at the party’s start time.
We look forward to partying with you online from our bedroom and living room dance floors!
You can read an interview with Leonardo Ramadinha and see the Last Party exhibition by following this link.
About the artist
Leonardo Ramadinha (b. Carioca, 1977, lives and works in Rio de Janeiro) holds an undergraduate degree in social communication from Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, a degree in visual arts at Universidade Estácio de Sá, and a postgraduate degree in photography and social sciences from Universidade Candido Mendes.
Ramadinha has participated in group and individual exhibitions in Brazil, Argentina, USA, Colombia, Germany, and Slovenia. In 2000 he was one of the artists awarded the Rio Jovem Artista Award. In 2003, Recoleta Cultural Center in Buenos Aires awarded Ramadinha an opportunity to show his work in the Encuentros Abiertos, a festival affiliated with the Festival da Luz. In 2007 he was selected by the Wooloo Independent Curator Program for the Urban Space project which included sharing his work at exhibitions at the New Life Shop Gallery in Berlin, at OI Futuro, Rio de Janeiro, and at FotoPub International Photo Festival in Slovenia. In October 2013, Ramadinha participated in the collective of Brazilian artists “Brazil am Main” at Galerie Söffing, in Frankfurt, Germany, held during the Frankfurt Book Fair, which featured Brazil as its honored country. He is one of the editors of the electronic visual arts magazine Verbete.art.
In 2015 Ramadinha founded and became the Director of Espaço Foto Contemporânea, a space dedicated to courses and workshops focusing on photography, contemporary art, and images. He has taught courses in photography, photographic language, and coordinated creation and development projects in contemporary photography for institutions such as POP – Contemporary Thought Pole, Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo – MAM SP, Itaú Bba, among others.
He has four books: About Memories and Dreams (2015), About the Delicacy of Things (2015), Angra dos Reis (2014) and Aquilo que Habita em Mim (2012). He is also featured in collective publications such as Rio Mar Lisboa Rio (2015) released by Barléu and The Creation of the World – Contemporary Brazilian Photography (2010), produced and curated by Eder Chiodetto.
Ramadinha’s works are held in private collections around the globe, including the Joaquim Paiva Collection (MAM-RJ), Beto Silva Collection, Julia and Luiz Porchat Collection, Milton Abirached Collection, and the Márcia and Eduardo Lopes Pontes Collection among many others.
His work can be found online at www.ramadinha.com.br.
About the DJs
Thaísa Laffitte
From groove to dark disco, Thaísa Laffite was born on a zoom dance floor and she gets a lot of people to dance. She is a musical researcher, and in the pandemic times, she arose in the underground of electronic music, a place where all clubbers had the right to show up, where not all knew about your existence. Thaísa took part in a social movement on the internet and her effort was recognized for party @onda.cc, where she is a resident DJ. Thaísa said that she saw the quarantine as an opportunity to study music and offer a top-notch party or afterparty that everybody deserves.
To listen to her DJ sets, visit www.soundcloud.com/laffitte_sounds.
Cris Marinho
A lover of the funky side of House and Disco music, Cris Marinho is a visual artist that uses languages such as drawing, engraving, as well as stop motion animation, and photography with Lego pieces. DJ since 1997, along his way, he played in and produced parties in Rio de Janeiro such as Baile Curinga, Da Da Da, and Tipo Disco. In the midst of the pandemic, he created Voyage Noyage, a monthly online event on Zoom platform, in which DJs from all over Brazil have already played.
To listen to his DJ sets, visit www.mixcloud.com/djcrismarinho.
Image: Leonardo Ramadinha, Last Party, 2020–21. Screenshot. Courtesy of the artist.
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