Marara Kelly Aftershow

iet’s extra welcomes you to the after the afterparty around Mayara Yamada’s performance Marara Kelly Art Show: you've been coming to my parties, I've been appearing in your dreams.

Join us in a trashy lovely underwater fantasy world with a soundscape by Cigarra and immersive visuals by Aladdine3000 🫧🐬🪸🐙🪼 Before the show we invite you to delicious Brazilian food by Héloise and caipirinhas by Marlla Araujo. Afterwards, let’s dance the night away to a set by DJ Giovanna, finished by a B2B set with Mayara Yamada.

Come out, all you magical beings and let’s move our bodies in this trashy paradise.

• Mayara Yamada born in Belém do Pará, in the Brazilian Amazon, is an artist, performer and DJ now based in Switzerland. Her research primarily focuses on performance art, while also engaging with photography, audiovisuals, theatre, and music. In her work, she mainly deals with subjects such as autobiography and the study of the body, landscape and memory, with an emphasis on the investigation of cultural codes and symbols of the Brazilian Amazon. As an artist in transit since 2010, Mayara investigates how to displace elements of her original culture into other contexts using tools of translation and transposition in a practice she defines as trans-situ. Currently, with the Marara Kelly Art Show series and its deployments, she crosses her stage-performative practice with her sound practice as a DJ, through research that mixes the world of pop and kitsch, the figure of the pop star, and sacred and profane elements in celebratory events in Brazil.

• Ágatha Barbosa (a.k.a. Cigarra) is a DJ, producer and label manager that grew up in the dense underground scene of São Paulo and participated in the effervescence of its parties and festivals as well as in the original formation of the renowned Voodoohop. She now lives in Lisbon, where she organizes cultural events and the music/performance project with Tita Maravilha, Trypas-Corassão. In her sonorous landscapes and productions, she immerses herself in the research of sample appropriation (plunderphonics and copyleft) unveiling a popular, peripheral, contemporary, queer and global culture. Brazilian rhythms join those from many distant parts of the world in a contagious set of hypnotic and seductive frequencies, ranging from global bass to downtempo, with a focus on female expression.

• ★ DJ Giovanna is your best friend and future first kiss. ★ BANDIVA from Brazil, she builds unforgettable dance floors full of sexy hits that travel between baile, eurodance, guaracha and technobrega. ★ She is the co-creator of Porto’s 𝙁𝙔𝙇𝙃𝘼𝙎 𝘿𝙊 𝘿𝙍𝘼𝙂𝘼𝙊 party. ★ Space, night, love, dance and laser are the key words for a night full of humour and passion with this hottie behind the decks. ★ Living in Portugal since 2018, DJ Giovanna is an alter-ego of Fernanda who has a multidisciplinary career, working in the fields of performance, music and video. ★ In the last ten years, she has performed in more than 20 countries and produced events in cities such as Brasília, São Paulo, Porto, Berlin and Lisbon. ★

• Ali-Eddine Abdelkhalek aka Aladdine3000 is a mixed media artist and designer. He graduated in 2013 from ECAL with a bachelor’s in visual communication. He works in multiple fields across computer-generated imagery and its derivatives. After working as a graphic designer for the Swiss film archive for three years, he started his solo practice. He works collaboratively as a visual communication bureau with Pierrick Brégeon and Clément Rouzaud under the moniker EUROSTANDARD. As an artist he has shown his work in Switzerland, Belgium, France, Italy and the UK. Recently he has started to create live visuals and installations for musicians and live artists such as Bonaventure, Marara Kelly, New Kydd, Ella Soto, Aïsha Devi, Manuela Soto Sosa, Apothekkk, Meloe Gennai, Fatima Wegmann, Moesha13, Tamara Alegre ZR021.