Photos of Arto Lindsay by Robert Divers Herrick

7:30pm doors / 8:00pm show
Tickets $25 (discounted or free for members)

Arto Lindsay (b. 1953 Richmond, VA, lives and works in Rio de Janeiro) has stood at the intersection of music and art for more than four decades. As a member of DNA, he contributed to the foundation of No Wave. As bandleader for the Ambitious Lovers, he developed an intensely subversive pop music, a hybrid of American and Brazilian styles. He has a distinctive soft voice and an often noisy, self-taught guitar style, contrasted frequently with gentler, sensuous Brazilian music themes. Throughout his career, Lindsay has collaborated with both visual and musical artists, including Vito Acconci, Laurie Anderson, David Byrne, Animal Collective, Matthew Barney, Marisa Monte, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Caetano Veloso and Rirkrit Tiravanija.

Recently, Lindsay has been combining music, technology, choreography, and allegorical elements in the form of parades. The first one, "De Lama Lãmina” (Salvador, 2004), a collaboration with Matthew Barney, was followed by "I Am a Man" (Frankfurt, 2008), "Multinatural [Blackout]” (Biennale de Venezia, 2009), and "Somewhere I Read" (New York, 2009). Lindsay’s new albums include "Encyclopedia of Arto,” released in 2014, and "Cuidado Madame,” released in 2017.

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Photo by by Anitta Boa Vida