Sound Track Stage was the second public stage in the series of works that formed A Certain Brazilianness (A C_ B__). In this stage the notion of productivity in situations of heterogeneity and conflict was central. A C_ B__ stands for the productivity of ‘difference’, which overlaps with concepts in different fields – for instance polyphonic and polyrhythmic techniques in music, use of pluriform text or language types in literature, or a non-hierarchical organisation of space – as the productive result of multiplicity. In a public film shoot at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Paul Elstak, an icon of the gabber/hardcore music scene and hip hop DJ Mr Wix are challenged to play out their conflicting positions in music. Gabber/hardcore and hip hop are two musical styles that represent diverse lifestyles and distinct positions within urban space. Rotterdam is a city full of social tension, and gabber/hardcore developed in the ’90s as an expression of neglected white working-class youth, whereas hip hop has a very strong presence in the city’s large black community. Without wishing to create a harmony of these various forms, a soundtrack of friction and connection was produced.




Production stills by Ana Dzokic


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Installation view at Wilfried Lentz Rotterdam, 2010


Installation view of As Occasions, solo presentation at Tent. Rotterdam, 2008. Photograph by Bob Goedewaagen



Installation view at After the Butcher, Berlin, 2023.
Photography by Romain Löser and Charlotte Bonjour