page_title: Bruno Verner
section_title: 1990 - 2000
hierarchical_section_title: Bruno Verner / 1990 - 2000
caption_attribution_description: English: Verner performing with Tetine
context_page_description: Bruno Verner is a Brazilian composer, poet, electronic musician, performance artist and compiler, best known for his work as the other half of Brazilian tropical punk funk duo Tetine which he formed with Eliete Mejorado in São Paulo in 1995.
context_section_description: In 1990 Bruno Verner moved to São Paulo to study Linguistics at Universidade de São Paulo, USP and music at Universidade Livre de Musica (ULM). In the early 1990s he founded the performance group "Um Ou Nao".
  As a poet & musician, he also conceived and wrote a number of experimental performances involving an unorthodox use of text, sound, improvisation and visuals from 1991-1994 in São Paulo. From this period pieces such as I Dada Happening Interdisciplinar, Pressupostos A Uma Sintaxe Sensorial, "O UM" were presented in art spaces, underground clubs, bookshops and small cinemas around São Paulo. In 1991 he wins the literary prize Projeto Nascente from Universidade de Sao Paulo and later publishes a poetry book called O UM on Atelier Editorial.
  In 1994 Bruno Verner met Eliete Mejorado while producing the soundtrack for the performance piece Roberto Zucco at Teatro Oficina. Eliete and Bruno soon found themselves creating a radical blend of atonalism, industrial goth, punk and noise improvising with a drum machine, an old piano, altered voices, a VCR and slide projectors. Both artists approach to sound, voice and improvisation were very similar resulting in the creation of a one-off art performance that they later baptised as Tetine.
  In 1995 Tetine was officially born with Alexander’s Grave - a multi-media performance for voice, piano, electronics and projections shown at Bexiga's underground 70-seat cinema space Teatro HAU in São Paulo and also the title of Tetine's first album. "Alexandre's Grave" marks the beginning of a series of works Bruno Verner & Eliete Mejorado would later perform or exhibit as Tetine.
  Verner produced and released electronic music, post punk and funk carioca albums on several record labels including Soul Jazz Records, Mr Bongo, Kute Bash, Bizarre Music, High School Records, Collete and Mais Um Discos. He also starred in several of Tetine’s videos directed by his partner Eliete Mejorado. With Tetine he put out video compilations, curated exhibitions such as Tropical Punk, COMA, and organised music and film programmes such as The Politics Of Self Indulgence. In 1995 his first album with Tetine, "Alexandre’s Grave" was released on his own record label High School Records. In 1997 Verner wrote the original score for the dance piece "Creme" by choreographer Adriana Banana of Ur=Hor and ex Companhia de Dança Burra.
  Also in 1997 Verner, Eliete Mejorado and Ricardo Muniz Fernandes create a project called Babel, curating the entire programme of the now legendary intervention festival that took place in an abandoned petrol station in Pinheiros, São Paulo owned by SESC SP. "BABEL" brought to São Paulo a series of radical performances and works by artists such as '''Orlan, "Karen Finley", "Lindy Annis", "Teatro Oficina", "Tetine", "Laura De Vison, "Kazuo Ono, Cabelo, Marta Neves, Fernando Cardoso, Carlinhos, Claudio Cretti, Adriana Galinare, Individual Industry amongst many other artists. During 15 days BABEL was installed in the petrol station of Pinheiros with unconventional exhibition spaces in the form of boxes or garages, an experimental theatre, a cinema, a stage for bands and a catwalk for fashion shows. BABEL was for free and received an incredible amount of Brazilian media attention & public visitation during its two weeks of life.
  In 1998 Bruno Verner & Eliete Mejorado present Eletrobrecht and Musica De Amor at 12 Festival Videobrasil. Also in 1998 Verner and Mejorado are invited to curate the music segment of Mundao at Sesc Santo Amaro bringing for the first time to Brasil Diamanda Galas, Marianne Faithfull and John Cale for special performances in São Paulo. Other artists include Cibo Matto and a number of local artists.
caption: Verner performing with Tetine
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