Leo Felipe

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Leo Felipe works in the art market but has previously been a bar owner, punk band singer, DJ, party producer, radio host, TV presenter, academic researcher, and curator. Employing humor and various literary strategies such as memoirs, epistolary records, ethnography, reportage, critical essays, and the cut-up method, his literary work explores fiction as a means to transform reality (and vice versa). Highlights among his books are a sex shop of drugs & food (Quadradocirculo, 2023) and A História Universal do After (nunc, 2019) — translated into Spanish and published in 2022 by the Argentine publisher Caja Negra.

A Universal History of the Afterparty

Leo Felipe translates an excerpt from his book A Universal History of the Afterparty, calling up Brazil’s vibrant, ketamine-soaked heterotopias as immanent critique.

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