Cibelle is a visual artist and musician based in London, Berlin and São Paulo. She graduated in 2015 from the Royal College of Art in London. Cibelle has released four music albums and has performed and presented work in venues such as Martin-Gropius-Bau Berlin, Museo Reina Sofia Madrid, ICA London, Carnegie Hall New York, Serpentine Marathon, 28th and 31st São Paulo Biennial among others. Cibelle Cavalli Bastos has a conceptual, expanded field and interdisciplinary practice that includes thought production, performance, sound art, video, painting, sculpture and installation. Currently operating daily through social media stories under @aevtarperform, researching intrapolitics and devising nanopolitics through deprogramming self/ID of societal malware at a personal and collective level, their work addresses the deconstruction and formation of identities and what stands in between the self and presence as our multi-selves interact with each other and our surroundings. #deprogramming
Biography
Cibelle Cavalli Bastos was born in São Paulo, Brazil, 2 January 1978. She attended the Marcelo Tupinambá Conservatory in São Paulo from the age of 6, where they studied guitar, piano, percussion and theatre. She had a short career modelling in they teens, but left it to dedicate herelf to acting and art. She worked in musicals, short films, and Brazilian TV, until music took a stronger lead in her life, followed by their focus in art practice and research. After meeting the Serbian-born producer Suba, they appeared as the main vocalist on his album, São Paulo Confessions, on Ziriguiboom in 1999. A mixture of traditional and electronic sounds São Paulo Confessions is regarded as an important precursor and a landmark album for Brazilian Electronic Music. Suba died shortly after the album's release. Cibelle next appeared on Celso Fonseca's album, Natural. Her first solo album, Cibelle, was also released in 2003. Signed to Belgian record label Crammed Discs at the age of 22, she started spending more time in Europe, specifically Paris. By the completion of her first album, she moved to London's Brick Lane, and has since been living in East London.
Music and Methodology
Cibelle creates concept albums. Her band is made up of around 10 musicians or more who each get together as trios. depending on the country of performance. ThHer latest performances ranged from having two drum kits on stage, to having none at all. Cibelle works by building tracks live on stage, with special guests and audience members contributing to her "bric-a-brac DIY" sound through vocals, playfulness and instrumental experimentation. Since moving to Dalston, she has been working more with visual arts and performance, taking part in the abravanista movement with Rick Castro – also a part of Assume Vivid Astro Focus – and collaborating as a part of collective and artzine FUR, run by photographer Cássia Cabatini and artist/printmaker Fábio Gurjão.
