The exhibition entitled ‘Uma viagem pelo asfalto. O rock no Porto nos anos oitenta’ will open on April 8 (opening at 18:30) and will be on display at Casa Comum until September 20.
For an extended period of around five months, visitors will be able to travel through a boiling phase in the 1980s, when the city of Porto experienced the heyday of exuberant urban tribes, which arose from an effort by young people to differentiate themselves and, at the same time, identify with a group that society recognised as such.
There were many tribes, from punks to goths, from metalheads to skinheads and rockabillys. Music was consumed with the avidity of discovery, with the help of pirate radios, and people went to places where they idolised bands like GNR, Taxi and Trabalhadores do Comércio.
The exhibition will take us on this journey through photographs, posters, newspaper cuttings and vinyl covers.
André Cunha, Beatriz Dobbs, Gurpreet Kaur, Inês Aguiar, Patrícia Amaral and Rodrigo Ferreira, students of the Master in Multimedia of U.Porto, supervised by Gilberto Bernardes, a lecturer at DEI, contributed to this exhibition by developing an interactive application for intuitive navigation through a wide range of multimedia content about the bands and key venues of Rock in Porto in the 80s.
More info here.