by Eve Rogers // Jan. 16, 2026
On January 22nd, Studio 1111 hosts ‘GÓTIKO TROPIKAL,’ an evolving series of audiovisual experiences by interdisciplinary artist and DJ Natalia Escobar and art club Studio 1111. ‘GÓTIKO TROPIKAL’ brings together live performance, sonic experimentation, film and club culture, foregrounding artists from Latin America and its diaspora who move between darkness, desire and tropical sensuality.
Natalia Escobar, portrait // Photo by Faber Franco
The project takes its name and conceptual grounding from the Gótico Tropical movement that emerged in Cali, Colombia, during the 1970s and 1980s. Developed by the Grupo de Cali—most notably filmmakers Luis Ospina and Carlos Mayolo alongside writer Andrés Caicedo and artist Karen Lamassone—the movement critically dismantled romanticized and exoticized portrayals of Latin America. Through satire, Gothic horror and social realism, their films exposed the region’s undercurrents of violence, exploitation and postcolonial decay. ‘GÓTIKO TROPIKAL’ revisits this legacy, reclaiming the grotesque and the decadent as powerful tools for contemporary storytelling across sound and image.
Jao Moon, performance documentation // Photo by Adrian Alarcon
For the second edition Escobar and Studio 1111 invite performance artist Jao Moon and Venezuelan musician Argenis Brito, performing under his alias Argenis Latinotrónico. The evening opens with ‘The Lifetime of Fire,’ a performance by Jao Moon that unfolds as a ritual between pain and pleasure. Emerging from the marginalized periphery of Cartagena de Indias, Moon’s practice positions the body as a site of political resistance, transforming vulnerability, rage and lived experience into embodied critique.
Argenis Brito, portrait // Courtesy of the artist
Later, Argenis Latinotrónico will take to the stage with a live set that fuses Latin American rhythms with electronic intensity. Brito’s career spans early pop stardom in Venezuela, experimental electronic collaborations in New York and Chile and decades as a central figure in projects such as Señor Coconut, Mambotur and his collaborations with Jorge González of Los Prisioneros. His sound channels migration and adaptation, bending ancestral rhythms into contemporary club forms.
The night concludes with a DJ set by Natalia Escobar, whose selections focus on Afro-Indigenous Caribbean rhythms and nocturnal desire sounds. Escobar’s wider practice spans experimental film, sound, performance and installation, engaging Abya Yala phenomenology, Indigenous cosmovisions, memory and decolonial knowledge. Her work has been presented internationally at institutions including Haus der Kulturen der Welt, the Neue Nationalgalerie and Cannes Director’s Fortnight Film Festival.
Carlos Mayolo: ‘Carne de Tu Carne,’ 1983, film still // Courtesy of the artist
Throughout the night, Carlos Mayolo’s cult film ‘Carne de tu Carne’ will flicker across the space, weaving a cinematic current of gothic desire and unease into the atmosphere. Signature cocktails by SOKÓŁ VODKA, created uniquely for ‘GÓTIKO TROPIKAL,’ will fuel the evening as sound, bodies and images weave together on the dance floor, conjuring the night into a charged encounter where cinema, performance and club culture convene.
Event Info
Studio IIII
‘GÓTIKO TROPIKAL’
Performance: Jao Moon: ‘The Lifetime of Fire’
Live Music: Argenis Latinotronico
DJ Set: Natalia Escobar
Event: Jan. 22, 2026; 8pm
Admission: € 10 (from 10pm)
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