Fosfobox at Porto Maravilha: sounds and nomadism of the sea little princess

Abstract

Inaugurated in 2004 and nicknamed “Fosfo” to intimates, the Fosfobox nightclub was located on Siqueira Campos street, in Copacabana. Trap, funk, and hip hop were just some of the countless sounds and rhythms that rocked the nightclub. In this context, Fosfobox is a club that, in addition to electronic music, offers a varied program of performances, theater, cinema, poetry, and other cultural and artistic manifestations. And until March 2020, the “box of matches” that shook the “princess” during the night in Copacabana worked at full speed for sixteen years. In other words, with the arrival of the coronavirus, Fosfobox closed its doors in Copacabana, and migrated, tak ing the sounds and ambiences to the city’s port area, more specifically to the NAU space. With an area of over 4,500m2, NAU Cidades is a multicultural complex positioned as “an urban laboratory created to think about spaces, territories, and towns based on the entrepreneurship of creative economy, innovation, and social development”. With an approach based on qualitative method ology, the work sought to understand how the experiences that emanated from the club placed on Siqueira Campos street were not limited to the walls of a building, but carried on in a nomadic perspective in Porto Maravilha.