no. 23 Editorial
Moodboard

ISSN · 2183-5527

Visual Essay + Author in residence

7 Portraits

7 Portraits

João Fonte Santa

VHS, 29' By João Fonte Santa, assisted by António Caramelo The video Sete Retratos was created for the exhibition Mundo de Aventuras, curated by José Alberto Ferreira, and features 7 video portraits, …

7 Portraits

B, Y, R

Visual Essay

B, Y, R

Henrique Biatto

Água Viva

Visual Essay

Água Viva

Lander Patrick, Gonçalo Marques, José Soares

Through the longest path

Visual Essay

Through the longest path

Margarida Rodrigues (MAR)

Working with mountains is easy

Article

Working with mountains is easy

Isadora Alves

Process Of Unframability

Sound Essay

Process Of Unframability

Frantz Loriot

Drowned, in the shame of light

Visual Essay

Drowned, in the shame of light

Isabela Abate & João Castro

Workbook on the adaptation of the play The Man Outside (1947)

Visual Essay

Workbook on the adaptation of the play The Man Outside (1947)

Pedro Paiva

Sightings

Visual Essay

Sightings

Francisco Novais

HALF A STEP FROM HOME

Visual Essay

HALF A STEP FROM HOME

António Olaio

Misfits

Visual Essay

Misfits

Fabrizio Matos

Out Of Here

Sound Essay

Out Of Here

Quatroconnection (Carla Santana)

Weiße Rose

Visual Essay + Author in residence

Weiße Rose

João Fonte Santa

it was just drained, drained

Sound Essay

it was just drained, drained

André Hencleeday

Lavagem

Visual Essay

Lavagem

João Jacinto

XXX

Visual Essay + Author in residence

XXX

João Fonte Santa

The hand with no specialty

Visual Essay

The hand with no specialty

Carolina Lino

Wrong Wrong n.23

Misfits

Visual Essay + Author in residence 16.05.2018

ACHROMATIC HISTORY

Anna Artaker

ACHROMATIC HISTORY is an ongoing series that uses illustrated magazines from the heyday of photojournalism, roughly from the 1950’s until the 1970’s. From the magazine pages selected photo spreads of historical events like the Apollo 13 mission to the moon or the 1968 summer Olympics in Mexico City are exposed to sunlight long enough to bleach. Before exposure objects like DVDs, coins or keys are placed onto the magazine pages, so that their silhouettes will stand out in the initial colour on the faded page and thus highlight certain elements.

ACHROMATIC HISTORY thus interweaves several layers of time. The first layer is the time of the photographed event. As the magazine’s former status as the mainstream medium has since been lost to TV and successively to the World Wide Web it is not only the photographs of the historical events, but also the magazines themselves that represent the past in a concrete way.

This past gets overwritten with additional layers of time. The first one is indicated by the silhouettes of objects used in our everyday lives: everyone carries a key and change in their pockets. The choice of these objects thus refers to our present lives.

The third layer of time incorporated is the time acting as agent to the employed «imaging technique»: the fading does not take place in a moment—such as the instant it takes to expose a roll of film—but during a period of roughly two months of exposure to sunlight.

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