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 19.08.2020

An Abandonment Handbook

Mário Martins

An Abandonment Handbook

«tout ce qui est intérieur s’y déploie au-dehors, y prend la forme d’une image»
Maurice Blanchot

Take 1

Abandonment, a word that entered the language very early, in the 12th century, persists today with multiple meanings. Derived from the French abandonner, «surrender» – hence the expression laisser à bandon (to leave under someone's power) –, from the Latin bannum, «verbal proclamation», from the Franconian bannan, «to proclaim, banish», from the German bannan «speak in public», from the Indo-European bha-, «speak». In the Franks' language, bann meant «power», «jurisdiction» and gave rise to the English verb to ban (proscribing, preventing someone from entering a country), which came to Portuguese as «banir».

Abandonner was to loosen the horse's reins, to let the animal or person go on their own; a ban donner was the act of exiling someone; it expressed the idea of seeking autonomy by breaking ties, by separation.

Take 2

The word Abandonment is right in the first page of Latin and Anglo-Saxon dictionaries. It is the sort of thing only noticed by someone busy digging a hole in a seldom visited place.

We abandon the place where we came from, where we were, an idea, an experience, a situation, a path, a post, a title, a name, a person, an animal, an object. We can abandon everything. Everything that was, that has been, all that remains.

Take 3

The word Abandonment can have multiple meanings. Abandonment almost always presupposes a movement away from something or someone; or a ceasing action: to no longer act.

When we say abandon, we can mean: leave behind, move away from, reject, leave alone, renounce, drop, release, run away, withdraw, put aside, give up, leave, disdain, vacate, stop feeling attached, give in, fail to tend, give in to entropy, forsake, neglect, abdicate, abjure, fail to care, go away, cease to reside, depopulate, die, disconnect from.

Just choose what suits you best. We always choose, even when we don’t.

Take 4

Abandonment may refer to the thing abandoned or to the abandoning subject.

Sunburn on the Moon

Spectrum Awareness

Spectrum Awareness