no. 24 Editorial
Moodboard

ISSN · 2183-5527

Visual Essay

Correspondances Lithiques

Correspondances Lithiques

Susana Mouzinho & Cristóbal Bouey

«Correspondances lithiques» is a performative correspondence between Lisbon and Marseille, between …

Correspondances Lithiques

Drawing in 33 hours – Túlia Saldanha + Robert Schad, 1983

Visual Essay

Drawing in 33 hours – Túlia Saldanha + Robert Schad, 1983

Álvaro Rosendo

Families Are Not Photo Albums

Visual Essay

Families Are Not Photo Albums

Joana Duarte

Visual Essay

Chiado's animation, 1982

Álvaro Rosendo

Chiado's animation, 1982

. the performativity of political acts and artifacts: some examples of what leaks and varies while remaining here

Article

. the performativity of political acts and artifacts: some examples of what leaks and varies while remaining here

Rita Barreira

CORPO MANIFESTAÇÃO – SMALL LEXICON ABOUT THE HISTORY OF PERFORMANCE IN PORTUGAL – Episode 2: PARTICIPATION

Author in residence

CORPO MANIFESTAÇÃO – SMALL LEXICON ABOUT THE HISTORY OF PERFORMANCE IN PORTUGAL – Episode 2: PARTICIPATION

Paula Pinto

dancing words

Visual Essay

dancing words

Catarina Real

On Alan Clarke’s performativity

Article

On Alan Clarke’s performativity

Elisa Pône

Visual Essay

bowed waters

Maria do Mar

bowed waters

ONE MORE TIME – BOWFINGER REVISITED

Visual Essay

ONE MORE TIME – BOWFINGER REVISITED

Isa Toledo & Sara Black McCullough

Author in residence

CORPO MANIFESTAÇÃO – SMALL LEXICON ABOUT THE HISTORY OF PERFORMANCE IN PORTUGAL – Episode 1: PLASTÍCIFES

Paula Pinto

CORPO MANIFESTAÇÃO – SMALL LEXICON ABOUT THE HISTORY OF PERFORMANCE IN PORTUGAL – Episode 1: PLASTÍCIFES

Wrong Wrong n.24

The Performance

Visual Essay 28.03.2025

Drawing in 33 hours – Túlia Saldanha + Robert Schad, 1983

Álvaro Rosendo

Goethe-Institut, Lisbon, April 13th, 14th and 15th, 1983

As referred in the manifest signed by Robert Schad (in the catalog Túlia Saldanha, ed. Gulbenkian, 2014, page 213), «The temporary drawings, aligned in a mosaic, describe one part of our animic life, when they enable the irruption of all emotions in the antithetic confrontation of it's total contradiction. No drawing is destroyed, no study is concealed. Doing is what matters, being the radical will the strongest, than fear towards the demands.»

Túlia Saldanha (1930 - 1988) and Rodert Schad (1953 - ) are two artists who crossed paths due to their common interests and artistic will. After several well succeeded experiences, they developed «drawing in 33 hours» during three days long, with a performative program which involved pedestrians in the closest street – Lisbon's square of Campo Mártires da Pátria.

The ones passing by, curious, were invited to draw without «fear» and with the maximum of spontaneity along with the artists company. Then Túlia and Robert would enter Goethe Institut's space and «exhibited» in the available walls and windows, without censorship or selection, all the produced drawings.

Next, both artists created a «show» of common drawing, in a giant format, which involved their own bodies, to which were added the expression of its traces, being left in the underlying support. This last «act» was exclusive for both, but counted with the presence of the audience. All people were constantly invited to produce their own drawings.

Families Are Not Photo Albums

Correspondances Lithiques

Susana Mouzinho & Cristóbal Bouey