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 16.09.2017

Face B

Tatiana Macedo

If in FACE A (Opening) the first reflection rested on the material resistance of the archive to its opening, the analogy between the archive and the construction made by heterogenic layers (instead of an original and intact «face»), FACE B (Bayreuth) is a drift on the contradictions of the place in its relation with recent History.

In this second reflection or «movement», I depart from the Opera House^[1] situated opposite my studio in Iwalewahaus, to the Wagner Walk – a route through Bayreuth that leads us to the Wagner Festspielhaus^[2] and to his purist, nationalist and reactionary ideals of a «pure» Opera, without contaminations, unique and exclusively designed by him to host his creations and for the enjoyment of an elite.

The experience of the walk is contradictory – an immaculate beauty in its rigour and search for perfection coexist with the memory of a horrendous cruelty.

«A Yoruba drummer is as sophisticated as a violin player» – is a well known phrase by Uli Beier, the founder of Iwalewahaus and of the Bayreuth Transcultural Music Festival, that took place at the Opera House next to the synagogue. The aim of the Festival was to connect artists from different cultures.^[3]

Prometheus gave fire back to Humanity.

Opera House (the synagogue’s rooftop is on the bottom left hand corner)

WAGNER’S WALK

MUTED VOICES

PROMETHEUS
WALKING BACK

CONFLUENCE
TO BE CONTINUED

Documentation exhibited at the Richard Wagner Museum, Bayreuth

Confluence, album by Dollar Brand and Gato Barbieri, 1975

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All videos and photos are snapshots made with my mobile phone
© Tatiana Macedo 2017

Footnotes

^ Bayreuth is known for having hosted Adolf Hitler and for his speeches in town. Despite that, one of the synagogues that survived the Holocaust is situated here, due to the fact that it lies beside the Opera House, therefore the Nazis were afraid that by burning the synagogue, they would also burn their beloved Opera.
^ https://www.bayreuther-festspiele.de/en/
^ The Opera House and the Wagner Bayreuth Festspielhaus are two different places.

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