no. 23 Editorial
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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 24.09.2015

HDE (VI): to the «Survival of the Fireflies»

Sofia Gonçalves

Survival of the Fireflies (Survivance des lucioles) is a critic text by Georges Didi-Huberman (2009) about the force emanating from the alternative production units vs. the great luminary forces by the creative industries. The author describes the exceptional places of this production that has came to learn to fight economy itself with economics, based on the metaphor and nature of fireflies^[1]. These are some of the proposed analogies:
— being able to escape the major turbulence, having freedom of movement, being errant, nomad or imbued with a strong deterritorialization coefficient;
— being fleeting, discreet, marginal, interstitial, intermitent, a «state of exception» to the «fierce light of the power»;— resulting from present circumstances, although, as counterpoint, trying to counter them or engaging on a certain (calculated) alienation from the limits of one’s own time;
— preferring the least probable of one's own time's expectations and economics;
— preferring a part of reality, instead of its whole understanding;
— appreciating the value of the collective, looking for like-minded people or accomplices in a community at once dispersed, diverse, anachronistic and atopic;
— vanishing once placed before the «big reflectors»; which, pursuing the metaphor, explains the reason why countercurrent demonstrations go extinct when assimilated by their own time's trends.

A countercultural thinking is defined for rescuing the differences related to its own time. With a tendency to «organize pessimism»^[2], between action and thought images are built to «protest against the kingdom's glory and its solid beams of light.»^[3] Such is a political stance from a different positioning: through aesthetics agency, one tries to liberate politics from all the ostentation of its political speech.

Footnotes

^ A metaphor originally by Dante from its Divine Comedy or from Pasolini’s text, «L’ articolo delle lucciole» («The Fireflies’ Article»).
^ Benjamin quoted by DIDI-HUBERMAN, Georges. (2009). Survivance des lucioles. Paris: Éditions de Minuit.
^ DIDI-HUBERMAN, Georges. (2009). Survivance des lucioles. Paris: Éditions de Minuit.

Visual Essay + Author in residence

HDE (V): struggle of an image against another

Sofia Gonçalves

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