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 20.05.2019

Her Way in Magnetons

Mário Martins & Marcelo Felix

A memoir of Muyassar Kurdi’s presentation at Zaratan, Lisbon, on April 19, which included the screening of her film Field Dances (2019).

Red-clad she runs
her busy body back and forth by a forested slope
if taken by surveyor's anguish if
looking to pollinate
the hand approaches, embraces the flower its magnetism
like measuring, weighing the filmed breast
assessing
dreams of white clematides
knees that would flex
the neck inquired
the reason
on her toes, stiff
it was in a movie
a hand dripping, on the skin, a ring
wandering
a hand in a strange invitation.
the outstretched arm
the cry the flower the angle
acute

I don't know what you're thinking
close to me your throat
panting, screaming, gargling, expels
you touched me
your condensed recital
the body-concert groaning
from city to city
interpellates
translates a lament a way
of lamenting nothing
even the stubborn
harrowing theremin
and the restrained frequency
of a spasm
— then you left
unsaid
I guess

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Muyassar Kurdi is an interdisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn. Her work, which she regularly presents in the US and Europe, encompasses sound, extended vocal technique, performance, movement, photography and film. In both solo and collaboration, Muyassar makes improvised music and composes and performs music for voice, harmonium, piano, lyre, autoharp and theremin.

PASSION

It was, it began, it went