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 01.09.2019

Les interdits: la survie migre

Jérémy Pajeanc & Pedro Góis

69 At the margins of the principles – a likely frontier is drawn.

1969: The human being goes beyond the space boundaries and walks for the first time on the moon. The 60's are marked by vast freedoms: sexual, gender, expression, movement, among others. Nothing has a limit!
Technological, medical, nuclear, spatial, social innovation, all in favor of an evolution, liberation and emancipation of the human being without borders.
However, ’69 is also the beginning of the end. The first deadly victim of the new HiV virus, Robert Rayford is taken by a terrible virus. Infected in Haiti and taken with him to the United States. It is the beginning of an epidemic that will decimate countless men and women and mark the end of sexual freedom.

2019: 50 years later, the report is fragile and bleak. Even if emerged by technology, there is still no cure against the HiV virus. After decades of social and political struggles for diverse freedoms and equality, closures grow, walls rise, and social, demographic, migratory, and ecological crises gain ground. Are we nearing a new revolution? From another Great War? Are we cursed by Daedalus's curse?

«In a colossal challenge only the courage of generosity will be able to stand up. There is no choice but to leave the door open to migration, to refugees, to diversity. I remember that if we close the walls around us, we will get trapped inside.» (Pedro Góis, in The Daedalus Curse or an idea of Europe that comes to an end.)

Jérémy Pajeanc

Between Frontier and Future (separating Frontier and Border)

Somewhere in the recent past, we defined that frontier was what we had to know most advanced in any scientific field. A conceptual equivalent of the avant-garde with which we once defied collective certainties. When common sense is called into question with a new and innovative project we are at Frontier. Amen. Insha'Allah.

Frontier is, in the jargon of science, anticipating the future. But the border, as a border, is another reality not of advancement but of immobility, of motionless motion. Border as border is a discriminatory power to instruct exclusion. Georg Simmel^[1] (1999 [1908]), a 100-year-old avant-garde, states that the border «is not a spatial fact with sociological consequences, but a spatially formed sociological fact» (p. 697). The frontier is thus understood not only as a line separating territories, but also as itself producing processes of differentiation between individuals. Je suis Border.

Still according to Simmel, «it is not the countries (...) that are limited to each other; but the inhabitants or owners who develop the effect [of mutual limitation]» (1999 [1908]: 697). The frontier is, in this sense, a social invention with real consequences. Separates and unites, unites and separates, separates more than unites. On each frontier a line of exclusion, on each face on the frontier the embodiment of social inequality. Making the frontier a frontier is not easy and is in itself a vanguard few can reach. Free movement of ideas is the ultimate frontier for each of us to become the last frontier. It starts here. Hopefully.

Pedro Góis

Footnotes

^ Simmel, G. (1999 [1908]). Soziologie. Untersuchungen über die Formen der Vergesellschaftung. Gesamtausgabe, vol 11, Frankfurt am Main Suhrkamp Verlag.

Siege Mentality, Biennale di Venezia: 1969/ 2019

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