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 09.08.2016

Looped Imagination

André Alves

Repetition is fundamental for the making of a format. A format becomes the more stable and recognizable – and also, the more dominating – the more its scale (literally, its size) and frequency gets. For those dreaming about the possibility of breaking with oppressive, highly regulated, authoritarian or simply monotonous scenarios, repetition comes as the evidence of an impotency to shift, re-interpret, expand, undo, redefine things. At its worst it is the evidence of the incapacity of dreaming and imagining new possibilities. The disempowering of imagination results from the stability, the excess of stability, of the possible.

That is visible in the impact economy has in our lives. The difficulty one meets if trying to imagine a new economy and finance based on the distribution of resources and welfare, rather than the accumulation of capital as a device of societal organization and influence. The scenario seems unchangeable.

Looped Imagination (2016) presents a narrative of endless replacements. At the centre of the image one reads the sentence ‘tax shelter.’ The text is removed and re-placed endlessly, highlighting how the protection of taxes, how the restitution of economy and finance is the one operation one can take for granted. The remaining objects in the image appear as nothing but compositions, abstractions, dehumanized elements, void of imagination.

The images were created from an instant captured during the dismantling the work OXT by Kevin van Braak, presented at Sonsbeek 2016 (an art event that takes place in Arnhem since 1949, where referential art projects took place, for instance, Mike Kelley presented the exhibition The Uncanny).

The zero point

Sandra Vieira Jürgens

Author in residence

RAYON VERT

Laetitia Morais