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“Alberto Vieceli delivers yet another anthology of postcards, structured exactly as the title suggests. Starting with on...
10/01/2025

“Alberto Vieceli delivers yet another anthology of postcards, structured exactly as the title suggests. Starting with one musician on the first page, the picture on each subsequent page features one additional musician. Collected by Vieceli, the postcards were originally created as promotional material for each musical act.”

“Can design cater to a diverse society? How does it respond to the disparate demands of the people using it? Debates abo...
09/01/2025

“Can design cater to a diverse society? How does it respond to the disparate demands of the people using it? Debates about inclusion and participation have been an important part of the design discourse since at least the 1980s. Contemporary design approaches expand on the concepts of Universal Design and Design for All, reinterpreting them in a community-based, participatory design practice. Design for All? Inclusive Design Today gathers together a variety of recent projects, initiatives, and concepts drawn from different design disciplines, and sets up a dialogue with teachers and researchers who are active on the international scene to discuss them for the first time. Dealing with a range of different voices in inclusive design strategies can be seen as part of a paradigm shift that radically questions society’s normative values: Can design also make a society fairer? ”

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“Building on the foundations of the previous pilot issue, Il Magazine Issue #1 seeks to unearth overlooked and censored...
08/01/2025

“Building on the foundations of the previous pilot issue, Il Magazine Issue #1 seeks to unearth overlooked and censored knowledge, challenging the way mainstream media circumvents deeper power structures. This issue explores the tension of living history while being aware of its partiality, delves into what has been pushed out of view because of its conflictual or revelatory nature, offering a rich tapestry of experiences that question the limits of traditional publishing. The editors of this work, Iniziative di II, call it unsettling rather than comforting, opaque but inviting a deeper connection. II Magazine Issue #1 - Unpublishing and Publishing contains contributions by Prentis Hemphill, Francesca Pionati, Sean Vegezzi, Dalia Maini, Paul Sochacki, Sofia Albrigo, Cem A. aka , Greer Lankton, Tommaso Arnaldi, Trust, James Bantone, Captain Pro, Noura Tafeche, Enrico Floriddia, Airwars and Nicolò Pellarin.
Issue #1: Unpublishing and Publishing”

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“Akinbode Akinbiyi’s street photography takes in the world’s major cities, which he explores on foot. His images are vis...
07/01/2025

“Akinbode Akinbiyi’s street photography takes in the world’s major cities, which he explores on foot. His images are visual metaphors ruminating on cultural change, social exclusion, and colonialism’s sociopolitical consequences and its impact on urban planning. Whether he is out and about in Bamako, Berlin, Lagos, or Durban, the photographer uses his camera to investigate social structures in urban spaces. The book presents key aspects of Akinbiyi’s work since 1990.”

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“From scientific discoveries to animist beliefs, from dread linked to genetic mutations to political narratives, from re...
04/01/2025

“From scientific discoveries to animist beliefs, from dread linked to genetic mutations to political narratives, from repulsion to fascination—plants are an inexhaustible source of stories that reveal our most intimate desires and fears. The book questions human projections and representations of the vegetal world, bringing to light the subjectivity, intelligence, and expressive abilities of plants. Lens-based images are primary witnesses to this. The publication traces a visual history of plants, linking art, technology, and science from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day, not chronologically, but through two conceptual frameworks: scientific and fictional. Bringing together more than thirty artists across different periods of time and parts of the world, it employs the logic of the science-fiction novel, taking us from a stable, identifiable world and gradually plunging us into uncertain landscapes.“

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“The first monograph dedicated to the Hackney Flashers collective, a group of nine activist women who engaged in agitpro...
03/01/2025

“The first monograph dedicated to the Hackney Flashers collective, a group of nine activist women who engaged in agitprop from 1974 to 1980 in the working-class neighborhood of Hackney in London. The book uniquely brings together and reproduces all three of their series: Women and Work (1975), Who’s Holding the Baby? (1978), and Domestic Labour and Visual Representation (1980). Hackney Flashers’ works denounce wage inequalities between women and men, the double burden of work for mothers, and the half-infantile, half-glamorous images of women disseminated by the media of the time. Photographer, journalist, editor, graphic designer, illustrator: the profiles of this non-mixed socialist feminist group gave its practice of public display a distinctive character, featuring panels composed of images, text, slogans, and illustrations. The Hackney Flashers produced a form of propaganda, to use their own words, addressing a range of social discriminations—essentially, an intersectional practice before the term was widely used.”

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Dream on - Berlin, the 90s“The OSTKREUZ agency was founded in the midst of the upheavals that took place in East Berlin ...
02/01/2025

Dream on - Berlin, the 90s

“The OSTKREUZ agency was founded in the midst of the upheavals that took place in East Berlin in 1990. For Dream on - Berlin, the 90s, nine OSTKREUZ photographers worked together with curators Annette Hauschild (OSTKREUZ) and Boaz Levin (C/O Berlin Foundation) to cast a modern-day eye over their extensive archives as seen from today’s perspective. As documentarists operating at the apogee of photojournalism, they tracked the changes that the city underwent. They observed the shifts in society and the challenges facing a city that had previously been divided by a wall as it grew together, capturing all this in powerful, personal images. The essays reflect this on a variety of levels: Janos Frecot’s examination of the changes in the urban space; Jens Balzer’s description of Berlin’s potential as a centre of creativity and culture; and Anne Rabe’s very personal view, as a young East German writer, of today’s Berlin.”

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“COSTRUZIONE DELL’UNIVERSO: Artists’ Magazines and Publications after Marcel Duchamp is a research project that collects...
23/12/2024

“COSTRUZIONE DELL’UNIVERSO: Artists’ Magazines and Publications after Marcel Duchamp is a research project that collects artists’ magazines and publications from the 1950s to the present, beginning with the work of Marcel Duchamp. This often overlooked sector of artistic production explores newspapers and magazines as artistic mediums. The selection includes rare and extraordinary items where artists design covers, inner pages, and image sequences, making each publication a unique, yet replicable work. These publications often become open and collective containers, engaging multiple artists within the same layout or across different issues. The title “Construction of the Universe” highlights the pioneering role of the early 20th-century avant-garde movement, referencing the 1915 Manifesto “Futurist Reconstruction of the Universe,” which resembled a newspaper layout. Starting in the 1950s, a utopian vision emerged among artists, freed from the existential weight of world conflicts. They envisioned creating a new society, characterized by traveling architectures, open spaces, new languages, and a longing for the future and the cosmos.”

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“‘A Tree’, is about vegetal agency, plant knowledge, and the interaction between plants and people, with a specific focu...
19/12/2024

“‘A Tree’, is about vegetal agency, plant knowledge, and the interaction between plants and people, with a specific focus on trees. This book comprises a variety of contributions that take a multitude of approaches to tree life, from sensory to ancestral, intimate to speculative. Taking the time to think about trees through imagination, art, music, storytelling, poetry, and images, the works in this reader share the aim of nurturing and furthering dialogue that exercises arboreal kinship. Moreover, the contributions inspire us to move beyond large systems of oppression and towards exorcizing anthropocentrism, capitalism, individualism, heteronormativity, and coloniality, by learning from and with tree time.”

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“Fracture: Japanese Graphic Design 1875–1975 is a richly illustrated and accessible survey of the history of Japanese gr...
18/12/2024

“Fracture: Japanese Graphic Design 1875–1975 is a richly illustrated and accessible survey of the history of Japanese graphic design. Designer, educator, critic, and historian Ian Lynam traces the evolution of graphic design in Japan, from its roots in the graphic arts to the cusp of the digital era. Grounded in a series of insightful essays, Fracture offers readers a deep understanding of the profound cultural shifts Japan has experienced since re-opening to the West, exploring themes such as modernity, imperialism, gender, commercialism, sexuality, and aesthetics.”

We have a new window featuring works by from her recent collection of works “Os meus amigos não jogam comigo” (my frien...
18/12/2024

We have a new window featuring works by from her recent collection of works “Os meus amigos não jogam comigo” (my friends don’t play with me) . Visit us to have look !

Caetano Veloso classics back in stock ! Available in the shop and webshop !
17/12/2024

Caetano Veloso classics back in stock !
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Highly recommended event, this sunday ! brings one of his unique live cinema performances. Expect a long evening of ima...
11/12/2024

Highly recommended event, this sunday !

brings one of his unique live cinema performances. Expect a long evening of images and sounds fuelled by tasty vegan-friendly food prepared by .

About it someone said :

« Totally unique live and improvised cinematic experience from the AV-editing, globe-trotting, ethnographic brain of Vincent Moon. Like Alan Lomax meets free jazz (or just L*D meets National Geographic channel), Mr Moon weaves hallucinogenic tapestries from his footage of rare shamanic rituals, accapella mountain songs and scenes from the global village. “

🗓️ sunday , Dec. 17

🕕 18h.

📍Hotelier - Rua Anselmo Braamcamp , 324

💰 10€ donation for the artist. 7€ for the meal.

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B&W photobook selection ! This titles from Daido Moriyama , Ken Werner and Masahisa Fukase , and many more available in ...
10/12/2024

B&W photobook selection ! This titles from Daido Moriyama , Ken Werner and Masahisa Fukase , and many more available in our shop and webshop !

News from Marcel Top - Reserved Surveillance “The book Reversed Surveillance is a visualization of invasive surveillanc...
07/12/2024

News from

Marcel Top - Reserved Surveillance

“The book Reversed Surveillance is a visualization of invasive surveillance technologies, challenging the prospect of automating crime detection during protests in France. The project reflects on the development and legislation of mass surveillance by offering a case study on how individuals can protect themselves using the very tools with which they are surveilled. The project bases on the idea that since it is unlikely to fully revert surveillance and its effects on society, society should explore ways to reverse its impact. In Reversed Surveillance, Marcel Top demonstrates the potential of reversing surveillance dynamics to protect the right to protest: by gaining knowledge of accessible surveillance tools, it is possible to ensure police accountability.“

Harri Palviranta - Battered

“Assaults and street fights are everyday activities on weekend nights in Finland. People have a strong tendency to get rather intoxicated when partying and, once drunk, they are released from their inhibitions. Aggression turns into physical acts, to direct violence. There is a social awareness of this topic in Finland. The issue is recognized, and it is considered to be a severe social problem. But the discussion has mainly literal dimensions; it appears in news headlines, and it is discussed in seminars. In the book Battered the Finnish Photographer Harri Pälviranta shows the real faces of street violence in Finland. In contrast to the stereotypic portrayals of male heroics and the worn-out attempts at shocking people, Pälviranta deals with the utmost banality inherent in violence.“

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Laia Sierra’s Untitled Folder explores the relationship between the technological device and the human being. The projec...
05/12/2024

Laia Sierra’s Untitled Folder explores the relationship between the technological device and the human being. The project analyzes the roles of power in computer-person dynamics to reflect on how these affect the body and thought. Using archival images, the work deconstructs the personal computer and observes how the object shapes whoever uses it.

“In 1970, Turkish theater owner Engin Cezzar produced James Baldwin’s groundbreaking play about gay relationships in a 1...
04/12/2024

“In 1970, Turkish theater owner Engin Cezzar produced James Baldwin’s groundbreaking play about gay relationships in a 1970s Istanbul prison setting. In 1969, jazz musician Don Cherry, visiting Istanbul with Okay Temiz to record an album, reunited with Baldwin and contributed music to the production. The recording session followed extensive discussions and featured performances by Cherry and Temiz, heightening the play’s tension. “

Available in our shop and webshop! Also available, the label’s reissue of the classic, heavily sampled , Okay Temiz’ Drummer of Two Worlds !

“You Never End is the third album from Moin (Valentina Magaletti, Tom Halstead and Joe Andrews) out via AD 93 on the 25t...
04/12/2024

“You Never End is the third album from Moin (Valentina Magaletti, Tom Halstead and Joe Andrews) out via AD 93 on the 25th October. This record marks Moin’s shift into a new phase with vocal collaborations across the album from Olan Monk, james K, Coby Sey and Sophia Al-Maria. The album’s collaborators all have voices that are alluring in their own right whilst hard to pin down: from james K’s ethereal, reverb drenched vocals, Coby Sey’s words that bounce and echo across London’s concrete streets and Olan Monk’s emotive songwriting, while artist Sophie Al-Maria’s voice and thoughts are known to stretch across her multidisciplinary practice as an artist, filmmaker and writer. The unique mystique of each collaborator is maintained throughout the record while simultaneously opening Moin up to new possibilities, in a gentle shifting alchemy. Continuing their enigmatic re-configuring of the traditional band, Moin use a mix of conventional and unique production and compositional techniques. Subtly re-framing the current conversation about what band in 2024 needs to be, Moin walk the line between what’s reassuringly familiar and what’s unsettling and inquisitive. You Never End is a more sensitive record in sentiment, it re-contextualises grunge, shoegaze and indie rock with a weirdly comforting melancholy while still sounding direct and alive. The vocal collaborations bring the most articulate moments and lucid emotion while still remaining uniquely within Moin’s established world. Alongside this, the record fine tunes the elements of electronic production that have always been a feature of the band’s unique sound in a deeply subtle way. Elements are simpler and more direct, offering robust functional support as well as textural and emotional resonance. Together they show the potential for both practices to intertwine.”

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Rua Miguel Bombarda, 127
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4050-381

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ENSAIO EXPERIMENTAL - Matéria Prima | Ágora
ENSAIO EXPERIMENTAL - Matéria Prima | Ágora

Às 16h00 de 27 de junho 2020 , apresentamos um Ensaio Experimental com curadoria Matéria Prima, uma narrativa multimédia difundida em direto para o grande público on-line, numa tourneé virtual pelos estúdios locais. Concertos: 16H00 - COLECTIVO VANDALISMO – Ao vivo no estúdio da banda. 16H20 - DIES LEXIC (Xavier Paes & Inês Tartaruga) – Ao vivo no Spoiler Room 16H40 - FUSCO (Nils Meisel) – Ao vivo no CC Stop 17H00 – Intervalo Video documentário: FAVELA TV de Inês Castanheira Showcase: SISMO SYNTHS apresentam TAPBUM Produção: Matéria Prima Vídeo: Paulo Cunha Martins Separadores: Hugo Oliveira Agradecimentos: Ágora – Cultura e Desporto do Porto, Favela Discos, Inês Castanheira (Favela Discos), Inês Tartaruga (Dies Lexic), Nils Meisel (Fusco), Pedro Abrantes (Colectivo Vandalismo) Sismo Synths, Valdemar Pereira (Colectivo Vandalismo), Xavier Paes (Dies Lexic)

We're excited to join the 88th anniversary celebrations of the iconic Rivoli theatre, the city's cultural landmark that becomes younger as it ages. We're thankful and proud to be part of this celebration and would like to invite you to join us this weekend for a vast program of free events. In particular, we would like to invite you to two collaborative happenings that will be part of this program: this Saturday, 18th , Persian Percussionsist Mohammad Reza Mortazavi and legendary UK soundsystem icon King Earthquake will take both our beloved understage and the beautiful upstairs salon for what promises to be a remarkable event that will also feature two special surprise from our friends @faveladiscos and @borboleta_andorinha , the sharp, loud and powerful soundsystem of @mystic.fyah ! Happy birthday @teatromunicipaldoporto

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